- Actors: Bernard Hill
- Directors: Dave Allen
- Writers: Nik Sopwith, Jamie Smith
- Producers: Ceri Barnes, Gaynelle Evans, Kera Rennert, Martin Davidson, Nik Sopwith
- Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
- Language: English
- Subtitles: English
- Region: (US and Canada This DVD will probably NOT be viewable in other countries. Read more about DVD formats.)
- Aspect Ratio: Unknown
- Number of discs: 1
- MPAA Rating:
- Studio: Warner Home Video
- Release Date: Dec 12 2006
- Run Time: 116 minutes
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- ASIN: B000HLDF9K
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Amazon Bestsellers Rank:
#12,803 in DVD (See Top 100 in DVD)
- #38 in DVD > TV Shows > BBC > Nature & Wildlife
- #47 in DVD > Special Interests > Educational > Science & Technology > Life Sciences
- #55 in DVD > Documentary > Nature & Wildlife
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Facinating look at a world so close yet so far,
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This review is from: Ocean Odyssey (DVD)
From the peoples who made the "Walking with..." series, this show explores the deep seas traveled by few creatures. As with the "Walking with..." serie we follow the life of a creature (in this case a sperm whale) through it's life as it travel the undersea worlds that few others on Earth can travel. The journey is a very captivating one and the special effects complement the story very well. The only reason I'm not giving it a 5 star is because of the lack of supplements, it would have been interesting to have a "making of" feature and/or some documentary on what is known on sperm whales, deep oceans and such.
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4.4 out of 5 stars (18 customer reviews) 15 of 17 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
The best CG-animated documentary yet!,
By Brendan M. Howard - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Ocean Odyssey (DVD)
If you like the "Walking With" series, you'll love Ocean Odyssey. But for someone like me who hasn't seen a "Walking With" and doesn't feel particularly motivated to glory in the gigantic extinct saurians or their hairy, club-wielding mammal conquerors, well, Ocean Odyssey blew me away.This world is not extinct and millennias old. This world is not light years away. This world is right here, right now: the highest mountains in the world, the most volatile volcanic activity, and creatures larger than brontosauruses and Tyrannosaures Rex. Squids three times longer than your car fight sperm whales bigger than your upstairs rooms. Animals whom we see only as skeletons in the museum or glistening, air-blowing humps are brought to life in 3-D. Their dark underwater world is lit up for our depressingly human eyes by the imagined view of an animal with powerful sonar. The sperm whale sees thousands of feet ahead through the murky waters where light doesn't reach, and the plant life and wildlife survive on the heat only from the core's molten activity. The epic tale, a true odyssey, is told in two segments of one sperm whale bull who lives from the birth of man's Industrial Age into the 21st century. He travels farther than any land-borne creature in all of the world's history, traversing the Atlantic to the Pacific across the Horn of Africa and then up into the freezing water and seemingly impenetrable ice of the slowly melting Antarctic icecap. He is protected by adults, off to fight and protect himself in young adulthood, and then off to fight off other comers to mate to make sure the end of his life, beached on the New Zealand coast, is not the end of his DNA. This is a world that's real and happening every day, but we will never see it in our lifetimes, a world where light doesn't penetrate, but the most epic combat is fought and lives are lived. NOTE: Amazon is pairing this with my favorite documentary series of recent time: Life in the Undergrowth. Ocean Odyssey brings to life a world we can't see because we're too small and weak; Undergrowth brings to life a world we can't see because we're too big. Both are mind-altering visions. 5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars
Get this!,
By M. Menefee "farm boy" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Ocean Odyssey (DVD)
Ocean Odyssey is awesome. There has never been a documentary that deals with the life history of whales. The documentary goes indepth in to the 80 year life of a sperm whale, know as "the bull".From Infancy to Twilight, we see the ocean thru "the bull's eyes". Facinating, and from the same folks who did the Walking with series. CG animation mixed with actual footage make an amazing mix. The only problem with the content is that some of the social interactions between sperm whales is incorrect, or otherwise out dated. Interestingly, a segment is devoted to Mesonychotuethis, the recently named "Colossal Squid". Okay, well watch it, and you'll enjoy it. 4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Thank you BBC Video,
By Billy Matrakis - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Ocean Odyssey (DVD)
for another brilliant attempt to educate the public about the world we live in. Kudos. So well done.
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