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List Price: $28.99Price: $11.49You Save: $17.5 (60%)Galapagos [HD DVD]
ASIN : B000T28Q0U
Sales Rank : 3096
Studio : BBC Warner
Region Code : 0
Format : Closed-captioned, Color, Widescreen
Binding : HD DVD
EAN : 0794051413826
UPC : 794051413826
Release Date : December 02, 2007
Publisher : BBC Warner
Manufacturer : BBC Warner
Availability : Usually ships in 24 hours
Label : BBC Warner
Running Time : 150
DescriptionThe inspiration for Darwin's theory of evolution, the Galapagos Islands are a living laboratory, a geological conveyor belt that has given birth to and seen the death of many species of plants and animals. As the western islands rise up from the sea offering a chance of life, the eastern islands sink back beneath the waves guaranteeing only death. Between the two are the middle islands; fertile, lush land in its prime that contains an incredible diversity of life. Nowhere else on the Earth are the twin processes of creation and extinction of species so starkly apparent... see it all unfold before your eyes in this stunning series filmed entirely in high definition from the BBC and the National Geographic Channel. Amazon.comWhile its title may be superfluous, Galapagos: The Islands That Changed the World is a beautifully filmed journey into "the islands of the tortoise." Located due west of Ecuador, the Galapagos islands are full of gorgeous scenery and exotic wildlife. And this 150-minute documentary shows it all, thanks to stunning cinematography shot from all viewpoints--the air, sea and, of course, land. The collection is both soothing and exhilarating as it allows viewers to peek in on mating albatrosses (which are monogamous), penguins fishing, and surprisingly graceful giant tortoises swimming in the ocean. The filmmakers also manage to capture a ferocious volcanic eruption that is amazing in its clarity. The problem with many documentaries lies in the narration. A documentary filmmaker hits the jackpot when he is able to get someone like Sigourney Weaver, whose crisp narration fits in beautifully with the sweeping footage in Planet Earth. While Tilda Swanton lends a relaxing quality to Galapagos, her voice at times is a bit too lulling to hold the viewer's interest. The writing also borders on melodramatic, with talk of the simmering sea and such. With visuals as stunning as this, hyperbole is unnecessary. Charles Darwin has described the Galapagos as a world within itself, and it is said that the islands were one of his inspirations for his book The Origin of Species. While the film doesn't clearly explain why the Galapagos are unlike any other place on earth, it does showcase a destination that is unlike what most of us know. --Jae-Ha Kim
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List Price: $34.95Price: $15.99You Save: $18.96 (54%)Living Landscapes HD The World's Most Beautiful Places [Blu-ray]
ASIN : B000PTYKAW
Sales Rank : 3065
Director : HDenvironments.com
Brand : Victory
Studio : HDenvironments.com
Region Code : 1
Format : Color, Dolby, HiFi Sound, Surround Sound
Binding : Blu-ray
EAN : 0741319475669
UPC : 741319475669
Release Date : December 25, 2007
Publisher : HDenvironments.com
Manufacturer : HDenvironments.com
Availability : Usually ships in 24 hours
Label : HDenvironments.com
Running Time : 75
Actor: Planet Earth
Product DescriptionProduct Description The Living Landscapes Collection is a series of High Definition programs designed to create sensory-immersive experiences of the world's most stunning natural environments. These mesmerizing programs use High Definition video to bring your home theatre or computer screen to life, transforming your living room into a Living Landscape. This Blu-ray "best of" program features naturally recorded surround-sound for a true nature experience and relaxing music by Emmy Award winning composer Gary Malkin and others. an inter-active playback feature allows you to select any one of 9 HD environments for continuous repeated playback. Experience the peace and tranquility of the Grand Tetons reflected in pristine mountain lakes. Descend into the mists of Costa Rica's cloud forest as hummingbirds and macaws fly across your home theatre sound space. Feel the warm rays of the sunrise peaking through golden clouds on Maui's famed Haleakala Crater. Transport yourself to a warm tropical beach in the middle of winter and visit the island paradise of Bali. Experience the truning of the leaves in New England or the stark beauty of the Pacifc Coast from Carmel to Washington state. These are a few of the many magical moments you will have as you peek through the HD window into the World's Most Beautiful Places. Living Landscapes Video Collection will forever change your experience of television! BLU-RAY DISC FORMAT manufactured by Sony will play on all Blu-ray DVD players.
