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Hostile Planet

  • TV Mini Series
  • 2019
  • TV-14
  • 47m
IMDb RATING
8.2/10
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Hostile Planet (2019)
Nature DocumentaryDocumentary

A look at the world's harshest landscapes and the animals that have adapted to live there.A look at the world's harshest landscapes and the animals that have adapted to live there.A look at the world's harshest landscapes and the animals that have adapted to live there.

  • Stars
    • Bear Grylls
    • Cong Liu
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  • IMDb RATING
    8.2/10
    1K
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    • Stars
      • Bear Grylls
      • Cong Liu
    • 30User reviews
    • 6Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Nominated for 3 Primetime Emmys
      • 4 nominations total

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    8mateo130

    Not political at all

    Don't understand all these people bragging about politics and a hidden agenda. This movie was about animal drama and all the external factors which does have an effect on them. Climate change and elevated temperatures are there especially at the mountains and polar areas. Nothing political about that.
    10rajattiltoo

    You jaw will drop in awe !

    One of the most fascinating and incredibly shot documentaries I have seen in recent memories. Its impossibly hard to fathom how they shot it. If you have as fervent a taste or even a few degrees less for wildlife docs... this should truly enchant you. Must watch !
    scorpiogemini

    Beautiful but more like an action movie

    I was expecting a show with images of animals living in hostile environment, and valuable information about their lives and HOW they manage to live and survive but the show falls short in this. Don't get me wrong, the images and the shots are spectacular, but what they have focused upon is mostly prey being preyed upon and killed. This series seems to be about the struggles animals are facing when it comes to find food our being killed by predetors. Its obvious the intent is to create an atmosphere of action and thrills. They don't focus more then 2-3 minutes on each species they show us, whick feels like such a waste when we see the behind the scenes photage of some of the scenes. They haste from one animal quickly to the next.

    Like the photage of the bats in the dessert. What a waste! We are shown around 1-2 minutes of photage of bat swarms getting preyed upon by hawks. Thats it. Its like the show does not care about sharing anything valuable about the animals and species itself, what kind of bats they are, how they live and suvive. They just wanna show action photage. Like the hunting hawks in the dessert hunting a rabbit, what valuable information do we get? None! We just see beautiful action photage of hawks, killing a bunny. Same with the kangoroos, we just see a 2 minute of photage of kangaroos melting in the sun. There is no valuable lessons or information to this series. Only nice action shots where the behind the scenes videos at youtube actually were more interesting to watch. 3 years of filming small 2-3 minute sequences? You can do better national geographic!

    In short, beautiful photage. But this is no BBC production, and it shows.
    IceCharon

    Amazing, Spectacular, Stunning

    This is top notch in every single way, in every single detail. The directing, the music, the photography, the narrating everything is top notch and spot on. Factual, scientific, No political BS, no BS theories and so on. Stunning!
    8dsohn7

    gorgeous

    A lot of the moments I've seen in Planet Earth, Blue Planet, and Life Story but nothing in nature ever happens -exactly- the same twice so it doesn't feel terribly repetitive. Unless perhaps this is all BBC's unused footage repurposed, but I don't think a giant like Nat Geo would need to do that. The footage is just as gorgeous and thrilling, and Bear Grylls is a great narrator. Did they really fly him out to all those remote locations around the world just to shoot the 2 second intros/outros?

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    • Release date
      • April 1, 2019 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
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    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
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      • Plimsoll Productions
      • National Geographic
      • Tencent Penguin Pictures
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