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MovieMail's Review
With typically jaw-dropping, awe-inspiring footage, David Attenborough and his team take a look at the polar landscapes and animals that may be on the verge of disappearance.
Commitment to a cause comes in many forms. In the case of Frozen Planet, the BBC’s new nature series which brings the frozen wildernesses of the Arctic and Antarctic to the screen in ways never before seen, the bare facts of the filming schedule tell their own story. It took 2,356 days to film, the crew spent 425 days at temperatures below -15ºC as well as 840 days trapped in blizzards. It almost goes without saying that the results are nothing less than truly spectacular and, as with previous BBC natural history programmes, boggle the mind at the diversity and skill of this planet’s creatures.
We see terrifying sea spiders, woodlice the size of dinner plates, killer whales in a team seal hunt, washing the hapless animals from the safety of their ice floes by creating waves, the bloody business of polar bear mating, and even penguin surfing. All astonishing.
This is not an unqualified pleasure though. As David Attenborough reminds us, with the current warming of the Poles, the animals and landscapes shown are ones we may well be seeing for the very last time.
Narrated by Sir David Attenborough and produced by the award-winning team behind Planet Earth & Blue Planet comes the ultimate portrait of the earth's Polar regions - Frozen Planet.
The Arctic and Antarctic remain the greatest wildernesses on Earth. The scale and beauty of the scenery and the sheer power of the elements – the weather, the ocean and the ice – is unmatched anywhere else on our planet. Yet these harsh environments are teeming with life: home to iconic animals from polar bears to emperor penguins and from killer whales to wandering albatrosses.
Using the latest camera technology to film on land, from the air, underwater and below the ice caps, Frozen Planet follows their fascinating lives throughout the seasons as they struggle to survive. With spectacular polar landscapes and amazing animal behaviour, often filmed for the first time, it captures the drama of an extreme natural world.
With both Poles under grave threat from climate change, this extraordinary series may be the last chance to witness these great wildernesses before they change forever.
