Program Catalog
| Vulture Culture Florida is famous for sun, sea and sand, but not only tourists flock in to Miami over winter. Vultures seem to be taking over. Attracted by the easy-living at rubbish dumps, they are moving into c... | |
 | Animal Cannibals 1: To Eat Their Own It's a heart-felt assumption about the natural world that animals avoid eating their own kind. So most people are shocked to discover that cannibalism is widespread in nature. Even sophisticat... |
 | Animal Cannibals 2: Intimate Traitors For a few animals, the risk of being eaten by relatives is just one of the natural hazards of life. The fierce sibling rivalries of foetal sharks and surprising parental strategies of burying beetles ... |
 | Whale Out My Window The wildlife of a remote sub-Antarctic island is seen through the eyes of a New Zealand Maori naturalist. Her understanding of the endangered southern right whales, yellow-eyed penguins, royal albatro... |
 | Bandits of the Beech Forest A rampaging horde of introduced wasps spreading death and destruction across New Zealand has left scientists struggling to protect animal and human victims from these yellow and black marauders. |
 | Under Galapagos - What Darwin Missed The Galapagos Islands appear as a modern day Jurassic Park - volcanic, barren and inhabited by strange creatures, they were the setting for Darwin's startling discovery. This film journeys under the s... |
 | Meet the Real Penguins The underwater grace of penguins is compared with their ungainly and fascinating lives ashore. They're found from the mysterious Galapagos Islands to the rocky shores of the subantarctic, from the coo... |
| Finite Oceans We ask our fragile oceans to dissolve and absorb, and to purify and render harmless all that humanity discards. Dr. Roger Payne examines the Great Lakes as fresh-water oceans that give an early wa... | |
 | Island of the Monkey God Supremely adaptable, crab-eating macaques live from mangrove swamps to rainforests, mountain slopes and the fringes of modern cities. On the Indonesian Hindu island of Bali these monkeys are considere... |
 | Islands in the Storm The immense Southern Ocean is a vast expanse of cold and inhospitable sea, blasted by winds that spin off the Antarctic Continent. However, these seas hold a surprising richness of life thanks to thei... |
 | The Chemistry of War Chemical warfare may be rare among humankind, but is an every day part of nature. This is the story of unusual and rarely seen uses of venom and poisons, both as weapons of attack and defence. It feat... |
| Whales Whales have lived in the seas for millions of years, but in just decades they have been pushed to the brink of extinction by the greed of humans. Whales investigates the bloody history of whaling and ... | |
 | Wild Horse, Wild Country The Kaimanawa Ranges in New Zealand are home to one of the few horse herds in the world that has never been managed by people. But the horses are devastating a unique landscape containing ancient rare... |
 | Invaders in Paradise For millions of years New Zealand was a paradise - a lush green land that was home to many ancient and strange plants and animals. But a thousand years ago the first invaders arrived, and the face of ... |
| South Georgia - Legacy of Lust Remote, lonely and raw - the wildly beautiful island of South Georgia is a mere dot in the great Southern Ocean. Surrounded by the super-abundant waters of the Atlantic and Antarctic seas, fan... | |
| Giants of Ningaloo Whale sharks are the largest fishes in the world, growing over 40 feet. For a few weeks every year, they congregate off Ningaloo Reef in north-west Australia. Just why whale sharks migrate to the ... | |
| Glacier Bay Glacier Bay is a vast and remote wilderness nestled in south-east Alaska, scoured and sculpted in recent times by the retreat of massive glaciers, which formed a land containing a diversity of mar... | |
| In the Company of Whales The ultimate New Zealand whale-watching experience, presented by Dr Roger Payne. | |
 | Kea - Mountain Parrot Meet the ultimate lead character in a nature film - a cheeky parrot that lives high in the mountains amidst rock and snow. An intelligent and bold creature, dubbed by many 'clown of the Alps', this bi... |
 | Monkeys of Hanuman A temple, nestled in a secluded valley in India's arid northwest, is dedicated to the revered langur monkeys and Hanuman, the god they represent. Following the troop for a year we uncover less than pi... |
 | Sex on the Reef Special filming techniques reveal a coral reef's most intimate moments. Unearthly and disturbing dramas in the miniature world of the coral polyp and cutting-edge CGI illustrate how coral reefs have s... |
 | Solid Water Liquid Rock Icy blizzards and fiery lava bombs collide at the world's southernmost volcano, Antarctica's Mount Erebus. Deep below the sea ice are giant sea spiders and century-old sponges. On the 3500m high summi... |
| Spirit of the Sound Puget Sound is America's largest estuary and home to a spectacular community of fish and wildlife. The sound holds a myriad of seabirds, waterfowl, waders, harbour seals and killer whales hunting ... | |
 | Animal Musicians Bellowing alligators and howling lemurs may seem unlikely musicians, but they play important parts in a symphony that uses only animal calls. British composer Nick Glennie-Smith collects performan... |
 | Castles of the Underworld A spectacular look at the strange and wonderful world of New Zealand's limestone areas. Crafted over thousands of years, the rocks and caves hold a bewildering variety of decorations, wildlife and... |
 | City Under the Sea Beneath the sea lie complex urban societies that parallel our own. At the Poor Knights Marine Reserve off New Zealand's Bay of Islands there are four seasons of fish society, and fascinating custo... |
 | Emperors of Antarctica The emperor penguin's breeding cycle runs through the harsh and bitter Antarctic winter. Loyal male emperors suffer vicious blizzards, temperatures as low as minus 50 degrees Celsius and a complete la... |
 | Endless Summer - The Birds of Broome Each year, nearly a million migrants arrive in North Western Australia. They're wading birds on an extraordinary trans-global migration, flying up to 15,000km from their Russian breeding grounds to es... |
 | Flamingo - The Last Dance? In the baking heat of the small Caribbean island of Bonaire, over 2000 Caribbean flamingos maintain a crowded and noisy colony among the salt pans. |
 | Gull City On a dangerous and uninviting section of New Zealand's coast, 20,000 red-billed gulls clamour for mates, stealing eggs, harassing chicks and scavenging around the neighbourhood. |
