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Africa: Eye to Eye with the Unknown (2013)

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Africa: Eye to Eye with the Unknown (2013)

Africa (2013)
2xDVD9 + DVD5 | VIDEO_TS | NTSC 16:9 | 362 mins | 17,26 Gb
Audio: English AC3 5.1 @ 448 Kbps | Subs: English, French, Spanish
Genre: Documentary

Stars: David Attenborough, Forest Whitaker, Simon Blakeney

Narrated by renowned naturalist Sir David Attenborough, this extraordinary series takes you to epic, never-before-seen locations and captures the incredible new behaviors of the creatures that struggle to survive in a rapidly-changing continent.

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"As you've never seen it before" should be a familiar tagline to anyone who's ever watched a nature documentary. It's a tantalizing promise too often made, too often broken. But Mike Gunton and James Honeyborne's latest BBC Earth series is a different beast entirely. In just six engrossing episodes, Africa presents the untamed continent as you've truly never seen it before. Rhinos gather by moonlight to socialize and share an intimate conversation. Giraffes swing their heads like wrecking balls in a fierce battle.

Africa: Eye to Eye with the Unknown (2013)

The landscape shifts and changes, forcing wildlife to adapt suddenly and desperately. Lizards hunt in the shadows of sleeping lions. Gorillas are marooned in isolated stretches of highland jungle. Frogs fight to take and hold coveted perches. Fertile volcanic ash breeds grasslands on an immense scale. Zebras clash and mole rats burrow deeper and deeper. Predators gather to gorge on sardines. Man co-exists with animal in a new ecosystem, where both conservation efforts, ecological threats and greed vie for supremacy. This is Africa, an absorbing BBC Natural History Unit/Discovery Channel journey of sights rarely seen and stories rarely told; some amusing, some heartbreaking, but all fascinating.

Africa: Eye to Eye with the Unknown (2013)

Sir David Attenborough steadies Africa with poise and charm. Too many nature documentary series are akin to a greatest hits reel, but Attenborough's narration provides a narrative; a through-thread the lends each episode cohesion and the full six-episode run momentum and purpose. It would all be for naught, though, if it weren't for the NHU photographers, whose tireless efforts, quick thinking and unparalleled luck result in jaw-dropping footage, much of which is unlike anything the BBC Earth series has offered before. Slow motion is employed to astonishing effect and never amounts to a gimmick. Daring camerawork and pure, old fashioned bravery lead to some of the most striking shots and sequences in recent NHU memory.

Africa: Eye to Eye with the Unknown (2013)

Discoveries are made, studies are furthered and understanding is advanced. Moments of levity earn genuine laughs. (Just try to keep a straight face when, upon being spotted by a cheetah, a squirrel high tails it off camera. Funniest thing I've seen all year.) Moments of grief and sadness stir up real emotion. (Try not to tear up as a mother elephant sacrifices her own well-being to tend to her dying calf in its last hours.) And scenes of grace, power and wonder inspire legitimate awe. Of all the BBC Earth productions since Earth, Africa is easily one of the best and, without hesitation, a personal favorite. My only gripe? Six episodes isn't nearly enough.

Africa: Eye to Eye with the Unknown (2013)

BBC Africa Episode Guide:

Kalahari: In Africa's ancient south west corner, two extraordinary deserts sit side by side. Water is in short supply, yet these deserts are somehow full of life because the creatures that live here have turned the rules of survival on their head. This film celebrates nature's ingenuity, no matter how tough it gets. In the Kalahari scrublands, clever meerkats are outsmarted by a wily bird, solitary and belligerent black rhinos get together to party and giant insects stalk huge flocks of birds. Rain almost never falls in the Namib - instead it must make do with vaporous, vanishing fog. The creatures in this, the world's oldest desert, have gone to the extremes, as spiders wheel to escape and a desert giraffe fights to defend his scant resources in the greatest giraffe battle ever filmed.

Africa: Eye to Eye with the Unknown (2013)

Savannah: East Africa is a land which is constantly changing. To survive here, creatures must be able to deal with unpredictable twists and turns - wet turning to dry, feast to famine, cold to hot - no matter how hostile it becomes. From dense forests to snow capped peaks, steamy swamps and endless Savannah, this unique and varied land is also a haven for life, supporting large animals in numbers found nowhere else on Earth. But away from the familiar, forever-traveling herds, there are a huge cast of other characters - lizards that steal flies from the faces of lions, vast dinosaur-like birds who stalk catfish through huge wetlands, and an eagle who risks everything on the arrival of ten million bats from a far off rainforest.