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List Price: $39.95Price: $31.99You Save: $7.96 (20%)Man vs. Wild - Season 1 (6 DVD set)
ASIN : B0011TGKD0
Sales Rank : 6338
Director : Dominic Stobart, Mark Westcott, Mike Warner, Scott Tankard
Studio : Discovery Channel
Region Code : 0
Format : NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 0883629474991
UPC : 883629474991
Release Date : December 20, 2007
Publisher : Discovery Channel
Manufacturer : Discovery Channel
Availability : Usually ships in 1 to 2 days
Label : Discovery Channel
Actor: Bear Grylls
Amazon.comMan vs. Wild Season 1 (6 DVD Set): Learn life-saving survival skills in some of the toughest, most treacherous environments on the Earth with a man no stranger to extremes, Bear Grylls. Drawing upon all his experiences as a soldier, mountaineer and seasoned adventurer, watch as Bear strands himself in popular wilderness destinations. Armed with a few supplies and the clothes on his back, see how he claws his way back to civilization while demonstrating survival techniques along the way. The following 10 Episodes are included: 1. Alaskan Mountain Range 2. Sierra Nevada 3. African Savannah 4. European Alps 5. Everglades 6. Iceland 7. Mexico 8. Kimberly Australia 9. Ecuador 10. Scotland This product is manufactured on demand using DVD-R recordable media. Amazon.com's standard return policy will apply.
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List Price: $29.98Price: $21.99You Save: $7.99 (27%)Earth - The Biography
ASIN : B0018CWVWE
Sales Rank : 2760
Brand : Warner Brothers
Studio : BBC Warner
Region Code : 1
Format : Anamorphic, Color, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 8839290260670
UPC : 883929026067
Release Date : December 22, 2008
Publisher : BBC Warner
Manufacturer : BBC Warner
Availability : Usually ships in 24 hours
Label : BBC Warner
Running Time : 230
Actor: Dr. Iain Stewart
DescriptionThis landmark series uses specialist imaging and compelling narrative to tell the life story of our planet, how it works, and what makes it so special. Examining the great forces that shape the Earth - volcanoes, the ocean, the atmosphere and ice - the programme explores their central roles in our planet's story. How do these forces affect the Earth's landscape, its climate, and its history? CGI gives the audience a ringside seat at these great events, while the final episode brings together all the themes of the series and argues that Earth is an exceptionally rare kind of planet - giving us a special responsibility to look after our unique world. This is a series that shows the Earth in new and surprising ways. Extensive use of satellite imagery reveals new views of our planet, while timelapse filmed over many months brings the planet to life. Offering a balance between dramatic visuals and illuminating facts, this ground-breaking series makes global science truly compelling. Amazon.comTo demonstrate the stunning beauty and overwhelming power of the Earth, Dr. Iain Stewart climbs into the crater of an active volcano in Ethiopia, jets into the stratosphere, climbs the frozen crests of the Alps, races the tide at the Amazon basin, dives into underwater caverns in Mexico, and generally enjoys himself to no end. His infectious enthusiasm is hardly necessary, though; Earth: The Biography (formerly The Power of the Planet) is five episodes of phenomenal images and fascinating information about how our planet formed and the potent yet delicate balance of life. Stewart, the program's host, seems destined to become the Carl Sagan of geology; his cheerful Scottish accent (he sounds like he walked out of Trainspotting) is just waiting for a catchphrase like "billions and billions" to make him a household name. Earth: The Biography juxtaposes things gigantic (tectonic plates) and teeny-tiny (plankton) while gracefully explaining the crucial role each plays in making the world habitable for life as we know it. There's even surprising humor, like demonstrating the ocean's currents through the movement of 29,000 plastic ducks that were swept overboard in a storm, or how the first thing jet pilot Joe Kittinger does, after successfully parachuting from the highest point in the stratosphere anyone has ever jumped (including 15 minutes of free fall), is light up a cigarette. Add in some CGI models of prehistoric beasts and volcanic activity, and you've got a completely addictive examination of the Earth in all its majesty. --Bret Fetzer
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List Price: $26.95Price: $15.99You Save: $10.96 (41%)Andy Goldsworthy's Rivers & Tides
ASIN : B0002JL9N6
Sales Rank : 2426
Director : Thomas Riedelsheimer
Studio : NEW VIDEO GROUP
Region Code : 1
Format : Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 9780767066099
ISBN : 076706609X
UPC : 767685964330
Release Date : December 28, 2004
Publisher : NEW VIDEO GROUP
Manufacturer : NEW VIDEO GROUP
Availability : Usually ships in 24 hours
Label : NEW VIDEO GROUP
Running Time : 90
Actor: Andy Goldsworthy
