Human Planet

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Premiered January 13, 2011

Country United Kingdom

Runtime 60m

Genres Documentary

Human Planet
Following in the footsteps of Planet Earth and Life, this epic eight-part blockbuster is a breathtaking celebration of the amazing, complex, profound and sometimes challenging relationship between humankind and nature. Humans are the ultimate animals – the most successful species on the planet. From the frozen Arctic to steamy rainforests, from tiny islands in vast oceans to parched deserts, people have found remarkable ways to adapt and survive in the harshest environments imaginable. We’ve done this by harnessing our immense courage and ingenuity; learning to live with and utilise the other creatures that share these wild places. Human Planet weaves together eighty inspiring stories, many never told before on television, set to a globally influenced soundtrack by award-winning composer Nitin Sawhney. Each episode focuses on a particular habitat and reveals how its people have created astonishing solutions in the face of extreme adversity. Finally we visit the urban jungle, where most of us now live, and discover why the connection between humanity and nature in our cities is the most vital of all. Human Planet is brought to you by BBC Earth, creator of 50 years of outstanding natural history content.
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This documentary is amazing. Really well produced. And the narrator's voice is as charming as Sir David Attenborough. 10/10
Added to Watch List, I heard Planet Earth is another great one.
Thanks to @Draackje @dunpealhunter & this promo [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRPD_2TGQts] I have to see this!!!
Amazing show! Some of the most beautiful images and stories of people living in wild nature that I've ever seen. From the deserts to the iceworlds to the jungles, it is unbelievable (literally unbelievable!) to see how these people go about their daily lives.

After seeing this show it makes you wonder; are our luxury lives really better than their poor, dangerous lives? If we can believe the behind-the-scenes interview with the cameramen the answer would be no: these people might live in the face of danger and die sooner, but they live their lives much fuller than our routine 9 to 5 city lives. Perhaps the best of both world would be nicest, but how to realize that? Food for thought!
This is an incredible nature documentary. If you want to see how people manage to live in the most remote and dangerous places in the world than you should see this documentary. It really puts things in perspective, while we are watching this from our cozy warm houses on a HDTV televison there are people all over the world who have never even heard of a television trying to survive in a hostile environment. A great addition are the last 10 minutes of each episode called behind the lens. It shows how the camera people managed to make the documentary in the first place. I always wondered how they managed to make those parts in nature documentaries. Its really interesting to see and it shows the contrast in how western people do things and how the indigenous people do it.
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