#bbc earth Antarctica

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At the bottom of Lake Untersee in Antarctica are giant stromatolites, an ancient form of life on our planet. They first appeared closer in time to the formation of Earth, three and a half billion years ago, than to the present day. Scientists hope that studying these organisms in such a hostile environment will help us understand and recognize life on icy worlds beyond our own. BBC Earth

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A friendship forged working the land, memories of volcanic eruptions from 800,000 years ago frozen in Antarctica’s ice cores, and the importance of wild, patient gardens. Short documentaries presented by Josie Long that rise up from the earth.

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Meeting The Birds of Antarctica | Deep Into The Wild | BBC Earth

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Hold my non alcoholic beer, let me add to the shows (as a lazy ass Person, I shall copy paste from an old reddit post I made)

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° War Sailor - Norwegian Netflix series about Merchant Sailors during WW2 - 4 Episodes

° Greyhound - Movie about an Atlantic Convoy during WW2

° Britannic - Movie that's very loosely based on the sinking of the HMHS Britannic

° Shattered City - The Halifax Explosion - Movie based on the Halifax Explosion cause by the ships Mount Blanc and Imo during WW1

° Master and Commander - Napoleonic War at sea, ost people have heard of that movie probably eitherway already

° Black Sails - 4 seasons of Pirates doing what pirates do best, do I need to say more?

° In the Heart of the Sea - Movie based on the Essex disaster

° Horatio Hornblower (several Movies) - pre-napoleonic war at sea

° Die Gustloff - German TV Production, based on the sinking of the MV Wilhelm Gustloff during WW2

° Die Männer der Emden - German TV production about the Journey of the crew of the SMS Emden during WW1

° To the Ends of the Earth - Jared Harris is captaining here again

°Der Untergang der Lusitania - German movie about the sinking of the Lusitania in WW1

\~ Cold Boys aka Polar Expeditions \~

° Nova Zembla - Dutch TV production about a Expedition in 1598 to find a North East Passage

° Shackleton - British TV production about Shackleton's failed Imperial Trans Antarctic Expedition

° Against the Ice - about two men that were left behind in Greenland during a danish expedition

° Amundsen - Roald Amundsen his life cut together into a Movie

° The North Water - the classic recommendation for The Terror fans, about a whaler that sinks in arctic and the crew trying to survive

° Arctic Convoy - Norwegian Netflix Movie about the Arctic Convoy during WW2

° Shackleton's Captain - docudrama that tells a different side of Shackleton's Imperial Trans Antarctic

° Flight of the Eagle - about Andrée's Arctic balloon expedition of 1897

° The last place on Earth - about the Race between Scott and Amundsen to the South Pole, it shows both sides

° The journals of Knud Rasmussen - Never found this movie, so from Wikipedia: "The film is about the pressures on traditional Inuit shamanistic beliefs as documented by Knud Rasmussen during his travels across the Canadian Arctic in the 1920s."

° Scott of Antarctica - Movie from the late 40s, about Scott his Terra Nova Expedition, some of the actual members of the Expedition actually saw this movie still

° Titina - Kids movie that follows Umberto Nobilles dog Titina

°The Worst Journey in the World - BBC docu-drama based on Cherries book

° The Greeley Expedition - it's a documentary, you can find it on YouTube

° Pionier der Arktis - Jean Baptiste Charcot - German documentary about Charcot (it's on YouTube but without subtitles)

°The Icebreaker - Russian movie about an icebreaker stuck on an iceberg

°Mission: Arctic - Russian movie about the polar explorer Bering

\~ There is Ice? \~

°Norwand (North Face) - German TV production about two mountaineers who tried to climb the Eiger North Face

°So weit die Füße tragen (As far as my feet will carry me) - German Movie about a German prisoner of war fleeing from a gulag and trying to find his way home through the cold of siberia

°Joyeux Noel (Merry Christmas) - movie about the Christmas Truce in 1914

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° Titanic - who hasn't heard of this one?

° A Night to remember - Titanic but approved by actual survivors

(There are more titanic movies, but I left it at the two best versions)

And an adventure movie that has a ship but no cold

° The incredible journey of Mary Bryant - about a woman who gets forcefully shipped to Australia for stealing bread, and her long way back to England again

I don't know if that List will help anybody, but here we are, also I am sure some of the movies are a far grab.

Oh also there is the first hand footage from terra nova, endurance and the Fram and the 20 more Shackleton movies I forgot about

I've been working on putting together something fun!

