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Sunrise Earth: American Sunrises DVD Set - Standard

Sunrise: Nature's alarm clock for the land, the sea, and the myriad of creatures who call our planet home. Accompany us on a tranquil journey into the landscape itself as we enjoy the sights and the ambient sounds associated with the first light of a new day.

Features:

• 12 complete episodes from Season 1
• Bonus episode: Secrets of the Sun
• 11 hours and 55 minutes on 4 discs

Moose in the Morning
The sun climbs the sky as a mother moose grazes beneath Kidney Pond's surface while her playful calf watches from the shore.

Yellowstone Geysers
The geysers of Yellowstone National Park welcome the sunrise with steam and shooting water.

Gator Hole 
Alligators, egrets, wood storks and ravens see the first light of day from a gator hole in Everglades National Park during the dry season.

Bison Before Breakfast
Slumbering bull bison awaken and graze near the head of Yellowstone National Park's Lamar Valley.

Sea of Terns
More than 17,000 terns begin their daily routine on an island off the southern elbow of Cape Cod, Massachusetts.

Vermont Balloons
As the sun illuminates the peaks of Vermont's Green Mountains, a parade of colorful hot air balloons appears from the shadows of the Quechee Valley.

Alewife Eternal Return
As the sun surfaces, alewives make the dangerous trek from the freshwater lakes of New England to the cold Atlantic Ocean.

Tropical Palms
Fishermen enjoy daybreak on one of the richest estuaries on the planet off the Gulf Coast of Florida.

Shallow Sea Cave
Catch the sun rising over the ocean from a sea cave full of young anemones, coralline algae and common periwinkles.

Yosemite Dawn
Yosemite's dramatic waterfalls, rounded domes and massive monoliths provide the perfect backdrop for the dawning of a new day.

Cribworks Kayak
White water roars and mist erupts as the sun's first rays hit the West Branch of Maine's Penobscot River.

Sequoia Light
Ancient giant sequoias encircle a meadow in the Sierra Mountains and filter the early morning sunlight as it finds its way towards the forest floor.

Bonus Program: Secrets of the Sun
Take a look at the science and mythic history of our relationship with the sun, with an eye for its lesser known and most recently uncovered secrets.

Presented in 16:9 widescreen format and 5.1 surround sound.

Sunrise Earth: Seaside Collection DVD Set - Standard
 

Sunrise: Nature's alarm clock for the land, the sea, and the myriad of creatures who call our planet home. Accompany us on a tranquil journey into the landscape itself as we enjoy the sights and the ambient sounds associated with the first light of a new day.

From daybreak on the turquoise Mediterranean coastline to the brilliant sunrise over Alaska's Katmai National Park, experience the world's most spectacular sunrises by the sea.

Island First Light
Witness sunrise over the highest vantage point along the North Atlantic seaboard, Cadillac Mountain of Maine's Acadia National Park.

The Great Barrier Reef
Day begins along a pristine shoreline of white sands.

Society Island Sunrise
As day brightens, terns dip the waves, chasing fish to feed their young and hermit crabs emerge on a white crushed-coral beach.

Sunrise Seal Colony
Elephant seals crawl up the beach at California's Point Reyes National Seashore to soak up the first drops of daylight.

Mediterranean Port
It's daybreak on the turquoise coast, tucked somewhere within the folds of Turkey's 2,500 mile coastline.

Ninagiak Island
An island beach awakes with a splash of brilliant color in Ninagiak Island, Katmai National Park, over a hundred miles from the nearest Alaskan town.

Playa Grande Moonset
Once a month, as the sun rises over the beach, the full moon dips into the waves of the pacific in Guanacaste, Costa Rica.

Argentine Seal Pups
Day breaks in a slice of red over the Southern Atlantic Ocean and a colony of southern elephant seals and its new pups.

