1: One Ocean | Blue Planet II
Wildlife documentary series presented by David Attenborough, revealing new worlds and animal behaviours throughout the planet's oceans.
7: Our Blue Planet | Blue Planet II
David Attenborough explores the issues behind the series' most spectacular stories and examines the future of the planet.
6: Coasts | Blue Planet II
The wildlife series narrated by David Attenborough explores the planet's coasts. They are the most changeable of the ocean worlds, but they offer ...
5: Green Seas | Blue Planet II
The wildlife series narrated by David Attenborough explores the planet's green seas. From enchanted forests to undersea prairies, they teem wi...
4: Big Blue | Blue Planet II
The wildlife documentary series narrated by David Attenborough explores a vast ocean desert where sperm whales must dive 1,000 metres just to feed.
3: Coral Reefs | Blue Planet II
The wildlife documentary series narrated by David Attenborough reveals the ingenious ways life exists in the undersea cities of tropical reefs.
2: The Deep | Blue Planet II
The wildlife documentary series narrated by David Attenborough goes on groundbreaking journey to the deepest parts of the oceans.
After Dark | Wales: Land of the Wild
For the first time, cutting-edge camera technology reveals the secrets of Wales's nocturnal wildlife, from swimming hedgehogs to fishing...
Secrets | Wales: Land of the Wild
An epic journey following Wales's rivers from their birth in the mountains to the sea, discovering the hidden secrets of wildlife along the...
Episode 3 | Wales: Land of the Wild
It is summer and the country is basking in a heatwave. In this season of extremes, it is time for some of Wales's smaller - and more exot...
Episode 4 | Wales: Land of the Wild
It is autumn, the season of change. Wildlife is on the move, and there are battles to be fought to win mates and secure the right to bree...
Episode 2 | Wales: Land of the Wild
It is the middle of spring and the brightest time of year in Wales. The race is on to breed, but predators are on the hunt.
Episode 1 | Wales: Land of the Wild
It is the first day of spring but winter has a sting in its tail as the country is blanketed with snow. As the sun returns, the breeding ...
Episode 4 | Wonders of the Celtic Deep
Presented by Dame Sian Phillips, this episode looks at some of the biggest challenges and issues facing the marine environment in Wale...
Episode 2 | Wonders of the Celtic Deep
The strange environment of the shallow seas is one that sits remarkably close to shore. In the giant kelp forest, we join a female cat...
Episode 3 | Wonders of the Celtic Deep
As the water starts to warm in the summer, marine giants arrive at the Celtic deep. Some have travelled for thousands of miles to feas...
Episode 1 | Wonders of the Celtic Deep
We follow Atlantic grey seals through the year, from courtship to pregnancy and birth. Will a curious snowy-white seal pup make it saf...
S2E3: The Islands | Spy in the Wild
The spy creatures explore the islands of the southern seas. Some of the most unique animals on earth have evolved in these isolated place...
S2E4: The Poles | Spy in the Wild
The Spy Creatures travel to the lands of ice and snow beyond the Arctic and Antarctic circles, observing the hardiest and most charismatic ...
S2E2: The North | Spy in the Wild
The Spy Creatures travel to the temperate lands north of the tropics, where life is governed by the rhythm of the seasons. Their destinatio...
Volcanoes and the carbon cycle | Royal Institution Christmas Lectures
Professor Chris Jackson explains the important role that volcanoes play in the carbon cycle.
Carbonate silicate weathering cycle | Royal Institution Christmas Lectures
Professor Chris Jackson examines how carbon dioxide is brought down from the atmosphere and ends u...
2: Civilisations | H2O: The Molecule That Made Us
This episode travels to the Congo, Egypt, China and Mexico to reveal how water changed humanity's footprint on the planet.
1: Pulse | H2O: The Molecule That Made Us
Documentary series that explores the importance of water to human civilisation. How H2O causes deserts to bloom, creates rivers in ...
2: Water | How Earth Made Us
Professor Iain Stewart continues his epic exploration of how the planet has shaped human history. He investigates how water has influenced the r...
The carbon cycle 2 | GCSE Bitesize Revision
Spec references J247: B4.1c J250: B4.1c. Description of the carbon cycle.
Carbon in the ocean | Royal Institution Christmas Lectures
Dr Helen Czerski explains how carbon is incorporated into the ocean and how the increase in carbon intake is impac...
The carbon cycle | GCSE Bitesize Revision
Spec references J247: B4.1a, B4.1b, B4.1c J250:B4.1a, B4.1b, B4.1c. Description of the carbon cycle.