The current categories are: nonfiction books, fiction books, poetry, games/3d environments, music, and web resources. At present the nonfiction section is the beefiest, cobbled together from various tumblr posts (including one showing the research shelf of The Terror's writers' room!).

This is intended to be a living, crowd-sourced document. Please feel free to submit additions, comments, and questions via Tumblr asks or messages.

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Weddell Seals: Antarctica's Permanent Resident | Snow Animals | BBC Earth

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"Ancient Life Discovered in Antarctica I Frozen Planet II I BBC Earth" を YouTube で見る

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David Attenborough ~ zoo quest for a dragon Petit livre relié de 1959 En anglais Including quest for the paradise Birds Edition the companion book club London 256 pages avec des photo noir et blanc et couleur Couverture un peu abîmé In his early years as a BBC television producer, Sir David wanted to put his zoology degree to good use by making programmes about animals. The series called "Zoo Quest" was the start of his long career. Sir David Frederick Attenborough is a naturalist and broadcaster, who is most well-known for writing and presenting the nine "Life" series, produced in conjunction with BBC's Natural History Unit. The series includes Life on Earth (1979), The Living Planet (1984), The Trials of Life (1990), Life in the Freezer (about Antarctica; 1993), The Private Life of Plants (1995), The Life of Birds (1998), The Life of Mammals (2002), Life in the Undergrowth (2005) and Life in Cold Blood (2008). He is the younger brother of director and actor Richard Attenborough. #librairiemelodieensoussol  #melodieensoussol #oiseaumortvintage #libraire #librairie #librairiemarseille #librairieparis #librairieindependante #librairieenligne #librairiedoccasion #livresdoccasion #zooquestforadragon #davidattenborough https://www.instagram.com/p/CoJ4lRLMHnR/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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★ Benedict Cumberbatch´s 2021★*

“You know, the gratitude of being able to do what you do, that you love doing, for a living, is just … I still pinch myself about it. Don’t tell producers, ’cause they’ll probably come to me with lower offers! But it’s the truth. It’s like, what a gig! What an amazing way to live a life.”

* this post shows just a few highlights, for more check this tag. :))

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Benedict Cumberbatch narrates a stunning film that will bring audiences to the most hostile continent on Earth – Antarctica 

[sobeautifullyobsessed]

When Benedict, in full ginger beard mode, did the little lip-biting thing while recording the voiceover for BBC Earth...

(watch the clip, it comes right at the end 😍)

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Micro-Reviews: Stuff I enjoyed with my Apple+ free trial, Part I

Recently had the chance to spend a couple months with Apple’s streaming service, and while I’m not going to keep an ongoing subscription, I did find several shows that I watched and enjoyed in their entirety and would recommend! The ones in this post are all documentary-related, and I think several would be worth having a one-month subscription to watch, at least.

Prehistoric Planet

Fantastic dinosaur documentary, narrated by David Attenborough, with the more current (presumably) understanding of prehistoric creatures’ lives and appearances--including feathers! I know feathered dinosaurs aren’t new, but I feel like it’s taken a while for feathers to make their way into moving depictions, y’know?

Anyway, it’s very fun, because dinosaurs are very fun. The creatures are photorealistic, and the backgrounds were so realistic I literally couldn’t even guess if they were all CG, or if they used real-life shots and placed the creatures in. 

I know I’m not talking much about the content, because I can’t find much to say other than fantastic, absolutely worth watching. It combines a bunch of my favorite things: dinosaurs, BBC documentaries, and David Attenborough narration.

Fireball: Visitors From Darker Worlds

Another one for the documentary and science lovers. At an hour and a half, I broke it up into multiple sessions. This is about “the cultural, spiritual, and scientific impact of meteorites” and their craters.

Narrated and written by Werner Herzog, whose narration continually delighted me because it’s a bit like a monologue from a conversational partner. We’re introduced to a South Korean antarctic station, and as the camera walks trough the spacious, sunlight rooms, Herzog recounts how nearby, Robert Scott’s men spent the winter in tiny cave. 

As we watch people prepare food in a shiny modern kitchen, he recounts how the historical men dreamt of banquets ripped away from their forks; one man who managed to eat in his dream was “rightfully hated” by his comrades. [heavy pause] But we’re not here for lobster and kimchi. Anyway, about the science...

Later, we get a digression about how delighted he is by some footage of someone walking into the background of a camera shot and doing some work on the ground, against the rules of good filmmaking.