DescriptionWildly praised by the nation's top critics, the smash theatrical hit RIVERS AND TIDES is a mesmerizing, poetic and curiously contemplative portrait of revered Scottish sculptor Andy Goldsworthy, whose long-winding rock walls, icicle assemblages and other intricate, druidic masterpieces are made entirely of materials found in the wild. Gorgeously shot and edited by director Thomas Riedelsheimer, RIVERS AND TIDES is an intoxicating study of the fragile relationship between man, art and nature. Amazon.comAndy Goldsworthy's Rivers and Tides is a truly beautiful, Scottish-German 2001 documentary about artist Goldsworthy, a Scotsman whose medium is nature itself and whose preferred studio is the outdoors, particularly where water forever flows, rises, and/or retreats. The soft-spoken, secluded Goldsworthy is seen hard at work making ephemeral sculptures out of bits of ice in the trees, or building tall, mysterious cones from loose rock, which stand like spiritual sentinels in forests and on shorelines, overgrown by plants or swallowed daily by high tides. Filmmaker-cinematographer Thomas Reidelsheimer goes to great and sometimes inexplicable lengths to make visual corollaries to Goldsworthy's ideas about underappreciated relationships between light, color, movement, balance, and fluidity of form in the real world, making Rivers and Tides a lively and always surprising cinematic gallery. Some of Goldsworthy's most miraculous natural installations--stone walls that snake through hundreds of feet of forest and stream, for instance--show up in the last half-hour. --Tom Keogh
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List Price: $19.94Price: $14.99You Save: $4.95 (25%)Steep
ASIN : B0012CJQZK
Sales Rank : 3001
Director : Mark Obenhaus
Brand : Sony
Studio : Sony Pictures
Region Code : 99
Format : AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 0043396238787
UPC : 043396238787
Release Date : December 18, 2008
Publisher : Sony Pictures
Manufacturer : Sony Pictures
Availability : Usually ships in 24 hours
Label : Sony Pictures
Running Time : 92
Actors: Ingrid Backstrom, Anselme Baud, Bill Briggs, Doug Coombs, Chris Davenport
Product DescriptionWarning: You're about to experience the most breath taking, exhilarating and inspirational ride of your life. The world's best skiers go beyond their dreams to conquer the steepest runs ever faced. From the sheer cliffs of Grand Teton, to the treachery of Chamonix France, to the untouched Alaskan peaks of Valdez, these extremers sacrifice their lives for a thrill but what a thrill it is. Fantastically beautiful images of the most magnificent peaks on the globe along with devastating avalanches and fatal spills only serve to push them harder. But you're about to discover -- not everyone who goes up the mountain -- returns. Amazon.comThrilling and spectacular, Steep is a mesmerizing documentary in the Warren Miller mold about extreme skiing, but with more emphasis on the drive and psychology of the adrenaline-hooked athletes involved. A number of skiers are captured in archival and original footage braving the odds against surviving runs down astonishingly steep, dangerous slopes. Among the subjects is Bill Briggs, who climbed in 1971 to the top of Grand Teton in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, and skied down, an unprecedented effort echoed by Europeans who later did the same thing down the French Alps in Chamonix. Doug Coombs, who twice won the World Extreme Skiing Championship, is also profiled and speaks honestly about the possibility of dying for the sake of living life to the fullest as a thrillseeker. Written and directed by Mark Obenhaus, a producer for several of the late Peter Jennings’ television news specials, Steep is visually gorgeous, and literally breathtaking whenever a skier is seen barely outracing an avalanche nipping at his heels. Steep attempts, somewhat, to get inside the heads of the pros who do this sort of thing, but it is hard for many of the subjects to articulate what they feel. It’s best just to be knocked out by their deeds and let the fantastic visuals in Steep speak for themselves. --Tom Keogh
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List Price: $19.98Price: $12.99You Save: $6.99 (35%)Planet Earth, Vol. 1: From Pole to Pole/Mountains/Fresh Water
ASIN : B0012YYZYA
Sales Rank : 9205
Brand : Warner Brothers
Studio : BBC Warner
Region Code : 1
Format : Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 0883929009138
UPC : 883929009138
Release Date : December 08, 2008
Publisher : BBC Warner
Manufacturer : BBC Warner
Availability : Usually ships in 24 hours
Label : BBC Warner
Running Time : 44
Actor: David Attenborough
DescriptionFrom the makers of The Blue Planet: Seas of Life, with an unprecedented production budget of $25 million, comes the epic story of life on Earth. Five years in production, over 2000 days in the field, using 40 cameramen filming across 200 locations, shot entirely in high definition, this is the ultimate portrait of our planet. A stunning television experience that captures rare action, impossible locations and intimate moments with our planet's best-loved, wildest and most elusive creatures. From the highest mountains to the deepest rivers, this blockbuster series takes you on an unforgettable journey through the daily struggle for survival in Earth's most extreme habitats. Planet Earth takes you to places you have never seen before, to experience sights and sounds you may never experience anywhere else.
