That Time a Polar Bear Tried to Attack a Netflix Film Crew (opens in new tab)

Embed from Getty ImagesCinematographer Jamie McPherson took a crew to northern Canada to shoot footage of narwhals for the Netflix documentary series Our Planet in 2017. In his account of the trip, we will learn more about narwhals than about polar bears, but it was the bear that made the project dramatic. Narwhals gather at the edge of the ice in spring, waiting for the ice to crack so they can reach fishings grounds that were closed to them all winter. The crew got aerial footage in a helic...