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- Climbers arrive at Everest Base Camp and quickly learn the dangers of the mountain.They are shocked to discover how badly their minds and bodies cope as they move to Advance Base Camp. A cameraman collapses with intense stomach pains. A member of an Indian expedition collapses with acute mountain sickness. It is up to expedition physician, Terry, to lead a full-scale rescue mission.
- Ed Stafford pushes his survival limits as he tries to survive in some of the worlds' toughest environments without even essential equipment and only a camera by his side.
- Former British Army Captain Ed Stafford was the first person ever to walk the length of the Amazon River, but surviving completely alone on a desert island is his biggest adventure yet. Can he last 60 days on an uninhabited Fijian island with absolutely nothing? No survival tools, no rations, no clothes, no film crew... It's a daunting challenge and nobody's ever done it before. In fierce tropical heat, he has only hours to find water before dehydration ends his attempt before it's begun. He must master the island - and his fears - to find food and water, light fire, build a proper shelter, and progress from mere survival to the point where he could stay forever. Filmed entirely by Ed himself, there's never been a more authentic survival series on TV.
- Ed Stafford attempts to survive alone on a Desert island for 60 days. With no clothes, no knife or anything except his camera, an emergency satellite phone and an emergency medical kit.
- The compelling story of one of the most successful mountain gorillas that has ever lived - a huge silverback called Titus. The programme starts in 1967, when the researcher Dian Fossey first made contact with a group of mountain gorillas in Rwanda. She opened up a window on to their secret lives. Forty years on, this film reveals the complete and dramatic life story of one individual animal. Titus's father was murdered by poachers in front of his very eyes. His mother abandoned him in the subsequent chaos. His family disintegrated. He should have died. But we reveal how Titus survived against all the odds. We find him today - a king being challenged by his second in command - another silverback. The unfolding drama climaxes with rare footage of the gorillas at the very top of their mountain world on the Virunga Volcanoes. Titus's present day trials and tribulations take the viewer back in time to reveal key moments in Titus's history. Using testament from eyewitnesses, the film relives one individual mountain gorilla's extraordinary battle for survival.
- Documentary about the relationship between Michael Jackson & his chimpanzee Bubbles. This revealing documentary talks to those who witnessed the relationship first hand, including Michael's sister La Toya, & explores the complex psychology behind Jackson's devotion to his chimp & other animals. It highlights the path Bubbles' life took once he hit adolescence & Michael could no longer care for him, to where he is now, 20 years later. Also they reunite La Toya Jackson with Bubbles after more than 20 years apart.
- Actress Julia Roberts turns naturalist to discover the endangered great ape of Asia, the Orang-utan, as she goes on an expedition with conservationists and ventures deep into the jungles of Borneo.
- Heart-stopping adventure, deadly encounters and the roughest terrain on the planet...it's just another day for photographer and wildlife expert Austin Stevens. Join him as he travels the globe in search of the world's most fascinating and dangerous animals.
- Crowd Control is a show presented by behavior expert Daniel Pink, and aims to make people think twice about their actions.
- Experienced cameraman Ed Wardle sets out on an adventure in which he is the star: a long stay in the barren Canadian wilderness. As the cycle of seasons passes, he must survive from the land, while filming his trapper-like daily life, the landscape he wanders trough and the wildlife he now has to interact with.
- Marine biologist and professional diver Monty Halls turns his back on city life to become a 21st century beachcomber on the west coast of Scotland.
- Canada: A Year In The Wild is a visually satisfying documentary that follows some of the most iconic Canadian wildlife through a year in the vast Canadian wilderness.
- Third generation bushman, Kim Wolhuter tracks a family of cheetahs for over a year, and successfully records their everyday lives on film.
- Solitary sharks that have formed a gang. An elephant-turned-serial killer. A pride of lions with a sudden appetite for giraffes. And pigs, by the thousands, erupting in flames. What on earth is going on in the animal world? This series travels the globe to investigate mysterious occurrences and odd behavior afflicting the animal kingdom. We follow field experts and game wardens as they dive into dangerous waters and enter wildlife warzones, making discoveries that could rewrite science and spell doom for certain species.
