Satoshi Okabe
Director
Life Force (2010)
Season 1
Extraordinary show that reveals how forces of nature through sheer power of evolution shaped life in all it's unexpected and glorious forms, and filled our planet with amazing diversity of animals and plants.
Released Dec. 3, 2010
Episode 60 min
2+
Genres: Documentary
Keywords: imdb.nature, imdb.evolution, imdb.animal, imdb.wild-animal, mdblist.ext.2k-blu-ray
Production Companies: Discovery, NHK, Animal Planet, Science Channel, CCTVFrance.tv Studio
Network: NHNZ Worldwide
S1E1 - New Zealand
New Zealand is a fairytale archipelago with a turbulent geological past. A land with astonishing creatures: flightless birds, night dwellers and even living fossils. Evolution has run wild on this isolated land, producing some of the world's most unusual animals.
Dec. 4, 2010, midnight
S1E2 - Australia
Australia is a floating laboratory whose ancient geological past and changing climate have triggered mutations in the animals here, culminating in over 200 species of bizarre pouched marsupials, which are all equipped with astounding survival features.
Jan. 4, 2011, midnight
S1E3 - Brazil's Cerrado
On Brazil's ancient Cerrado grassland a community of eccentric creatures are all inter-dependent, and all life revolves around the landscape of mysterious mud-caked monoliths.
Jan. 11, 2011, midnight
S1E4 - Africa's Rift Valley Lakes
Africa's freshwater Great Lakes are the birthplace of the biggest, fastest, and perhaps the strangest mutation of any vertebrate on Earth. Could these fish actually be as intelligent as chimps?
Jan. 18, 2011, midnight
S1E5 - Madagascar
The land of lemurs, an ancient primate family that evolved from only one small group which arrived on the island more than 60 million years ago. For them Madagascar became the land of evolutionary opportunity and today there are almost 100 living species.
Jan. 25, 2011, midnight
S1E6 - Japan
Isolated from the Asian mainland, Japan's animals have been forced to endure the most violently active islands on earth in a climate of extremes. Animals cast away on these outcrops must find innovative ways to overcome periods of starvation.
Feb. 8, 2011, midnight
Network: NHNZ Worldwide
Episode Runtime: 60 min.
Season Runtime: 60 min.
Released: Dec. 3, 2010
Last Air Date: Aug. 18, 2014, midnight
Status: Ended
Certification: TV-G / 2+
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