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''Galápagos'' is a three-part
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nature documentary
A nature documentary or wildlife documentary is a genre of documentary film or series about animals, plants, or other non-human living creatures, usually concentrating on video taken in their natural habitat but also often including footage of t ...
series exploring the
natural history of the
Galápagos Islands
The Galápagos Islands (Spanish: , , ) are an archipelago of volcanic islands. They are distributed on each side of the equator in the Pacific Ocean, surrounding the centre of the Western Hemisphere, and are part of the Republic of Ecuador ...
and their important role in the formation of
Charles Darwin
Charles Robert Darwin ( ; 12 February 1809 – 19 April 1882) was an English naturalist, geologist, and biologist, widely known for his contributions to evolutionary biology. His proposition that all species of life have descended ...
's theory of
evolution
Evolution is change in the heritable characteristics of biological populations over successive generations. These characteristics are the expressions of genes, which are passed on from parent to offspring during reproduction. Variation ...
. It was first transmitted in the UK on
BBC Two in September 2006.
The series was filmed in
high definition, produced by
Mike Gunton and
Patrick Morris of the
BBC Natural History Unit
The BBC Studios Natural History Unit (NHU) is a department of BBC Studios that produces television, radio and online content with a natural history or wildlife theme. It is best known for its highly regarded nature documentaries, including '' ...
and narrated by actress
Tilda Swinton
Katherine Matilda Swinton (born 5 November 1960) is a British actress. Known for her roles in independent films and blockbusters, she has received various accolades, including an Academy Award and a British Academy Film Award, in addition t ...
. The series was proposed to the BBC by the principal cinematographers Paul D. Stewart and Richard Wollocombe.
Episodes
The episodes, each 50 minutes in length, are as follows:
* "Born of Fire" - an introduction to the volcanic islands
* "Islands that Changed the World" - reveals how the islands helped shape the theory of evolution
* "Forces of Change" - how life has evolved to cope with climatic and volcanic changes
Some of the endemic wildlife featured in the series includes
frigatebird
Frigatebirds are a family of seabirds called Fregatidae which are found across all tropical and subtropical oceans. The five extant species are classified in a single genus, ''Fregata''. All have predominantly black plumage, long, deeply forked ...
s,
marine iguana
The marine iguana (''Amblyrhynchus cristatus''), also known as the sea iguana, saltwater iguana, or Galápagos marine iguana, is a species of iguana found only on the Galápagos Islands (Ecuador). Unique among modern lizards, it is a marine rept ...
s,
flightless cormorant
The flightless cormorant (''Nannopterum harrisi''), also known as the Galapagos cormorant, is a cormorant endemic to the Galapagos Islands, and an example of the highly unusual fauna there. It is unique in that it is the only known cormorant th ...
s,
Galápagos tortoise
The Galápagos tortoise or Galápagos giant tortoise (''Chelonoidis niger'') is a species of very large tortoise in the genus ''Chelonoidis'' (which also contains three smaller species from mainland South America). It comprises 15 subspecies ( ...
s,
Galápagos finches and
blue-footed boobies.
Awards
The opening episode "Born of Fire" won four awards at the 2007 International Wildlife Film Festival in
Missoula
Missoula ( ; fla, label=Salish language, Séliš, Nłʔay, lit=Place of the Small Bull Trout, script=Latn; kut, Tuhuⱡnana, script=Latn) is a city in the U.S. state of Montana; it is the county seat of Missoula County, Montana, Missoula Cou ...
. It won "Best of Festival" at the Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival 2007 and won a prestigious
Peabody Award in the same year. Horace Newcomb, director of the Peabody Awards, described the first episode as one of the most beautiful things he has ever seen.
It was also
BAFTA,
Royal Television Society,
WildScreen
Wildscreen is a wildlife conservation charity based in Bristol, England.
The charity was founded in December 1987 from a trust which had operated since 1982, with the initial aim of encouraging and applauding excellence in the production of na ...
&
EMMY nominated for cinematography and won further awards for its photography from the Guild of Television Cameramen and the Japanese Wildlife Film Festival in 2007. Galapagos DVD and Blu-ray sales in the USA were second only to Planet Earth and Blue Planet in BBC Worldwide Natural History sales for three years after its release.
Merchandise
A DVD, Blu-ray, soundtrack CD and book were released to accompany the TV series:
* A
Region 2, 2-disc DVD set (BBCDVD1997) featuring all three full-length episodes was released on 30 October 2006. The DVD includes the specially-commissioned 60-minute documentary, "Lonesome George and the Battle for Galápagos", originally broadcast alongside ''Galápagos'' on
BBC Four.
* The series was released on a region-free
Blu-ray
The Blu-ray Disc (BD), often known simply as Blu-ray, is a digital optical disc data storage format. It was invented and developed in 2005 and released on June 20, 2006 worldwide. It is designed to supersede the DVD format, and capable of st ...
disc (BBCBD0011) on 12 November 2007. This disc shows the film in a
1080i
1080i (also known as Full HD or BT.709) is a combination of frame resolution and scan type. 1080i is used in high-definition television (HDTV) and high-definition video. The number "1080" refers to the number of horizontal lines on the scre ...
picture.
* The accompanying paperback book, ''Galápagos: The Islands that Changed the World'' by Paul D. Stewart, with a foreword by
Richard Dawkins, was published by BBC Books on 7 September 2006 ().
* Soundtrack CD with music created by
Paul Leonard-Morgan
Paul Leonard-Morgan (born 1974) is a Scottish composer particularly known for his work in scoring for television and film. He won a Scottish BAFTA for the film ''Reflections upon the Origin of the Pineapple'' (2000), which was his first film sco ...
was released in 2006.
See also
*
Charles Darwin Foundation
The Charles Darwin Foundation ( Spanish: ''Fundación Charles Darwin'') was founded in 1959, under the auspices of UNESCO and the World Conservation Union. The Charles Darwin Research Station serves as headquarters for The Foundation, and is use ...
*
Galapagos National Park
*
Lonesome George
Lonesome George ( es, Solitario George or , 1910 – June 24, 2012) was a male Pinta Island tortoise (''Chelonoidis niger abingdonii'') and the last known individual of the subspecies. In his last years, he was known as the rarest creat ...
References
External links
*
GalapagosTV: the video blog
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BBC television documentaries
Documentary films about nature
BBC high definition shows
2006 British television series debuts
2006 British television series endings
Peabody Award-winning television programs
Films set on the Galápagos Islands
National Geographic (American TV channel) original programming
Documentary television shows about evolution