Wild China Reviews

BBC triumphs again

Yet another superb documentary from the Beeb. Combining stunning footage of China's countryside and its inhabitants and narrated superbly by Bernard Hill, it features some amazing cinematography and is a must see for all natural history fans. Get it!!!

[Highly rated reviewer]

Good scenary, not enough wild life

My wife thinks that it is a little disjointed and it was difficult to esatablish which region they were talking about. I think that China is a very big country and it is probably diffcult to do it justice in a couple of discs. As a broad sweep, Wild China is a fair attempt to give and illustration of aspects of the country and wild life. It is a bit dry, maybe that has something to do with restrictions on what they could show..

Maybe, I am just too use to BBC David Attenborough productions, but the wild life in China is not that exiting and there doesn't seem to be too much of it. Maybe that has something to do with previous episodes in recent history when the people had no food and had to eat anything to survive. The documentary tried to stress how many national parks have been formed but it seemed that it was constantly talking about species on the brink of extinction. It was a bit disappointing on the wildlife front.

The scenary shots are excellent though. Worth a look if you want to check out a bit about China. I think that I would try to look for something which focused on specific aspects rather than mixing nature, people and scenic shots together.

Wild China 2

Enjoyable but in parts a little slow. Worth watching though.

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An amazing series, Photography/filming was excellent - very well documented and was pleasantly surprised by some of of the wild live living in this area.

Thoroughly enjoyed watching it.

Mixed feelings

I agree with the other reviews. The first couple of episodes make for stunning viewing. Beautifully shot, well researched, highly informative. The third episode entitled 'Tibet' is what you'd expect. But after that, it gets slower and slower, and slower.

I thought it was too good to be true that the BBC could make such an epic documentary without getting into cheap anthropoligical musings and political scare mongering. A big yawn goes out to the beeb for this one.

Watch disc one for the first two episodes. Don't even bother with disc two.

Wild china

I enjoyed this BBC documentary, a picture of aspects of china of which I was unaware.

Thet have elephants, snakes,baboons, and many other creatures living in all sorts of envirements from tropical to artic.I was so bored with the many pictures of the recent olympics and smog filled areas that this was so refreshing. some of us might get to

China one day but if we did not then we have a much broader picture of this huge country.tibet was stark, some comments by others on its Politics, maybe, but insight into this remote place and its religion was very enlightening.

Doc

Great insight into this fasinating place

wild china

if you like nature and animals this is a must. It takes the viewer into the real China and is fasinating. Well worth watching

Bring back David Attenborough

Stunning visuals ruined by monotonic narration.

Stunning.....

absolutely jaw dropping in places. I'm not one for watching wildlife programs in general but this one just blew me away. My only slight gripe is that after a while Bernard Hill's narration becomes a bit one dimensional and repetitive. Seemingly trying to add to the drama of what is on screen when it really isn’t necessary. Watch out for the phrase “…..In the world” about five times per episode.

Still brilliant though.