Documentaries : Nature

David Attenborough's comprehensive study of how a remarkable group of animals evolved - a group that includes ourselves....

A rare sport in a rare land, the story of mountain unicyclists Kris Holm and Nathan Hoover’s wild journey across the remote Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan. A spell-binding road trip and an evocative portrayal of the unique people and culture of an enchanted country....

Documentary tells the story of Dick Proenneke who, in the late 1960s, built his own cabin in the wilderness at the base of the Aleutian Peninsula, in what is now Lake Clark National Park. Using color footage he shot himself, Proenneke traces how he came to this remote area, selected a homestead site...

Why are we here? Where do we come from? These are the most enduring of questions. And it's an essential part of human nature to want to find the answers....

Antarctica is the wildest, coldest, most isolated continent on Earth. Encrusted in 90% of the world's ice, its 5.4 million square miles are doubled each winter by the freezing of the seas. The average temperature at the South Pole is -56, dropping to -90 and below in mid-winter. Yet this inhospitabl...

This documentary film by Bill Mason is about wolves and the negative myths surrounding the animal. Exceptional footage portrays the wolf’s life cycle and the social organization of the pack, as well as other film of caribou, moose, deer and buffalo. Mason later made a feature documentary on wo...

The Polar Bears of Churchill with Ewan McGregor: NATURE guest host Ewan McGregor visits Canada's remote Hudson Bay outpost of Churchill to investigate the annual invasion of hungry polar bears, hunting seals on the ice. McGregor watches town and wildlife authorities cope with both furry marauders an...

Using state-of-the-art equipment, a group of activists, led by renown dolphin trainer Ric O'Barry, infiltrate a cove near Taijii, Japan to expose both a shocking instance of animal abuse and a serious threat to human health. |...

Description: How did the human race populate the world? A group of geneticists have worked on the question for a decade, arriving at a startling conclusion: the "global family tree" can be traced to one African man who lived 60,000 years ago. Dr. Spencer Wells hosts this innovative series, featuri...

The ironic, heartbreaking and acid "saga" of a spoiled tomato: from the plantation of a "Nisei" (Brazilian with Japanese origins); to a supermarket; to a consumer's kitchen to become sauce of a pork meat; to the garbage can since it is spoiled for the consumption; to a garbage truck to be dumped in ...