Planet Earth: episode 4

Planet Earth: episode 4-Since the beginning of time, people have gazed into the polar skies, The film The Northern Lights is presented by on-camera host, Monique Mojica, spellbound by dancing beams of color... the northern lights, Though scientists have advanced many theories to explain the aurora borealis, and aboriginal people around the northern pole have passed down their beliefs through the centuries, mysteries still linger.

As the auroral curtains shimmer throughout this production, we experience a visual panorama of animated legends, international space launches, and indigenous people and scientists offering their perceptions of the wondrous northern lights. Part four of a thirteen part collection of films on environmental themes.

Fourth in the BBC's groundbreaking series, Caves looks into the unseen world below us and the secrets it holds. Featuring Mexico’s Cave of Swallows 1,300 ft deep, big enough to hold New York’s Empire State Building. The episode is followed by Planet Earth Diaries, a look at how difficult is was for the camera crew to film in the unseen locations that may never be possible again.

From the Himalayas to the Amazon River, this is a blockbuster of a project that shows everything from pole to pole from coast to coast, from extremes of heat to extremes of cold, our marvellous fantastic spectrum of the place humans call home and in which we are shown places on earth that even us sophisticated v

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