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- StarsFergal KeaneWild Africa is a nature documentary series exploring the natural history of the African continent. The series comprises six episodes. Each concentrates on a particular environment. The producers use aerial photography and wildlife footage to show how natural phenomena such as seasonal changes influence the patterns of life.
- StarsMatt DayA journey through space and time to reveal Australasia's natural wonders. Each episode is a detective story, delving into Australasia's hidden secrets to explain why its wildlife is so special. Its wildlife is an astonishing mix of the surprising, the strange and the deadly. It's one of the world's great melting pots for both people and wildlife.
- Andes to Amazon is an exploration of the exciting, diverse and unique wildlife that inhabits the dramatic landscapes of the vast South American continent. It's a land of great extremes, stretching from the Antarctic to the Equator. It has the planet's greatest river system, longest mountain chain, biggest and richest rainforest and driest desert. Using the latest camera techniques, including infrared night-vision cameras, rarely seen animals are revealed, whilst a specialist aerial cameraman soars over the continent, revealing an entirely new perspective on its varied and dramatic landscape.
- StarsDavid AttenboroughPierce BrosnanPeter ScoonesMammoth series, five years in the making, taking a look at the rich tapestry of life in the world's oceans.
- StarsDavid AttenboroughDavid Attenborough's comprehensive study of how a remarkable group of animals evolved - a group that includes ourselves.
- StarsDavid AttenboroughDavid Attenborough's comprehensive and richly detailed study of birds, examining the variety of different species and their ways of life.
- StarsDavid AttenboroughSeries exploring the natural history of Antarctica.
- StarsDavid AttenboroughA nature documentary series written and presented by David Attenborough, that looks at the evolution and habits of amphibians and reptiles.
- StarsDavid AttenboroughEach of the twelve 50-minute episodes features a different aspect of the journey through life, from birth to adulthood and continuation of the species through reproduction.
- StarsDavid AttenboroughDavid Attenborough's ground-breaking exploration of a group of organisms that are vast in number, yet often too small to be noticed: the invertebrates.
- DirectorAndy ByattAlastair FothergillStarsPierce BrosnanMichael GambonDavid AttenboroughJoin a voyage through aquatic realms where humans have rarely dared to go. Waddle with playful penguins, dart with lightning speed through schools of sharks, ride over stormy waves with massive whales and view rare alien-like creatures.
- DirectorStella ChaStarsGlenn CloseMichael FayGabon is an unlikely Eden where relentless predators stalk prey in lush forests and primates, who have not yet learned to fear man, live right alongside forest elephants. Against all odds, one visionary African leader and a group of dedicated scientists defied the conventional wisdom that insists oil and logging are the only way to bring prosperity to an impoverished land. Out of the wild they created 13 new national parks - and are now developing an eco-tourism industry to sustain them. Gabon: The Last Eden tells this amazing story with stunning footage - silverback gorillas defending territory, mandrill baboons faces splashed with day-glow color, and hippos wallowing in the ocean - exploring one of the planet's last true wildernesses and what is being done to save it.
- DirectorJames ByrneStarsKeith DavidCarlos Lopes Pereira
- DirectorMartyn ColbeckEcho of the Elephants: The Story of an Elephant Family. Cynthia Moss has been studying the elephant population in Kenya's Ambesoli National Park for more than 20 years. Her work here documents an intense 18-month observation, from January 1990 to June 1991, of a single family unit. Moss escorted cinematographer Colbeck as he filmed a documentary, airing on PBS's "Nature". Her film is like a novel yet is scientifically accurate, non-exaggerated, and highly informative. Readers will become involved with matriarch Echo and her family, kin, and clan. Other work by Cynthia Moss is Elephant Memories: Thirteen Years in the Life of an Elephant Family (2/15/88). But this movie, on a more abstract level, is really about The Vanishing World. While human is propagating at exponential rate (unreasonable, unbound, alarming) this most aggressive predator (human) eats everything into extinction and destroys habitats and echo-systems into extinction.
- DirectorJohn DownerStarsDavid AttenboroughEach year over 1.2 million wildebeest travel across the vast Serengeti plains and Kenya's Masai Mara on a 1,800 kilometer circular journey, relentlessly followed by every big African predator. Revolutionary spy cams - airborne, swimming or disguised as rocks, skulls or dung - reveal the Great Wildebeest Migration from entirely new perspectives. This 2-part series focuses on the growing-up of a calf as he takes his first steps, faces his first deadly perils and tries to cross crocodile-infested rivers. It combines natural humor with exciting drama and gripping music.
- StarsDavid AttenboroughDavid Attenborough narrates the lives of four growing tiger cubs using footage collected by hidden-camera-carrying elephants. Over two years, the elephants help capture the most intimate portrayal of tigers ever filmed.
- StarsDavid AttenboroughBears around the globe were observed in their natural habitat using specially designed and disguised cameras.
- DirectorJohn DownerStarsDavid AttenboroughElephants: Spy In The Herd provides the most intimate portrayal of the everyday life of an elephant herd. Narrated by David Attenborough and filmed over a year, throughout the program the elephant herd exhibits many human similarities: their life span, social structure, wisdom of age and emotional bonds.Witness two males clashing over territory, the birth and slow development of a calf and jealous rivalries between herd members. A real sense of these animals' incredible flexibility and intimacy is shown as they bathe in mineral salts, mud and dust, while their astonishing sensory perceptions are also revealed. Spy cams based on dung expelled by the elephants themselves infiltrate the herd. Unlike Spy in the Wild, there is no animatronic egret.
