2011 – 60 minutes. Written by Paul Spillenger
Narrated by David Attenborough
Winner of 4 Emmy Awards and numerous British Academy Television Craft awards
This episode follows the short polar summer: the sun doesn’t set for months and the ice is largely gone. Animals highlighted in this episode include the polar bear, the Red Phalarope, the Arctic Tern, the Common Eider, the Snowy Owl, the Lapland Bunting, the arctic wolf hunting for muskoxen, the King Penguin, the Antarctic fur seal, the crabeater seal, the Antarctic krill, the humpback whale, the Antarctic minke whale being hunted by killer whales, and the Adélie Penguin being hunted by South Polar Skua.