Frozen Planet (2011)

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Go on a journey through the Arctic and Antarctic with this visually stunning program that explores these wildernesses and their inhabitants.

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At the North Pole, the sun returns after six months of darkness.

Episode 1

To the Ends of the Earth (2011)
48 min
At the North Pole, the sun returns after six months of darkness.
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Episode 2

Spring (2011)
48 min
Spring arrives in the polar regions, and the sun appears after an absence of five months.
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Episode 3

Summer (2011)
48 min
Polar animals race to rear their young during times of plenty under the midnight sun.
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Episode 4

Autumn (2011)
48 min
Autumn brings epic journeys for polar wildlife as most hurry to escape the refreeze.
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Episode 5

Winter (2011)
47 min
Watch the story of the few extreme survivors who remain in the polar regions during winter.
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Episode 6

The Last Frontier (2011)
47 min
What draws humans to the coldest and most hostile reaches of our planet?
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Episode 7

Frozen Planet: Autumn, Part 1 (2011)
30 min
Autumn means dramatic battles and epic journeys. Time is running out - the Arctic Ocean is freezing over. Polar bears gather in large numbers on the Arctic coast as they wait for the return of the ice. Soon tempers fray and violent sparring contests break out. Meanwhile two thousand beluga whales head for one special estuary, to thrash their snow-white bodies against the gravel and exfoliate - it's a gigantic 'whale spa'. The tundra undergoes a dramatic transformation from green to fiery red.

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Episode 8

Frozen Planet: Autumn, Part 2 (2011)
30 min
Down in Antarctica, as the sea ice advances 2.5 miles a day, Adelie penguin chicks huddle together in crèches. When a parent returns from fishing, it leads its twins on a comical steeplechase - sadly there's only enough for one so the winner gets the meal...Two months later and the chicks are fully feathered apart from downy Mohican hairdos - they're ready to take their first swim...reluctantly - it seems penguins are not born with a love of water!

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Episode 9

Frozen Planet: Winter, Part 1 (2011)
29 min
There is no greater test for life than winter as temperatures plummet to 70 below and winds reach 200kph. Darkness and ice extend and only a few remarkable survivors gamble on remaining. We join a female polar bear trekking into the Arctic mountains to give birth as the first blizzards arrive. Out on the frozen ocean, the entire world's population of spectacled eider ducks brave the winter in a giant ice hole kept open by ferocious currents.

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Episode 10

Frozen Planet: Winter, Part 2 (2011)
31 min
In Antarctica, we join male emperor penguins in their darkest hour, battling to protect precious eggs from fierce polar storms. Weddell seals escape to a hidden world of jewel-colored corals and alien-looking creatures, but frozen devastation follows as sinister ice stalactites reach down with deadly effect. The sun finally returns, and with it comes the female emperor penguins, sleek and fat, ready to deliver the first meal to their precious chick.

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Episode 11

Frozen Planet: The Last Frontier, Part 1 (2011)
33 min
We reveal the extraordinary riches and wonders that have kept people coming to the Polar Regions for thousands of years. Most Arctic people live in Siberia, either in cities like Norilsk - the coldest city on earth, or out on the tundra where tribes like the Dolgan survive by herding reindeer, using them to drag their homes behind them. On the coast, traditional people still hunt walrus from open boats - it's dangerous work but one big walrus will feed a family for weeks.

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Episode 12

Frozen Planet: The Last Frontier, Part 2 (2011)
27 min
Today science is the only significant human activity allowed in Antarctica: robot submarines are sent deep beneath the ice in search of new life-forms, which may also be found in a labyrinth of ice caves high up on an active volcano. Above, colossal balloons are launched into the purest air on earth to detect cosmic rays.

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Episode 13

Frozen Planet: On Thin Ice, Part 1 (2011)
31 min
The Poles are warming at up to five times faster than the rest of the Earth. If this continues, it won't just affect the people and wildlife that lives there - it will affect the planet as a whole. From pioneering camera techniques, to satellite imagery and scientific experimentation and prediction, Meltdown looks to the future of not just the landscape of the poles, but also to those that live within them.

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Episode 14

Frozen Planet: On Thin Ice, Part 2 (2011)
18 min
Overwhelming evidence collected during the filming of Frozen Planet shows the speed with which climatic changes are occurring. The movement of the glaciers in Greenland is a prime example of this. The Greenland glaciers are the world's second largest ice sheet. Using extraordinary time-lapse photography, Meltdown is able to show how they are moving towards the sea - at an astonishing rate of 120 feet a day, almost fast enough to view with the naked eye.

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