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In 2006 Planet Earth redefined natural history filmmaking, giving us the ultimate portrait of life on Earth. A stunning television experience that combines rare action, unimaginable scale, impossible locations and intimate moments with our planet's best-loved, wildest and most elusive creatures. Ten years on, the unprecedented advances in both filming technology and our understanding of the natural world means we can once again reveal our planet from a completely new perspective. Planet Earth II allows us to experience the world from the viewpoint of the animals themselves. Travelling through jungles, deserts, mountains, islands, grasslands and cities, this series explores the unique characteristics of Earth’s most iconic habitats and the extraordinary ways animals survive within them. New technology has allowed individual stories to be captured in an unparalleled level of detail. For the first time viewers are immersed in incredible landscapes and share the most dramatic moments in the lives of animals. From spellbinding wildlife spectacle to intimate encounters, Planet Earth, The Complete Collection will take you closer than ever before.

Planet Earth, The Complete Collection

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In 2006 Planet Earth redefined natural history filmmaking, giving us the ultimate portrait of life on Earth. A stunning television experience that combines rare action, unimaginable scale, impossible locations and intimate moments with our planet's best-loved, wildest and most elusive creatures. Ten years on, the unprecedented advances in both filming technology and our understanding of the natural world means we can once again reveal our planet from a completely new perspective. Planet Earth II allows us to experience the world from the viewpoint of the animals themselves. Travelling through jungles, deserts, mountains, islands, grasslands and cities, this series explores the unique characteristics of Earth’s most iconic habitats and the extraordinary ways animals survive within them. New technology has allowed individual stories to be captured in an unparalleled level of detail. For the first time viewers are immersed in incredible landscapes and share the most dramatic moments in the lives of animals. From spellbinding wildlife spectacle to intimate encounters, Planet Earth, The Complete Collection will take you closer than ever before.

    • Episode 1

    Series 1, Episode 1: From Pole to Pole

    The lives of animals and plants are dominated by the sun and fresh water which trigger seasonal journeys. The latest technology and aerial photography enable the Planet Earth team to track some of the greatest mass migrations. In the Arctic spring, a mother polar bear and cubs emerge from their winter den to cross the frozen sea before it melts. Further south, time-lapse cameras capture the annual transformation created by the Okavango floods.

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    • 48 Minutes

    The lives of animals and plants are dominated by the sun and fresh water which trigger seasonal journeys. The latest technology and aerial photography enable the Planet Earth team to track some of the greatest mass migrations. In the Arctic spring, a mother polar bear and cubs emerge from their winter den to cross the frozen sea before it melts. Further south, time-lapse cameras capture the annual transformation created by the Okavango floods.

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    • 48 Minutes
    • Episode 2

    Series 1, Episode 2: Mountains

    Tour the mightiest mountain ranges, starting with the birth of a mountain at one of the lowest places on Earth, and ending on the summit of Everest. High in the peaks of Pakistan, this episode shows the first ever video footage of the elusive and extremely rare snow leopard. The wildlife spectacles continue with the first shots of a wild giant panda nursing her week-old baby in a mountain cave in China, and an aerial journey along side demoiselle cranes as they attempt to cross the largest range of mountains on our planet - the Himalayas.

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    • 47 Minutes

    Tour the mightiest mountain ranges, starting with the birth of a mountain at one of the lowest places on Earth, and ending on the summit of Everest. High in the peaks of Pakistan, this episode shows the first ever video footage of the elusive and extremely rare snow leopard. The wildlife spectacles continue with the first shots of a wild giant panda nursing her week-old baby in a mountain cave in China, and an aerial journey along side demoiselle cranes as they attempt to cross the largest range of mountains on our planet - the Himalayas.

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    • 47 Minutes
    • Episode 3

    Series 1, Episode 3: Freshwater

    Fresh water defines the distribution of life on land. Follow the descent of rivers from their mountain sources to the sea. Watch spectacular waterfalls, fly inside the Grand Canyon and explore the wildlife in the world's deepest lake. Planet Earth captures unique and dramatic moments of animal behaviour: a showdown between smooth-coated otters and mugger crocodiles, deep-diving long tailed macaques, massive flocks of snow geese on the wing and a piranha frenzy in the perilous waters of the world's largest wetland.

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    • 49 Minutes

    Fresh water defines the distribution of life on land. Follow the descent of rivers from their mountain sources to the sea. Watch spectacular waterfalls, fly inside the Grand Canyon and explore the wildlife in the world's deepest lake. Planet Earth captures unique and dramatic moments of animal behaviour: a showdown between smooth-coated otters and mugger crocodiles, deep-diving long tailed macaques, massive flocks of snow geese on the wing and a piranha frenzy in the perilous waters of the world's largest wetland.

