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Andes to Amazon (2000)

Andes to Amazon poster
Genre
nature documentary
Country
United Kingdom
Length
1 season, 6 episodes
Rated
TV-G
Rating
9.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

Each episode highlights a different region of South America, showing its landscapes and wildlife. Aerial footage captures major landforms, while ground-level scenes reveal animals rarely seen in the wild.

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What happens

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 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. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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