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# Life [DVD]

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Discover the glorious variety of life on Earth and the innovative, intelligent and sometimes bizarre tactics animals andplants employ in order to survive. More than four years in the making, taking full advantage of the latest advances in filming technology, this breathtaking ten-part blockbuster reveals the natural world’s most remarkable behaviour in unprecedented depth and detail. Full of amazing filming ‘firsts’ on every continent and in every habitat – from 250 six foot Humboldt squid hunting as a pack to Komodo dragons (the world’s largest venomous animal) stalking buffalo and cheetahs (notorious lone hunters) working cooperatively to hunt prey twice their size – this is evolution in front of your eyes. Yet this astonishing series is not simply about revelation, it is also about entertainment. With sequences that inspire awe, wonder, sadness and humour, Life allows us to truly relate to the animals and their endeavours, and to understand and appreciate them as never before. Special Features This enthralling BBC series examines "the lengths living beings go to to stay alive," in the words of Sir David Attenborough. Aided by breathtaking high-definition cinematography, the makers of Planet Earth explore the more colourful strategies the world's creatures employ to procreate, evade predators, and obtain nourishment. Cameras travel though the air, under the water, and right into the faces of insects, like the alien visage of the stalk-eyed fly. Except for "Challenges of Life" and "Hunters and Hunted," each episode covers a different category, such as mammals and birds. Among the more memorable images: three cheetahs move with the relentless rhythm of mobsters, a school of flying fish glides through the air with the grace of ballerinas, and a Jesus Christ lizard skips across the water, like, well, you know. The strangest sights range from a pebble toad bouncing away from a spider like a rubber ball and brown-tufted capuchin monkeys pounding palm nuts with stone tools like the apes in 2001: A Space Odyssey . Witty writing and skilful editing, which distils thousands of hours of footage, make the learning go down easy (at one point, Sir David references Jurassic Park , which featured his brother, Richard). If the sound effects seem overamped, George Fenton's score is always on the money, adding humour and suspense at crucial moments (martial drums for the mud skippers, woozy brass for the Darwin's beetle). Nonetheless, delicate sensibilities may find some sequences disturbing, as when Komodo dragons feed on a water buffalo or when a leopard seal dines on a penguin (according to Attenborough, the Komodo siege caused the camera operators "emotional turmoil"). More often, the filmmakers capture the moment of impact before moving on. --Kathleen C. Fennessy, desertcart.com

