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Planet Earth: Shallow Seas

Planet Earth (2006)

Documentary | UK

Director: Alastair Fothergill

BBC2 | Thursday, 31 August 2017 | 16:15

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Friday, 16 November 2018 13:00

Thursday, 19 July 2018 14:00

Monday, 28 May 2018 17:00

Monday, 28 May 2018 11:00

Tuesday, 15 May 2018 13:00

SEASON: 1

EPISODE: 9 - Shallow Seas

SYNOPSIS

Following the epic journey of a humpback whale and its calf as they travel from a tropical paradise to the species' great feeding ground in the icy polar seas. David Attenborough also observes footage of colonies of seabirds in the Arabian desert and surfing dolphins in Australia that swim onto the beach to catch their fish.

Actors

Writer: David Attenborough, Vanessa Berlowitz

Host: David Attenborough

Narrator: Sigourney Weaver, Nikolay Drozdov

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