Documentaries : Nature

exploring the scientific factors behind the magnitude 9 earthquake and the resultant tsunami that struck Japan on March 11. Professor of geological sciences Roger Bilham views the effects of the devastation from the air, and journalist Callum Macrae travels to the north of the country, where survivo...

Witness an 8.9 Mega quake then watch as a 30 foot high tsunami Destroys many cites of Japan. Its only a matter of time before a devastating earthquake hits a major American city and wipes it off the map. Scientists now believe that day could be sooner than we thought. And its not Los Angeles or San ...

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....

Attenborough And The Giant Egg : David Attenborough returns to the island of Madagascar on a very personal quest. In 1960 he visited the island to film one of his first ever wildlife series, Zoo Quest. Whilst he was there, he acquired a giant egg. It was the egg of an extinct bird known as the 'elep...

Is the lost city of Atlantis buried beneath the sea? Archaeologists are setting sail to find out....

Aquatic ecologist Zeb Hogan and fellow scientists search for Nile perch aboard the research vessel "Hammerkop." The introduction of these six-foot, 400 pound, voracious monster fish caused the extinction of over 200 species of native cichlids in Lake Victoria....

Fifty years ago there were close to half-a-million lions in Africa. Today there are around 20,000. To make matters worse... See full summary >> Director: Dereck Joubert Writer: Dereck Joubert Stars: Jeremy Irons Wa...

This stunning film turns normal wildlife documentaries on their head to find out what happens after death, as a five-tonne adult elephant is transformed into six million calories worth of fat, meat and guts, feeding a whole new cycle of life. The documentary gives scientists the chance to watch clos...

The final stage of Bruce Parrys six-month journey is through Arctic Europe. He travels to a remote Russian village deep within the vast boreal forest that stretches for thousands of miles across the top of the world. Life here has changed little for hundreds of years and people still depend on the f...

The Secret Life of Waves: Documentary-maker David Malone delves into the secrets of ocean waves. In an elegant and original film he finds that waves are not made of water, that some waves travel sideways and that the sound of the ocean comes not from water but from bubbles. Waves are not only beauti...