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Released: 2011
Genre: Documentary
Starring: John Hurt (Narrator)
Issued: UK
About the film:
Human Planet is an awe-inspiring, jaw-dropping, heart-stopping
landmark series that marvels at mankind's incredible relationship
with nature in the world today.
Uniquely in the animal kingdom, humans have managed to adapt and
thrive in every environment on Earth. Each episode takes you to the
extremes of our planet: the arctic, mountains, oceans, jungles,
grasslands, deserts, rivers and even the urban jungle. Here you
will meet people who survive by building complex, exciting and
often mutually beneficial relationships with their animal
neighbours and the hostile elements of the natural world.
Human Planet crews have filmed in around 80 locations, bringing you
many stories that have never been told on television before. The
team has trekked with HD cameras and state of the art gear to film
from the air, from the ground and underwater. The result: a
'cinematic experience' created by world-class natural history and
documentary camera crews and programme makers.
Episode 1: Oceans: Into the Blue
Length: 00:58:46
As an air-breathing animal, the human is not built to survive in
water. But people have found ways to live an almost aquatic life so
they can exploit the sea's riches. From a 'shark-whisperer' in the
Pacific to Brazilian fishermen collaborating with dolphins to catch
mullet, this journey into the blue reveals astonishing tales of
ingenuity and bravery. Daredevil Galician barnacle-collectors defy
death on the rocks for a catch worth 200 pounds per kilo. In
Indonesia an epic whale-hunt, using traditional hand-made boats and
harpoons, brings in a sperm whale. The Bajau 'sea gypsies' of the
Sulu Sea spend so much time on water they get 'land sick' when they
set foot on the land! We dive 40 metres down to the dangerous world
of the Pa-aling fishermen, where dozens of young men, breathing air
through a tangled web of pipes attached to a diesel engine, capture
thousands of fish in a vast net. We see how surfing has its origins
in the ancient beliefs of the ocean-loving Polynesians, and we join
a Borneo free-diving spear-fisherman on a breath-taking journey 20
metres down in search of supper.
Episode 2: Deserts: Life in the Furnace
Length: 00:59:07
We can survive for weeks without food, but only days without water:
it is the essential element of life. Yet many millions of us live
in parched deserts around the world. In the second episode of Human
Planet, we discover how the eternal quest for water brings huge
challenges - and ingenious solutions - in the driest places on
Earth.
Battling through a sand storm in Mali, Mamadou must get his cows to
a remote lake but desert elephants have arrived first. Can he find
a safe way through the elephant blockade? Alone for weeks on end,
Tubu women and children navigate the endless dunes of the Sahara.
How does young Shede know where to find the last oasis, three days
walk across the sea of sand? At the height of the drought we
witness a spectacular frenzy: two thousand men rushing into Antogo
Lake to catch the fish trapped by the evaporating water. When the
rain finally arrives in the desert it's a time for flowering and
jubilation - and love. The Wodaabe men of Niger put on make-up for
an intoxicating courtship dance and beauty contest.
Episode 3: Arctic: Life in the Deep Freeze
Length: 00:58:46
The Arctic is the harshest environment on Earth: little food grows,
it's dark for months on end, and temperatures stay well below
freezing for much of the year. Yet four million people manage to
survive here. Human Planet tells remarkable stories of
extraordinary people who make their homes in nature's deep
freeze.
In springtime, Amos and Karl-Frederik set out across the sea ice
with their dogs to catch a real-life sea monster: a Greenland
shark! Inuit mussel-gatherers venture underneath the sea ice at low
tide for a perilous race against time as they gather their
food.
And the children of Churchill, Manitoba, set out on the most
dangerous trick or treating Halloween in the world: they risk
coming face-to-face with deadly polar bears on the streets of their
town. Who'll get the tastiest snack?
Episode 4: Jungles: People of the Trees
Length: 00:59:03
The rainforest is home to more species of plants and animals than
any other habitat on the planet. But for humans, life there is not
as easy as it looks. Life in the trees requires great skill,
ingenuity and sheer bravery.