Topic to tangent back to topic again. I suspect this is what people experience in conversation with me. The subject matter was interesting, but Herzog’s narration himself was so much fun that when I discovered he had previously created a documentary about people living in Antarctica, I immediately placed a library hold on it.

Earth at Night in Color

Absolutely fascinating. Using state-of-the-art cameras that are able to film at night not in the grey-and-green-toned night vision we’re used to, but in color that, if you didn’t remember the name of the show, would have you guessing they’re filming in the day, or maybe dusk at most. If you’re the kind of person who likes nature documentaries, you’ll like this. I also enjoyed the “behind the scenes” bits at the end of each episode that show how the crew filmed things, or issues they ran into. I am continually amazed at nature documentary camera people--the episode on Patagonia noted that the crew walked a collective 5000 kilometers.

Also notable is learning via Tom Hiddleston’s narration that apparently the British way of pronouncing puma is pyoo-mah, which led me on a google rabbit trail that ended in a linguist’s blog post from 2006.

Tiny World

A nature docuseries that spotlights small creatures, narrated by Paul Rudd because he played Ant Man, which is hilarious. (The narration is perfectly fine, but reading the rationale in an interview cracked me up.)

I was continually amazed and astounded and the close-up footage they got of tiny creatures--at least with pumas (*Tom Hiddleston voice* pyoo-mahs) you can film them from a distance! Each episode focused on multiple creatures--more than five each time--so you get a good look at a lot of things. “Tiny” here ranges from ants and other teeny insects to small lizards, shrews, geckos and more. 

They did a great job keeping a light, inquisitive tone--it’s not a comedy and you’ll also find yourself fearing for a hummingbird in the middle of a Caribbean hurricane, but my absolute favorite part was the episode with peacock spiders (tiny and cute and colorful), the males of which do a courtship dance. Tiny World made the fantastic decision to play The Macarena to accompany this.