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    • 49 Minutes
    • Episode 4

    Series 1, Episode 4: Caves

    Planet Earth gets unique access to a hidden world of stalactites, stalagmites, snotites and troglodytes. The Cave of Swallows in Mexico is a 400m vertical shaft, deep enough to engulf the Empire State Building, while America's Lechuguilla cave system stretches 193km and contains crystals six metres long. But despite perpetual darkness, this mysterious world is home to some of the most remarkable and bizarre animals on Earth - from cave swiflets, which navigate through pitch-black caverns using echo-location, to the Texas cave salamander that has neither eyes nor pigment.

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    • 48 Minutes

    Planet Earth gets unique access to a hidden world of stalactites, stalagmites, snotites and troglodytes. The Cave of Swallows in Mexico is a 400m vertical shaft, deep enough to engulf the Empire State Building, while America's Lechuguilla cave system stretches 193km and contains crystals six metres long. But despite perpetual darkness, this mysterious world is home to some of the most remarkable and bizarre animals on Earth - from cave swiflets, which navigate through pitch-black caverns using echo-location, to the Texas cave salamander that has neither eyes nor pigment.

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    • 48 Minutes
    • Episode 5

    Series 1, Episode 5: Deserts

    Around thirty percent of the land's surface is desert. United by their lack of rain, they are home to some of our planet's most varied ecosystems. In the Gobi Desert, rare Bactrian camels get moisture from the snow, while in Chile the Atacama guanacos survive by licking dew off cactus spines. Saharan sandstorms reach nearly a mile high and desert rivers run for a single day. The brief blooming of Death Valley triggers a plague of locusts 160km long, and a unique aerial voyage over the Namibian desert reveals elephants on a long trek for food and desert lions searching for wandering oryx.

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    • 48 Minutes

    Around thirty percent of the land's surface is desert. United by their lack of rain, they are home to some of our planet's most varied ecosystems. In the Gobi Desert, rare Bactrian camels get moisture from the snow, while in Chile the Atacama guanacos survive by licking dew off cactus spines. Saharan sandstorms reach nearly a mile high and desert rivers run for a single day. The brief blooming of Death Valley triggers a plague of locusts 160km long, and a unique aerial voyage over the Namibian desert reveals elephants on a long trek for food and desert lions searching for wandering oryx.

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    • 48 Minutes
    • Episode 6

    Series 1, Episode 6: Ice Worlds

    The Arctic and Antarctic experience the most extreme seasons on Earth. Time-lapse cameras watch a colony of emperor penguins, transforming them into a single organism. The film reveals new science about the dynamics of emperor penguin behaviour. In the north, unique aerial images show a polar bear swimming more than 100km. Diving for up to two minutes at a time. The exhausted polar bear later attacks a herd of walrus in a true clash of the Titans.

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    • 48 Minutes

    The Arctic and Antarctic experience the most extreme seasons on Earth. Time-lapse cameras watch a colony of emperor penguins, transforming them into a single organism. The film reveals new science about the dynamics of emperor penguin behaviour. In the north, unique aerial images show a polar bear swimming more than 100km. Diving for up to two minutes at a time. The exhausted polar bear later attacks a herd of walrus in a true clash of the Titans.

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    • 48 Minutes
    • Episode 7

    Series 1, Episode 7: Great Plains

    After filming for three years, Planet Earth finally captures the shy Mongolian gazelle. Only a handful of people have witnessed its annual migration. Don't miss the bizarre-looking Tibetan fox, captured on film for the first time. Over six weeks the team follow a pride of 30 lions as they attempt to hunt elephants. Using the latest night vision equipment, the crew film the chaotic battles that ensue at close quarters.

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    • 48 Minutes

    After filming for three years, Planet Earth finally captures the shy Mongolian gazelle. Only a handful of people have witnessed its annual migration. Don't miss the bizarre-looking Tibetan fox, captured on film for the first time. Over six weeks the team follow a pride of 30 lions as they attempt to hunt elephants. Using the latest night vision equipment, the crew film the chaotic battles that ensue at close quarters.

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    • 48 Minutes
    • Episode 8

    Series 1, Episode 8: Jungles

    Jungles cover roughly three per cent of our planet yet contain a staggering fifty per cent of the world's species. Specialisation is the key to survival, and the red crab spider is the most specialised of all arachnids, spending its entire life on a small, water-filled pitcher plant feeding off mosquito larvae. In Uganda's Ngogo forest, the largest chimpanzee group in the world defends its territory from neighbouring chimp groups in a first for natural history footage.

