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- Jim Corbett, an experienced tracker and hunter in the wilds of India, learns that only a few of the dwindling numbers of Indian tigers pose a danger to man. He resolves to do something to prevent the tiger being driven to extinction by hunters, and to convince the Indian government of the necessity of conserving these magnificent beasts.
- Strand of documentaries on wildlife and the environment.
- Strand of documentaries on wildlife and the environment.
- Documentary chronicled the maternal behavior of a cheetah and a leopard as they cared for their cubs in Tanzania's Serengeti National Park.
- Documentary about the Kakadu, the last remnant of aboriginal culture in Northern Australia.
- On September 12, 2015 in Monterey Bay, California, a 30-ton humpback whale breached and landed on kayakers Tom Mustill and Charlotte Kinloch. Mustill returns to California to find out more about the whale.
- David Attenborough's nature documentary about the wondrous Tasmania that also tries to debunk the ugly stereotypes about its most famous, notorious and, of recently, endangered inhabitant, the Tasmanian devil.
- Alligators, sea cows and a tiny deer are just some of the many species you will find in Florida's forests, wetlands and coastal areas.
- Barely bigger than a few football pitches, the island of Midway is a vital refuge to sharks, spinner dolphins, eagle rays, turtles, rare seals and millions of birds.
- Go beneath the surface and meet Africa's river giants, the hippos. Discover an unexpected side of these aquatic mammals that can't even swim as hippos protect their families, face their enemies and suffer in a drought. Narrated by David Attenborough.
- Professor David Scheel brings an octopus, named Heidi, into his home.
- A look at an ancient Eastern European forest, and its inhabitants.
- Members of the weasel family are often portrayed as the villains of the natural world, but do they deserve this reputation? By following the adventures of a tiny orphaned weasel named Twiz, this film reveals the true nature of these pocket-sized predators, which relative to their size have a bite more powerful than a tiger's.
- How bears across the world have overcome the challenges of life - from finding food and raising cubs to confronting rivals and habitat loss - all thanks to brains, brawn and amazing adaptability.
- Film narrated by David Attenborough investigating why the Indian Tiger is in trouble. Thirty years ago India set aside over 30 tiger reserves controlled by Project Tiger. However, in recent years hundreds of tigers have been poached from under the officials' noses. Tiger scientist turned whistle blower Ragu uncovered the scale of the problem in one reserve. Tigers are now slipping towards extinction. They have come back from the brink before, but can they do so again?
- Documentary about Charlie Russell, who believes that grizzly bears are not dangerous and that our unnecessary fear of them is driving them to extinction.
- Former Royal Marines Commando, Aldo Kane, is on a mission to expose the shocking secrets of the illegal tiger trade in South East Asia and the power players who profit.
- Colin Stafford-Johnson journeys through one of the most bewitching islands in the world, featuring the wildlife and wild places that make it so special. In the first part of this two-part mini-series, Colin explores corners of Cuba that few outsiders have seen. Amongst the wonders he encounters is the bee hummingbird, the world's tiniest bird, found nowhere else on the planet, and the spectacle of thousands of crabs migrating en masse.
- Colin Stafford-Johnson continues his journey in Cuba, encountering bats feeding on nectar from giant hibiscus flowers, and tiny frogs, smaller than a fingernail.
- Eagles are the most powerful birds in the sky. They are able to tackle huge prey, spot food from great distances and can stay aloft on their broad wings for hours. But how do they do it? To find answers to their secrets, we follow a family of bald eagles.
- The Spectacled Bear lives in Peru. Little is known about the habits of this elusive creature, and as narrator Stephen Fry reveals, many of our assumptions were wrong. For years they were thought to be gentle vegetarians, but the latest studies reveal a new and alarming side to this endangered bear.
- Mike Rutzen, who never seen Jaws, didn't fear the great white shark, so fearlessly investigated them from up close. Swimming without a cage along side the giant, his discoveries include the (their) way to communicate with them is not sound but swimming movement.
- Documentary about the legendary Titanic tragedy from the iceberg's perspective.
- This film covers a year in the life of a Saami family in Northern Norway. In particular we follow two teenage girls, Elle & Inga, who are cousins. They are involved in the Saami traditional lifestyle of reindeer herding. But they are also teenagers in modern Europe. The films link with the traditional side of Saami life is Elle's mother, May-Torill. As well as being a teacher she lives the Saami life to the full and is a passionate believer in immersing the next generation in the traditional lifestyle.
