Ultra Violet

There are parrots in New Zealand called keas that fancy something a little more interesting than the usual fruit and nuts they eat meat. To hunt, birds need super-senses and great skill. Great grey owls in North America can listen in super-stereo to the movements and noises made by lemmings hidden away under a thick blanket by snow. In Europe, kestrels are a familiar sight hovering over motorway verges. Using their ultra-violet vision, kestrels position themselves over areas where voles have marked their tracks with drops of urine, which is very conspicuous in ultra-violet. In the rainforests of Trinidad, David Attenborough finds a bird with an acute sense of smell. Attenborough buries a piece of meat under some leaves and twigs and retreats to a distant vantage point.
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Length: 50:00
Posted: 1/24/2008

Three years in the making, Life of Birds traverses the globe, visiting 42 countries from the Arctic to the Antarctic and watching 300 different species as he uncovers the private lives of these clever, engaging conquerors of the air. Apart from their advanced aerobatic skills, birds have developed some bizarre ways of finding food and getting a mate. The more we learn about them, the more fascinating they become. Calling upon the immense skills of many of the world's top wildlife cameramen and women, and pushing filming technology to the limits, new behavior is brought to the screen in staggering detail. Infa-red cameras find oilbirds deep in pitch-black caves. Ultra-slow-motion film unravels the complexities of bird flight and ultra-violet cameras reveal the world from a bird's point of view. Birds are perhaps the most popular and perfectly adapted life forms on Earth - over 9,000 species worldwide. This series captures them in all their glorious detail and reveals the secret of their
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Posted: 8/18/2008

Director Tim Burton brings his unique vision and sensibility to Roald Dahl's classic children's story in this lavish screen interpretation. Willy Wonka (Johnny Depp) is the secretive and wildly imaginative man behind the world's most celebrated candy company, and while the Wonka factory is famously closed to visitors, the reclusive candy man decides to give five lucky children a chance to see the inside of his operation by placing "golden tickets" in five randomly selected chocolate bars. Charlie Bucket (Freddie Highmore), whose poor but loving family lives literally in the shadow of the Wonka factory, is lucky enough to obtain one of the tickets, and Charlie, escorted by his Grandpa Joe (David Kelly), is in for the ride of a lifetime as he tours the strange and remarkable world of Wonka with fellow winners, media-obsessed Mike Teavee (Jordan Fry), harsh and greedy Veruca Salt (Julia Winter), gluttonous Augustus Gloop (Philip Wiegratz), and ultra-competitive Violet Beauregarde (AnnaSop
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Posted: 11/15/2007