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List Price: $19.98Price: $12.99You Save: $6.99 (35%)Galapagos
ASIN : B000M2E354
Sales Rank : 3439
Brand : Warner Brothers
Studio : BBC Warner
Region Code : 1
Format : Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 0794051295224
UPC : 794051295224
Release Date : December 03, 2007
Publisher : BBC Warner
Manufacturer : BBC Warner
Availability : Usually ships in 24 hours
Label : BBC Warner
Running Time : 150
Actor: Tilda Swinton
DescriptionThe inspiration for Darwin's theory of evolution, the Galapagos Islands are a living laboratory, a geological conveyor belt that has given birth to and seen the death of many species of plants and animals. As the western islands rise up from the sea offering a chance of life, the eastern islands sink back beneath the waves guaranteeing only death. Between the two are the middle islands; fertile, lush land in its prime that contains an incredible diversity of life. Nowhere else on the Earth are the twin processes of creation and extinction of species so starkly apparent... see it all unfold before your eyes in this stunning series filmed entirely in high definition from the BBC and the National Geographic Channel. Amazon.comWhile its title may be superfluous, Galapagos: The Islands That Changed the World is a beautifully filmed journey into "the islands of the tortoise." Located due west of Ecuador, the Galapagos islands are full of gorgeous scenery and exotic wildlife. And this 150-minute documentary shows it all, thanks to stunning cinematography shot from all viewpoints--the air, sea and, of course, land. The collection is both soothing and exhilarating as it allows viewers to peek in on mating albatrosses (which are monogamous), penguins fishing, and surprisingly graceful giant tortoises swimming in the ocean. The filmmakers also manage to capture a ferocious volcanic eruption that is amazing in its clarity. The problem with many documentaries lies in the narration. A documentary filmmaker hits the jackpot when he is able to get someone like Sigourney Weaver, whose crisp narration fits in beautifully with the sweeping footage in Planet Earth. While Tilda Swanton lends a relaxing quality to Galapagos, her voice at times is a bit too lulling to hold the viewer's interest. The writing also borders on melodramatic, with talk of the simmering sea and such. With visuals as stunning as this, hyperbole is unnecessary. Charles Darwin has described the Galapagos as a world within itself, and it is said that the islands were one of his inspirations for his book The Origin of Species. While the film doesn't clearly explain why the Galapagos are unlike any other place on earth, it does showcase a destination that is unlike what most of us know. --Jae-Ha Kim
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List Price: $24.95Price: $15.99You Save: $8.96 (36%)Visions of the Sea: Explorations [Blu-ray]
ASIN : B000V6LSUE
Sales Rank : 3544
Director : Anthony S. Lenzo
Brand : Ryko Distribution
Studio : DVD International
Region Code : 1
Format : Color, Dolby, Surround Sound, Widescreen
Binding : Blu-ray
EAN : 0647715602022
UPC : 647715602022
Number Of Discs : 1
Release Date : December 30, 2007
Publisher : DVD International
Manufacturer : DVD International
Availability : Usually ships in 24 hours
Label : DVD International
Running Time : 60
Actor: HDScape
Product DescriptionVisions of the Sea: Explorations was captured in High Definition by Emmy Award-winner Anthony S. Lenzo, one of the world's most renowned underwater videographers and systems integrators, utilizing the latest in High Definition camera gear and his trusted Amphibicam HD underwater housing.
Explore some of the world's most pristine and unspoiled coral reefs with an underwater tour of Fiji, Bonaire, Honduras and The Bahamas. Experience ocean life as never before in spectacular High Definition video that brings your home entertainment system to life. Additional behind the scenes video.
HDScape: Advancing the Art of HD
HDScape is the leading producer of High Definition discs that turn your Plasma, LCD, CRT or DLP HDTV home theater system into a work of art.
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List Price: $39.98Price: $22.99You Save: $16.99 (42%)National Geographic: The Wildlife Collection
ASIN : B000H5U61G
Sales Rank : 12997
Studio : National Geographic Video
Region Code : 1
Format : Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 0727994930204
UPC : 727994930204
Release Date : December 17, 2006
Publisher : National Geographic Video
Manufacturer : National Geographic Video
Availability : Usually ships in 24 hours
Label : National Geographic Video
Running Time : 230
Actor: HDScape
Product descriptionIncludes: Eternal Enemies, In Search of the Jaguar, Last Stand of the Great Bear, and Whales in Crisis.
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