Steve Backshall visits unexplored parts of the world. This time his team is kayaking in the Arctic - they face pe...
Michael Palin sets off on an epic journey through the rugged terrain of the Himalayas. First, he follows the Khyber Pass ...
Bruce Parry meets the Sakha horse people and Eveny reindeer herders in Siberia's Verkhoyansk Mountains to see how they are embracing the...
Ewan McGregor narrates a series about the wildlife of the Scottish Highlands. It is spri...
A natural history of Antarctica presented by David Attenborough. Looks at how the abundant wildlife survives some of the hardest c...
David Attenborough sets out on an extraordinary journey across the earth's polar regions, exploring the Arctic and Antarctic.
Steve Backshall shows how the two contrasting landscapes of open moor and Caledonian forest are both crucially important ...
Michael Palin continues his Himalayan trek by going from K2 in Pakistan to Ladakh in India - a short distance as the crow...
Naturalist and explorer Steve Backshall leads a team on a mission to summit a remote and unclimbed mountain deep ...
Bruce Parry journeys to the far north of Greenland, home to the last traditional Inuit hunters, and learns how climate change is threa...
Simon Reeve treks across the high mountains and treacherous ice fields of Patagonia, coming face to face with pumas and riding wit...
It's spring in the polar regions and, after a five-month absence, the sun reappears. The greatest seasonal transformation on our planet is under way.
Ewan McGregor narrates a series about the wildlife of the Scottish Highlands. In summer, ...
In the spring, the thaw begins and animals like the humpback whale and the crabeater seal follow the retreating ice.
Bruce travels to Alaska, America's last great wilderness, where modern-day pioneers are harvesting the vast natural wealth of the seas.
Michael Palin continues his trek. On his way to Everest base camp, he meets the King of Nepal, visits Annapurna Sanctua...
The remarkable stories of some of the extraordinary people who make their homes in the Arctic, the harshest environm...
Ewan McGregor narrates a series about the wildlife of the Scottish Highlands. H...
The impact of summer on polar bears, musk oxen and penguins, who struggle to cope with an unlikely problem - heat.
A natural history of Antarctica presented by Sir David Attenborough. It's summer, and with 24-hour daylight two million fur seals ...
This episode looks at the remote Tibetan Plateau, home to chiru antelopes, wild yaks and bears.
As the big freeze returns, polar landscapes are transformed. Wildlife leaves, but the giant emperor penguin arrives.
Bruce travels to the far north of Canada to live with the Caribou people and witness their annual spring hunt. He then heads south to the...
Ewan McGregor narrates a series about the wildlife of the Scottish Highlands. A look at how humans are now end...
A natural history of Antarctica presented by Sir David Attenborough. As autumn stirs up harsh seas, penguins struggle to get ashore ...
Michael Palin continues his Himalayan Trek, leaving Everest base camp on the high road to Lhasa as he takes a look at ...
Michael Palin continues his Himalayan trek. Palin reaches the easternmost end of the Himalayas, exploring mediev...
Film exploring the ways in which people survive at extreme altitudes where nature becomes utterly unforgiving, from lush...
The final stage of Bruce Parry's six-month journey is through Arctic Europe. He travels to a remote Russian village where life h...
A portrait of the wildlife which remains in Antarctica during the punishing winter, presented by Sir David Attenborough.
During winter, most animals abandon the polar regions, but a few extreme survivors remain. This is the story of their battles to endure the planet'...
Michael Palin concludes his Himalayan trek by travelling from Bhutan through Bangladesh before finishing on a fishin...
David Attenborough's series on Antarctica focuses on the race for the South Pole and reveals how today's scientists live in th...
The latest scientific insights into icebergs, from side-scanning sonar scrutinising the edge of glaciers to pictures that give us a unique glimp...
In the northerly region of Svalbard, Steve Backshall unravels the secrets that lie covered in ice for most of each year in the home ...
Steve Backshall reveals why Canada's coastal forest is home to huge trees and some of the greatest aggregation...
Antarctica - the coldest, windiest, most hostile continent. Only the toughest can survive here. But the ocean here is warming and with ...
After their 2000-mile journey, Atlantic salmon return to lay eggs at their spawning ground high up in the Hig...
Due to extreme rainfall, the baby dippers have to vacate their nest as they venture in their first o...
As the snow clears, male black grouse with wheezing calls and plumped up feathers battle to gain the best ground...
Bottlenose dolphins search for spawning grounds to catch Atlantic salmon to eat, although there is a diff...
Larger birds take advantage of the guillemots fishing skills and bully them in the air so they drop their...
There are only 1000 wild capercaillie in Scotland and competition to mate is fraught.
Highlanders help maintain the reindeer population, who are very docile, bringing in tourism to the local ...
Romesh Ranganathan heads to one of the coldest environments on earth. He gets an insider's guide of the Canadian Arctic a...
Due to egg collectors, the osprey was on the brink extinction until the 1950's when conservation began and...
Britain's only aquatic songbird, dippers are adept at finding larvae in the water and returning to their hidden cave ...
Hunger drives eaglet siblings to fight each other, with the first born always being stronger and having the adva...
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