North America

From the makers of Planet Earth comes the ground-breaking new series North America. Three years in the making, each episode ranges across this immense continent taking in the fascinating animals, threatening terrain and ferocious weather.

The series also shows some animal behaviour never-before-captured on camera, from the diving Grizzly bears in Alaska trying to catch salmon on the way to their spawning grounds to the little-seen, elusive desert jaguar in Mexico.

This is where life collides with hostile, untamed wilderness in the most diverse, deadly environment on Earth.

WHAT IT TOOK TO MAKE NORTH AMERICA

Over 3 years in production
110 animals species filmed
2,830 days of filming
250 separate filming expeditions
29 U.S. states
8 Canadian provinces
10 countries visited stretching from the Arctic Circle to the Panama Canal
51 camera crew members
Enduring -40 degrees Fahrenheit (plus wind chill) to film the Aurora Borealis
Digging 350 tons of dirt to create eye-level hides to film prairie land creatures
100 sticks of dynamite to film and study the progression of 20 avalanches

TRANSPORTATION
Traveled over 14,000 miles to capture tornado footage
Crossed more than 17,000 square miles of wilderness in Wood Buffalo National
Park Flew 120 hours to capture aerial footage of wolves hunting bison
Traveled over 5,000 miles for 3 weeks to film the Northern Lights
Flew 600 hours in a helicopter TECHNOLOGY

More than 850 hours of HD footage filmed
First series to use time-lapses shot in HDR to chronicle weather and extreme storms
91 camera days spent filming prairie dogs, bison and rattlesnakes in the Badlands and Black Hills of South Dakota
A dozen cameras filming continuously for over 6 months to capture footage of the elusive desert jaguar
State-of-art equipment including ultra-high speed cameras and one-of-a-kind mini submarine camera
While no animals were harmed in the making of this film, 4 cameras were lost or damaged beyond repair