Earth - 2009

Swim Anyone? Elephant Mother Finds Water in the movie Earth
This is the 2009 Movies review of Earth - a documentary style movie set to be released from Disney Nature on Earth Day 2009. It promises to be an awe-inspiring journey through space and animal time on our planet, the third rock from the sun, of course Earth. The Disney movies press release starts out with the tantalizing question, "How well do we know our Planet?" The answer from the 2009 Movies blog is we know the planet pretty well, but we don't take sufficient time to appreciate and preserve it.

The 2009 Disney Nature Earth movie was filmed along with the producers of a BBC TV series on the planet. Following the Earth around the sun, from day to night and through a full year cycle, the movie follows three amazing animal families on their journeys.

In the baking hot Kalahari Desert of Southwest Africa, an elephant mother and her child search for water in a danger-filled trek across the desert. However, they have to deal with sharing pool with a lion family. Not smart, except if you are an elephant.


Polar Bear taking a dive for breakfast.
On the other end of the Earth, in the Arctic ice cap and tundra, a polar bear mother and her two babies journey to find food before the summer sun melts their ice flow. Lastly a humpback whale mother protects her baby on their 4,000 mile migration from the warm tropical waters at the equator to cooler Antarctica.

Shot with amazing color and sweeping panoramas, this 2009 movies documentary will bring joy to students and parents alike.

Narrated and starring: James Earl Jones, Patrick Stewart.