Decomposition by bacteria | After Life: The Strange Science of Decay
Spec references J247: B4.1a, B4.1b. How bacteria decompose dead animals, including how bacteria communic...
Nutrients from decay support new life | After Life: The Strange Science of Decay
Spec references J247: . Showing how plant is broken down by animals and microorganisms into ...
What happens if fungi doesn't break down wood? | After Life: The Strange Science of Decay
Spec references J247: B4.1b, B4.1c J250: B4.1b, B4.1c. Evolution of trees 300 milli...
The Carbon Cycle | Bellamy Rides Again
Naturalist David Bellamy examines the six elemental cycles vital to life. This episode covers carbon, on whose cycle the earth's futur...
After Life: The Strange Science of Decay
Dr George McGavin examines the fascinating science of decay when a unique experiment involving a rotting kitchen and garden is captu...
Salt in the ocean | Royal Institution Christmas Lectures
Dr Helen Czerski investigates the salt in the ocean.
Episode 3 | Lost Land of the Volcano
A team of scientists and film-makers explores the jungle wilderness of New Guinea.
Episode 2 | Lost Land of the Volcano
Lost Land of the Volcano
Human impact | Highlands - Scotland's Wild Heart
The impact of human life on marine seabirds is quite apparent as the seas warm. This has encouraged different types of fish ...
Rewilding | Highlands - Scotland's Wild Heart
Rewilding and reintroducing species to Scotland is controversial and while there are benefits, it is the people of Scotland who...
Regenerating forests | Highlands - Scotland's Wild Heart
After centuries of neglect, the ancient forests of the Highlands are in need of help to naturally regenerate.
Scottish wild cat | Highlands - Scotland's Wild Heart
Due to diluting with domestic cats, the true genes of the Scottish wild cat are scarce. This has lead to a specific bre...
Caring for reindeer | Highlands - Scotland's Wild Heart
Highlanders help maintain the reindeer population, who are very docile, bringing in tourism to the local area through...
Public engagement | Highlands - Scotland's Wild Heart
Public engagement has been vital in succeeding at conservation as it spreads knowledge and awareness about the plight o...
Conserving ospreys | Highlands - Scotland's Wild Heart
Due to egg collectors, the osprey was on the brink extinction until the 1950's when conservation began and they reappe...
Black grouse | Highlands - Scotland's Wild Heart
As the snow clears, male black grouse with wheezing calls and plumped up feathers battle to gain the best ground for courtship.
Northern lights | Highlands - Scotland's Wild Heart
As the Winter solstice approaches, the Northern Lights becomes visible.
Ptarmigans | Highlands - Scotland's Wild Heart
As the Winter snow settles, ptarmigans plumage turns white for camouflage and they stick close to the Scottish skiers as then ...
Lost seal pups | Highlands - Scotland's Wild Heart
When moving around the beach, its easy to become lost as a seal pup. Trying to find mum can be fraught with attacks from o...
Salmon breeding | Highlands - Scotland's Wild Heart
The female digs a small hole in the bottom of the river to lay her eggs, protecting them and preparing them for fertilisa...
Grey seals | Highlands - Scotland's Wild Heart
Grey seal clans are controlled by one male who is in charge of a harem of females when settled on the beach, and none of the y...
Hoarding squirrels | Highlands - Scotland's Wild Heart
One red squirrel's hard hoarding work, marking and burying food for winter, is all undone by a rival who follows her a...
Reindeer fight | Highlands - Scotland's Wild Heart
A young reindeer challenges the older male for alpha status.
Atlantic salmon | Highlands - Scotland's Wild Heart
After their 2000-mile journey, Atlantic salmon return to lay eggs at their spawning ground high up in the Highlands.
Paleontologist Richard Fortey discovers the lives of rock pool creatures, joined by leading marine biologists in a dedicated laboratory at the N...
The spy creatures infiltrate a hippo pod, a nursery of red flying foxes and the secret world of pygmy forest elephants.
A behind-the-scenes view of the story behind deploying the Spy Creatures, showing how the concept evolved and became the inspiration f...
Animatronic spy creatures discover that mischief is rife in nature, but there are still rules that govern the animals' lives.
Animatronic spy creatures go undercover to discover how friendships are a vital part of animal societies, helping them survive in a danger...
Animatronic spy creatures go undercover to explore the world of animal intelligence and reveal their use of tools, self-medication, cult...
Documentary in which animatronic spy creatures infiltrate the animal world to explore their complex emotions.
Gordon Buchanan meets the animals who live in nature's winter wonderlands, from the polar bear mother helping her cubs to the owl searching for food.
