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- This is a powerful documentary, filmed over a 16 year span, about the rise of a Coalition of six lions, branded The Mapogo Lions, and their takeover of the largest territory by a pride.
- A sequel to the 2001's "Mr. Bones," which follows the further adventures of a white African witch doctor.
- Africa is a land sculpted by time where animals have evolved complex weapons to arm them in the battle to live another day. An elephant's tusks can defend, or attack. An octopus uses camouflage to find food, or hide from an enemy. A Cape Fur Seal's speed and agility are valuable tools to catch a penguin, but ineffectual against a Great White Shark. A single hippopotamus holds a pride of twelve lions at bay with his sheer bulk, but backs down when faced with the piercing teeth of another hippo. With lethal weapons wielded by fearsome predators and prey, animals walk a precarious path, here among Africa's Deadliest.
- Animal Fight Night features battles between some of the biggest, baddest and often surprising fighters in the wild. National Geographic dissects the science behind the fight tactics and weapons that human champions wouldn't and couldn't employ.
- A faraway war - A clash of ideologies - And some of the biggest battles fought on African soil since World War Two.
- A burdened young man finds a troubled horse and contacts a South African horse whisperer for help. The horse whisperer leads the pair down a path of redemption where they heal each other. Inspired by actual events.
- In worn-torn Afghanistan, young marine Tyler's life is changed when he is saved by a fellow soldier, Quincy, who dies in doing so. Before he dies, he asks Tyler to find his sister who works in Africa. Tyler, torn with guilt, needs to find a way from behind enemy lines to get to Quincy's sister who is running a Christian Mission in Ethiopia, along with her husband, an ex-Marine cowboy-turned-Pastor, where they care for the desperate local people who are constantly terrorized by crazed guerrilla fighters.
- While that rich American dentist and the hunting industry at large scramble for excuses and justifications for their actions, your rivals will already have killed your cubs and settled into your territory. Yes, those weak ones who could not challenge you now run your kingdom.
- The mysterious jungles of Thailand are home to some of the rarest wild cats on earth - the Clouded Leopard, The Asian Leopard, The Indian Fishing Cat and the Indo Chinese Tiger. In one of the last truly wild corners of the world this extraordinary collection of secretive predators defend their last remaining stronghold. As their territories intertwine and continuously shift, these cats must cheat death on a daily basis if they are to survive and thrive out in these tangled lands.
- There is a mystery behind that masked grey visage, and ancient life force, delicate and mighty, awesome and enchanted, commanding the silence ordinarily reserved for mountain peaks, great fires, and the sea.
- A haunting roar echoes across the Liuwa Plain. There is no answer, there hasn't been for years. She has no pride, no support - she alone must safeguard her own survival. She is Lady Liuwa, the Last Lioness.
- A troubled young man has a series of dreams in which he is a combat soldier in the South African Bush War, where he meets his father at the same age. Getting to know him gives the son insight and compassion, and he is able to let go of life-long feelings of abandonment and anger, which leads to forgiveness and a real-life reconciliation.
- Africa's rivers are the wildest places on our planet. Bursting with life, they are home to an array of wildlife who depend on the rivers for their survival.
- Aerial Africa reveals the fascinating stories you'd never find if you weren't in the air.
- Lazy relatives. Jealous neighbors. Runaway kids. The everyday troubles of one family - except this family is a pride of lions. Shot over three years during the most extreme seasonal changes in Africa, the film follows Mfumu - the pride's leader - as he struggles to defend his turf, and his mate Chipazuwa as she tries to produce offspring. Among the threats: a river infested with crocodiles that have taken every litter of cubs -- and a rival male, bent on taking over the pride.
- Abandoned by her mother, a young lion cub is discovered by a John "JV" Varty and delivered to wildlife writer Gillian Van Houten to raise. This is the fascinating story, of Shingalana: the little hunter's life from infancy to adulthood.
- Don't blink, don't scream and whatever you do, don't forget to press 'record'.
- Africa's Deserts are hostile and unforgiving realms, in which all living things bow to the power of the elements. These formidable landscapes, with their near total lack of resources, have forged creatures unlike any other on earth. In Untamed Africa: Deserts, animal encounters reveal the astonishing adaptations of and struggles faced by the inhabitants of a world devoid of most life.
- An exploration of the AK-47 from the perspectives of military historians, former reconnaissance personnel and key historic battles.
- The Swamp Pride is on its knees. Its mighty male was killed by poachers, leaving three mothers and their cubs defenseless in one of the toughest landscapes for a lion in Africa. Busanga Swamp is a quagmire, even in the dry season. Hunting in shoulder-deep water is all but impossible, and deadly hippos and crocodiles patrol the ever-present waters. Keeping cubs alive here is hard work, but for these lionesses it just got even harder: two massive young male lions are hunting them down. The males want to claim the Swamp Pride and its territory as their own, but to take over a pride they must kill its cubs. The mothers must fight tooth and claw to make sure that doesn't happen.