Review: Superb! The possible definition! - This outstanding Documentary contains the proof, that we are not the only Intelligent Creatures on Earth. All Life has its own Intelligence ( since the hudge till the tinniest Creature ) and a surprising capacity to develop means of adaptability to confront the dramatic changes of Earth's Monumental Environment. 40% of Individuals we see here ( absolutely amazing Creatures ) were completly unknown. Among those we already know we can observe the learning of new skills in order to meet challenges. True lessons of Survival, like Polar Bears in uncommon habitats: not digging the ice in search of Seals but on dry land after swimming several miles in search of any food. Close encounters like we've never seen before, of isolated Males and entire families of Polar Bear mothers and youngsters feeding on a carcass. Adding to this, a community of Dolphins in Florida with a new strategy to catch fish in very low waters, and a group of three male Cheetah brothers in Kenya, hunting a huge prey the same way Lionesses do! Great scenes of devotion: a worry Bull Frog father taking care and saving from death an big pool of babies. Ingenious: Flying Fish constructing a huge nest on an Ocean's lost Palm Tree. Beauty: a Grebe's courtship ceremony, starting with a serious of graceful duets and ending with a breathtaking exhibition of Ballet over waters! Insects, Birds and Plants are also outstanding Docs with unbelievable moments! Monkeys Doc was another surprise! When you think you have already seen everything about them, you're wrong. Imagine a very cold Winter. It's snowing outside. An elegant SPA in a confortable Hotel. There's a rule: you have to own a specific ID and the Hotel porter is asking for it. If you're wealthy and well-born you are welcome, though if you're not, you have to stay outside in the cold. This is the behavior of a particular Monkey Society in Japan, as you see very similar to our Societies! Even the gestures and facial expressions of those Animals sharing that private, idyllic and luxurious habitat are exceptional! They simply look like us! There's no doubt a considerable Intelligence here not to speak about the powerful Instinct. At last, the filmmaking I was expecting for years! Two exceptional scenes and impressive moments of Jurassic: Komodo Dragon ( Varanus Komodoensis ), the biggest and most dangerous Lizard on Earth in a hell of a fight and a hell of a hunt in its Natural Habitat. I've already seen other Docs about this ugly Beast but nothing comparable. This scary Animal owns three lethal weapons: the bite, the claws and that powerful tale. Although it looks like heavy and slow, it runs faster than you! When you observe it you have no doubt, you are looking at the last living Dinosaur on Earth! This filmmaking was carefully done and I already knew by books how it should be. Even so I was taken by surprise in the chasing scene and have to tell you it's not a good thing to look at! Even both Photographer who had to do the job, and watch for a week long the details we fortunately don't see, didn't hide their distress! I think we are already prepared for that quick feline's bite, but not for this! An exasperating moment, though one of the best captures in the Wild! What more about this Project? It is a perfect extension of Attenborough's other great Docs as Life of Mammals, Life of Birds, Life of Plants and In Cold Blood, with the most fantastic new Creatures pictured in tinniest detail. Not just one more Series about Nature and Wild Life but one more fantastic BBC Natural History Unit research, from the makers of Planet Earth, with the cooperation of Air Force Navy and McMurdo Polar Research Station in Antarctica, and the always charismatic presence of Sir David Attenborough who continues to be the Top One, in the difficult Art of Narration and Presentation. The most perfect Camera and Soundtrack. Long live High Technology and Human Brain! Breathtaking making of a 60 second specific shot ( Plants Doc ), Practically all done in Studio! Astonishing! Definitely Not to Miss...
Review: The Inhabitants of the world beyond the world we think we own - After Planet Earth became a legendary hit on home cinema for certain sequences on full HD, there were high expectations placed on any HD follow up releases. Life doesn't disappoint in this respect. 4 Years in the making, this Latest series is a bewildering showcase of the reclusive types of life we find on the planet and technology used to capture it. As opposed to being a purely educational lesson on the variety of species and their relations with each other and their environment, it is the weird and wonderful species that get the film time. This is a good thing due to the rarity of some of the obtained footage. The skill that has been required by the team to capture these moments is immense, probably not replicable by all other wildlife documentary makers due to time and budget constraints. Episodes are 50 minutes long followed by a ten minute insight into their efforts at the end illustrating the techniques used to film a single scene in an episode. Each episode covers a separate animal group, with some episodes covering broader issues such as hunters and prey and general challenges faced by some life. These broader episodes do often have repeated footage, eg some penguin sequences are shared between the `challenges of life' episode and the `birds' episode. As I watched these all in quick succession, I found some parts repetitive, but watching some of the more stunning sequences for a second time was still welcomed. Particular highlights were seeing the primates at work and using tools, which deeply illustrated our genetic proximity to them. (It made me wonder at times if I could actually find an example of a primate making more intelligent use of its environment and each other than a human). I generally appreciated the sequences that depict a species clever use of environment or body parts that hints towards higher intelligence than we would normally attribute to the other members of the animal kingdom, and there were plenty of these occasions to behold. The marine episode also captured some striking sequences and the butterflies collecting in huge numbers on the insects episode was stunning. The HD picture quality is more evident in some places than others, though generally id say its excellent overall and still definitely more consistent than Planet Earth was. As the filming takes place in the real world with real lighting and positioning constraints, not all images are going to be as fantastic as the next. The underwater sequences showed a mix, where some of the coral and organisms looked wonderfully sharp and illuminated, but other shots could look murky due to the impurities in the water. I would say every episode captures at some point a jaw-dropping sequence that gives you the full justification for why you bought your Bluray player. In many cases it really had to be appreciated how some things so small such as ants could be captured in sufficient detail to fit a full 1080p image with no focus issues. This series seemed designed to bring images to shock people, as they would come to realise that such weird organisms exist in reality and not just in CGI movie sequences. Of the seemingly almost infinite variety of species on the planet, only a tiny fraction is represented here, that leaves me wanting another series to continue the showcase. No doubt Attenborough and team will oblige.

