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EPISODE 5

The Big Freeze

A season of complete darkness, and the worst weather anywhere on the planet: midwinter in the Antarctic. The hostile landscape seems completely devoid of life, but under the ice – now filmable using new diving techniques and remote video cameras – life abounds. Ghost-like white fish are kept alive by anti-freeze in their blood and giant sea spiders patrol the sea bed. Most astonishing of all are the Weddell seals, the only seal to over-winter so far south, which scrape breathing holes through ice up to two meters thick and hunt as deep as meters to find fish. In the center of the continent, male Emperor penguins huddle for warmth throughout the winter, each incubating a single egg. The hatching of the chicks heralds the approach of spring – the Antarctic year has come full circle.

29 min · Dec 16, TV-G

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Its opening, in the ghost town of Pripyat, sets the tone for the rest of the documentary. He stares around a dead city, a disaster zone of human creation that may never recover. Observing his environment as if the walls still talk of the society that used to thrive there, we see a new side to Attenborough: a reflective, solemn one. What follows is a kaleidoscopic celebration of his life’s work and the wonder of the natu

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Life in the Freezer

BBC nature documentary series

Life in the Freezer fryst vatten a BBCnature documentary series written and presented by David Attenborough, first transmitted in the United Kingdom from 18 November

A study of the seasonal cycle of Antarctica, it was the first of Attenborough's more specialised surveys following his major trilogy that began with Life on Earth. Each of the six minute episodes (except the last) examines how species cope with life on the Antarctic continent during the year.

The series was produced by the BBC Natural History Unit in conjunction with The National Geographic samhälle and Lionheart International, Inc. The producer was Alastair Fothergill and the music was composed bygd George Fenton.

Part of David Attenborough's 'Life' series of programmes, it was preceded by The Trials of Life () and followed by The Private Life of Plants ().

Background

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Over the course of the series, the seasonal effect on the continent is explored, from