North America - Discovery Channel [DVD]

Another must watch series from the makers of Planet Earth. The series gives an in depth view of everything in Northern America (not just USA!) The extreme variations within these lands provides so much opportunity to showcase some of the best photographic skills ever. Sometimes I marvel at how magical and almost unrealistic it looks. From the Northern Lights filmed over frozen conditions through to desert like conditions in Death Valley. From the Panama Canal through 10 countries up to the Arctic, if it exists they have done their best to include it in this series. It seems a little silly being picky, but I would have thought it would come in better packaging and have better inlay cards with the set. You get literally nothing extra with this edition. I also noticed a few times through the series where they had obviously stitched scenes together from the tv series where the narration was repetitive over what I can only assume would have been a commercial break. However, it flows very well most of the time and it will leave you breathless more times than you will remember.

Worth Every Penny Loved It Great Dvd

Slightly patronising and dumbed down film. Irritating time lapse photography, irritating inappropriate trashy pop music. Very bad editing. Numerous Irritating assertions eg about geology and history, evolution theory and globe theory without any supporting evidence. Some good shots of bears , other wildlife , plants and scenery hence up from 1star to 2 stars

The best part of this DVD is the photography - absolutely super. The music just adds to the overall atmosphere and just leaves one wanting to hear more. It can come across as bity in sectors but all in all a good introduction to the nature of North America. If one wants more BBC's Yellowstone just has the edge.

I wish I could give this programme more than 5 stars. It is one of the best nature programmes I've ever seen and I pretty much only watch nature programmes. The filming is incredible, the sound track is perfect and delightful and the narration is spot on. It is rare to find a non-Attenborough programme made to such a high standard and with such good narration. I can't stand over dramatising or anthropomorphising in nature programmes and this does neither. It just grips and captures you. Buy it... you'll love it!

I am watching it on Discovery HD and it is absolutely mind-blowing. Great captions and so refreshing after loads of documentaries with David Attenborough. Great music adding to the experience too. Well worth buying and would make great present.

This DVD is more like a musical than a documentary. There is too much music and no narrative or talking. Very boring and slow moving.

There is no doubt that this series has some stunning shots of amazing scenery and wildlife. But I'm not so sure about the glitzy use of camera trickery all the time, nor the soundtrack that seems to be suffering from some sort of identity crisis. It's pretty distracting and does nothing to help an episode already suffering from jumping (seemingly randomly) from one subject to another. I found myself wishing that they covered less subjects and allowed us to see a little more about each one; it just feels like they're rushing to cram everything in. Matters aren't helped by some truly cheesy narration. I don't know who wrote it, but it sounds like embarrassingly bad prose in parts. Matters aren't helped by UK version narrator Chitewel Ejiofor's pronunciation, either. It's ARCTIC, Chitewel, not ARTIC! But all this is small potatoes compared to just how bad some of the editing is. Regularly, in the middle of a description from Chitewel, the screen will quite suddenly go black for a second or two and then come back on again. Some scenes also suffer badly from the camera juddering. Episode one, Born to Be Wild, for example, shows particularly poor editing in the scenes involving caribou on migration being hunted by two wolves. The voice over stops suddenly mid sentence just as the mother realises her calf has been left behind, the screen cuts to black and then it cuts back to a scene already shown some moments before - and we're treated to a repeat of the narration we just heard! Appalling! This sort of sloppy work really detracts from the enjoyment of the DVD and is pretty inexcusable in this day and age.

Wer Naturdokumentationen gerne sieht, kommt hier voll auf seine Kosten! Phantastische Aufnahmen und ein hervorragender, nicht schulmeisterlich belehrender Kommentar (nur englisch, von einem sehr guten Sprecher gesprochen) lassen das Anschauen der 5 Episoden dieser 3 DVDs zu einem absoluten Genuß werden. Als Bonus ist 'North America: Revealed' beigefügt. Hier wird gezeigt, mit welchen Schwierigkeiten das Aufnahmeteam zu kämpfen hatte und unter welch extremen Bedingungen die größtenteils einmaligen Aufnahmen dieser Dokumentation entstanden sind. Zur Technik: obwohl nur DVD und nicht Blu-ray sind die Aufnahmen gestochen scharf und von hervorragender Farbbrillanz. Auch der Ton mit einer sich nicht in den Vordergrund drängenden Musik läßt keine Kritik aufkommen. Fazit: eine Naturdokumentation der Extraklasse zu einem äußerst günstigen Preis! Unbedingt ansehen!!

Lo malo es que no tiene subtitulos, asi que si tienes un ingles básico te resultara complicado. Pero es facil de entender si tienes un ingles medio