Program Catalog
 | Body Wars Have we become too clean for our own good? Medical researchers suggest the war against germs in the hygiene-obsessed western world may be triggering serious illnesses in hundreds of millions of pe... |
 | The Forgotten Rhino Once hunted as trophies and for use in traditional medicine, rhinos are now officially protected from poaching. We examine the plight of Asia's three species of critically endangered rhinos, and t... |
 | The Ant that Ate America An alien invader has put ashore in the southern USA, forming a rolling wave sweeping all before it. Humankind seems helpless as the red fire ant advances, destroying crops and maiming innocents with i... |
 | Ghosts of Gondwana Something magical happened long ago to the plants and animals in New Zealand, transforming their shape and behaviour into something otherworldly. Packed with revelation, innovative camera techniques a... |
 | My Favourite Monkey More than those of any other primate, the lives of humans and macaques are intertwined. We both trace our origins to Africa and, after humans, macaques are the most widespread primate group on earth. ... |
 | Aleutians - Cradle of the Storms This is the absorbing story of an island chain and its people, who have endured and survived wave after wave of invaders. We reveal the storm-lashed islands, the 9000 year culture forever changed by f... |
 | Bloody Suckers Vampires are real. Filmmaker Mark Ferns travels the world in search of the most flesh-crawling blood-feeders. Making the ultimate sacrifice in the name of science and his film, Mark submits to... |
 | Medicine at the Edge Our urge to explore extreme places puts extreme demands on our bodies. Luckily new technology has created a branch of medicine designed to cope with inhospitable environments. We go along with medical... |
 | Paradise Drowned - Tuvalu, the Disappearing Nation The waves lapping at Tuvalu's shore are harbingers of an uncertain fate. This Pacific island paradise has the dubious distinction of being the world's most endangered nation, suffering from th... |
 | Tropic Gothic There is a house in tropical Australia, surrounded by swamp and a deep rainforest. It was built to shelter humans, but its open doors and windows also allow nature to use it as a refuge. See bizarre a... |
 | Animal Inventors 1: Animal Engineers Animal Inventors: Animal Engineers explores the design principles upon which the natural world has been built, and looks at parallels in the human world. We're just beginning to see nature as a va... |
 | Animal Inventors 2: Animal Magicians Could an eye of newt and the toe of frog really have given witches their magical powers? Some modern witch doctors think so, which is why they're focusing on the chemicals found inside animals. An... |
 | Animal Inventors 3: Animal IT The next generation of robots may be endowed with super-senses taken straight from nature. Are we about to enter a new era of machines that think like animals? Animal Inventors: Animal IT explores... |
 | The Mighty Civet Jack West is a man with a dream: to come face-to-face with a rare and elusive animal that has captured his imagination and plagued his thoughts for the last 20 years. With the bulk of a dog and the cl... |
 | Hotel Iguana The South American green iguana walked the tightrope of extinction for many years, until it found a safe haven in an unlikely sanctuary. A five-star hotel in Valencia, Venezuela, provides a genial env... |
 | Ice Worlds 1: Life at the Edge Polar bears and penguins may live at the opposite ends of the earth, but these two very different creatures share some remarkable survival strategies. Ice Worlds: Life on the Edge is an exploration of... |
 | Ice Worlds 2: Polar People Polar people carve out a living in the world's harshest environments. Ice Worlds: Polar People meets those who have made these remarkable and hostile places home - the Eskimos, Inuit, Saami an... |
 | Ice Worlds 3: Secrets of the Crystal Ball Locked beneath the polar ice caps lie the secrets of the earth's climatic past - and tantalising clues to our future. Ice Worlds: Secrets of the Crystal Ball embarks on a series of expeditions... |
 | International S.O.S. In an emergency, your only hope may lie in the hands of International SOS. This medical evacuation and intervention company has a global network of alarm centres and carries out 12,000 medical evacuat... |
 | Shark Gordon 01: Great White - The Ultimate Predator Great whites have a nasty reputation for unprovoked attacks on humans, but Ian believes they are thinking, social animals - not just cold killing machines. He takes us to Spencer Gulf, off the South A... |
 | Shark Gordon 02: A Whale of a Shark Every April and May, some of the largest animals on earth, whale sharks, congregate in their hundreds at Ningaloo Reef, off Australia's West Coast. Exactly where they come from and where they go remai... |
 | Shark Gordon 03: Mako - Friend or Foe? Ian gets up close and personal with the deadly Mako at the Poor Knights Islands, 12 miles off the coast of New Zealand. Local residents fear new tourist shark diving operations are attracting more tha... |
 | Shark Gordon 04: Galapagos Sharks Ian takes us to the balmy isolation of the tropical Midway Atoll in the Pacific Ocean to test the temperament of the little-known Galapagos shark. He sets out to test his theory that, in spite of thei... |
 | Shark Gordon 05: Hawaiian Tigers Although there were 33 attacks on humans in Hawaii during the 1990s, two of them fatal, Ian doesn't think the Tiger shark's biology means they could ever make a habit out of killing humans. He conclud... |
 | Shark Gordon 06: The Sailor's Nightmare Ian takes us to the deep ocean off the Hawaiian Islands to meet one of his favorite species, and the one that makes him the most nervous - the Oceanic White. He talks to a World War II survivor who wa... |
 | Shark Gordon 07: Port Jackson - The Gathering Ian travels to Jervis Bay, south of Sydney, for the Port Jackson shark breeding season where he hopes to clear up a long-held mystery surrounding their eggs. Do Port Jackson mums wedge their large, co... |
 | Shark Gordon 08: Grey Nurse - A Visit to the Nurse We go on a 1000-mile air-rescue mission flying a precious 8ft female Grey Nurse shark from Mooloolaba Seaworld on Australia's Sunshine Coast to the new Melbourne Aquarium. It is hoped that the shark w... |
 | Shark Gordon 09: White Tips of Osprey Ian takes his 16-year-old son, Lee, on a volunteer shark research mission to meet the White Tips of Osprey Reef... face to face. Lee braves his first shark encounter and even acts as underwater camera... |
 | Shark Gordon 10: Hammerheads We travel to El Bajo, an underwater seamount in Mexico's Sea of Cortez, to witness the legendary Scalloped Hammerhead school reunion. But before this amazing spectacle is revealed, Ian and his cre... |
 | Shark Gordon 11: Prickly Shark Ian and his crew brave dangerous depths, extreme cold and technically difficult diving conditions, to get up close and personal with the mysterious Prickly sharks. These sharks are rarely seen above d... |
