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- Wildlife docuseries examining the Serengeti region of Africa following different species of animals throughout their daily lives.
- Animatronic spy creatures infiltrate the animal world to observe their behavior.
- As the human world gathers to stage the Olympic Games, this programme looks at what would happen if animals were to do the same. Competitors from the mammal, bird, insect, herptile and fish nations are scaled to human size as they compete in Olympic events. On screen BBC sport graphics impart facts and figures, with commentary from John Motson and Jonathan Pearce.
- Go deep beneath the waves - on a spy mission to the depths of the ocean.
- The story of Suki (Kate Winslet), a lioness cub, who rebels against her mother and her pride to mate with an unsuitable lion from the other side of the river. Her journey to less than a comfortable environment teaches her much. She re-crosses the river to defend her pride from invading wanderers led by her former suitor.
- David Attenborough narrates the lives of four growing tiger cubs using footage collected by hidden-camera-carrying elephants. Over two years, the elephants help capture the most intimate portrayal of tigers ever filmed.
- A city has law and order enforced by punishment squads. When a boy is found murdered a culprit is sought and put to death. But another child is killed and the city becomes convinced that it is a soul risen from the dead seeking vengeance.
- A nature documentary about a bird's-eye view of the natural world, joining the journeys of snow geese, cranes, albatrosses, eagles and other birds across six continents. Beginning in North America, snow geese face their biggest predator, pelicans glide under San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge, bald eagles in Alaska swoop among brown bears, and on the Great Plains, cowbirds dive under the feet of fighting bison.
- A chronicle of the birth and development of one penguin chick, born late and smaller than any of its fellow toddlers.
- A two-part documentary looking at the awe-inspiring world of animal swarms. The latest camera techniques take viewers to the heart of the action, revealing how the creatures view the world around them, while footage from camcorders and mobile phones captures the impact they can have when these alien armies collide with human life.
- Penguins - Spy in the Huddle spends nearly a year in the close company of penguins, deploying 50 spycams to capture as never before the true character of these birds.
- The award-winning team behind Penguins - Spy in the Huddle use hidden cameras to go into the heart of the dolphins' world, offering the chance to encounter dolphins up-close.
- Earthflight is a totally immersive experience, taking the audience on an incredible flight across the world on the wings of birds. Revolutionary aerial techniques and state-of-the-art 3D cameras deliver the reality of flying right alongside birds as we join a variety of different species on their seasonal journeys. As we fly with the birds on their migrations, we discover the fascinating science of flight: how they manoeuvre simultaneously in flocks a million strong; manage immense journeys; navigate across whole continents and collaborate with other animals to find food. It's a thrilling experience as the audience is plunged into the centre of the flock. Earthflight soars into the heart of the action as never before.
- A documentary using innovative techniques to reveal the secrets of pets' behaviour.
- Bears around the globe were observed in their natural habitat using specially designed and disguised cameras.
- Supernatural: The Unseen Powers of Animals is a six-part British nature documentary television miniseries that was produced by John Downer Productions and commissioned by the BBC Natural History Unit, the same team behind the earlier successful shows Supersense and Lifesense. The program was narrated by Andrew Sachs and originally broadcast in the United Kingdom on BBC1 in 1999. The theme of the series was "the unseen power of animals.
- Spy in the Wild (2017) franchise returns with a brand new wintertime entry about animals that live in the coldest places in the world.
- Each year over 1.2 million wildebeest travel across the vast Serengeti plains and Kenya's Masai Mara on a 1,800 kilometer circular journey, relentlessly followed by every big African predator. Revolutionary spy cams - airborne, swimming or disguised as rocks, skulls or dung - reveal the Great Wildebeest Migration from entirely new perspectives. This 2-part series focuses on the growing-up of a calf as he takes his first steps, faces his first deadly perils and tries to cross crocodile-infested rivers. It combines natural humor with exciting drama and gripping music.
