![]() | Bite Me with Dr Mike Leahy 8: USA The United States of America is the third biggest country in the world. For the millions of bugs and critters who call the U.S.A, and sometimes the people who live in it, their home – it’s a land of o... |
![]() | Megastructures: World's Tallest TV Tower At 610m high the Guangzhou Sightseeing and TV Tower is the tallest television tower on earth and among the world's top ten tallest buildings. Tough enough to withstand typhoon, earthquake and other a... |
![]() | Awesome Pawsome 2 – The Next Generation It’s a nervous time as the dedicated team at Tiger Island on Australia’s Gold Coast anxiously await the arrival of a litter of rare Sumatran tiger cubs. Their work might ultimately save a species but... |
![]() | I Survived How would you react if confronted by your worst nightmare? We reveal the harrowing and inspirational stories of those who have faced death and survived. This series of compelling stories offers insigh... |
![]() | Dark Days in Monkey City Deep in the jungles of Sri Lanka, the ruins of an ancient civilization are now a savage battlefield. Welcome to Monkey City. Rival tribes of toque macaques are battling for supremacy among the ruine... |
![]() | Orangutan Island Time is running out for the orangutans. There is practically no wilderness left for this nomadic, mostly solitary species. But in the heart of Borneo, we join Lone and her talented team from the Nyaru... |
![]() | Expedition Antarctica Join a team of marine scientists as they embark on an unprecedented journey across the Great Southern Ocean and beyond to Antarctica. In this extreme environment, the stakes are high, but if successfu... |
![]() | Megastructures: Building Green Beijing As the 2008 Beijing Olympics draws near, a team of London designers and some of China's top green architects and engineers race against time to build a temporary meeting place for athletes and their f... |
![]() | Shark Nicole We journey with a young female great white shark into an ocean of mystery and danger as she embarks on a record breaking migration that astonishes the scientific world. Keen to learn more about these ... |
![]() | Colossal Squid Since ancient times a hideous monster has haunted the dreams of sailors, striking fear in the hearts of even the most fearless seafarers. We now know this monster is more than a myth - it's the Colos... |
![]() | Inside China - Ice Vegas Go behind the scenes to find out how a team of 18,000 workers in northern China cut and shape nearly 400,000 cubic meters of ice and snow into one of the biggest winter festivals in the world... in le... |
![]() | Inside China - Kung Fu Inc It's the birthplace of kung fu and Zen Buddhism. Home to an ancient sect of warrior monks. The thousand year old legend that is Shaolin temple. They've survived battling warlords and the wars and uphe... |
![]() | Man Made Marvels 201: Sydney Opera House Its breathtaking shape defied every engineering and construction rule in the book. The original plans were radical and impossible to build using existing technology, but the designers faced the challe... |
![]() | Man Made Marvels 202: Ultimate Casino The world's ultimate casino, the Venetian Macao Resort Hotel, is the signature piece for an ambitious project creating one of the greatest resort destinations ever seen. The magnitude and scale of thi... |
![]() | Man Made Marvels 203: Kuala Lumpur Flood Control Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia's Capital, is under siege from flash floods, powerful forces of nature that bring the city to its knees. The source: severe thunderstorms that pound the city for months on end. ... |
![]() | Man Made Marvels 204: Songdo Future City Imagine building a city for 300,000 people from scratch in just ten years. Only 45 kilometres from central Seoul a team of architects, engineers and developers have been given a rare opportunity to bu... |
![]() | Man Made Marvels 205: Changi Airport Singapore's Changi Airport is revered in travel circles as the holy grail of airports. Renowned as a trendsetter in airport technology, Changi now faces stiff competition from some of Asia's newer air... |
![]() | Man Made Marvels 206: Singapore's Marina Barrage Lying between the mighty Indian Ocean and the South China Sea, the island city of Singapore is surrounded by water yet struggles with practically non-existent inland freshwater resources. In a battle... |
![]() | Dragons of Komodo On Komodo gigantic lizards battle over the right to mate, kill prey as large as water buffalo, and defend their young with a gritty determination in this all too real Jurassic Park. We watch as tiny d... |
![]() | Killer Dragons The Komodo dragon is the world's biggest lizard and a known man-eater. Just one bite infects its victim with a deadly infection that kills in days. For years it was thought toxic bacteria in the drago... |
![]() | Megastructures: Beijing Water Cube When Beijing hosts the 2008 Olympics, the eyes of the world will be riveted on the National Swimming Centre - aka the Water Cube. We go behind the scenes to discover more about a building destined to ... |
![]() | Megastructures: China's Ultimate Port Over the centuries China has produced some of the world's greatest engineering feats from The Great Wall to The Forbidden City. The Deep Water Port at Yangshan is on track to becoming China's ... |
![]() | Megastructures: Shanghai Super Tower What do you get if you take sixty thousand tons of steel, 260,000 cubic meters of concrete, 2000 dedicated Chinese workers and the best design brains in the business? The Shanghai World Financial Cent... |
![]() | Top 5 Eaten Alive This film features the dramatic depiction of five true stories of shark attack survival, told by the victims themselves, and takes the viewer into the experience of confronting the sea's top predator ... |
![]() | The Four Alps The Four Alps is the story of time: of how mountains are born from the inner violence of the Earth, thrust up to dominate the land for millions upon millions of years, but inevitably will fade away wi... |
![]() | Tuna Wranglers Australia's Southern Ocean is as dangerous as they come. What lures local fishermen to sea here is something they call 'living gold' - Southern bluefin tuna. They have made one catch. ... |
![]() | China Circus 1: Elites Join the young and talented recruits of China's Wuqiao School of Acrobatic Arts as they push themselves to extremes trying to achieve that perfect performance - with dreams of making it as a professio... |
![]() | China Circus 2: On Ice The Heilongjiang Acrobatics Troupe in Harbin has pioneered acrobatics on ice in China. Tensions run high as they prepare for their new show "Aurora on Ice" which will have its premiere performance in ... |
![]() | The Most Extreme 501: Inventors The Most Extreme is a fun look at how the best (and worst) of our world stack up against the animal kingdom. Compare the ground breaking achievements of mankind's greatest creations with some amazing ... |
![]() | The Most Extreme 502: Night Lights The Most Extreme is a fun look at how the best (and worst) of our world stack up against the animal kingdom. Meet animals who love to see their name in lights, and compare them with some human bright ... |