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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 0794051251428
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Item Dimensions: 100
Label: BBC Warner
Languages: EnglishOriginal LanguageDolby Digital 2.0 StereoEnglishSubtitled
Manufacturer: BBC Warner
MPN: E2514
Number Of Items: 2
Publisher: BBC Warner
Region Code: 1
Release Date: May 02, 2006
Running Time: 250 minutes
Studio: BBC Warner

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Editorial Review:

Product Description:
David Attenborough guides the viewer through a miniature universe teeming with life never normally seen yet all around us. New technology reveals surreal vistas and their extraordinary inhabitants -- swarming antler moths desert locusts and a mountain of cockroaches -- up close and personal. The bizarre and the beautiful are represented and their habits lifestyles and characteristics explained in David Attenborough's inimitable style. Though small these creatures are as ferocious as any seen before.Running Time: 250 min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: MYSTERY/SUSPENSE Rating: NR UPC: 794051251428 Manufacturer No: E2514

Amazon.com:
By getting up close and personal with Life in the Undergrowth, this extraordinary BBC series sets a new standard of excellence in wildlife cinematography. Hosted by veteran nature expert David Attenborough and utilizing the latest advances in macrophotography, the five-part series is dedicated to bugs of all shapes and sizes, from microscopic gnats to cave-dwelling millipedes so large they can capture bats in mid-flight and feast for hours thereafter! The patience involved in filming such previously unseen marvels must have been grueling (as confirmed by producer Mike Salisbury in a splendid bonus interview), but the results are nothing less than astonishing, with a parade of sequences so impressive that even insect-haters will pause in amazement. With an emphasis on reproduction and mating behaviors, each program focuses on a different, generalized group of creatures, many of them never filmed before, so that lay-persons and entomologists will be equally enlightened by discoveries made in the process of filming.

As always, Attenborough serves as an expert witness, cordial, fearless, and quintessentially British as he explains what we're seeing, from the nocturnal fluorescence of scorpions (glowing at night in ultraviolet light, they perform a mating dance playfully described as "a nuptial pas de deux") to the mysterious, 17-year life cycle of the cicada. Throughout, we see everything, both frightening and beautiful, from an intimate, bug's-eye view, in detail so vividly colorful that you'll never view the insect world in quite the same way again. (Likewise for the diverse variety of critters on view in episode 3: "The Silk Spinners," which according to Salisbury is capable of curing arachnophobes from their irrational fear of spiders.) Just when you think Life in the Undergrowth couldn't get any more fascinating, it does: episode 4, "Intimate Relations," shows how many insects symbiotically depend on other species for food, shelter, or completion of their reproductive cycles, and episode 5, "Supersocieties," focuses on the social complexities of insect colonists like ants and termites. Enough to give you the creeps for days, you say? Think again, for after seeing Life in the Undergrowth (a perfect companion piece to the Nova episode "The Unknown World"), you may find yourself in the garden, on your knees, eager for a better look at the countless millions of tiny creatures that surround us every day. --Jeff Shannon




Rating: - Wonderful Family Videos
We rented this video from Netflix and the whole family enjoyed the program so much we decided to purchase it. The images in this production are so clear and close you feel like you are down on the ground with the creatures themselves. Not only is the videography excellent, but the information about each insect is informative and entertaining. This program helps me and my kids understand that we share this earth with a myriad of other beings and that we have a responsibility to make sure their chances ... Read More

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Rating: - Absolutely Beautiful
Some people may not find insects all that majestic, but I usually find them to be vastly interesting creatures, as long as they're not crawling all over me! Despite my lack of interest in physically going to look at bugs on location, I am glad the BBC saw fit to bring the bugs onto my TV screen so I can view them there.

As is to be expected from a BBC production featuring Attenborough there is some top quality footage. Naturally they can't document all insects, but they give is a great ... Read More

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Rating: - Another hit!
My husband and I love David Attenborough and his documentaries, so I bought this one for my husband's birthday. We both love it! Even I, with my acute arachnophobia, watch enthralled. As with most of DA's documentaries, it fills me with wonder and delight every time. I like it even better than "Planet Earth" because taking on a smaller subject (insects rather than all animals over the whole planet) allows for greater depth.

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Rating: - Our mouths dropped open...
True to the style of all of his other "Life" series, Attenborough opens a world that is completely unseen by the higher mammals. He does it beautifully. Even though my husband & I are nature fanatics, some of these creatures had escaped our radar until highlighted by Attenborough; many filmed sequences had us watching with mouths agape in amazement, and were partnered with an exceptional score worth listening to by itself (and is included on the DVD in the special features section). I personally feel ... Read More

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Rating: - Nature dvd
This is a great dvd for those kids interested in knowing how the insect world works.....just wonderfull..great filming..

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