Warner Bros. today announced BBC High Definition Natural History Collection, an 8 disc Blu-ray set that includes Planet Earth Episodes 1-11, Wild China Episodes 1-6, Galapagos Episodes 1-3 and Ganges Episodes 1-3. The set is scheduled for release on July 22, 2008. Don’t forget to check out the cover art.
Planet Earth, with an unprecedented production budget of $25 million, takes you to places you have never seen before. Five years in production, over 2000 days in the field, using 40 cameramen filming across 200 locations, shot entirely in high definition.
An exotic fusion of natural history and Oriental adventure, Wild China is a series of journeys through four startlingly different landscapes, each based around the travels of a real historical character. Journey across China from the glittering peaks of the Himalayas to the barren steppe, the sub-Arctic to the tropical islands, through deserts both searingly hot and mind-numbingly cold and see, in pioneering images, a dazzling array of mysterious, beautiful, wild and rare creatures.
The inspiration for Darwin ‘s theory of evolution, the Galápagos Islands are a living laboratory, a geological conveyor belt that has given birth to and seen the death of many species of plants and animals. As the western islands rise up from the sea offering a chance of life, the eastern islands sink back beneath the waves guaranteeing only death. Between the two are the middle islands; fertile, lush land in its prime that contains an incredible diversity of life.
Ganges tells the story of the most extraordinary river in the world . Human life and nature bustle along her river banks, in a kaleidoscope of color and energy. From man-hunting tigers to giant lizards, here the wildlife is as diverse as the people. Traversing from the peaks of the Himalayas through frenetic cities to the teeming delta where the river meets the sea, this is a vibrant and colorful look at how the Ganges shaped the wildlife, culture and beliefs of India.