- Spycams sneak within a paw's swipe of the world's largest land predators - Polar bears. Polar Bear Spy on the Ice gets closer than ever before to these charismatic bears and reveals their astonishing intelligence and curiosity.
- Elephants: Spy In The Herd provides the most intimate portrayal of the everyday life of an elephant herd. Narrated by David Attenborough and filmed over a year, throughout the program the elephant herd exhibits many human similarities: their life span, social structure, wisdom of age and emotional bonds.Witness two males clashing over territory, the birth and slow development of a calf and jealous rivalries between herd members. A real sense of these animals' incredible flexibility and intimacy is shown as they bathe in mineral salts, mud and dust, while their astonishing sensory perceptions are also revealed. Spy cams based on dung expelled by the elephants themselves infiltrate the herd. Unlike Spy in the Wild, there is no animatronic egret.
- A new special from John Downer Productions. Following on from the highly successful 6 part series Earthflight, Earthflight 3D is a 90 minute special filmed in 3D with a new commentary from David Tennant. The film picks up from where the series left off to take viewers on a special journey over our planet in the company of birds. We see the seasons change, witness the most amazing events in nature and journey from the warm topics to the frozen north. Filmed using specialised and innovative camera techniques to give an up close perspective like no other, Earthflight 3D contains new and unique imagery to give an exclusive look at the world through the eyes of birds.
- Wildlife ecologist Rae Wynn-Grant rates nine bear attacks in movies and TV shows, such as "Cocaine Bear," for realism. Wynn-Grant breaks down the accuracy of brown bear and grizzly-bear attacks, as well as the bears' physiology, in "The Revenant" (2015), starring Leonardo DiCaprio; "Game of Thrones" S3E7 (2013); "Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy" (2004), with Will Ferrell, Steve Carell, and Paul Rudd; and "The Edge" (1997), with Anthony Hopkins. She explains the realism of black-bear attacks and behavior in "Cocaine Bear" (2023) and "Backcountry" (2014). Wynn-Grant also looks at Po the giant panda in "Kung Fu Panda" (2008); the polar bears in "The Golden Compass" (2007), with Nicole Kidman and Daniel Craig; and the mutant bear in "Annihilation" (2018), with Natalie Portman.
- Introducing 'Bouldercam' - a revolutionary remote camera device that boldly goes where no camera has gone before - right into the heart of a lion pride.
- A lioness is exiled for having cubs with an outsider. A baboon starts a jealous rivalry with the new leader of the troop. A young hyena loses her mother. A young elephant must cope with a new arrival.
- Kali the lioness is forced to confront the male from the pride stalking her. A cheetah and an ostrich both try to raise their offspring. Bakari tries to find a female to help him raise the baby he rescued.
- The incredible anticipation of the annual Great Migration is being felt by all of the Serengeti's families as they wait with great desperation for it to arrive. The land continues to get hotter and hunger start to bite as food becomes ever more scarce for the predators. With the Great Migration now in full flow, there are winners and losers on both sides.
- The long-awaited arrival of the great migration brings opportunities and food in abundance, but it also increases conflict as every one of the Serengeti's families is put to the test.
- The dry season is now upon the animals of the Serengeti, the toughest of times for some but a food bonanza for others. The increasing drought turns the waterhole into a death trap for the herds, but for the lions it's a gift and Kali and her cubs are finally able to enjoy life back in the heart of the pride. Jasari and his wild dog family are under siege from Zalika and her hyena clan, so they must train their pups to fight back if they are going to survive.
- It's the time of plenty in the Serengeti, with food in abundance, but a series of unexpected events turns families against each other and stretches relationships to breaking point. Emotions run high as each of the characters struggles to cope with their worlds being turned upside down.
- A significant storm threatens to upend the tenuous peace of the creatures' lives.
- After the storm, the vast landscape is flooded and all the families are battling to reach higher ground, but as the flood waters rise the danger of being washed away grows too.
