Polar Bears (2020)
By Melissa Camacho,
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Iconic bear docu features strong pro-environment messages.
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What's the Story?
POLAR BEARS is a documentary about the remarkable lives of polar bears. From surviving long winters to hunting for food in the summers, it reveals how the iconic species survives and thrives in the Arctic. It also discusses the impact climate change and fossil fuel industries are having on their habitat, and what can potentially happen if efforts aren't made to curb global warming.
Is It Any Good?
This short documentary combines scientific facts and beautiful wildlife footage to showcase how polar bears live their lives in the freezing wild. It offers information about their predatory behavior, as well as how they are able to stay alive without food in the winter while feeding their cubs. But Polar Bears also highlights how global warming is changing their natural habitat, which is making it harder for the animals to hunt. It also discusses how these environmental changes are causing polar bears to get dangerously close to humans in the area, while situating them closer to other species of bears with whom they can mate and produce cubs that are less able to survive the freezing habitats that pure bred polar bears are used to it's an interesting program, and one that leaves you feeling that you learned something new by watching it.
Talk to Your Kids About ...
Families can talk about what makes polar bears iconic. Why do people love them so much? Media often presents them as being cute and cuddly, but are they in real life?
Polar Bears addresses how changes to the polar bear's natural habitat will impact the survival of the species as we know it in various ways. Are you surprised by any of the ways climate change is affecting these animals? What things can we do to help protect them?
TV Details
- Premiere date: January 1, 2020
- Network: Max
- Genre: Educational
- Topics: Wild Animals
- TV rating: TV-PG
- Last updated: September 24, 2021
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