- Austin Stevens looks for exotic and sometimes rare snakes and encounters other animals along the way educating us with each encounter.
- Aron Ralston is arguably the most famous survivor in the world. His ordeal in a Utah canyon, where he had to cut off his own arm after getting trapped, was made into the Oscar nominated film '127 Hours'. Now, he's spending another 127 hours as a castaway on a desert island. The story of his struggle to survive in the canyon merges with his desert island experience, as he starts to suffer debilitating dehydration, and tells how in the canyon he had to drink his own urine. In an emotional fireside climax on his fifth night, he remembers how the vision of his yet unborn son gave him the strength to amputate his arm, and how then, as now, thoughts of his family sustained him through bleak moments.
- Jaguar Adventure is a series that follows Nigel Marven to the Pantanal, the world's biggest wetland and home to the planet's largest population of jaguars. Can Nigel realise his childhood dream of coming eyeball to eyeball with a jaguar in the wild?
- England Cricket hero Freddie Flintoff spends eight days completely alone in a remote corner of Botswana's Okavango Delta. Armed with a camera to film his adventure Freddie is constantly on guard against the dangerous wild animals that live in the African bush - out here, he's on the menu. He has to hunt and gather to supplement the emergency survival rations he has with him or he will go hungry, and he has to collect, boil and filter every last drop of the drinking water he needs to survive. After trouble setting camp and getting a fire going he realises that he needs to be more focussed and begins to find his feet. Freddie is entranced by a spectacular and alarmingly close encounter with a herd of elephants and decides that he would rather go hungry than hunt for food. Nearing the end of his time in the bush, lions make a terrifying night time visit to Freddie's camp. After 7 nights and 8 days in the Okavango Delta Freddie strikes camp and heads for a rendezvous with the support team. It's been an extraordinary experience and one that he hopes to have again - next time with company.
- For fifteen million years orangutans roamed tropical forests from China to South East Asia. In Borneo, one of their last island outposts, lives one today who is a legend. He's won more than just a kingdom, he's won human hearts. They gave him the name Kusasi. The Orangutan King is the story of Kusasi's life told to us by a remarkable witness. Dr Birute M. Galdikas has been researching orangutans in Borneo for over 40 years. Under the guidance of Louis Leakey, Galdikas joined Jane Goodall and Dian Fossey to become a pioneer of Great Ape field research. Together they were known as the 'trimates', or 'Leakey's Angels'. Yet while Goodall's chimpanzees and Fossey's gorillas were made familiar through films, the orangutans are still largely unknown to television audiences. Their solitary lives high in the tree canopy have made them difficult to follow and film. Now, for the first time, Dr Galdikas will draw audiences deep into the orangutan universe. With enthusiasm and insight she tells us this special story - taking us back 30 years and unfolding Kusasi's story with detail, energy, and the wonder that she still feels for the orangutan species. As a three year old orphan, Kusasi fell under the care of Galdikas in her forest research camp. But driven by a cunning and tenacious spirit Kusasi did not behave as the other ex-captive infants. From the moment he arrived until today, Galdikas has watched Kusasi fight to win back and then succeed at life in the wild. And he's achieved what had once seemed impossible, reaching the top of the power hierarchy and ruling for ten years. The people who work at Camp Leakey enjoy his charisma, and even those who only visit him in his forest kingdom are struck with awe. As Julia Roberts was in 1997. Her encounter with Kusasi was unplanned - becoming a tight clinch with an irritable 140 kilo beast, possessing the strength of ten men. But she was unharmed. Kusasi is not malicious, and he's respected as much for his indifference to humans as for his power over the other orangutans. Today his spirit still burns brightly but his physical strength is fading. His fights with the rogue males who cross his borders are weakening him and The Orangutan King is the last chance for us to see him in power. But the hope of this film is that he will not be the last of his kind to rule with such strength in his forests. If the forest destruction can be stopped, there is a long future for the considerable Kusasi bloodline.
