Name: Frozen Planet
Released: 2011-10-26T00:00:00.000Z
Cast: Jamie Mcpherson, Helen Hobin, Bertie Gregory

TV Show · Documentary

Embark on the trip of a lifetime, as the BBC's acclaimed Natural History Unit takes you on a spectacular polar expedition into a breathtaking landscape most humans will never experience. Ambitious and epic in scale, this landmark series is the ultimate portrait of the great wildernesses of the Arctic and Antarctic before they change forever.

2011 · 48m

Starring Jamie Mcpherson, Helen Hobin, Bertie Gregory

Director Alastair Fothergill

EPISODE 1

Frozen Planet To the Ends of the Earth

The Arctic and Antarctic are the greatest and least known wildernesses, ice worlds inhabited by the toughest creatures on earth. The sun shines on the North Pole again after six months of darkness. Further south, the tree-line marks the start of the Taiga forest, containing one third of all trees on earth.

30m
EPISODE 2

Frozen Planet Spring

Spring brings warmth and life to planet's magical ice worlds. Male adelie penguins arrive in Antarctica to build their nests - it takes a good property to attract the best mates and the males will stop at nothing to better their rivals!

30m
EPISODE 3

Frozen Planet Summer

In high summer in the polar regions the sun never sets. Summer is a tough time for the polar bear family as their ice world melts away and the cubs take their first swimming lesson. But summer also brings surprises as a huge colony of 400,000 king penguins cope with an unlikely problem - heat.

30m
EPISODE 4

Frozen Planet Autumn

For the animals of the polar regions, autumn means dramatic battles and epic journeys. Polar bears gather in large numbers on the Arctic coast as they wait for the return of the ice. Inland, the tundra undergoes a dramatic transformation from green to fiery red.

30m
EPISODE 5

Frozen Planet Winter

There is no greater test for life than winter as temperatures plummet to 70 below and winds reach 200kph. Darkness and ice extend across the polar regions and only a few remarkable survivors gamble on remaining.

48m
EPISODE 6

Frozen Planet The Last Frontier

In the last frontier we reveal the extraordinary riches and wonders of the polar regions that have kept people coming here for thousands of years. Today their survival relies on a combination of ancient wisdom and cutting edge science.

30m