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    • 48 Minutes

    Jungles cover roughly three per cent of our planet yet contain a staggering fifty per cent of the world's species. Specialisation is the key to survival, and the red crab spider is the most specialised of all arachnids, spending its entire life on a small, water-filled pitcher plant feeding off mosquito larvae. In Uganda's Ngogo forest, the largest chimpanzee group in the world defends its territory from neighbouring chimp groups in a first for natural history footage.

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    • 48 Minutes
    • Episode 9

    Series 1, Episode 9: Shallow Seas

    A humpback whale mother and calf embark on an epic journey from tropical coral paradises to storm-ravaged polar seas. Newly discovered coral reefs in Indonesia reveal head-butting pygmy seahorses, flashing 'electric' clams and bands of sea kraits, thirty-strong, which hunt in packs. With new ultra high-speed photography, the lightning ambushes of great white sharks are slowed down as they leap out of the ocean to catch their unsuspecting prey.

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    • 49 Minutes

    A humpback whale mother and calf embark on an epic journey from tropical coral paradises to storm-ravaged polar seas. Newly discovered coral reefs in Indonesia reveal head-butting pygmy seahorses, flashing 'electric' clams and bands of sea kraits, thirty-strong, which hunt in packs. With new ultra high-speed photography, the lightning ambushes of great white sharks are slowed down as they leap out of the ocean to catch their unsuspecting prey.

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    • 49 Minutes
    • Episode 10

    Series 1, Episode 10: Seasonal Forests

    The Taiga forest, on the edge of the Arctic, is a silent world of stunted conifers containing a third of all the trees on Earth. In California, the giant sequoia General Sherman is ten times the size of a blue whale, making it the largest living thing on the planet. The most ancient organisms alive are the bristlecone pines, which, at four thousand years old, pre-date the pyramids. But the upside-down baobab trees of Madagascar are perhaps the strangest of all, with their swollen trunks that harbour equally curious wildlife.

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    • 49 Minutes

    The Taiga forest, on the edge of the Arctic, is a silent world of stunted conifers containing a third of all the trees on Earth. In California, the giant sequoia General Sherman is ten times the size of a blue whale, making it the largest living thing on the planet. The most ancient organisms alive are the bristlecone pines, which, at four thousand years old, pre-date the pyramids. But the upside-down baobab trees of Madagascar are perhaps the strangest of all, with their swollen trunks that harbour equally curious wildlife.

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    • 49 Minutes
    • Episode 11

    Series 1, Episode 11: Ocean Deep

    Life goes to extraordinary lengths to survive in this immense underwater realm. A thirty tonne whale shark gorges on a school of fish and the unique overhead heli-gimbal camera reveals common dolphins rocketing at more than thirty kilometres an hour. Descending into the abyss, deep sea octopus fly with wings and vampire squid use bioluminescence to create an extraordinary colour display. And, in an extraordinary moment, one hundred hunting sailfish gun down their prey - each seeking their turn in a perfectly choreographed dance of death.

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    • 48 Minutes

    Life goes to extraordinary lengths to survive in this immense underwater realm. A thirty tonne whale shark gorges on a school of fish and the unique overhead heli-gimbal camera reveals common dolphins rocketing at more than thirty kilometres an hour. Descending into the abyss, deep sea octopus fly with wings and vampire squid use bioluminescence to create an extraordinary colour display. And, in an extraordinary moment, one hundred hunting sailfish gun down their prey - each seeking their turn in a perfectly choreographed dance of death.

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    • 48 Minutes
    • Episode 12

    Series 2, Episode 1: Islands

    From adorable pygmy sloths to huge living dragons, islands offer a refuge for the planet's strangest creatures. But life on these isolated lands is full of unexpected challenges.

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    From adorable pygmy sloths to huge living dragons, islands offer a refuge for the planet's strangest creatures. But life on these isolated lands is full of unexpected challenges.

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    • 58 Minutes
    • Episode 13

    Series 2, Episode 2: Mountains

    The great mountain ranges maybe some of the planet's most spectacular landscapes but they are unforgiving places to live in. Only few pioneering animals have what it takes to endure at extreme altitude. Mountain animals are amongst the most elusive in the world, yet this film provides an intimate glimpse into their secretive lives. Witness the moment four snow leopards come together when a mother and cub become trapped between two rival males. Watch Grizzly bears pole dance against trees to rub off their winter fur and soar with a Golden eagle as it hunts amongst Europe's snow-capped peaks.