- Powerful. Deadly. Elusive. Manana is a wild leopard. She could kill a man with ease. Yet besides her sits JV, unarmed and unharmed no bars, no cage. She gently brushes past him, almost touching. Today she will allow him to join her as a hunter, a privilege rarely bestowed on fellow leopards, let alone a human. John Varty, wildlife cameraman, has a unique friendship with this wild cat and has gained access to the mysterious world of one of nature's most enigmatic animals.
- Africa is a land of giants. Its mighty rivers sculpt the earth and form impressive valleys and waterways home to many imposing and powerful inhabitants. These are the rivers where massive elephants and hippos live, feed and drink and where ancient crocodiles hunt and breed. They share the rivers with other creatures of their kind, such as porcupines - the giant rodents in Africa, the martial eagle - the biggest of its kind on the continent, and the leopard - a giant among the spotted cats.
- This is the story of the lonely inhabitants of the edge of Botswana's enormous and desolate Pans. The elusive Brown Hyena lives here all year round, but its territory visited by flamingoes, wildebeest zebra and smaller antelopes. During the dry season, time is challenging for the hyena, but when the brief rains spur on the flash floods, the pans come alive with birds and mammals, which in turn are followed by hunters. It is a story of survival in a harsh land and making the most of its resources. Nothing goes to waste, and the hyena eats anything it can scavenge on, bringing back skin, bones and feathers to line its den, home to a small litter of pups. We will follow this elusive and endangered animal and take a glimpse into its struggle for survival.
- Get up close and personal with wildlife in South Africa's Kruger National Park. Experience the thrill of lions on the hunt, a hyena feeding frenzy or an intimate encounter with an elephant family as it happens live, from the comfort of your couch. For one week South Africa's Kruger National Park offers an unadulterated perspective of the area's wildlife. On location at Nwanetsi Concession at Singita, one of Africa's preeminent safari game reserves housed inside Kruger National Park, Caught on Safari: Kruger beautifully captures the landscape, which is nestled among the Lebombo Mountains overlooking the African plain, and the Nwanetsi river. Through an insider's peek into life at the reserve, we hear directly from the game rangers and wildlife trackers watching over Singita, and learn about Africa's conservation issues. This concession in the Kruger National Park represents one of Africa's few territories where large prides of lions thrive, along with many other species including buffalo, leopard, white and black rhino, cheetah and elephant, among others. November in the park marks the beginning of summer, bringing with it the birth of many young animals around the park including impala lambs. Cameras are set up at watering holes around the park and other locations to non-invasively capture animals at home in their environment and filming takes place both during the morning and the afternoon. Wildlife correspondent Michaela Strachan, filmmaker John Varty and professional wildlife guide Andy Coetzee accompany us on this exciting adventure.
- life is hard for inhabitants of luangwa valley during the dry season with intence competition for food and water supplies dangerously low as well as outwitting their predators
- A once-in-a-lifetime, action-packed adventure through Africa's last untamed, majestic wildernesses. Massive Africa is a unique and unparalleled visual journey.
- The rivers of Africa burst with life- invigorating the landscape and providing a bounty for the animals that depend on them for their survival. The seven mighty rivers punctuate the seasons and shape the lives of everything they touch. Whether these rivers are in flow or in retreat, life must still go on- for the animals every dry season is a test of their strength but when the rains pour and the rivers flow they bring with them a time of birth and renewal- for where there is water- there is life.
- The Sardine Run - One of the most spectacular marine wildlife events in the world. Millions of sardines swim along the South coast of Africa pursued by thousands of dolphins, countless sharks and gannets, all competing for nature's bounty. Meanwhile, every fisherman on the south coast of Africa also races to exploit the generosity of this vast ocean. This action packed, visually spectacular film follows the passionate quest of director / cameraman, Peter Lamberti, and his dedicated crew as they chase the sardines racing along South Africa's Wild Coast shadowed by an assortment of predators. Sharks, dolphins, seals, gannets and many other animals join this gala, frantic to indulge in the great feast. Whales, sharks and gamefish compete to keep up with this moving buffet. Inadvertently, the various predators start to act co-operatively. Copper sharks and Common dolphins team up, herding the shoals close to the surface, making it easier for the seabirds to plunge in and take their share. From the air and from below, the hunt is on. For the local Shark's Board it is a particularly tense time, having to remove the shark nets from the sea to avoid shark and dolphin casualties. As the sardines head up the coastline the action intensifies, on the Natal Coast humans join in the attack. Fishermen and local inhabitants wait all year for this bonanza. As the nets are hauled up on the beach, the frenzy continues with onlookers grabbing handfulls, stuffing fish in bags and pockets. Etiquette forgotten, fights break out as the people grapple with each other to seize as many fish as possible. The sensational under water footage of "The Greatest Shoal on Earth" reveals one of the most incredible spectacles of the planet's oceans .
- Set in the vast expanse of South Africa's Mala Mala game reserve, a host of Africa's biggest and fiercest wildlife species compete for food, mates and territory against the backdrop of a harsh dry season.
