
Groundbreaking footage
- Wolves hunting caribou filmed from the air for the first time.
- World-first close-ups of the rare and elusive snow leopard hunting in the Himalayas.
- Unique images of grizzly bears in the Rockies feeding on moths.
- Remarkable images of the blue bird of paradise – never filmed in the wild before.
- Golden eagles taking demoiselle cranes on the wing as they migrate over the Himalayas.
- Footage of a new species of blind cave fish in Thailand.
- Pink river dolphins herding fish in the Amazon and presenting stones as 'gifts' during courtship – the only known use of tools by wild dolphins.
- Crab-eating macaques that swim underwater.
- The worlds deepest cave shaft – the Cave of Swallows in Mexico.
- The depths of Lake Malawi – home to electric fish that hunt their prey in shark-like packs.
- Unique access the Karakoram mountain range in Pakistan, which contains more of the world's highest peaks than anywhere else on the planet.
What did it take to make Planet Earth?
- £16 million budget
- four years in production
- over 2,000 days in the field
- 71 camera people filming across every continent on the planet
- 204 shoot locations
- 62 countries
- over 10,000 hours of footage
- 10 babies born during production