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    • 58 Minutes

    The great mountain ranges maybe some of the planet's most spectacular landscapes but they are unforgiving places to live in. Only few pioneering animals have what it takes to endure at extreme altitude. Mountain animals are amongst the most elusive in the world, yet this film provides an intimate glimpse into their secretive lives. Witness the moment four snow leopards come together when a mother and cub become trapped between two rival males. Watch Grizzly bears pole dance against trees to rub off their winter fur and soar with a Golden eagle as it hunts amongst Europe's snow-capped peaks.

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    • 58 Minutes
    • Episode 14

    Series 2, Episode 3: Jungles

    Jungles are the richest habitats on earth - mysterious worlds of surprise, drama and surprising animal characters. We leap through the forest of Madagascar with the acrobatic Indri and venture into the jungle at night to uncover strange fungi and glow-in-the-dark creatures never filmed before. From flooded forests that are home to caiman hunting Jaguars and strange dolphins that swim amongst the tree tops, to the dense underworld where ninja frogs fight off wasps and flying dragons soar between trees, meet extraordinary animals as they struggle to survive in the most competitive of habitats.

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    Jungles are the richest habitats on earth - mysterious worlds of surprise, drama and surprising animal characters. We leap through the forest of Madagascar with the acrobatic Indri and venture into the jungle at night to uncover strange fungi and glow-in-the-dark creatures never filmed before. From flooded forests that are home to caiman hunting Jaguars and strange dolphins that swim amongst the tree tops, to the dense underworld where ninja frogs fight off wasps and flying dragons soar between trees, meet extraordinary animals as they struggle to survive in the most competitive of habitats.

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    • 58 Minutes
    • Episode 15

    Series 2, Episode 4: Deserts

    The world's deserts are lands of extremes that force animals to come up with ingenious ways to cope with the hostile conditions and give rise to the most incredible survival stories. A pride of desert lions are so hungry they risk hunting on a giraffe several times their size, whilst male sand grouse fly 120 miles each day to the nearest waterhole and dice with death to collect water for their chicks. Filmed for the first time, a tiny bat takes on one of the world's deadliest scorpions just to get a meal and in Madagascar a locust swarm of biblical proportion is captured like never before.

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    The world's deserts are lands of extremes that force animals to come up with ingenious ways to cope with the hostile conditions and give rise to the most incredible survival stories. A pride of desert lions are so hungry they risk hunting on a giraffe several times their size, whilst male sand grouse fly 120 miles each day to the nearest waterhole and dice with death to collect water for their chicks. Filmed for the first time, a tiny bat takes on one of the world's deadliest scorpions just to get a meal and in Madagascar a locust swarm of biblical proportion is captured like never before.

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    • 58 Minutes
    • Episode 16

    Series 2, Episode 5: Grasslands

    Grasslands cover one quarter of all land and support the vast gatherings of wildlife, but to survive here animals must endure the most hostile seasonal changes on the planet. From Asia's bizarre looking antelope, to the giant ant-eaters of Brazil, grassland animals have adapted in extraordinary ways to cope with these extremes. In the flooded Okavango, lions take on formidable buffalo in epic battles, on the savannah Bee-eaters take advantage of elephants to help catch insects and, exposed on the tundra, caribou embark on great migrations closely followed by hungry Artic wolves.

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    Grasslands cover one quarter of all land and support the vast gatherings of wildlife, but to survive here animals must endure the most hostile seasonal changes on the planet. From Asia's bizarre looking antelope, to the giant ant-eaters of Brazil, grassland animals have adapted in extraordinary ways to cope with these extremes. In the flooded Okavango, lions take on formidable buffalo in epic battles, on the savannah Bee-eaters take advantage of elephants to help catch insects and, exposed on the tundra, caribou embark on great migrations closely followed by hungry Artic wolves.

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    • Episode 17

    Series 2, Episode 6: Cities

    Cities are the fastest growing habitat on Earth but, for animals, life in the manmade world is not easy. Some are surprisingly successful - Leopards prowl the streets of Mumbai, Peregrine falcons hunt amongst New York's skyscrapers and 5 million starlings perform aerial dances over Rome. We welcome some creatures into our cities; In Jodhpur langurs are treated like gods and in Harar locals live in harmony with wild hyenas. Many creatures, however, are struggling to cope in the urban jungle. Will the architects of the future choose to build cities that are home both for us and for wildlife?

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    Cities are the fastest growing habitat on Earth but, for animals, life in the manmade world is not easy. Some are surprisingly successful - Leopards prowl the streets of Mumbai, Peregrine falcons hunt amongst New York's skyscrapers and 5 million starlings perform aerial dances over Rome. We welcome some creatures into our cities; In Jodhpur langurs are treated like gods and in Harar locals live in harmony with wild hyenas. Many creatures, however, are struggling to cope in the urban jungle. Will the architects of the future choose to build cities that are home both for us and for wildlife?

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