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Capturing the Mysterious Antarctic Whale Gathering on Film Secret Obsessions is Atlas Obscura's new column where we ask wondrous people to take us down a rabbit hole. This edition features award-winning wildlife filmmaker and television host Bertie Gregory, as told to Associate Editor Sarah Durn. Antarctica is some 9,000 miles from my home in England, and I had been trying to get there for more than a decade to film one of the biggest animal gatherings on Earth. Hundreds of fin whales come there to feast on krill, a tiny, translucent crustacean, but the gatherings are little studied, rarely seen, and have never been properly captured on camera. For a wildlife filmmaker like me, capturing these legendary gatherings became the holy grail. Wanting to go to some remote corner of the globe to film an animal is a familiar feeling for me. It started young. Growing up, everyone at my school thought I was a complete freak because any moment of spare time, during sports practice or whatever, I would slip away to go sneak up on animals. I realized that if I took pictures of the animals I was seeing, it was a great way to get other people excited about what I was excited about—and also explain where I’d been sneaking off to. Before university, I wanted to see and photograph bears, so I emailed a bunch of wildlife tour guides on the west coast of Canada, and said, “Can I come hang out?” I ended up living in the basement of one guide for two summers, helping out on a bear- and whale-watching boat. I was there to see bears, but it was the whales that really captured my imagination. One day I went out with a tour group. Normally, you'd see maybe four or five whales, mainly either grey whales or humpback whales. For whatever reason, there was this freak event, where all of the humpback whales’ prey had come into shore. You couldn't drive the boat more than a hundred yards without having to go around a whale. There were humpback whales everywhere. That was the first time I saw wildlife en masse. A light switch went off in my head: “Wow, this is special.” Years later, in 2018, I had my first tantalizing glimpse of what the Antarctic has to offer. I was there filming for the BBC’s Seven Worlds, One Planet, and the fin whale gatherings were on the long list of animals we wanted to film. One day we saw a gathering of about 150 whales. It was spectacular, but very brief. I think we ended up watching them for only an hour. The German research ship we were on had a tight schedule, and we couldn’t stay. As soon as I had seen that, I was like, “I need to film this.” And I wanted to get it from all angles: in the air with drones, at water level with gyro-stabilized cameras, and diving underwater with a camera. And the only way of doing that, really, is with a sailboat, so you're super-maneuverable. When this series, Epic Adventures, was commissioned, I knew I wanted to try it. It was our most ambitious, most expensive episode. There was no budget for a reshoot. We had to get it. After two years of planning, we gathered an amazing team and set sail on a 75-foot sailboat across the infamous Drake Passage from South America to Antarctica. We could only stay 28 days. The whale gatherings are thought to happen right at the end of the season when it’s possible to visit the southern continent. So we were there as late as we possibly could be before the weather would get really bad. Near the start we saw this small gathering, but it was too rough to film. We knew it was happening, but the days just started ticking by. I felt awful. I’m in Antarctica, surrounded by cool people, looking for whales, it doesn't get better than that. But so many people were counting on us to get this. The idea of not being able to pull it off was really hard to take. Three quarters of the way through the shoot, I remember lying in my bunk, and my friend Dan Beecham, the other underwater cameraperson, was in the bunk above me. There were pieces of icebergs grinding on the hull, and you could hear the anchor dragging because the winds were so strong. And I remember looking up in the dark. “Dan, was this a bad idea? Like, do you think we can actually do this?” He was very calm and very wise, and said, “We can do this. We've done all the right things.” He was kind of the voice of reason in all the doubt. And the next day, the winds were calm. The sea was flat. The sun was out. For the first time, there were no clouds. And just as we were pulling the anchor up, I lifted up my binoculars to the horizon, and that was when I saw what looked like cannons going off in an old sea battle. It was all these whale blows backlit by the rising sun. As we motored towards the whales, the blows getting closer and closer, I couldn’t decide what lens to put on the drone. It's something I’ve done a thousand times, but I knew this could be the only flight. Finally, I was like, “Okay I just need to pick a lens and go.” Then I flew the drone up above the gathering. I have never seen anything so epic on a monitor screen, all these blows going off in front of snowy mountains. There were some 300 feasting whales. But to really appreciate how big these animals are, we needed to get in the water. The biggest danger of the whole shoot was getting lost while diving. It’s very easy to lose divers in the open ocean. We were all kind of on edge when we dropped in. All we could see is blue. The water's below freezing, so immediately you get this brain freeze. And then you wait. For permitting and disturbance reasons, the whales have to come to you. We could feel the whales before we could see them. Fin whales make a really deep noise you can’t hear. But you can feel your guts vibrate. Then a big group of chinstrap penguins came whizzing past us. And then out of the gloom, I see this weird shape. All of a sudden this giant fin whale mouth comes out of the blue and cruises right past me. It was so close we could look each other in the eye. There are no words to describe that feeling—to see an animal that big, that close. I followed its eye with the camera, and the body kept coming and coming. Eventually, the tail came past and I was like, “I’m not going to get shot like that in while.” But soon enough, another whale came along, then two more. All of a sudden there were whales coming from all directions. After we got out and the sun started to dip, whale blows were still going off everywhere. I remember Martha Kane, the medic, turning to me and saying, “You need to take a look at this with your eyeballs. Stop trying to film it and just look at it.” So often with this job, you're so focused on filming that you spend the entire time with your head in a monitor. I remember going up to the bow of the boat and looking out at the whales. It was like looking at a scene of what the planet was before humans messed it up. I'm very lucky that I get to go all over the world and see amazing animals, but literally everywhere we go, a guide or scientist tells us, “You should’ve seen what it was like 10, 20 years ago.” Wildlife populations are nosediving all over the world, but it’s possible to bring some of them back. Fin whales almost went extinct during the commercial whaling era. Now, thanks to protections and good governance, they’ve come back from the edge. And to see this truly wild place, with whales and penguins and the snowy mountains behind them, it was really emotional. This is what happens when you give nature an opening. It'll do the hard work, it will come back. We just need to give it the chance. ​​Bertie Gregory is an award-winning wildlife filmmaker and the host of the new Disney+ show Epic Adventures with Bertie Gregory. He is a National Geographic Explorer and has hosted six projects for National Geographic (Leopards at the Door, Jaguar Vs Croc, Wild_Life, Resurrection Island, and The Big Freeze). Resurrection Island won the Best Television Host award at the Jackson Wild Awards in 2019. Bertie also films for the BBC David Attenborough series Seven Worlds, One Planet, and is one of BAFTA’s youngest-ever cinematography winners.

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Trailer for new documentary from BBC Earth, “Antarctica.” Here’s the link to the website, including a description of some of the venues where it will be shown. Description from BBC:

From the filmmakers who brought you Planet Earth II, comes Antarctica, the story of a land of sheer mystery. And yet what happens here affects every single one of us. With never-before seen footage, this film will transport you to the farthest reaches of this wild and majestic continent.

Award-winning actor, Benedict Cumberbatch, narrates this stunning film that will bring you to the most hostile continent on Earth.