- DirectorJohn DownerStarsDavid AttenboroughIntroducing 'Bouldercam' - a revolutionary remote camera device that boldly goes where no camera has gone before - right into the heart of a lion pride.
- DirectorJeff MoralesStarsJeremy IronsMike SecherKim WolhuterTake an ultimate look at the deadly game of survival through the minds and eyes of Africa's 5 mega-Predators.
- 1995– TV-PG8.5 (29)TV EpisodeDirectorMike BeynonStarsDavid Attenborough
- StarsSalvatore VecchioOlivier DestrezStephen M. KajiuraSee the world's first MRI scan of a great white shark as Ultimate Shark reveals the extreme engineering and predatory abilities of one of nature's most near perfect predators. Hear firsthand accounts of people who survived harrowing encounters, including a surfer who was bitten on the arm and leg, towed by the surfboard ankle strap and miraculously escaped only with minor injuries. National Geographic demystifies the true motives and power behind their behavior. National Geographic shows you a different look at nature's near perfect predator.. .the great white shark. With bloodlines going back 400 million years, they are older than dinosaurs and even trees. But only now are we starting to understand the true power of great whites. ULTIMATE SHARK breaks down dramatic great white - human attacks and demystifies the true motives and power behind great white shark behaviour. Every minute is loaded with cutting edge science, state of the art graphics and gripping stories of great whites and the people who survived their harrowing encounters.
- StarsJacques-Yves CousteauTheodore StraussAlbert FalcoCovers multiple Cousteau explorations including shipwrecks, lost relics of the sea, mystery islands, the Nile River, Clipperton Island, Calypso's search for Atlantis, Calypso's search for the Britannic, and more.
- DirectorLino Varela
- DirectorPaul ReddishStarsDavid AttenboroughDavid Attenborough travels to the forests of Papua New Guinea, where 38 of the 42 kinds of bird of paradise are found.
- StarsDavid AttenboroughFew animals have captured the human imagination quite so powerfully as the eagle. Throughout the centuries, this majestic bird of prey has been a symbol of strength and courage, such is the perfection of its design. There are 60 types of eagle throughout the world, and this program embarks on a grand tour through 12 countries focusing on 15 of the most spectacular varieties. From the Philippine eagle (only 30 pairs survive in the wild) to the bald eagles of Alaska, each type has adapted to a different environment so that few places on earth can escape eagle eyes.
- DirectorJohn PalingStarsPernell RobertsJoin scientists as they study the behavior of huge, powerful alligators in the Okefenokee wilderness.
- DirectorWerner HerzogStarsTimothy TreadwellAmie HuguenardWerner HerzogA devastating and heart-rending take on grizzly bear activists Timothy Treadwell and Amie Huguenard, who were killed in October of 2003 while living among grizzly bears in Alaska.
- StarsLiev SchreiberJamie DutcherJim DutcherDuring centuries wolves were characterized as blood-thirsty beasts, enemies of owners of ranch and killer of helpless live-stock. Adjusted to overcome this misunderstanding, the cameramen-naturalists of Jamie and Jim Dutcher lived six years in a tent camp, in the wilderness of Idaho, living with the covey of wolves, listening to them and earning their trust.
- Researcher Shaun Ellis, also known as "The Wolfman", raises abandoned wolf cubs and teaches them how to survive in the wild -- living and behaving like them, even eating meat carcasses like them.
- DirectorDavid LickleyStarsTyrone BenskinFrom black bears in Montana to polar bears in the arctic, Bears features a fresh view of these powerful, majestic and often misunderstood animals in the full glory of their natural habitat, and highlights the universal threats to bear populations.
- StarsPaul ChristieMartin NicholasGo into the depths of the Amazon, home to millions of marvelous species.
- DirectorKate ChurchillStarsGlenn CloseIn the face of his own threatening illness, the jaguars' greatest protector is battling time and adversity to save these endangered cats. Venture deep into the wilds of Brazil, Belize, and Panama with biologist Alan Rabinowitz as he pursues these elusive predators - and fights to protect even more jaguar habitat than he already has.
- StarsBruce ParryDudu GomesMatt BrandonIn his style as participating anthropological observer, fit and flexible British army-vet Bruce Parry travels along the vast Amazon, trough several South American states. He meets tribal people, 'ordinary' locals, people from (often foreign) exploiting firms, even drug traders, rebels and soldiers chasing those.
- DirectorAram BoyajianNicolas NoxonStarsMarcia SavellaEnter the realm of the monster snake! Enormous snakes...hungry caimans...frenzied piranhas...a barefoot biologist! Jesus Rivas takes off his shoes to study giant anacondas in the swampy heart of Venezuela. He's searching for the slippery skin of the world's largest snake. Anacondas may be as long as 30 feet and weigh hundreds of pounds-and their weapon is sheer strength, not poison. Powerful coils literally squeeze the life out of prey, including even the capybara, the largest rodent in the world. National Geographic cameras capture astounding underwater footage of the anaconda hunting, and document an amazing breeding ball of slithering serpents. Witness the incredible, larger-than-life creatures that inhabit the Land of the Anaconda.
- DirectorKurt J. MrkwickaStarsStacy Keach