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Frozen Planet

★ 9.0 41K votes 2011–2012 1 season · 10 episodes Ended BBC One
Nature & scienceThe natural world or science itself as the subject.This show: 10/10Visually strikingComposition and imagery worth pausing for.This show: 10/10Big-budget spectacleBlockbuster-scale production values.This show: 9/10Wonder & aweSpectacle and imagination that expand the world.This show: 9/10DocuseriesNonfiction storytelling across episodes.This show: 8/10AtmosphericMood and place thick enough to touch.This show: 8/10Family-safeNothing to worry about with anyone in the room.This show: 7/10
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About

"Breathtaking polar footage with a warming-world undercurrent"

A nature documentary series that travels through the Arctic and Antarctic across the changing seasons, following polar bears, penguins, whales, and the humans who study these extreme environments. Narrated with calm authority, it moves at a stately pace, letting long, patient camera work and jaw-dropping cinematography do the storytelling. It feels immersive and quietly awe-inspiring rather than fast or plot-driven, with moments of real tension in predator-prey sequences. The tone balances wonder with an increasing undercurrent of concern about melting ice and shifting habitats, especially in the more issue-focused final episode.

Watch it for

the astonishing, patiently filmed wildlife footage from two of Earth's most extreme regions.

Maybe skip if

you want fast pacing rather than slow, observational nature filmmaking.

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All Seasons

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Miniseries2011
8.37K109h 19m
EpTitleRatingYoursVotesRuntime
▶1To the Ends of the Earth8.7
94858 min
▶2Spring8.5
84958 min
▶3Summer8.3
78259 min
▶4Autumn8.3
74958 min
▶5Winter8.6
75458 min
▶6The Last Frontier8.2
71958 min
▶7On Thin Ice8.1
68558 min
▶8The Epic Journey8.0
52159 min
▶9Science at the End of the Earth7.7
47821 min
▶10The Making of 'Frozen Planet'7.3
10772 min

Full Cast & Crew

Cast

David Attenborough Self - Narrator
Alec Baldwin Self - Narrator
Chadden Hunter Self
Michael Kelem Self, Self - Aerial Cameraman
Ted Giffords Self
Vanessa Berlowitz Self
Gavin Thurston Self
Doug Anderson Self
Jeff Wilson Self
John Aitchison Self

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