- Strung out along 5,000 kilometers of the Equator, between Asia and Australia, Indonesia's 17,000 islands make up the largest and most varied archipelago on earth. From freezing glaciers to coral reefs, orangutans to Komodo dragons, the sheer diversity of landscapes and life defies the imagination. This series tells the story of one of the world's most fascinating regions and its magical wildlife.
- Kate Humble and Simon King follow the animals living along Zambia's Luangwa River, from the last days of the longest dry season in memory to the arrival of the rains that will change everything.
- Monty Halls spends a summer in the west of Ireland, observing the animals that migrate through the waters off Connemara.
- When healthy dolphins mysteriously start turning up dead in remote Scottish coastline and Virginia US, a full scale search is launched to find the killer.
- Economist Conor Woodman uses £25,000 from the sale of his flat to travel to various countries around the world to buy products from certain regions and later sell them to other countries for a profit.
- Following on from his stay at Beachcomber Cottage, Monty Halls returns to Scotland. This time on the Hebridean island of North Uist where he takes on the role of a volunteer wildlife ranger.
- Each reunion captures the bond between warm-hearted human character and adorable wild animal, proving with each story that animals are just as capable of love as humans are.
- Investigating weird and wonderful real-life stories from the natural world. Each show unravels three wild mysteries, combining groundbreaking scientific discoveries with classic detective work.
- Naturalist Nick Baker is on a mission to change our minds about what constitutes a wildlife 'looker', getting us under the skin and into the minds of some of Namibia's most wonderful and beautiful freaks. From the savannah of the Central Plateau to the savage shores of the Skeleton Coast, this is a journey that proves just how ingenious Nature can be.
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- Comedian John Bishop visits the Rwandan forest to learn about the endangered mountain gorilla from the vets who dedicate themselves to protecting them.
- Frank is in a wheelchair and has a long held dream to see the birds of paradise in Papua New Guinea. His friend, Benedict, a well traveled adventurer, and a team of people including many local people, attempt to get him through the rugged lands to where the birds can be seen. It not only follows their physical journey but their own emotional journeys as well. This documentary has many honest, self filmed, insights into their individual thoughts about themselves and each other.
- The Black Mamba is well known as Africa's deadliest snake. In the small country of Swaziland, it's feared and revered for its power. Between October and February, temperatures rise here and it's known as 'snake season'. At this time of year, black mambas turn up everywhere - in people's homes, schools and cars. When people find snakes here, they kill them but getting close enough to kill a mamba means it is close enough to kill you, and people are getting bitten here every week. In a country with very limited health care and no anti-venom, it is becoming a crisis. Two very unlikely people have become motivated to do something about it. Thea Litschka-Koen is a mum, and manages a hotel with her husband Clifton. Known affectionately as the white witch by the locals, Thea is determined to change attitudes towards venomous snakes, based on centuries of fear and superstition. She and her husband are on call 24 hours a day to rescue and release black mambas and other venomous snakes when they get 'too close for comfort'. But what the locals really want to know is - will they come back again? We follow Thea and her team as they set up a pioneering new scientific project to track black mambas in the wild. If she can find out more about their movements and daily lives, she will be able to pass on vital information and reassurance to the local people who have to live alongside them.
- Recently released home movies shot by the controversial Edward VIII reveal the untold story of his extravagant safaris with the real life cast of "Out of Africa" in the late 1920s, complete with adultery, champagne and specially built airstrips. At the height of the Great White Hunter era, Edward turned his back on big game hunting and championed conservation instead. Inspired by his safari guide, Denys Finch-Hatton - played by Robert Redford in the Oscar winning film - he put down his rifle and picked up a movie camera, pioneering the photographic safaris we all know today.
- Describes a December 2010 series of five shark attacks at Eqypt's Red Sea Sharm el-Sheikh resort area that has exceptional water areas including coral reefs.
- In 1998, Chris Packham met a hunter-gatherer tribe in remote Sumatra. 20 years later, he goes in search of the same tribe to search for the girl whose photograph he took.
