Blu-ray & DVD Release Date: Feb. 26, 2013
Price: Three-Disc DVD $24.98, Two-Disc Blu-ray $34.98
Studio: BBC/Warner
The BBC’s acclaimed nature documentary series explores more wildlife in the six-hour TV show Africa.
Filmed by the team behind BBC’s Life, Africa is narrated by the awesome Sir David Attenborough and showcases some of the most extreme habitats in the world.
Among the footage is the last great gathering place of the rhinoceros, male leaf-folding frogs kick-boxing for their dominance in the Gola Forest, chimps hunting for honey in the Congo, and lizards hunting for flies from the backs of sleeping lions in the Serengeti. Africa also looks at the largest penguin colony in the continent and Dragon’s Breath Cave, the largest underground lake in the world.
The filmmakers used 553 cameras, spent 100 days on horseback, carried about 50 tons of kit and took 6,526 anti-malarial tablets over four years and 27 countries to shoot Africa.
The TV show aired on the Discovery Channel and was a joint production between the BBC and the Discovery Channel.
The three-disc DVD and two-disc Blu-ray sets contain these special features:
- more than 70 minutes of exclusive material, including an interview with Attenborough, interviews with Emmy-nominated executive producer Michael Gunton, producer James Honeyborne and cameramen Martin Colbeck and Richard Matthews
- exclusive footage from the Harenna Forest, in a portion of Ethiopia’s Bale Mountains
- making-of featurettes
- outtakes
- deleted scenes.
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