- As the land recovers from the floods old rivalries reignite as finding food becomes the focus again, but while the young learn to hunt families are divided and loved ones mourned.
- As tensions rise it's a dangerous time to be born. Old enemies are causing trouble for the lions and baboons while the hyenas make life hard for the jackals and the leopard cubs.
- Power is shifting among the animal families as new threats emerge. As their young are growing and everyone is fighting to survive, who will be the winners and who will be losers?
- As everyone faces the final reckoning the Great River Crossing begins. Gnu and Shani's foal are tested by crocodiles. Duma must save his mother. Does Kali find happiness at last?
- Be it foxes on city streets or wolves on the tundra, canines rely on sharp senses, athleticism and fierce determination to punch above their weight.
- Africa and its waters are the scene of major migrations. Seagulls are among the birds who oversee and profit from the arrival of seals and other species on breeding grounds, as in the Cape province. Storks are among the European birds who find warmer refuge in winter. Vultures and many other species find most food along the great savanna trek of wildebeest and other mammals, hunted by the great cats, hyenas, crocodiles. Flamingos are an example of internal African migratory birds.
- The bird's eye camera mainly shows North American species migrating, like geese from Mexico to Canada, whose routes are the basis for the program's itinerary. Also shown are seagulls leaving San Francisco's docks to eat specialized flies at a poisonous lake, eagles going for part of the grizzly bears' salmon catch, buzzards hunting in groups, parasite-pickers on buffaloes and waterfowl simpling joining in when dolphins drive fish onto the shore.
- Every spring, various migratory bird species return to their breeding grounds all over Europe, as far as the wild geese in Scandinavia and northern Siberia or much closer to the Mediterranean. Even at the shortest passages, the Gibraltar Strait and the Marmara Sea, gliding many miles without soil is perilous, but so are predators all along each route, like the peregrine falcon. Some (stork) nests are family heritages for many generations. Human landscape changes, such as urbanization, significantly change conditions. Navigation is by astronomy, earth magnetism and landmarks.
- Bird life in Asia and Australia is as colorful as the human cultures, which tend to close in on their habitats. In Indian nature reserves, some vultures still specialize in air-tailing tigers until they make a kill. Impressive migrations include cranes passing the Himalayas. Australia has fascinating cockatoos.
- The making of the previous five episodes. To film 100 bird species worldwide, many in flight, from their own, airy perspective, lots of equipment was used, including light aircraft and miniature cameras, even life-like bird dummies. The key factor however were birds hatched and trained with endless patience. Even then, filming them proved nerve-wracking and sometimes perilous.
- In South America, bird species are adapted to the very different biotopes, from Terra del Fuego and Patagonia to Panama. The condor, a giant vulture, is king of the Andes skies. Parrots abound all over Amazonia. Gannets are prominent among aquatic birds. Some migrate all the way to North America, even Canada.
- Russell uses a robotic dog to explore an abandoned mine and discovers some unusual evidence. Bryce follows up on a terrifying 60-year-old Bigfoot encounter. Ronny and Mireya camp in a swampy area and find that something is too close for comfort.
- Three of the 17 penguin species go to extraordinary lengths to reach their barely accessible and/or inhospitable breeding grounds and produce offspring there. The emperor penguin makes an expedition on foot over the murderous surface of Antarctica. The rock penguin braves surf and steep cliffs at the rocky, barren Falklands coast. The Humboldt penguin passes huge, hostile seals to breed in the Chilean desert.
- The three penguin species have laid eggs and seen most hatch, for the less fortunate it's a huge waste of energy. But the parents face continuous major threats to themselves and their young, from the elements, obstacles and predators.
- The three penguin species' hatchlings grow fast into lively, mobile chicks, which are soon forced to learn while they grow, cared for ever less by the parents, who need to go fishing. They still face continuous major threats, mainly from parasites and predators. The chicks must soon contend with various obstacles to reach the sea and start fishing their own food.