Product Description

As seen on PBS, the award-winning Nature series is the longest-running weekly natural history series on television. Hummingbirds take extraordinary to a whole new level. They are the smallest warm-blooded creatures on the planet, but they are also among the fastest. With wings that beat up to 200 times every second, they are among natures most accomplished athletes, the only birds able to hover, fly backwards, and even upside down. Because hummingbirds live their lives in fast forward, much of their fascinating world is typically lost to human perception. But using cameras able to capture over 500 images a second, the hummingbirds magical world can finally be seen and appreciated. Amazing footage shows these little powerhouses are far more than delicate nectar gatherers they are also deadly predators. And watch as the birds display their elaborate mating rituals, showing off with nose dives that subject them to over ten Gs of force enough to cause an experienced fighter pilot to black out! These tiny marvels dazzle and delight bird watchers all over the world, and NATURE reveals their stunning abilities as they have never been seen before. Academy Award winner F. Murray Abraham narrates. Rating: TV-G. Bonus Features: Behind-the-scenes with filmmaker Ann Prum, and, Deleted Scenes.

Review

The greatest Nature cinematography on earth. --The New York Times

About the Actor

F. Murray Abraham is an Oscar-winning actor known for films like Amadeus, Finding Forrester, Mighty Aphrodite, Inside Llewyn Davis and Grand Budapest Hotel. SYNOPSIS - Born on October 24, 1939, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, of Syrian and Italian ancestry, Abraham went on to attend the University of Texas at Austin. He moved to New York City to pursue acting, studying under Uta Hagen, and developed a stage career with Off-Broadway productions. He later added the F to the beginning of his stage name in honor of his father, Frederick, and because he felt his birth name was not distinctive enough. Abraham landed small parts for TV and on the big screen, appearing in a variety of films during the 1970s, including Serpico (1973), The Sunshine Boys (1975), All the Presidents Men (1976), The Ritz (1976) and The Big Fix (1978). He was also noted for being one of the Fruit of the Loom men in the brands series of television commercials. Abraham continued his screen work into the next decade, landing a part in 1983s Scarface. He simultaneously did filming in Prague, portraying noted Italian composer Antonio Salieri in the 1984 feature Amadeus Abrahams gripping performance earned him the Academy Award for Best Actor, as well as a Golden Globe and BAFTA Award. He continued his prolific output over the ensuing years, with roles in films across various genres. He co-starred with Sean Connery and Christian Slater in another period film, The Name of the Rose (1986), and a few years later made an appearance as a prosecuting attorney in The Bonfire of the Vanities (1990). In 1991 he played crime boss Arnold Rothstein in Mobsters. By the mid-1990s, Abraham could be seen in a TV adaptation of the Jules Verne classic Journey to the Center of the Earth (1993) and co-starred with Mira Sorvino and Helena Bonham Carter in Woody Allens Mighty Aphrodite (1995), in which he led the films chorus. 1995 also saw Abraham play gangster Al Capone in both Dillinger and Capone and Baby Face Nelson, and the actor ventured further into sci-fi with roles in Guillermo Del Toros Mimic (1997), which also featured Sorvino, as well as 1998s Star Trek: Insurrection.

About the Director

Ann Johnson Prum is a producer and cinematographer, known for A Tale of Two Turtles (2004), Luckey (2008) and Nature (1982).