Program Catalog
 | Under the Ice The unknown has always captured the imagination of explorers and visitors to Antarctica. Yet 100 years after first setting foot on its icy shores, we are still only scratching the surface. This, the f... |
| What's Next Dazzled by Australian city lights, New Zealanders cross the Tasman each year in droves. But heading in the opposite direction is a steady migration of wild Australia, and it's been going on for mi... | |
 | Bola - The Predictable Disaster Cyclone Bola brought three days of continuous rain that battered the fragile landscape of New Zealand's East Coast. Man had destroyed the forest and created the perfect conditions for a disaster. ... |
 | Islands of the Iguana Fiji is a nation of coral beaches, coconut palms and unforgettable sunsets - but it's also a wildlife paradise and a place of many mysteries. One such mystery is how a three-foot long tropical South A... |
 | Land of the Kiwi New Zealand is so remote, so strange, that the legend that a god fished these islands from the sea could just be true. The wildlife is extraordinary: strange insects; frogs that carry their young; bir... |
 | Lost World of the Poor Knights On a tiny island lost since the dawn of time, we can glimpse a world long past. Here are creatures from another age: giant armour-plated insects called wetas and huge land snails that still browse the... |
 | Tale of the Crayfish Crayfish are among the most sought-after animals in the sea: from the tropical Pacific to the cold North Sea. But surprisingly little is known of the life of the crayfish. This film reveals the secret... |
 | Journeys in National Parks Peter Hayden presents journeys through six New Zealand national parks. Subtitles are: Tongariro te Maunga; Westland Aoraki; Fiordland; Urewera; Hauraki Gulf. |
 | Icebird Adelie penguins, slaves to a strict timetable of breeding, are drawn to the same patch of Antarctica each spring. To ignore the rules of time and place is to invite hazards for young and old alike. Se... |
 | Colony Z Rare yellow-eyed penguins waddle from wild ocean through sand dunes and farmland to nest with life-long mates amongst flax and scrub in southern New Zealand. Their strange lifestyle was uncove... |
 | Eating Like a Gannet Why are gannets the world over on the increase? This study of the colony at Cape Kidnappers, New Zealand, looks for a possible answer in the poor inshore harvests of the fishing industry. Could the gr... |
 | Song of Protest Most of New Zealand's forests are gone, and the struggle to preserve what remains is not over. Yet the kokako, a song bird with cobalt blue wattles and a velvet black mask, remains. And his song, ... |
 | Southern Harbour Sandflats and foreshores are familiar to everyone, but they hide a harbor's secrets. We take a close look at life above and below the waters of New Zealand's Otago Harbor, and discover that wh... |
 | Swan Lake In the ballet Swan Lake, white swans triumph, while the mythical blacks are banished. Fortunes have changed, however, on New Zealand's Lake Ellesmere, where black and white swans live in the wild. |
 | Latitude 45° South 1: Changes The title of the series 'Latitude 45° South' is a reference to the line that puts New Zealand midway between the South Pole and the Equator. The first episode explores from the East Coast of the South... |
 | Latitude 45° South 2: A Little Continental The title of the series 'Latitude 45° South' is a reference to the line that puts New Zealand midway between the South Pole and the Equator. The second episode compares the Central South Island with R... |
 | Latitude 45° South 3: Old Gold New Gold The title of the series 'Latitude 45° South' is a reference to the line that puts New Zealand midway between the South Pole and the Equator. The third episode explores the riches of the South Island. ... |
 | Latitude 45° South 4: Atawhenua - Shadowland The title of the series 'Latitude 45° South' is a reference to the line that puts New Zealand midway between the South Pole and the Equator. Episode four brings us towards the setting sun and the end ... |
| Garbage of Eden Garbage of Eden looks in on wildlife at a town rubbish dump. At night, star players are the rats. They eat, brawl and care for their families while overhead their rubbish-filled world collapses, e... | |
 | Island Eaten by Rats Surviving untouched until the early 1960s, Big South Cape, a small island off southern-most New Zealand, was a teeming biological time capsule. But in 1963, ship rats fled their home and, making t... |
 | Snares - Gift of the Sea The Snares, a group of islands lying a hundred kilometres south of New Zealand, have remained virtually untouched by humans. Their forests of tree daisies contain a treasury of wildlife, including tre... |
 | The Black Stilt - A Bird Surrounded by Change Each year the arrival of pied stilts, on the stony riverbeds of New Zealand's McKenzie Country, presents a threat to the local population of rare black stilts. Interbreeding and competition for ne... |
 | The Firstborn The Firstborn is set on an island, a remote rookery off New Zealand's southwest coast. It is a story of seasonal rhythm and renewal, a fur seal pup's first three months of life. |
 | The Mangroves A mangrove estuary... swamps of greasy sucking mud, or place of abundant life and hidden beauty? A mangrove estuary in northern New Zealand is explored, revealing it as a fascinating location full of ... |
 | Birds of Paradox Wherever food has been plentiful and predators few, birds have lost the ability to fly. Were their ancestors flightless, or has flight been abandoned in the course of evolution? Why are the ostrich an... |
| The Robin's Return In the mid-1970s the New Zealand Wildlife Service transferred the last of a breed of black robins to an offshore island, in a bid to save the birds. The Robin's Return documents further effort... | |
 | Another England Early New Zealand pioneers, determined to make another England in the South Pacific, imported the flora and fauna of their native land with little thought for the dire, even deadly, consequences. |
 | As it Wasn't in the Beginning The ecological balance on Enderby Island in the sub-Antarctic was completely overturned when cattle and rabbits were marooned to provide food for shipwrecked sailers. The delicate nature of any ec... |
 | Kakapo - Night Parrot Virtually mammal-free, prehistoric New Zealand was a perfect place for birds, and species evolved with unique characteristics. One of the oddest is the giant, flightless parrot, the Kakapo. It is ... |
 | Same Time Same Place The Adelie penguin is drawn to the same tiny patch of Antarctica at the same time every year to follow a strict timetable of mating and raising its young. Along with its 50,000 neighbours and the tens... |
