Planet+Earth+(BBC+Documentary)




 * Planet Earth** is a documentary that was produced in 2006. It was a challenging and ambitious project that took 5 years to complete. To this day, it is the most expensive nature documentary ever commissioned by the BBC (British Broadcasting Company). **Planet Earth** is described by its makers as "the definitive look at the diversity of our planet".

The series is made of 11 different episodes of approximately 50 minutes. Each of these presents a global overview of a different habitat of the Earth. At the end of each episode, there is a ten minutes featurette which gives us a behind-the-scene look at the challenges involved in producing such a project. For more information about these episodes, go to the Planet Earth Wiki Project page.

The crew succeeded in filming a great number of species, locations and events in natural surroundings that had never before been shown on television. These TV first include:
 * Planet Earth** was widely acclaimed for having achieved its goal to build as much unique footage as possible.


 * * Wild Bactrian camels filmed eating snow in the Gobi desert**


 * * An Amur leopard mother and cub in the forests of eastern Russia**


 * * A sequence showing a snow leopard hunting markhor in north-west Pakistan**


 * * Arctic wolf and African wild dog hunts filmed from the air**


 * * The highest-ever aerial footage of Mount Everest and the Karakoram**


 * * Desperate lions hunting and killing an elephant at night**


 * * A piranha feeding frenzy filmed in the water with the fish**


 * * Unprecedented access to the dramatic Lechuguilla Cave in New Mexico**


 * * The oceanic whitetip shark, a rare ocean wanderer**