Sunrise Earth: Portraits of our Planet DVD
 

• 1. Everglades River of Grass: Pahayokee, Everglade National Park, Florida. Savannah-like open sawgrass prairie stretches as far as the eye can see, punctuated by the occasional cypress tree. Beneath the apparent prairie, however, is a wide river flowing at a speed of more than one mile per hour. It's Marjorie Stoneham Douglas' famous ""River of Grass."" In fact this exact Pahayokee platform was this writer's most frequented Everglade destination. To better observe the workings of the underwater world, we submerge a camera and peer directly into the lives of mosquito fish and the enriching mat-like algae known as periphyton. Insects traverse the razor sharp strands of grass as the weather changes.
• 2. Buddhists of Wat Svay: Siem Reap, China Every culture has its own connection to the natural world at dawn. In Siem Reap, Cambodia, the chants of monks echo from within a Theravada Buddhist monastery, called a ""wat."" These chants help start the day by focusing the monks' attention. Potential distractions are many. Unlike the cloistered monastic retreats of the west, the Wat Svay compound is at the community hub, at its central cross-road. Yet despite busy human activity, the peaceful influence and presence of the natural world remains near for the focused mind. A vibrant pigeon roost is found on the pagoda's rooftop, amidst ornamental carvings that depict serpent figures called ""nagas,"" protectors from the earth. School children wander among the votive ""stupas,"" maintaining the grounds. And as the monks honor their lineage of spiritual teachers, a spectacular rainbow reveals itself high over the temple. One last little know fact…a rainbow at sunrise will always have a steeper arc than any rainbow that happens near mid-day.
• 3. Peruvian Rainforest Canopy: Tambopata, Peru Two hundred feet high in the canopy of Peruvian rainforest, a pink and distant light encroaches. The dense forest holds the dawn air. Birds sing alone, together - a purple-throated cotinga, then a distant flycatcher. Butterflies gather nectar. The high canopy teems with insects - oblivious as the sun ascends. Rosy light splashes the sky. The sun pushes its way into the forest. A blue-headed parrot busies herself collecting twigs for her nest. A cobalt-winged parakeet pulls at the white seed masses of a kapok tree - feeding and pollinating at the same time. As the sun rises overhead, we slowly descend into the tangled under story. Orchids and epiphytes bob in the moist air. Complex partnerships between insects, birds and plants play out amongst an eden of species. Aricaris - brown mandibled and curl-crested toucans - chase insects. Descending farther, we land on the forest floor amongst broad-leaved plants and a nation of insects - lines of foraging ants, wandering ground beetles, a jumping spider. The fervent life of the rainforest is revealed in a slow drift downwards to the forest floor.
• 4. New Zealand Frost: Dawn pierces a lavender sky on the South Island of New Zealand. We are alongside a serene glacial lake in the Southern Alps, called Lake Wakatipu, and are entirely ringed by looming mountains. These high ranges betray the story of the collision of continental plates as schist ""tors"" border spires of metamorphic rock. It is a storybook vista. In fact, the beech forests along the lake were filmed for ""The Lord of the Rings."" At lake level, delicate hoarfrost nightly coats grasses and plants. As the sun ascends, light sparks in a fairyland of ice crystals. The indigo sky blooms into yellow dawn. Warmth invades the braided river system of shallow sandbars and flats, as paradise shelducks graze on clover and weed seeds. The shy dunnock or hedge sparrow pecks among the pebbles. Hoarfrost melts in the rising sun - a winter's day begins, at the bottom of the world - in ""Middle Earth.""
• 5. Venetian Canals: Venice, Italy Many have called this Old World maritime center the most beautiful city on earth. Millions visit each year, attracted by the image of a romantic sunset serenade on a gondola while dreamily floating down on the Grand Canal. Dawn offers its own distinctive window into this city's character, long before the gondolas awake. This episode departs from the fixed vantage points of past Sunrise Earth shows. For the first time, we take a voyage by slow-moving boat. We do our best to get lost within the 28 miles of the Venetian canal system. A mesmerizing passage into the Cannaregio district reveals the lesser-known beauty behind the city's famous glitz. Workboats slip under low bridges and their even lower hanging verdant plants. Cool yellows and pinks catch the morning sun and betray the Santa Maria dei Miracoli and some of the world's finest marble stonework. Window shutters are opened by sleepy-eyed Italians, startling the pigeons, which roost along the narrow waterways at night. We silently pass the sites where famous Venetians once awoke each day; such as the great Renaissance painter Tintoretto and the Orient explorer Marco Polo. Fishermen motor by, on their way to the open air market in the Rialto, with over 100 varieties of fish. Caught amidst the tension of the moving and the still, the beauty of Venice is sustained for another day.