Product Description
The award-winning Nature series is the longest-running weekly natural history series on television. Ancient maps, legends, and fairy tales all tell of dragons in our world. In nearly every culture, we are taught as children that dragons are big and fearsome, that they fly, breathe fire, are found in caves and live nearly forever. Where did these stories come from? Are they based on real animals? And are there any dragons still to be found today? Romulus Whitaker, renowned reptile expert and conservationist, puts a bit of history together with documented science and some compelling contemporary reports, and sets off to find out. He encounters lizards large and small that can breathe life into medieval legends even today. Academy Award-winner F. Murray Abraham narrates. Rating: TV-PG. Bonus Program: Supersize Crocs - Crocodiles of any size instill fear in most people. But crocodile conservationist Romulus Whitakers fear is that the most colossal of these creatures might no longer exist. Driven by the discovery of a twenty-one-foot croc skin in New Guinea, Whitaker sets off on a remarkable hunt to find the last of the leviathans. Venturing to Ethiopias Lake Chamo, the riverbanks of Indias northern border with Nepal, and to the Adelaide River in the Australian Outback, Whitaker searches for evidence of the existence of supersize crocs and shares his fascinating insights into their world. Academy Award-winner F. Murray Abraham narrates. Rating: TV-PG.
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
Ben Roy - Rick is a producer and actor, known for Those Who Cant (2016), Beast Hunter (2011) and Atlantic Britain (2004). Richard Chambers - Chambers has directed Extreme Fishing with Robson Green (TV Series documentary) (1 episode) (South Africa (2008); Travelers Century (TV Series documentary) (1 episode) (Patrick Leigh Fermor, 2008); Nature-Supersize Crocs (TV Series documentary) (1 episode) (2007); Tom Harrison-The Barefoot Anthropologist (TV Movie documentary) (2007).
- MPAA rating : NR (Not Rated)
- Product Dimensions : 7.5 x 0.7 x 5.4 inches; 2.72 ounces
- Director : Dragon Chronicles - Ben Roy;Supersize Crocs - Richard Chambers
- Media Format : NTSC, Multiple Formats, Color
- Run time : 1 hour and 50 minutes
- Release date : June 16, 2009
- Actors : Narrated By F. Murray Abraham
- Studio : Questar, Inc.
- Number of discs : 1
