Human Planet: Arctic – Life in the Deep Freeze

Our Eco Film on Friday, August 2nd will be Human Planet: Arctic – Life in the Deep Freeze.

Documentary, 2011 – 59 minutes. Produced by BBC, Discovery, France TV. English w/ English subtitles.

The Arctic is the harshest environment on Earth: little food grows, it’s dark for months on end, and temperatures stay well below freezing for much of the year. Yet four million people manage to survive here. This episode of Human Planet tells remarkable stories of extraordinary people who make their homes in nature’s deep freeze.

Human Planet is an 8-part television documentary series that describes the human species and its relationship with the natural world by showing the remarkable ways in which humans have adapted to life in different environments on Earth.

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