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somebody told me about this very amazing documentary weeks ago and yesterday he finally managed to pass me the dvd of this documentary



comment on this movie
breath taking and interesting and worth to watch...
and you should give it a watch even though it might be boring
but nevertheless the most meaningful
a movie which is aired in 2007 in UK and
released in US through disney nature in 2009

Over the course of a calendar year, Earth takes the viewer on a journey from the North Pole to the South, revealing how plants and animals respond to the power of the sun and the changing seasons. The film focuses on three particular species, the polar bear, African elephant and humpback whale.

Starting in the high Arctic in January, as the darkness of winter gives way to the sun, a mother polar bear is shown emerging from her den with two new cubs. She needs food and must lead her cubs to her hunting ground on the sea ice before it begins to break up. By April, the sun never sets, and by August all the sea ice has melted. The mother and cubs have retreated to dry land, but a male polar bear is trapped at sea and must seek out land by swimming. He reaches an island with a walrus colony but is too exhausted to make a successful kill. He dies from injuries sustained in a walrus attack.

African elephants are filmed from the air as they negotiate a dust storm in the Kalahari Desert. June is the dry season and they must follow ancient paths passed down through generations to reach watering holes. A mother and calf are separated from the herd in the storm but manage to reach shelter. The matriarch leads the herd to a temporary watering hole, but they must share it with hungry lions. The lions are shown attacking a solitary elephant at night, when their superior vision gives them the upper hand. The herd times its arrival at the Okavango Delta to coincide with seasonal floodwaters which transform the desert into a lush water world.

A humpback whale mother and calf are filmed from the air and underwater at their breeding grounds in the shallow seas of the tropics. There is nothing here for the mother to eat, so she must guide her calf on a 4,000-mile (6,400 km) journey south to the rich feeding grounds near Antarctica, the longest migration of any marine mammal. En route, they negotiate dangerous seas where great white sharks are filmed breaching as they hunt sealions, and sailfish and dolphins combine to bait a shoal of small fish. By October they enter polar waters, and by December the Antarctic sun has melted the sea ice to form sheltered bays. Here, the whales are shown feeding on krill by trapping them in bubble nets.

The stories of these individual creatures are woven into the film alongside a great many additional scenes. The supporting cast of animals include mandarin ducklings filmed jumping from their tree hole nest, Arctic wolves hunting caribou, cheetah hunting Thomson's gazelle, birds of paradise displaying in the New Guinea rainforest and demoiselle cranes on their autumn migration across the Himalayas.

Time-lapse photography is used to show the blossoming of spring flowers, seasonal changes to deciduous forests, clouds sweeping up Himalayan valleys and the growth of jungle spores and fungi.

source: Wikipedia

the theme song of the movie is very very nice add great efects to this great documentary
and thanks again friend for the great documentary!

and last but not least
the message behind this great documentary

"if global climate continues to warm at present rate
polar bears may be extinct in the wild by 2030"

(oh o 10 years after Malaysia's greatest Wawasan 2020??
which i think it might be even earlier cos we are doing more and more damages nowadays)

"with global worming distruption, our planet's weather system supplies of fresh water are becoming increasingly unpredictable"

(no wonder there is this very very hot weather nowadays, which is starting to kill me with the warm and dry weather... do not wanna on the aircon cos it will contribute to global warming as well... but then what can we do?)

"Rising ocean temperatures have started to kill plankton on which humpback whales and most of the sea life depend"

"but it's not too late to make a difference"