By the late 1880s, the buffalo teeter on the brink of extinction, but an unlikely collection of Americans have started a few private h...
Ken Burns recounts how the collision between two opposing views of the natural world saw the buffalo, which had numbered in the tens o...
David Attenborough speaks about the environment. Also, includes footage of the drones that turn into animals.
Two out of five wild plants are threatened with extinction. Today people are finding remarkable ways to help them, and so make our world a...
Desert plants spend decades in suspended animation waiting for rain, or they travel to find it. They survive using weapons, camouflage an...
Plants of the seasonal world face constant change. They use use strategy, deception and feats of engineering to survive. Most important...
A look at the beautiful, bizarre worlds created by water plants. Flowers smother rivers and lakes. Plants fight and hunt. A river bubbles ...
Tropical rainforests are plant battlegrounds. New filming techniques allow us to enter the world of plants to see it from their perspec...
Richard Bilton meets the scientists trying to save the world from the consequences of climate change and investigates whether they...
The presenter examines the variety of life supported by a single oak tree.
David Attenborough seeks to explain how we came to dominate life on earth, tracing the African origins of humans to nearly t...
David Attenborough's now-legendary encounter with young gorillas is featured in this episode as he looks at the history of primates.
David Attenborough explores the eternal duel between the hunters and the hunted - one of the driving forces of evolution.
David Attenborough looks at some of the huge variety of mammals. The tree shrew has attracted great interest as it shows how mammal...
The story of life, from the first primitive cells to the plants and animals that live around us. David Attenborough looks at the advantag...
David Attenborough looks at the history of reptiles, the first back-boned creatures to solve the problems of living high and dry o...
Fish occur in populations of billions and there are over 30,000 species, more than in any other group of backboned animals. The dev...
David Attenborough looks at the role of a few of the millions of insect species, some of which have developed extremely close relation...
For most of Earth's history there was no life on land. But over 400 million years ago some tiny plants began an invasion from the water,...
The first ever episode of the landmark natural history series Life on Earth. David Attenborough explores the wildlife and landscape t...
The nature documentary examines primates, including armies of Hamadryas baboons battling on the plains of Ethiopia, and macaques in Japan lounging in the...
The nature series turns to plants and looks at the ingenious solutions that they employ to counter life's challenges, such as spring-loaded traps, suckers a...
Nature documentary series looks at marine invertebrates, some of the planet's most bizarre and beautiful animals, including Humboldt squid an...
The nature documentary explores mammals' ability to learn new tricks to survive, and features unique footage of a killer whale hunting elephant ...
The nature documentary looks at the most successful animal group, with 200 million insects for each human. The key is an armoured covering that takes on al...
The nature documentary looks at birds and, with slow-motion cameras and aerial photography, reveals some of the extraordinary things that having feathers all...
Nature documentary looking at the fish that dominate the planet's waters through their variety of shapes and behaviours, some like creatures from a fairytale.
David Attenborough looks at how mammals dominate the planet through having warm blood and caring for their young, including Weddell seals, caribou and hump...
David Attenborough reveals the strategies used by reptiles and amphibians to conquer their shortcomings, whether for safety, breeding or ca...
Discover the extraordinary ways in which wildlife survives in a rapidly changing human world. From cobras hunting in houses to macaques stealing ...
Sir David Attenborough introduces conservation heroes fighting to save the world's wildlife, from exploring remote jungles to going undercover t...
David Attenborough presents an extreme world where animals battle to survive the elements - and life exists on a knife edge.
Sir David Attenborough journeys into the forests, where dogs communicate with whistles, treehoppers fight assassin bugs, 'spirit bears' fish, a...
Fresh water is the lifeblood of planet Earth, where incredible animal dramas play out. From death-feigning fish to frogs that glide, each de...
A groundbreaking journey from tropical shallow seas to the mysterious depths. Sir David Attenborough reveals extraordinary new worlds and unique ...
Sir David Attenborough explores the dangerous frontiers created by the world's coasts, where animals fight for survival amidst constant change.
David Attenborough explores earth's greatest wildernesses, where extraordinary life survives in unexpected ways, and nature puts...
Wildlife documentary series presented by David Attenborough, beginning with a look at the remote islands which offer sanctuary to some of the planet's rarest...
The wildlife documentary series with David Attenborough continues with a unique and intimate glimpse into the secretive lives of mountain-dwel...
Jungles provide the richest habitats on the planet - mysterious worlds of high drama where extraordinary animals attempt to survive in the most ...
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