![]() | Deep Blue 11: Diving Back to the Future From the cold and stormy sub Antarctic to the balmy tropics, this epic voyage seeks to discover the patterns of life above and below the surface of the exciting Pacific Ocean. The biggest wonder down ... |
![]() | Deep Blue 12: Glorious Mud From the cold and stormy sub Antarctic to the balmy tropics, this epic voyage seeks to discover the patterns of life above and below the surface of the exciting Pacific Ocean. Another world of writhin... |
![]() | Deep Blue 13: Strangers Down Under From the cold and stormy sub Antarctic to the balmy tropics, this epic voyage seeks to discover the patterns of life above and below the surface of the exciting Pacific Ocean. The Deep Blue team goes ... |
![]() | Destination Antarctica Over the millennia the vast Antarctic continent has waxed and waned with the passing ice ages, pristine and untouched. For the specialised creatures that evolved to survive in this harsh land, it was ... |
| Return of the Demon Grasshopper New Zealanders believe wetas are monsters straight out of a horror movie - but are they? This film exposes the private lives of these unique insect dinosaurs, and will open people's eyes to th... | |
| Stranded! For the highly social, long-finned pilot whale, New Zealand's Golden Bay is one of the deadliest places in the world. | |
| The Forgotten Sunbear Few know of the plight of the sunbear. Its extracted body parts are worth their weight in gold to those who believe in eastern medicines, and the high price on its head makes it a popular target for u... | |
| 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... |
![]() | Windborn - A Journey into Flight This is the story of a family whose great passion in life is to soar like birds: to glide in the wind. Lucy Wills, a third generation aviator, is seeking to understand the mysteries of flight. When Lu... |
![]() | 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. |
![]() | Champions of the Wave Omarama, New Zealand - one of greatest places in the world to fly. With mountain alps, lakes and basins, its scenery is spectacular, but its claim to fame is its winds. Winds that allow the purest... |
![]() | Ozone - Cancer of the Sky During the 1980s, the world was confronted with a new and frightening environmental concern - ozone depletion. The term 'ozone hole' is now a common phrase, but just what does it refer to ... |
![]() | 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... |
| Wildfilm We go behind the scenes to profile the people and skills of those gathering some of the most remarkable images ever captured on film. For the first time we turn the cameras onto the film-makers to... | |
![]() | 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... |
![]() | Mt Cook - Footsteps to the Sky Mt Cook's distinctive shape has become a strong symbol to all New Zealanders. This film explores all the meanings of this mountain. A dramatic re-enactment of the first ascent complete with hi... |
![]() | Icebound - 100 years of Antarctic Discovery A landing on the Antarctic shore more than a century ago gave rise to a great rush for adventure and knowledge. Icebound follows the legion of adventurers, explorers and scientists who have pitted the... |
![]() | 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... |