Africa: Eye to Eye with the Unknown (2013)

Congo: The very heart of Africa is covered in dense tropical rainforest. The animals that live here find the most ingenious ways to carve out their space in a claustrophobic landscape. Danger lurks in every shadow, but some animals thrive here, from honey-stealing chimps to birds with a lineage as old as the dinosaurs, thundering elephants and kick-boxing frogs. Here in the Congo, no matter how tough the competition, you must stand up and fight for yourself and your patch.

Africa: Eye to Eye with the Unknown (2013)

Cape: Southern Africa is a riot of life and color because of two great ocean currents that sweep around the continent's Cape. To the east, the warm Agulhas current generates clouds that roll inland to the wettest place in southern Africa. To the west is the cold Benguela current, home to more great white sharks than anywhere else. Moisture laden fog rolls inland, supporting an incredible desert garden. Where the two currents meet, the clash of warm and cold water creates one of the world's most fabulous natural spectacles: South Africa's sardine run. This is the greatest gathering of predators on the planet, including Africa's largest, the Bryde's whale.

Africa: Eye to Eye with the Unknown (2013)

Sahara: Northern Africa is home to the greatest desert on Earth, the Sahara. On the fringes, huge zebras battle over dwindling resources and naked mole rats avoid the heat by living a bizarre underground existence. Within the desert, where the sand dunes "sing," camels seek out water with the help of their herders and tiny swallows navigate across thousands of square miles to find a solitary oasis. This is a story of an apocalypse and how, when nature is overrun, some are forced to flee, some endure, but a few seize the opportunity to establish a new order.

Africa: Eye to Eye with the Unknown (2013)

The Future: Attenborough comes face to face with a baby rhino and asks what the future holds for this little one. He meets the local people who are standing side-by-side with the wildlife at this pivotal moment in their history. We discover what it takes to save a species, hold back a desert and even resurrect an entire wilderness, revealing what the world was like before modern man.

Africa: Eye to Eye with the Unknown (2013)

Africa is one of the best BBC Earth series to date, and in just six episodes at that. Attenborough's narration also anchors some of the finest Natural History Unit photography in recent memory, as Gunton and Honeyborne's team continually tops itself, capturing amazing sight after amazing sight; scene after scene, episode after episode, from the series' breathtaking beginning through to its thoughtful end.
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Africa: Eye to Eye with the Unknown (2013)

David Attenborough does it again.I personally have been hooked on his documentaries for more than a decade (pardon for being young) and I have to say no other man can come close to his interpretation of nature's wonders.Since the flawless "Planet Earth", David has continued to amaze with this interpretation and that certainly did not fail in "Africa".

Africa: Eye to Eye with the Unknown (2013)

Yes, we finally get to see more from Africa rather than just a big pile of desserts.The variety of climate changes,animal adaption and human construction at its peak is displayed in the most brilliant way you can describe.And of course the cruel fate of the residents due to climate change and increase number of predators really gives you a heart breaking image as to how bizarre and ferocious life can be when it's instinctively based on the three basic surviving methods, "Water,Food,Shelter".

Africa: Eye to Eye with the Unknown (2013)

In conclusion, I have to say that "Africa" ranks as one of the top documentaries ever done by BBC and that's saying a lot because BBC has done quite some documentaries which brought nature interpretation to a whole new levels.
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Africa: Eye to Eye with the Unknown (2013)



Special Features:
Disc One (03:00:31, 7,34 Gb):
- Kalahari: a dry barren and nearly inhospitable region that forces its animal species to co-adapt to these challenging living conditions
- Savannah: lush verdant landscapes feature a wide range of animal life.
- Congo: dense mysterious jungles are home to some of the most dangerous creatures on the planet.
- Africa: Eye to Eye - Making of featurette, at the end of each episode

Disc Two (03:01:45, 7,33 Gb):
- Cape: the confluence of two oceans makes for this region’s incredible diversity of its feathered, furry, and finned denizens.
- Sahara: a nearly extraterrestrial setting with frequent sandstorms and relentless heat
- The Future: Attenborough speculates on the encroachment of man into the natural habitats of Africa’s creatures and how this bodes for their survival.
- Africa: Eye to Eye - Making of featurette, at the end of each episode

Disk Three (2,59 Gb):
- Interviews with: sir David Attenborough (14:37), Michael Gunton (04:55), James Honeyborne (07:01), Martin Colbeck (04:29), Richard Matthews (05:15)
- Outtakes (04:40)
- Deleted Scenes: Harenna Forest (02:52), Salk Lake in Djibouti (03:27)

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