- Dancer, choreographer and Dancing on Ice Judge Jason Gardiner steps way out of his metropolitan comfort zone for 6 days and nights on a desert island. The sights and smells of the tropics propel him back to his childhood in Australia, and the bullying that built up the resilience that ultimately helped him to the peaks of his profession. At first, faced with the chaos of a raw, untouched wilderness, his Obsessive Compulsive Disorders threaten to engulf him, as do a series of tropical storms that grind him down. But inspired by a rainbow, his mood and fortunes improve dramatically by the end he is vowing to swap his ordered home life for more wilderness adventures.
- Jeff Corwin joins an elite hit squad of scientists on an adventurous mission to search out new species in one of the most remote and mysterious regions on Earth - the Himalayas. The mysterious Makalu-Barun National Park, on the shoulder of Mount Everest in Nepal, is a "biodiversity hotspot" - a rugged, forested region that Conservation International has singled out as the destination of an extraordinary expedition. Working day and night, a team of CI scientists will build an inventory of the region's wildlife. They hope, and expect, to come across new species as they work. Makalu-Barun is also a hotspot for yeti sightings. While the CI scientists work day and night, Jeff undertakes his own mission: to search out another, undescribed species - the infamous yeti. Determined to get to the bottom of this enduring mystery, he is guided by the stories of local people, the words of yeti myth experts, the advice of his fellow biologists and the accounts of holy men. He stumbles upon recent photographs and prized yeti relics, and travels to isolated yeti haunts in his search. By the end of the show, he is ready to draw his own startling conclusion about the truth behind the myth.
- The love affair between the horse and the Irish people has endured for centuries. Almost everyone in Ireland goes to the races. The programme begins with the only horse race in the world to be run where the sea meets the land - on Laytown Beach, a few miles north of Dublin. Over countless generations Man has shaped these racehorses for speed and endurance, fashioned them to his needs - just as he has Ireland's landscape. This small island in the Atlantic Ocean might seem like a land trapped in time, but appearances are deceptive. The Irish landscape has undergone some of the fastest and most profound changes of any in Europe. Change lies at the heart of Ireland's being - not only of its past but also of its present and future. From the enigmatic limestone features of the Burren to the wide, bleak boglands of County Mayo; from the inaccessible cliffs of the island of Little Skellig to the rich wetland meadows of the Shannon Callows Ireland - Sculpted Isle explores some of Ireland's most characteristic landscapes. We look at how they were formed and how natural events and the actions of man have since shaped and sculpted them into what is familiar to us today.
- Naturalist Mike Dilger is on a mission to seek out Britain's natural invaders. He's off to find out a bevy of botany and beasts, here by accident or design and now mingling with our native wildlife. A surprising array of plants and animals make this island far richer than you might think. Colonies of Indian scorpions, Tasmanian wallabies and giant American Bull frogs are obvious intruders. And yet rabbits, horseradish, doves and goats are also ancient invaders. This is the story of how Britain's wild invaders came here and how in some cases they've changed the face of Britain. On a journey from London to Loch Lomond, Mike will shed new light on our own backyard - British wildlife, sometimes exotic and sometimes familiar, but always surprising. Wildlife anyone can see once you know what to look for and where to start looking.
- Hippo: Nature's Wild Feast is a high-tech natural history event that presents the most comprehensive illustration to date of nature's food chain in action. Filmed over a week in Zambia's Luangwa Valley, Afterlife reveals an ecological system in action as Africa's most iconic animals - including lions, leopards, crocodiles, hyenas and vultures - fight for survival at the height of the dry season. The hippo is one of Africa's deadliest animals. But when one of these massive animals dies, an astonishing chain of events begins. A hippo carcass is a cache of two million calories just waiting to be recycled back into the food chain. A network of state of the art remote control cameras are set up around the carcass to capture the action night and day as one ton of flesh and bone is reduced to scraps. An international team of scientists and researchers watch from a studio tent just metres from the carcass, analysing the action. With fierce showdowns between rivals for these vital calories, the experts explain the different eating mechanisms of the animals: from crocodiles, who use each other as leverage for a 'death roll' to twist off the meat, to marabou storks, who gulp down pounds of flesh, which they store in their gullets and hyenas that can consume 30 pounds of flesh I just 15 minutes. Hippo: Nature's Wild Feast tells the story of how the death of one of Africa's most iconic animals sustains life for countless other species.