The Blue Planet: Seas of Life
The BBC's acclaimed nature seriesThe Blue Planetwill astonish  you from start to finish, and these two episodes are even better than those  included in Part 1 ("Ocean World" and "Frozen Seas"). "Open Ocean" travels  thousands of miles into the vast "liquid desert," where currents determine how  the ocean's diverse life forms will assume their places in the food chain. From  manta rays to spinner dolphins, hammerhead sharks, and a plethora of smaller  creatures fending for their lives, the patient cameramen capture a movable feast  with intense proximity, while narrator David Attenborough brings these forces of  nature into eloquent perspective. Even more amazing, "The Deep" descends with a  state-of-the-art submersible to the ocean's abyssal plain and beyond, filming  such bizarre creatures as the fangtooth, bioluminescent jellies, transparent  squid, the giant-mouthed gulper eel, and the never-before-seen hairy angler  fish.The Blue Planetprovides the privilege of visiting a truly alien  world teeming with the rarest wonders of nature.--Jeff Shannon