Reviews
Planet Earth (2006) IMDb
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The most expensive documentary to date, partly because a feature-film version was made concurrently with this TV series. |
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Subject |
Samples of macroscopic life selected primarily on the basis of biome type, not location. |
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Commentary |
Inconsistently addresses many of the traditional flaws of nature documentaries as observed by ecocritics. For example, it shows and talks about human activity (mentioning human threats, but not only that), it sometimes shows how things were filmed, it’s not just sex/cuteness and hunting/killing (though it is both at once in one sequence), and the biome focus is very nicely done. There’s even room for Cordyceps fungi in glorious HD. |
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References here: March of the Penguins (2005), Life (2009), Human Planet (2011), Our Planet (2019). |
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Sequel: Planet Earth II (2016) IMDb
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