"Planet Earth" From Pole to Pole (2006)

Director:

Alastair Fothergill

Writers:

David Attenborough (writer)
Alastair Fothergill (writer)

TV Series:

"Planet Earth" (2006)

Original Air Date:

11 April 2006 (Season 1, Episode 1)

Genre:

Documentary

Plot:

"Planet Earth" travels around the Earth, finding where the sun always shines and where it's rarely seen. Next, they find where water is abundant and where it's scarce.

Plot Keywords:

Earth | Sun | Planet Earth | Winter | Penguin

Cast

David Attenborough	...	Narrator
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Mike Holding	...	Himself
Tanya Jenkins	...	Herself (as Tania 'TJ' Jenkins)
Michael Kelem	...	Himself
Mark Linfield	...	Himself
Peter Perlstein	...	Himself
Sigourney Weaver	...	Narrator - US Version

Quotes:

[first lines]
Narrator: A hundred years ago, there were one-and-a-half billion people on Earth. Now, over six billion crowd our fragile planet. But even so, there are still places barely touched by humanity. This series will take you to the last wildernesses and show you the planet and its wildlife as you have never seen them before.

Memorable Scenes Get This Series Off To A Great Start

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My goodness, there are many memorable scenes from this opening episode of an 11-part BBC series of "Planet Earth." It makes me anxious to see the other 10 parts of this project.

This first part concentrates at the beginning more on life on the two poles, on the Arctic Region and the Antarctic. Anyone who has seen the amazing documentary, "March Of The Penguins," will be familiar with the opening segment here as it talks about those determined penguins.

Elsewhere, on the other end of the globe, we soon enjoy seeing a female polar bear emerge from hibernation with her two little Cubs, and the problems the three of them have adapting to their new (for the cubs) above-ground life in the spring.

We see migrations, such as the huge caribou one, complete with the ever-present predator, this time the wolf.

To me, the most stunning parts of this opening episode were several sights photographed not at the poles but in the forests and warm water areas. Three that come to mind are (1) the incredible Birds Of Paradise; (2) underwater shots of big elephants swimming; and (2) a Great White Shark, which looked the size of a house, exploding out of the water to devour seals.