- In the Kruger National Park there is a hunting force that rivals anything else in Africa - a lion pride, 28 members strong! Despite the females' hunting prowess, nine adolescent males dominate every kill. Bigger and stronger, they bully their way to the best spots on the carcass. The pride's two powerful males could easily enforce discipline, but with them away on patrol, the unruly youngsters are running riot. When eight strong lionesses split from the Megapride, food pressure mounts as the remaining females struggle to cater for their sons' growing demands. Unfocused, uncoordinated and ineffective hunters, the youngsters offer no support to ease the strain. When a lioness is severely injured during a hippo hunt, the adult females call to the pride males for help. Their visits may be infrequent but as the head of the family it's their duty to protect the females and respond if help is needed. During a heated food fight, they drive three juveniles from the pride forever. A new attitude grips the remaining youngsters; they begin to help on the hunts and succeed in bringing down prey. As time marches on, pride dynamics change again. New cubs are welcomed into the family and the pride males return home.
- Half-Tusk is the matriarch of a small family group of warthogs and has recently given birth to this season's litter, three tiny females. Half-Tusk has never raised an entire litter to adulthood. Three powerful enemies have killed half her brood four years in a row: through a series of powerful flashbacks we watch the successful attacks of Lion, Leopard and Cheetah and understand what's at stake for Half-Tusk this year. But past tragedy has made her strong. This year Half-Tusk manages to foil each new attack and keep her three young daughters safe; until one night when the family is split between two different burrows, Leopard takes advantage and steals a baby away. It's one of the harsh lessons her youngsters must learn. Half-Tusk cannot be there all the time or anticipate every possible danger and as they grow, they will have to face challenges alone. But her care and leadership has gives her youngsters the best start in life. It's the gift of every good mother.
- From lush grasslands to sparse deserts, from predatory sharks to giraffes and lions, Wild Nature's documentaries exploring the wonders and the dangers nature has to offer.
- This is the story of a courageous little seal who braves the ocean and all its perils - a real adventurer at heart who leaves the colony to follow one of the greatest migrations on Earth - the Sardine Run. Each year millions upon millions of sardines leave the waters off the southern tip of Africa to move en masse up the east coast of South Africa. They follow the cool winter currents for almost 1000 kilometres. For the sardines it's a perilous journey - their migration awakens a great following of formidable predators that attack from sea and air. Huge flocks of Cape gannets pursue the great shoals while thousands of dolphins strike relentlessly from the surface and hundreds of sharks mount the attack from the depths. Among the predators there are a few adventurous seals that join this frenzied journey. To this day, what makes a seal embark on the sardine run remains a mystery.
- Caught in the Act showcases some of wildlife's most remarkable moments. Each moment is explained by experts in the field, whilst eyewitnesses describe the remarkable events surrounding the footage. See a different side of the Natural World.
- On the northern bank of the Sand River in the Mala-Mala Game Reserve in South Africa, seven magnificent creatures reside in an area the size of Manhattan Island. Tracking them for 24 hours reveals a never-ending daily drama.
- Stories of Africa captures the heart and spirit of some of Africa's most amazing animals. Shot over several years in some of Africa's best kept wild places, we follow the tale of the last lionesses of Liuwa and the incredible effort to establish a viable lion pride in Zambia. In the same country, another story focuses on a family of wild elephants led by a matriarch called Wonky Tusk. Once a year, they arrive at a 5 star lodge and walk up the steps and through reception to get to a wild mango tree that grows in the court yard. When tens of thousands of hippos start fighting for diminishing water and females, the battles can go on for hours. Two Big Cat documentaries complete the 5-part Stories of Africa series: One focuses on a remarkable cheetah coalition in the Linyanti and the other tracks the heroic journey of a young leopard fighting for survival, territory and mating rights in Mala-Mala. The series exposes unique and unexpected animal behavior and showcases some of the most beautiful places in Africa.
- Travel 13 of the greatest rivers in Africa. From rivers that hide underground to vast sweeps of water that thunder over some of the most dramatic waterfalls in the world; Waterways that have poems written about them, rivers that brings fourth life and death.
- Lions, cheetahs and leopards: each cat has its own special hunting strategies, family upbringing and survival techniques. We focus on their behavior and competitive interaction in our quest to find out who the ultimate predator is in the daunting wilderness of Africa. We follow their lives as they play out like a game of chance.
- Fast and efficient, an ocean legion over 3,000 members strong is on the move. Using advanced underwater filming technology, Peter Lamberti and his team are able to record one of the fastest predators in the ocean: the common dolphin.
- Harsh seasons determine life or death, testing creatures against crocs, droughts, and more. Survival demands cunning as predators lurk in waters and along banks. In this predator's world, witness the struggle for life unfold.
- To ancient Egyptians, crocodiles of the Nile were river gods. In modern times, a young female takes risks to mate with the biggest male in the group.
- Gangs of animals bent on survival. They live together, they fight together, they survive together.
- Every day a struggle for survival, keeping out of the way of massive bulls or escaping the razor-sharp teeth of great white sharks. This is the story of a courageous seal braving the ocean and its perils.
- To survive in Africa's harshest landscapes, an array of the continent's iconic wildlife employ astounding feats of behaviour and unimaginable adaptations in their continuous war against mother nature and each other.