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| Contributor | David Attenborough |
| Customer Reviews | 4.7 out of 5 stars 1,691 Reviews |
| Format | PAL |
| Language | English |
| Manufacturer | 2entertain |
| Number of discs | 4 |
| Runtime | 10 hours |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Superb! The possible definition!
*by P***R on 27 April 2012*

This outstanding Documentary contains the proof, that we are not the only Intelligent Creatures on Earth. All Life has its own Intelligence ( since the hudge till the tinniest Creature ) and a surprising capacity to develop means of adaptability to confront the dramatic changes of Earth's Monumental Environment. 40% of Individuals we see here ( absolutely amazing Creatures ) were completly unknown. Among those we already know we can observe the learning of new skills in order to meet challenges. True lessons of Survival, like Polar Bears in uncommon habitats: not digging the ice in search of Seals but on dry land after swimming several miles in search of any food. Close encounters like we've never seen before, of isolated Males and entire families of Polar Bear mothers and youngsters feeding on a carcass. Adding to this, a community of Dolphins in Florida with a new strategy to catch fish in very low waters, and a group of three male Cheetah brothers in Kenya, hunting a huge prey the same way Lionesses do! Great scenes of devotion: a worry Bull Frog father taking care and saving from death an big pool of babies. Ingenious: Flying Fish constructing a huge nest on an Ocean's lost Palm Tree. Beauty: a Grebe's courtship ceremony, starting with a serious of graceful duets and ending with a breathtaking exhibition of Ballet over waters! Insects, Birds and Plants are also outstanding Docs with unbelievable moments! Monkeys Doc was another surprise! When you think you have already seen everything about them, you're wrong. Imagine a very cold Winter. It's snowing outside. An elegant SPA in a confortable Hotel. There's a rule: you have to own a specific ID and the Hotel porter is asking for it. If you're wealthy and well-born you are welcome, though if you're not, you have to stay outside in the cold. This is the behavior of a particular Monkey Society in Japan, as you see very similar to our Societies! Even the gestures and facial expressions of those Animals sharing that private, idyllic and luxurious habitat are exceptional! They simply look like us! There's no doubt a considerable Intelligence here not to speak about the powerful Instinct. At last, the filmmaking I was expecting for years! Two exceptional scenes and impressive moments of Jurassic: Komodo Dragon ( Varanus Komodoensis ), the biggest and most dangerous Lizard on Earth in a hell of a fight and a hell of a hunt in its Natural Habitat. I've already seen other Docs about this ugly Beast but nothing comparable. This scary Animal owns three lethal weapons: the bite, the claws and that powerful tale. Although it looks like heavy and slow, it runs faster than you! When you observe it you have no doubt, you are looking at the last living Dinosaur on Earth! This filmmaking was carefully done and I already knew by books how it should be. Even so I was taken by surprise in the chasing scene and have to tell you it's not a good thing to look at! Even both Photographer who had to do the job, and watch for a week long the details we fortunately don't see, didn't hide their distress! I think we are already prepared for that quick feline's bite, but not for this! An exasperating moment, though one of the best captures in the Wild! What more about this Project? It is a perfect extension of Attenborough's other great Docs as Life of Mammals, Life of Birds, Life of Plants and In Cold Blood, with the most fantastic new Creatures pictured in tinniest detail. Not just one more Series about Nature and Wild Life but one more fantastic BBC Natural History Unit research, from the makers of Planet Earth, with the cooperation of Air Force Navy and McMurdo Polar Research Station in Antarctica, and the always charismatic presence of Sir David Attenborough who continues to be the Top One, in the difficult Art of Narration and Presentation. The most perfect Camera and Soundtrack. Long live High Technology and Human Brain! Breathtaking making of a 60 second specific shot ( Plants Doc ), Practically all done in Studio! Astonishing! Definitely Not to Miss...

