
earth is a 2007 British-German-American nature documentary from the BBC Natural History Unit. It was released in cinemas internationally in 2007 and in the United States on 22 April 2009, which is Earth Day. The British version was narrated by Patrick Stewart and the American version is narrated by James Earl Jones. A British-German-American co-production, it was filmed entirely in high-definition and 35mm using the latest filming techniques. A companion piece to the 2006 BBC/Discovery/NHK series Planet Earth, the film uses many of the sequences from the television series, albeit in a re-edited form.