- Cambridge ornithology professor Nick Davies helps David Attenborough explain the parasitical brood-behavior of the cuckoo. It specifically targets 20 European species (4 British, including the warbler) and lays an egg (extremely similar to the other birds) in the nest. This hatches only to kill the hosts' own offspring and steal all of the food provided, possibly by producing a fast feeding call simulating a whole brood. The study intends to understand the sharply declining species.
- A general interest nature/biology film surveying and explaining the role of dung in the natural environment. The video is highly appropriate for family viewing and classroom use for students from at least middle school grades through introductory high school biology courses. Treatment of the subject matter is academic, yet kept light and quickly moving through the delightful narration of British actor/comedian Tony Robinson. Other than the word 'dung' the most offensive word used in the narration is probably 'poo' (not talking about Winnie).
- The Sundarbans mangrove forest, in Bangladesh near the Indian border, is a tidal jungle where Ganges and Brahmaputra enter the Indian Ocean. Its has some 400 Bengal tigers - the largest population in the world, and the only to be hardly scared of men. The downside is tigers kill up the 50 Bangladeshis a year, even from neighboring villages, so keeping them inside the reserve is key to long-term survival. A recent project tries to train local mongrels, not pets but fiercely self-reliant dogs, to spot and even scare off tigers from villages. An individual tiger can turn into a man-eater in order to survive - this process may occur due to an injury or old age (and so cannot hunt agile prey) or even accidentally tasting human flesh.
- 1983– 50m7.5 (18)TV EpisodePolar - and grizzly bears are rather similar, opportunist omnivore mammals and the largest land carnivores. However the polar bear gave up hibernating, and is forced south by the warming climate, which causes the vital ice to melt, and allows grizzlies to expand north. So now their diets and hunting grounds overlap, with each-other and with humans - they even roam in towns. Life has grown even harder for polar bears, especially in summer.
- Strand of documentaries on wildlife and the environment.
- A Japanese biologist investigates why a single species of monkeys, who live in the icy high north of mountainous Hokkaido island, are treated so differently by people. In their natural habitat, their cheeky behavior and cleverly inventive self-teaching, such as taking warm baths in a sauna-effect, inspires awe and sympathy, even attracts tourists. Yet as their stressed habitat can hardly support the population any more, the farmers are merciless on their 'thieving' field raids.
- Famous naturalist David Attenborough narrates the story of the Cassowary but also warns how the human expansion combined with climate change directly endangers this unique giant flightless bird as well as its habitat.
- The physical, ruthlessly guarded Iron Curtain between the free West and Soviet block was a nightmare for people, but a sanctuary for wildlife, some of which thrived nowhere else. After the fall of the Berlin wall, biologists research how birds, and other species, fared in the former no man's land, first in Germany, then further south.
- British zoologist Mark Bower traveled to Peru to extensively study a rare monkey species in the Amazonian jungle: the mysterious uakari, about whom very little is known yet.
- This film chronicles the magical transformation of a landscape. Every spring, a barren stretch of land 100 km inland from South Africa's west coast is briefly transformed into the largest flower show on the planet. Thousands of brightly colored species are pollinated by oil collecting bees within the few precious weeks before the blazing summer heat turns the garden to dust. Meerkats, ostriches and sheep also prevail in the springtime season of Namaqualand. But as summer approaches, these animals struggle to eke out an existence. Relief is found down the coast where icy but nutrient rich Atlantic waters rise up against Namaqualand's shores. Summer is the perfect time for marine animals to breed. Half a million Cape fur seals and Cape gannets settle on beaches and rock to breed. Jackals roam the long beaches for food and seals prey on chicks of their neighbors. After seven months of scorching heat and searing winds, great Antarctic rainstorms sweep north and pound Africa's west coast. Through the cold passage of winter, the desert slowly turns green and Namaqualand once again becomes the greatest garden on earth.
- Wildlife film maker Rebecca Hosking investigates how to transform her family's farm in Devon into a low energy farm for the future, and discovers that nature holds the key. With her father close to retirement, Rebecca returns to her family's wildlife-friendly farm in Devon, to become the next generation to farm the land. But last year's high fuel prices were a wake-up call for Rebecca. Realising that all food production in the UK is completely dependent on abundant cheap fossil fuel, particularly oil, she sets out to discover just how secure this oil supply is. Alarmed by the answers, she explores ways of farming without using fossil fuel. With the help of pioneering farmers and growers, Rebecca learns that it is actually nature that holds the key to farming in a low-energy future.
- On a remote island in the Canadian Arctic, a pair of white gyrfalcons and a pack of arctic wolves are struggling to raise their young. As the falcons' eggs hatch, the parents must find enough arctic hares to feed them. The wolf pack are raising their cubs in a hillside den.
- Since ancient times there have been stories of dolphins rescuing humans at sea. But is there any truth behind them, or are they just myths and legends? Set against the stunning backdrops of the Red Sea and New Zealand's North Island, the film dramatizes two events where dolphins apparently saved humans from shark attacks. By drawing on survivor interviews and the expertise of the world's leading dolphin scientists, this films reveals what makes dolphins want to save human lives.
- Through changing seasons, Satish Kumar walks the moor and explores ancient woods and rivers, which are home to a wealth of wildlife including red deer, emperor moths, starling roosts, kestrels and foxes. His meditations on the natural world are lyrical, uplifting and timely.
- Prairie dogs are America's answer to the meerkat - small, sociable and exceptionally cute. This offbeat film narrated by Rob Brydon takes us to the Wild West where prairie dogs live in huge colonies known as 'towns'. Like meerkats, they are comical to watch, but there is a whole lot more to prairie dogs than just being cute - they can talk. For 30 years Professor Con Slobodchikoff has been recording their calls in response to predators like coyotes, hawks and badgers. He believes he has discovered a language second only to humans in its complexity. It's a bold claim but is he right? Con has devised a series of cunning field experiments to help prove his point.
- Documentary that looks at the world of the African driver ant, a sinister army of 20 million sisters. It thrives by ravaging the forest, killing every living thing it can pin down and slice up - a super-organism that dominates a parallel and often violent world where miniature monsters roam.
- The Californian sea otter is one of the rarest, and possibly cutest animals in the world. So when a sea otter mum decides to have her pup amongst the yachts of a millionaires' marina, it is a unique event. The mum must teach her baby how to dodge the boats and find the food in this busy harbour. However, the arrival of a tough male sea otter signals disaster for the family. When mum is attacked, the poor pup is left on her own and must fight for survival.
- Snow leopards stalk their prey among the highest peaks. Concealed by snowfall, the chase is watched by golden eagles circling above. On the harsh plains of the Tibetan plateau live extraordinary bears and square-faced foxes hunting small rodents to survive. In the alpine forests, dancing pheasants have even influenced rival border guards in their ritualistic displays. Valleys carved by glacial waters lead to hillsides covered by paddy fields containing the lifeline to the East, rice. In this world of extremes, the Himalayas reveal not only snow-capped mountains and fascinating animals but also a vital lifeline for humanity.
- Documentary about Apak Taktu, a young Inuit boy, making his first trips out onto the Arctic sea-ice with his father. Apak learns the skills essential to survival in the hostile wilderness - building igloos, travelling by dog sled, hunting seals and narwhals, and avoiding the dangerous attention of polar bears. A stunning portrait of the Canadian High Arctic, one of the coldest yet most beautiful places on earth.
- Amazon is the abounding in water river in the world. On a way to an ocean she absorbs in itself more than 15000 rivers and small rivers. We invite you, to accomplish an enthralling trip in the exotic world of the great river.
- Amazon is the abounding in water river in the world. On a way to an ocean she absorbs in itself more than 15000 rivers and small rivers. We invite you, to accomplish an enthralling trip in the exotic world of the great river.
- Cameras capture the events of a night on the African plains, revealing the fascinating lives of nocturnal creatures from hunting Caracals to the complexities of Hyena politics.
- David Attenborough's entertaining romp through the world of monkeys has a serious side: for when we look at monkeys we can see ourselves. From memory to morality, from 'crying wolf' to politics, monkeys are our basic blueprint. Pygmy marmosets 'farm' tree sap; bearded capuchins in Brazil develop a production line for extracting palm nuts; white-faced capuchins in Costa Rica tenderly nurse the victims of battle; and in the Ethiopian highlands, a deposed gelada baboon has got the blues.
- Research zoologist Cynthia Moss has devoted years of time and energy following a female elephant she named Echo as she led her sprawling family around the Kenyan National Park of Amboseli, and this award-winning film by Martyn Colbeck chronicles 18 months of the small herd's sometimes harsh life.
- Strand of documentaries on wildlife and the environment.
- A film about the wildlife of the Scottish highlands.
- For seven months, award-winning film-maker Owen Newman followed the lions of the Tokitok pride in Tanzania's breath-taking Ngorongoro Crater. What began as an intimate documentary about lions evolved into the story of the Tokitok pride, its lionesses, their two guardian males, Hook and Ahab, as they strive to retain their 'kingdom' and raise their cubs in the Ngorongoro Crater.
- 1983–TV Episode
- The effect on the natural world of a nuclear war, reporting on research in America, Russia and Britain which suggests that for thirty years the world has had the capacity to cause a nuclear winter.
- A look at Henry Williamson's most famous book 'Tarka the Otter'. The film follows the fortunes of an otter living on the River Torridge in north Devon 80 years after the book was written.
- Filmed in the nature reserves of the mixed bamboo forests of the Sleeping Dragon Mountains in Sichuan province, central China. Focuses on the predicament of the giant panda and on the lesser-known red panda. The giant panda's digestive system is more suited to meat eating yet, because it feeds almost exclusively on bamboo, which has a low nutritional value, the animal must feed virtually around the clock to survive. Other animals that live in the forests include parrot bills, bamboo rats, golden monkeys, tufted deer, wild dogs, golden pheasants and the takin - a distant relative of the musk ox. The giant salamander, known as the water dragon, the world's largest amphibian is also to be found in the area.
- This program explores the marine life of the Sea of Cortes, which separates northern Mexico from Baja California.
- 1983–TV Episode
- The lions of the Tsavo National Park in Kenya have a reputation as man-eaters due to numerous attacks on humans, but there is much more to Tsavo than this.
- Abandoned as a baby and removed from normal gorilla family life as a youngster no gorilla scientist could have predicted his eventual rise to power. Titus' life story is pieced together here for the first time, based on archive film and the memories of field workers who have studied the mountain gorillas. At 33 years of age, Titus is not just one of the most powerful silverbacks in Rwanda's Virunga Mountains, he is possibly the most remarkable gorilla ever known.
- Frogs and toads are great survivors. They've been on earth since before the dinosaurs and live in every imaginable environment, from the Amazon (where beautiful means poisonous), to the Canadian Arctic (where frozen bodies come back to life) to the deserts of Australia (where going without food or water for six years is normal!). A fascinating story of how frogs and toads use their skins to get by.
- Wildlife documentary. Simon King has spent four years helping to raise two orphaned cheetah cubs, Toki and Sambu. Sambu was killed by lions, but Toki survived and Simon has continued with his attempt to return him to the wild. Simon's unique relationship with Toki has enabled him to enter the world of this high-speed hunter and share in Toki's adventures. This is a gritty and honest account of life with one of the world's top predators.
- 1983–TV Episode
- Herds of elephant, buffalo and impala graze on rich green grass by pools formed by the meandering Zambezi. But the short rainy season soon ends, and the battle for survival begins.
- 1983– 50mTV Episode
- A portrait of the relationship between the wolves and the buffalo of Wood Buffalo National Park in northern Canada - the last place on earth where wolves hunt buffalo.
- The River Wye runs through some of Britain's most beautiful and varied countryside, from the mountain tops of mid Wales to the wide open spaces of the Severn Estuary. This film is a lyrical portrait of the valley through the eyes of four characters who make their living from the land: a cider maker, a salmon fisherman, a sheep farmer and a beekeeper. It might seem idyllic, but when you live this close to nature a change in the weather can make all the difference between success and failure.
- 'Ytene' the ancient name for the the New Forest. The film explores the wildlife of an area still classed as a 'wild place'. The program is interwoven with historical re-enactments and describes the change in land use from medieval times.
- Following years of research, the intimacies of this female-led group of baboons, are dramatically revealed. Almost every day for the past 25 years, the Viramba troop of yellow baboons have been accompanied by scientists in one of the most extensive primate research projects ever conducted. Screening Sunday 15 January at 7.30pm, Wild Women of Viramba, reveals the trials and tribulations of daily life, deep in the African bush. Researcher Holly Carroll has come to understand the troop, which is controlled by its female members. She discovered that they had established a strict hierarchy in order to keep daily life running smoothly. Kitovu is queen and retains superiority. Old Heshima, humble in her position at the bottom of the ladder, is the guide of the family and leads the troop to the best sources of food and water in the dry season. Young Kibete faces one catastrophe after another with amazing resilience. Interestingly, female offspring automatically inherit their mother's rank. To see how the young might cope when taking their mothers' places at the top and bottom of the troop, we follow the pregnancies of both Kitovu and Heshima. Research into the lives of these 'wild women' of Viramba shows that living in a group can work if all members cooperate. Life in Mikumi National Park is certainly not easy but their inherited hierarchy means there is little need for these baboons to fight.
- Wildlife documentary. A tale of life on the Zambezi River, set against the epic backdrop of Victoria Falls. The story is told from the point of view of a local fisherman, Mr White, who has fished these waters for 69 years, and whose riverside companions are elephants, baboons, hippos and kingfishers. Follow the fortunes of these animals through his eyes, and learn how their lives are ruled by the moods of the river and the rains.
- Documentary about Rom Whitaker, who is organizing the fight to save the threatened King Cobra, the world's largest venomous snake. He's trying to set up the world's first King Cobra sanctuary, and with his beloved captive kings, Elvis and Priscilla, he's trying to breed babies to release back into the Indian jungle.
- Living in the depths of the New Guinean Rainforest are birds of unimaginable colour and beauty. When Europeans first saw the plumes of these fabulous creatures in the sixteenth century, they believed they must be from heaven and called them the Birds of Paradise. The men of New Guinea make even greater claims. They say the birds possess supernatural powers and magic. But to find these Birds of Paradise in New Guinea is one of the very toughest assignments, and to witness their extraordinary mating displays is even tougher. These rare moments happen only briefly, unpredictably, in tiny patches of thick forest at dawn. To SEE them requires immense patience and luck. David Attenborough has been entranced by these birds since he was a boy, and introduces the latest expedition to try their luck at finding and filming 10 birds of paradise. The team is led by Miriam Supuma, a young New Guinean ecologist, and Paul Igag, a highly talented ornithologist, and the programme follows them as they search for the birds - the holy grail of wildlife filmmakers - in the heart of the New Guinean rainforest. From the Crater Highlands to Spirit Mountain, a moving journey unfolds. To attract a mate, some male Birds of Paradise, like the King bird, perform like acrobats. Others, including the Parotia, have highly complex dance moves. The Superb Bird of Paradise displays a bizarre shield apparently with eyes, while the Prince Rudolf's Blue Bird makes a hypnotic, pulsating sound like no other creature on earth. But above all, they give us a glimpse of what happens when there are no limits to beauty.
- Wildlife documentary. How does a chimpanzee see the world? A research project at Edinburgh Zoo is designed to answer just that question in an innovative new way - by training chimps to use video touch screens and giving them a special chimp-proof camera. How will they react to tools which in evolutionary terms are a few million years ahead of them? As chimp specialist Betsy Herrelko finds out, trying to communicate with chimps using video technology has its trials and tribulations as power struggles, bites and fights get in the way of the hairy chimp directors. However, by the end of the program we are privileged to see the world's first film shot by chimpanzees.
- 1983–8.5 (16)TV EpisodeNatural World investigates the vital bond between animal mothers and their babies. The more we study animals, the more we realize just how emotional they are; all mothers are faced with tough choices as they struggle to bring up babies in a difficult and dangerous world, constantly balancing their own needs with those of their infants. Yet there are many ways to raise your brood, from the fish who looks after her young in her mouth to the extended childhoods of gorillas or orangutans.
- In 2004, a team from the Planet Earth series captured the first ever film of a wild snow leopard in the mountains of Pakistan. For Nisar Malik, who led the expedition, these images sparked a passion that compelled him to return. With cameraman Mark Smith, he spent two years documenting the snow leopard's daily life, finally lifting the veil on the most elusive of all cats.