Product Details

• Format: NTSC, Color, Full length, Box set, Widescreen
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Number of discs: 5
• Rated: G (General Audience)
• Studio: n/a
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (21 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B001B1RFSW
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #21,421 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Disc 1: Pole to Pole, Mountains, Deep Ocean Disc 2: Deserts, Ice Worlds, Shallow Seas Disc 3: Great Plains, Jungles, Fresh Water Disc 4: Seasonal Forests, Caves Disc 5 (Bonus Disc): Planet Earth: The Future

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Outstanding September 29, 2010

By diskrybe

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Besides being as healing as a visual spa experience, this series is testament to the staggering capacity of humans for sheer focus, dedication and empathy -- if they so choose. It was as awe-inspiring to learn what it took to produce a segment as it was to watch the finished product. This is for people who spend weeks never raising their eyes to the sky, never registering the natural sounds of the early morning, never experiencing the silences between the deadening assault of anthropogenic noise. Watch it to awaken more fully to the meaning of being alive, and to let that gratitude inform the choices you make.
I think the best recognition, the best award for the makers of this movie would be the knowledge that it motivated a great number of those who watched it to rein in mindless consumption, to become invested in consciously supporting preservation.

61 of 83 people found the following review helpful

2.0 out of 5 stars Get the BBC version, not this one! April 16, 2009

By ohio

This is a heavily edited version narrated by Sigourney Weaver that was shown on the Discovery Channel in the US. It doesn't hold a candle to original BBC version narrated by David Attenborough. It has awkward pauses for commercials (that obviously aren't there) and a huge amount of missing footage. Plus Ms. Weaver doesn't have nearly the gravitas as a narrator of Mr. Attenborough.

Make sure you get the other version.

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars Great in DVD, Likely better in Blu-Ray August 18, 2009

By Bill Pierson

I can't speak highly enough about this series. It is excellent both terms of terms of the material and how it's organized. And visually, well it is simply stunning. In this sense I give this product 5 stars.

However, some of the quality is lost when viewing on DVDs. I originally saw the series in HD on television. It was so exceptionally good that I wanted to buy a copy. (This is saying something when you consider this purchase nearly doubled the number of DVD's I have bought for my personal use. DVD's for the kids don't count.) Since I don't own a blu-ray player, we bought the DVDs. There definitely was a difference in the visual quality when viewing it on the DVD format. Thus while I do recommend purchasing this product, I would recommend buying the blu-ray format instead if you have a player.