Big Pacific

screenable online: 4 episodes

The Pacific Ocean covers one third of the Earth’s surface. It is greater than all Earth’s land combined, holds half of our world’s water, and hides the deepest place on our planet. It’s what huge and iconic, rare and dazzling creatures call home — and where creatures yet to be discovered lurk.

Over four cinematic episodes, “Big Pacific” breaks the boundaries between land and sea, moving throughout the Pacific Ocean to present a broad range of locations, species, natural phenomena and behaviours. Each episode focuses on an iconic characteristic of the Pacific: Passionate, Voracious, Violent, and Mysterious.

Filmed in Ultra High Definition, “Big Pacific” will present the ocean and its denizens in a way never before seen on television — exploring the monstrous to the minute; the alien to the intimate.

Violence is part of life in the Pacific and those that live here must choose whether to avoid conflict… or rise to meet it. But of all the danger in the Pacific, it is the human created violence…

Man has explored land, the ocean’s surface, and large parts of the solar system… and in the 21st century we are just beginning to explore the depths of the Pacific Ocean. We yearn to unravel the…

In the Pacific, the quest to multiply has spawned a stunning array of unusual behaviours and adaptations. There are forest penguins with a tenuous marriage, the secret rendezvous of great white…

There is plenty of food in the Pacific Ocean, but it is the challenge of finding that food that drives all life in the Pacific. For all creatures, every mouthful counts. In the voracious Pacific we…

Follow the adventures of the filmmakers behind BIG PACIFIC. Filmed in the field, this special explores the highlights and challenges of wildlife filmmaking.

Violent Pacific (Episode 1)

Mysterious Pacific (Episode 2)

Passionate Pacific (Episode 3)

Voracious Pacific (Episode 4)

Behind the Scenes (Episode 5)