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ The Inhabitants of the world beyond the world we think we own
*by M***Y on 29 January 2010*

After Planet Earth became a legendary hit on home cinema for certain sequences on full HD, there were high expectations placed on any HD follow up releases. Life doesn't disappoint in this respect. 4 Years in the making, this Latest series is a bewildering showcase of the reclusive types of life we find on the planet and technology used to capture it. As opposed to being a purely educational lesson on the variety of species and their relations with each other and their environment, it is the weird and wonderful species that get the film time. This is a good thing due to the rarity of some of the obtained footage. The skill that has been required by the team to capture these moments is immense, probably not replicable by all other wildlife documentary makers due to time and budget constraints. Episodes are 50 minutes long followed by a ten minute insight into their efforts at the end illustrating the techniques used to film a single scene in an episode. Each episode covers a separate animal group, with some episodes covering broader issues such as hunters and prey and general challenges faced by some life. These broader episodes do often have repeated footage, eg some penguin sequences are shared between the `challenges of life' episode and the `birds' episode. As I watched these all in quick succession, I found some parts repetitive, but watching some of the more stunning sequences for a second time was still welcomed. Particular highlights were seeing the primates at work and using tools, which deeply illustrated our genetic proximity to them. (It made me wonder at times if I could actually find an example of a primate making more intelligent use of its environment and each other than a human). I generally appreciated the sequences that depict a species clever use of environment or body parts that hints towards higher intelligence than we would normally attribute to the other members of the animal kingdom, and there were plenty of these occasions to behold. The marine episode also captured some striking sequences and the butterflies collecting in huge numbers on the insects episode was stunning. The HD picture quality is more evident in some places than others, though generally id say its excellent overall and still definitely more consistent than Planet Earth was. As the filming takes place in the real world with real lighting and positioning constraints, not all images are going to be as fantastic as the next. The underwater sequences showed a mix, where some of the coral and organisms looked wonderfully sharp and illuminated, but other shots could look murky due to the impurities in the water. I would say every episode captures at some point a jaw-dropping sequence that gives you the full justification for why you bought your Bluray player. In many cases it really had to be appreciated how some things so small such as ants could be captured in sufficient detail to fit a full 1080p image with no focus issues. This series seemed designed to bring images to shock people, as they would come to realise that such weird organisms exist in reality and not just in CGI movie sequences. Of the seemingly almost infinite variety of species on the planet, only a tiny fraction is represented here, that leaves me wanting another series to continue the showcase. No doubt Attenborough and team will oblige.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Fantastic for quality AND content.
*by R***S on 30 November 2010*

If you watched 'Life' on TV and are wondering right away if it's worth splashing out the extra money on the blu-ray, then absolutely yes. The cameras they filmed this series on are beasts and HD really does them justice, i still am flabbergasted by some shots, both at the quality and how they GOT them. If however you're looking for something to flesh out your blu-ray collection and haven't yet seen life, then you're in for the biggest treat of all. Learning about animals is only one part of the appeal of the series. Theres education, Visual Treats, and convincing drama. This is possible because of the superb editing and voice over, they build up characters for the animals and you begin to really be interested in their storys, even if they are only 5 minutes or so each. Right now i'm watching a new episode and am typing without looking at the screen for the most-part to see if this little animal will escape, it's that good. As an added bonus, the 'On location' segments at the end of every episode are mini-docs following the crew themselves as they attempt to get the amazing footage you've been sitting in awe at. These sections are filmed in a mix of HD and SD, but it really doesn't effect what is an appealing extra for me as a student filming docs myself. The one following the crew trying to film komodo dragons was especially good. Overall, 100% reccomended, i'm only 1 disk of 4 in, and i already feel i've got my monies worth. Rory.

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