Genre: | Nature documentary |
Narrated: | David Tennant |
Country: | United Kingdom |
Language: | English |
Num Episodes: | 6 |
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Executive Producer: | Cassian Harrison |
Runtime: | 60 mins |
Earthflight is a British nature documentary that shows a flight from the view of the wings of birds across six continents, showing some of the world's greatest natural spectacles from a bird's-eye view.[1] The BBC series was created by John Downer and narrated by David Tennant and consisted of six 60-minute episodes. The first episode aired on BBC One on 29 December 2011.
A two-hour subset of Earthflight was aired in October 2012 by the Discovery Channel in the US as Winged Planet.[2] [3] The entire series with rerecorded narrative aired on PBS, beginning in September 2013, under the title Earthflight, A Nature Special Presentation.[4] [5]
As explained in the sixth episode, some of the birds were imprinted on a human and filmed from an ultralight plane; others were filmed with a helicopter drone. Some other footage resulted from tiny cameras being strapped to the backs of birds.[4] [6]
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In the UK, a two-disc DVD was released on 26 March 2012,[8] while the Blu-ray sets was released later month on 16 April 2012.[9]
In United States and Canada, a two-disc DVD[10] was released on 18 March 2014, and for Blu-ray Disc[11] was released on 8 April 2014. It was distributed by BBC Warner.