Program Catalog
 | 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... |
 | Sealion Summer Every summer the tiny sub-Antarctic Enderby Island becomes the breeding ground for the rare Hooker's Sealion. Drama and tragedy unfold during the short season: the young bulls battling for sup... |
| Seven Black Robins In a bid to save the Chatham Islands' Black Robin, the surviving birds are taken from one island to another more hospitable island in a desperate rescue mission. | |
 | Up With the Birds Since introduced goats were removed from Macauley Island, in New Zealand's subtropical Kermadec group, the island has been left to the birds: boobies, noddies and parakeets have reclaimed the isla... |
| Wrybill - Bird With a Bent The sideways curved bill of the wrybill plover makes the bird unique. With summer's end the wrybill leaves the breeding grounds in New Zealand's South Island to winter in the rich harbours of ... | |
 | Island of Strange Noises The sheer volcanic cliffs and wind-swept tussocks of Antipodes Island form a breeding ground for many strange species that emit a weird cacophony of even stranger noises. They provide an odd backg... |
 | Living Together The people of Dunedin, New Zealand's largest southern city, live alongside a wild set of close neighbours, including fur seals, albatrosses and yellow-eyed penguins. Co-existence around th... |
| Project Takahe This giant flightless rail was thought extinct until rediscovered in New Zealand's South Island in 1948. A film crew follows efforts to ensure the bird's survival in a remote mountain range. | |
 | An Island Alone Life is harsh on an unforgiving sub-Antarctic island. Campbell Island (Motu Ihupuku) is a remote island of New Zealand covering 115 square kilometers and is surrounded by numerous stacks, rocks an... |
| Hidden Places Hidden Places explores the diversity of New Zealand's landscapes and wildlife. Sub-titles are: High Country Winter; Horrie Sinclair's Swamp; Island Volcano; Okarito; Takahe; Father of the Forest. |
