Rahul Sharma (Editor)

Andes to Amazon

Updated on
Edit
Like
Comment
Share on FacebookTweet on TwitterShare on LinkedInShare on Reddit
8.6
/
10
1
Votes
Alchetron
8.6
1 Ratings
100
90
81
70
60
50
40
30
20
10
Rate This

Rate This

Also known as
  
'Wild South America'

Country of origin
  
United Kingdom

No. of episodes
  
6

First episode date
  
6 November 2000

Narrated by
  
Fergal Keane

8.7/10
IMDb

Composer(s)
  
Nicholas Hooper

Original language(s)
  
English

Executive producer(s)
  
Karen Bass

Final episode date
  
18 December 2000

Genre
  
Nature documentary

Andes to Amazon httpsuploadwikimediaorgwikipediaenbbfAnd

Nominations
  
British Academy Television Craft Award for Photography - Factual

Similar
  
Wild Down Under, Living Britain, Inside Life, The First Eden, Cousins

Andes to amazon


Andes to Amazon is a nature documentary TV series co-produced by the BBC Natural History Unit in Bristol, England and Animal Planet, first transmitted in the UK on BBC2 in November 2000. In other territories it was broadcast under the title Wild South America

Contents

Each of the six 50-minute episodes portrays a different aspect of the South American continent. The series features extensive aerial photography of major landforms shot by Bob Fulton, and footage of rarely glimpsed animals in the wild. Andes to Amazon was narrated by Fergal Keane and produced by Karen Bass.

The series forms part of the Natural History Unit's Continents strand, and was preceded by Land of the Tiger in 1997 and followed one year later by Congo.


Production

The filmmakers journeyed the length and breath of South America in search of locations and unusual species. Memorable sequences include an aerial journey over a glacier in Argentine Patagonia, jungle animals visiting an Amazon waterhole at night and luminous termite mounds in the grasslands of central Brazil. Other locations featured are the Galápagos Islands and the Salar de Uyuni, the world's biggest salt lake in the Bolivian altiplano.

Filming and post-production took three years in all.

Episodes

Broadcast dates refer to the original UK transmission.

Merchandise

A book, soundtrack CD and DVD were all released to accompany the TV series:

  • A Region 2 and 4, 2-disc DVD set was released on 18 July 2005 (BBCDVD1707) and features all six full-length episodes along with a bonus 30 minute documentary, Wildlife on One: Giant Otters. Andes to Amazon is one of four series which comprise the Region 1 DVD box set BBC Atlas of the Natural World: Western Hemisphere released on 31 October 2006.
  • The accompanying book, Andes to Amazon: A Guide to Wild South America by Michael Bright, was published by BBC Books on 2 November 2000 in a hardcover edition (ISBN 0-563-53705-1) and on 4 April 2002 in a paperback edition (ISBN 0-563-53495-8).
  • On 20 November 2000 a CD was released with a compilation of the incidental music in Andes to Amazon.

    • References

    Andes to Amazon Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA