Keyword: nature documentary

The Wild Ones

8.7

2025

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Investigates the delicate ecosystems of our globe and finds information on how to help conserve and protect the most priceless endangered species.

First Life

8.4

2010

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David Attenborough goes back in time to investigate the origins of life.

The Polar Bear Family & Me

8

2013

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Wildlife cameraman Gordon Buchanan follows a wild polar bear family over three seasons.

Cities: Nature's New Wild

7.9

2018

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Cities are the fastest growing environment on the planet. Although they might not seem ideal for wildlife, animals have adapted to these urban jungles, taking the opportunities that they are presented with.

Yellowstone: Wildest Winter to Blazing Summer

7.7

2017

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The Yellowstone is one of the most remarkable places on the planet. Its home to North Americas most iconic wildlife and every year these animals must survive The Thaw - one of the harshest seasonal changes on Earth. Temperatures swing from minus 40 Celsius in the winter to approaching 40 plus in the summer months. To understand how the animals cope and to witness the effects of our changing climate, this series follows the Thaw during 2016, a year when its believed the unpredictable weather broke new records.

Secrets of Wild India

8.1

2012

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Each chapter is named after an iconic species (Bengal tiger, Asian elephant, Asian lion) of Indias remaining wildlife. However each also draws a more general picture of a type of biotope in another corner of the Indian subcontinent (jungle, Himalayas, desert). Interaction involves fauna, flora and human population.

Atlantic: The Wildest Ocean on Earth

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2015

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In this landmark series, the BBC Natural History Unit explores a vast ocean that stretches nearly 10,000 miles, from Arctic to Antarctic and from sun-drenched tropical reefs to crushing abyssal depths.

Earth's Tropical Islands

8.2

2020

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Cameras follow the amazing wildlife and human castaways found on three of the worlds most exotic tropical islands. Narrated by David Harewood.

Galapagos

8.2

2006

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The history of these beautiful Islands from their creation as uprising lava to their being studied by Darwin to their modern day inhabitants.

The Bond

7.6

2022

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Takes an up-close look at the unique bond between animals and humans and spotlight these relationships around the world.

How to Grow a Planet

8.5

2012

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Geologist Ian Stewart explain in three stages of natural history the crucial interaction of our very planets physiology and its unique wildlife. Biological evolution is largely driven bu adaptation to conditions such as climate, soil and irrigation, but biotopes were also shaped by wildlife changing earths surface and climate significantly, even disregarding human activity.

Earth's Greatest Spectacles

8.3

2016

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This series shows how life survives in some of the fastest changing environments across the World

Cave Crocs of Gabon

6

2018

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A caving expedition recently discovered a community of dwarf crocodiles living in the Abanda Caves, Gabon. The crocs are living in pitch darkness, hunt bats and some have bright-orange skin. Part of the original team returns to find out more about this bizarre phenomenon. Its mission impossible to access the crocs world and theres no way of knowing what they might find.

How to See a Black Hole: The Universe's Greatest Mystery

8.3

2019

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A BBC documentary about one of the greatest discoveries of humans by a team of top scientific minds from different parts of the world known as the Event Horizon Telescope project team guided by Dr Sheperd Doeleman of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, on a mission to capture the first ever picture of a black hole with a mega virtual telescope the size of the earth, by combining radio observatories and telescope facilities from all over the world to make up this earth-size virtual telescope.

Humpback Whales

7.1

2015

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An in-depth look at the lives of humpback whales and the challenges they face to avoid extinction.

Inside the Perfect Predator

7.3

2010

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Four top predators are compared, each champion in a type of environment, with key adaptations. On the ground, the cheetah outruns prey (approached in masterly stealth) and enemies. In the air, the peregrine falcon is a flight and diving machine. In sweet water, the Nile crocodile survives since the Dino age, without natural enemies, with several amazing metabolism stunts. Lurking under water, it snaps blindly at migrating wildebeest, then waits underground. In the oceans, the equally ancient shark, notably the great white, migrates seasonally to find abundant prey, such as young seals around South Africa.

Decade of Discovery

6.4

2010

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Chris Packham presents, mentioning others that didnt quite make the list, his favorite top ten animal - and plant species from the half million discovered in the first decade of the 21st century. The animals include the most endangered African monkey, a lemur (Madagascar simian), a mouse-size and -resembling relative of the elephant, a Caribean island-adapted sloth, a shark which walks coral reefs on an arm, the largest mega-stick, a deep sea jellyfish without tentacles and a jungle gecko mutation happening in Malaysian state Perlis in order to flee serpent predation into caves. Plant species include a giant Venus-flytrap on Palawan (Philipines) and the largest ever orchid from Peru.

Sea of Hope: America's Underwater Treasures

6.7

2017

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Oceanographer Dr. Sylvia Earle, National Geographic photographer Brian Skerry, Author u0026 Historian Maxwell Kennedy take a team of young environmentalists around Americas Ocean hotspots to showcase the hidden ecosystems hidden beneath the waves. Their goal is to encourage people to protect these amazing hidden National Wonders.

Bears: Spy in the Woods

8.1

2004

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Attenboroughs team travels the globe for up-close looks at polar bears, grizzlies, pandas and other fascinating bear species.

Castro's Secret Reef

8

2016

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Cubas enforced isolation has resulted in the unlikeliest of marine reserves: a huge, rambling archipelago known as Jardines de la Reina, or Gardens of the Queen. Stretching around 140 miles along the southern coast of Cuba, its one of the longest barrier reef systems in the world. Get an up-close look at Fidel Castros diving playground, a forgotten ocean paradise unseen for half a century, and witness exotic species rarely seen elsewhere in the region. Its the lost jewel of the Caribbean, but how long can this pristine wilderness survive?

Into the Lost Crystal Caves

6.8

2010

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NGC goes inside one of the greatest natural marvels on the planet - a giant crystal cave described as Supermans fortress, with magnificent crystals up to 36 feet long and weighing 55 tons. A team of experts venture into the cavern, enduring scorching-hot temperatures that could kill a human after just 15 minutes of exposure. Theyll push the boundaries of physical limitation to explore a crevasse that could lead to another - and perhaps more spectacular - crystal cave.

Boteti: The Returning River

7.2

2011

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For 20 years the Boteti River in northern Botswana has not flowed. What was once an expansive and prolific body of water gradually dried up, leaving zebras, hippos, elephants and crocodiles...

20 Years with the Dolphins

7.5

2004

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An in depth look at the undersea life of dolphins

Going Nuts - Tales from the Squirrel World

7.3

2019

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