Earth: One Amazing Day

It's breathtaking to watch, although its meditative possibilities are limited thanks to Redford's narration and an overbearing orchestral accompaniment.

Earth: One Amazing Day proves inspirational in its depiction of the wonders of the natural world.

"Earth: One Amazing Day" is kid-friendly, but adults will be equally awed by the animal wonders and how the filmmakers captured them in such exquisite detail.

The Earth might be the film's titular star but the documentary is really about the sun and how that star's waxing and waning energy over 24 hours shapes life down here, from the warmth of morning to the shadows of night.

The film works best as a collection of cleansing images to meditate on - it's a welcome respite from the awfulness of the developed world, though the dangers of climate change and extinction are glossed over by design.

That need to draw a movie-style narrative from animal behaviour gets annoying. The beautiful footage is good enough.

Our guide is Robert Redford, whose warm and avuncular narration keeps things light, and is reminiscent of 1960s-era Disney broadcasts.

You may well prefer the David Attenborough approach, but the footage is still wonderful.

If there is a human sour enough not to enjoy the sloth swimming leisurely to meet his mate, then he or she deserves to be pickled alive.

Showing how animal families are driven by the rhythms of night and day, this sometimes awe-inspiring doc is visually stunning.

Avid Sir David Attenborough watchers may have already seen elements of this film but there is plenty of new footage to make it well worth seeing.

This gorgeous nature documentary megamix, with sequences liberally culled from last year's BBC Planet Earth II series, rightfully earns its place on the big screen.