Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

Life [videorecording] / series producer, Martha Holmes ; a BBC/Discovery Channel/SKAI co-production ; the Open University.

Publisher, Date:

[United States] : BBC Earth : 2 Entertain Video ; Burbank, CA : Distributed in the USA and Canada by Warner Home Video, Inc., c2010.

Description:

4 videodiscs (586 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Summary:

Four years in the making, and filmed over 3000 days across every continent and in every habitat, see 130 incredible stories from frontiers of the natural world. Discover the glorious variety of life on Earth and the spectacular and extraordinary tactics animals and plants have developed to stay alive. This is evolution in action: individual creatures under extreme pressure to overcome challenges from adversaries and their environment.

Subjects:

Life (Biology)

Adaptation (Biology)

Biodiversity.

Nature television programs.

Wildlife television programs.

Documentary television programs.

Nonfiction television programs.

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Other Author:

Attenborough, David, 1926-

Holmes, Martha, 1961-

Fenton, George.

British Broadcasting Corporation.

Discovery Channel (Firm)

SKAI (Television station : Greece)

Open University.

BBC Earth (Firm)

2 Entertain Video (Firm)

Warner Home Video (Firm)

Notes:

Original UK broadcast version.

Originally broadcast on the BBC in 2009.

Special features: Life on location, a collection of 10 behind the scenes video diaries.

Music composed by George Fenton.

Narrator, David Attenborough.

DVD; NTSC, region 1; Dolby Digital 5.1; widescreen.

Subtitled for the deaf and hard of hearing.

English dialogue; English, French or Spanish subtitles.

Contents:

Challenges of life -- Reptiles and amphibians -- Mammals -- Fish -- Birds -- Insects -- Hunters and hunted -- Creatures of the deep -- Plants -- Primates.

ISBN:

1419888579

9781419888571

Publisher Number:

1000115787

Other Number:

624343484

System Availability:

2

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

2

Control Number:

264882

# Local items in:

0

# System items in:

0

Call Number:

DVD 570 Life

Medium:

[videorecording]