George Kourounis
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Angry Planet volume 4
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English
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Following in the footsteps of the Klondike gold rush, George heads north to the Yukon Territory and Alaska, but it's not gold he's seeking. It's the intense summer wildfires that often plague the area during their 24 hours of daylight. He travels by train, bike, plane and whitewater raft to reach the fires but Mother Nature has other plans for him and doesn't make things easy.
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Angry Planet volume 4
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English
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Costa Rica is a tiny country jammed with diversity and adventure. George explores the volcanoes of Costa Rica with an international team of scientists, rafts down white water rivers in full flood, rappels down raging waterfalls, and handles some of deadliest snakes this tropical country has to offer.
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Angry Planet volume 2
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English
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Hurricanes are the largest storms on Earth and George has been through many of them. This year he starts off by getting prepared in a wind tunnel, then he and his chase partner Mark Robinson head to Newfoundland for more wild weather action. Then, it's off to another encounter where the wild wind fans a raging inferno.
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Angry Planet volume 3
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English
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2005 seemed to be the year that Earth went wild. Follow George as he brings us back to the site of his hairiest adventures from that year. Whether it's descending into a volcano in the most remote corner of Ethiopia, almost driving into a tornado in Texas or facing down hurricane Katrina, George was right there at ground zero and lived to tell the tale.
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Angry Planet volume 7
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English
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Filming the volcanoes, mud pools and geysers in the geothermic wonderland of New Zealand's north island, George learns that a new island is being created by an undersea volcano 1000 miles north in Tonga. Determined to be among the first to see this "newest land on earth", he heads for the remote island by plane and boat, after various nautical mishaps, George ends up, bedraggled and clad in nothing but underwear and a lifejacket, honored to be one...
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Angry Planet volume 4
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English
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George explores the wild side of Hawaii – diving with Galapagos sharks, ascending to the snow covered blizzard conditions at the top of Mauna Kea, descending to 85 feet under the water to have his teeth cleaned by Peppermint Cleaner Shrimp, witnessing Banzai Pipeline – the biggest, toughest surfing beach in the world – and getting his boots lit on fire by Kilauea, one of the world's most active and spectacular volcanoes.
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Angry Planet volume 6
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English
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George links up with two experienced polar adventurers to explore the frigid Canadian arctic in the depths of winter. The team first uses skis to cross the fractured sea ice of Frobisher Bay, then dog teams to head north through the spectacular Auyuittuq Mountains.
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Angry Planet volume 6
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English
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North America's hottest temperature ever? 134 degrees F – Death Valley, California. The coldest – Snag, Yukon - -81 degrees F. "Angry Planet" visits both – Death Valley in the hottest week of the summer, Yukon during a long cold snap in mid-February. In both extremes, George meets ultra marathon runners, testing themselves against the searing heat of Death Valley and the bone-chilling cold of the Yukon. He tries his hand at running through the...
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Angry Planet volume 8
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English
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Whenever there is unstable snow and gravity, gravity always wins. George travels to the Rocky Mountains to learn about how to stay alive in the back country. He also gets to team up with an avalanche control crew to fire explosives into the mountains to create controlled slides. He even tests the ability of an avalanche rescue dog by being buried in a snow cave.
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Angry Planet volume 13
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English
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It ain't worth a thing if it ain't got that spin. The whirling winds of Tornado Alley draw George back like a moth to a flame. This season the tornadoes begin early - in February. Through the season, George follows the big weather from Missouri west to the Dakotas, and dodges the huge, destructive Greensburg tornado in southern Kansas.
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Angry Planet volume 5
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English
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When summer starts to heat up, the thunderstorms and winds start to blow across the Great Plains of North America. In early December, the same thing happens across the dry dusty Outback of Australia. George heads down under to link up with Aussie storm chaser Jimmy Deguara, and the pair head out "back a buggary" as the Aussies say, to witness the storms. While in Oz, he dives with some of the creatures of the Great Barrier Reef, and when the opportunity...
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Angry Planet volume 1
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English
Description
Early September of 2008 saw radical imagery on the hurricane maps of the Atlantic – four named tropical storms, swirling in a train across the ocean. "Angry Planet" was there as three of them made landfall as hurricanes in the US. He and his team filmed Gustav in Louisiana, Hanna in North Carolina, then flew with the USAF Hurricane Hunters into Ike over Cuba, and met it again as it made a wild destructive landfall in Galveston, Texas.
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Angry Planet volume 13
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English
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The islands of Indonesia have some of the most extraordinary extreme natural phenomena on earth. George first visits the island of Komodo to see the massive and dinosaur-like Komodo Dragons – the largest lizards on earth. He then explores the steaming sulphur vents of Papandayam, visits the villagers who have seen their town swept away by the Sidoarjo Mudflow, then tackles his biggest and toughest climb to date – the very active Semeru Volcano....
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Angry Planet volume 5
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English
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In this episode, George explores the deadly Nyiragongo volcano in the Congo jungle but the lava lake dwelling inside it's crater may be the least of his worries as he has to negotiate through armed conflict, a family of gorillas, severe weather and an 11,000 foot hike up the side of the volcano.
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Angry Planet volume 12
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English
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Water sustains life on Earth but it can also be one of the most destructive and dangerous elements. In this episode, George investigates the wild side of water in dangerous class 5 river rapids, a flooded cave, and even in the ocean surrounded by massive Great White Sharks.
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Angry Planet volume 3
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English
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No-one creates eco-disasters on quite the scale of the former Soviet Union. In Uzbekistan, the Aral Sea, once one of the largest freshwater lakes in the world, has seen its waters diverted, so that it has shrunk to 1/6 its previous size. In Crimea, a mountain has been carved into a James Bond-ish submarine base. In northern Ukraine, the Chernobyl nuclear site has been reduced to a radioactive wasteland.
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Angry Planet volume 2
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English
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Linking up with legendary storm chaser Jim Leonard, George tracks Hurricane Dean as it makes it's way across the Caribbean – eventually building to Category 5 strength. The pair fly to Jamaica to intercept the storm, and get right into the action as witness its power as it pounds the shoreline of the island. George then travels to Nova Scotia to experience the even bigger turmoil of Hurricane Noel as it sends huge waves into the iconic Maritime...
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Angry Planet volume 5
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English
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George returns to the "Fin Del Mundo" at the southern tip of Argentina, this time to sail on a Russian icebreaker to Antarctica. After braving the stormy Drake passage, he explores volcanic Deception Island, camps out in the Antarctic snow, and paddles a kayak through icebergs calved off the melting glaciers.
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Angry Planet volume 8
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English
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George and his storm chase team head straight into the "bears' cage", looking to get beat up by the biggest, baddest hailstones that Texas and Oklahoma can throw at them. They find it – and their storm chasing vehicles don't look too pretty after coming through these massive storms.
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Angry Planet volume 1
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English
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George travels to the northern wilds of Vancouver Island to find out where the rain goes, by exploring the deep, wet caves that pepper the area. Accompanied by a group of hardcore cavers from Alberta and British Columbia, he descends into four different caves that lead deep into the earth. One requires a 40 meter rappel to enter. Another they enter through a waterfall. On a third, the team carries inflatable kayaks into the cave so they can explore...