The Matis of Brazil carve four-metre-long blow-pipes to hunt
monkeys - in near total silence. Deep in the Congo forests, Tete
defies death by scaling a giant tree using nothing more than a
liana vine, and he must then negotiate an angry swarm of bees - all
to collect honey for his family.
Three children from Venezuela's Piaroa tribe venture deep into the
jungle to hunt tarantulas - to toast for lunch! In West Papua the
Korowai tribe show-off their engineering skills by building a
high-rise home 35 metres up in the tree tops.
Most memorable of all, in Brazil we join a unique monitoring flight
in search an un-contacted tribe ...
Episode 5: Mountains: Life in Thin Air
Length: 00:59:05
From lush cloud forests to bare summits that take your breath away,
the higher you climb the tougher life gets on a mountain. Human
Planet explores the extraordinary ways in which people survive at
extreme altitudes where nature becomes utterly unforgiving.
In the Altai Mountains in Western Mongolia the vast open spaces
make hunting for animals almost impossible, so the locals have
forged an astonishing partnership with golden eagles which can do
the hunting for them. On the precipitous cliffs of the Simien
Mountains of Ethiopia we join a young boy locked in a dramatic
battle with fearsome gelada monkeys which are hell-bent on raiding
his family's meagre grain harvest. In the Himalayan state of Nepal
- the roof of the world - we witness a rarely seen ceremony: a sky
burial. In a land where there is little wood to burn for cremation,
and where burying the dead is virtually impossible, the dead are
fed to vultures in the ultimate reverence of nature.
Episode 6: Grasslands: The Roots of Power
Length: 00:58:45
Grasslands feed the world. Over thousands of years, we humans have
learned to grow grains on the grasslands and domesticate the
creatures that live there. Our success has propelled our population
to almost seven billion people.
But this episode reveals that, even today, life in the 'Garden of
Eden' isn't always rosy. We walk with the Dorobo people of Kenya as
they bravely attempt to scare off a pride of hungry lions from
their freshly caught kill. We gallop across the Steppe with
extraordinary Mongolian horsemen who were 'born in the saddle'. And
in a perfect partnership with nature built up over generations
Maasai children must literally talk to the birds! The honeyguide
leads them to find sweet treats, but they'll have to repay the
favour.
Episode 7: Rivers: Friend and Foe
Length: 00:58:41
Rivers provide the essentials of life: fresh food and water. They
often provide natural highways and enable us to live in just about
every environment on Earth. But rivers can also flood, freeze or
disappear altogether!
Human Planet joins Sam Niang, a Laotian fisherman, as he walks a
high wire strung above the raging Mekong River rapids on an
extraordinary commute to work.
There's also a look at the remarkable partnership between Samburu
tribesmen and wild elephants in their search for water in the
dried-out river beds of Northern Kenya.
Plus, a father who must take his two children on a six-day trek
down a frozen river - the most dangerous school run on Earth, and
the ice dam busters of Ottowa with their dynamite solution to a
city centre hold-up.
Episode 8: Cities: Surviving the Urban Jungle
Length: 00:58:13
A look at the one environment that's been made by us for us - the
city. Over half of the world's population now lives in the urban
jungle. The city is built to keep untamed nature out - but nature
can't be pushed away. From bed bugs sucking our blood at night to
rats in our restaurants, many animals have adapted to a life with
us.
But not all urban animals are seen as pests. In the ancient City of
Fez in Morocco, the leather tanneries depend for their business on
wild pigeon droppings. Even futuristic Dubai would falter without
falcons. In the suburbs of Jaipur, a Bishnoi woman breastfeeds an
orphaned fawn. People are starting to realise that nature is key to
our continued survival. On Manhattan's rooftops we find a community
of beekeepers. In Masdar, Abu Dhabi, British architect Norman
Foster is creating a carbon-neutral waste-free future city. Is this
the future? The human planet is starting to realise that we'll only
survive if we protect nature.
Disc1 ：第1集：海洋
第2集：沙漠
第3集：北极
Disc2 ：第4集：丛林
第5集：山
第6集：草原
DISC3 : 第7集：河
第8集：城市
花絮 1
花絮 2
