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One Family, 40 Faces, Many Secrets. One group of animals fascinates and enthrals us more than any other, captivating and terrifying in equal measure – the cats. Big Cats is the ultimate celebration of the entire cat family. The planet’s top predators and everyone’s favourite animals, as you’ve never seen them before. Latest developments in filming technology, and a surge in cat research, bring these superstars into the spotlight. Combining fascinating behaviours with amazing stories, the series reflects the true nature of cats – and reveals how they still have the power to surprise. Earth’s ultimate predator is drawn out of the shadows.
Narrated by David Attenborough. Step into a magical hidden world full of remarkable new behaviour, emotional stories and surprising heroes. Plants live secret, unseen lives. Using specialist cameras, this spectacular series allows us to travel beyond the power of the human eye, to look closer at their interconnected world, showcasing over two decades of new discoveries. From deserts, tropical jungles and underwater worlds to seasonal lands and our own urban and agricultural landscapes, each episode introduces a set of plants, reveals the battles they face, and the ingenious ways they’ve found to survive. New stories and never-seen-before animal behaviours.
Millions of years ago huge forces ripped apart the Earth’s crust creating seven spectacular continents. Over time, each continent developed its own remarkable wildlife. From the depths of the South American jungles to the frozen peaks of Asia, and from the cities of Europe to the vast plains of Africa - Seven Worlds, One Planet features extraordinary animal behaviour and untold wildlife stories from each continent. We discover how our seven worlds gave rise to the great diversity of life on Earth today, and reveal the challenges now faced by animals in a world shaped by us.
Many tales have been told of Africa but this is the intimate story of the animal families who live there, told from inside their world. A drama where the characters’ lives are as entwined as their stories and it all plays out across the Serengeti’s magnificent Pride Lands. There’s passion and devotion, friendship and loss, jealousy and rivalry, tragedy and ultimately triumph. For the characters it is an emotional story of a year that would change all their lives forever.
Dynasties takes you deeper into the lives of five of the world’s most celebrated and endangered animals than ever before: Emperor Penguin, Chimpanzee, Lion, Painted Wolf and Tiger. Travel from the plains of Africa to the jungles of India, from the edge of the Sahara to the frozen wastes of Antarctica. Watch leaders battling rivals for their crown, feuds tearing families apart and parents risking their lives to protect offspring from the coldest and cruelest winter on earth. Five extraordinary animals in heroic battles against the odds, Dynasties, the most intimate and intense stories of their kind ever told.
In 2011, Frozen Planet gave BBC viewers an unprecedented insight into life in the Poles. Now, 11 years later, Frozen Planet II - presented by Sir David Attenborough - returns to the Arctic and Antarctic to observe the amazing species that thrive there. But, going further than Series 1, it also explores life beyond the Poles - witnessing the wildlife dramas that play out in all the world's coldest regions: our high mountains, frozen grasslands, snowbound forests, and ice-cold oceans. These are the last true wildernesses on earth; places so challenging for survival that only a heroic cast of animals can live here. From polar bears to penguins, Siberian tigers to snow monkeys, each species must overcome unique challenges to survive their extreme environments.
From the creators of ‘Planet Earth’ and ‘Blue Planet II’, and narrated by Helen Bonham Carter, “Eden: Untamed Planet” is a wildlife series that will take the viewers to the far corners of the planet and discover the secrets of Earth’s few remaining untouched lands, all brimming with life. Isolated from the rest of the world, these places have been protected from the most damaging effects of human interference. In these lands, life exists as nature intended. Delicately balanced, species-rich, unique ecosystems.
Family is power – more dramatic than any work of fiction, the world of growing families, power struggles and feuding rivals, is back. A cheetah must prepare her daughters to survive alone. An inexperienced elephant unites her herd facing their greatest challenge – twins. High in the mountains a puma and her cubs face a battle for survival. Family rivalries cause chaos with a clan of hyenas. New alliances must form to care for the young of a troupe of macaques. Will a gang of meerkats survive the drought and rebuild their shattered dynasty? This series immerses the audience in every gentle moment, poignant event and heart-wrenching betrayal as animals strive to create dynasties fit to rule for generations.
Discover the astonishing 4.5-billion-year story of the place we call home. This revealing biography of Earth explores the planet’s most epic moments. From the first raindrops that turned it into a water world to the arrival of its most incredible inhabitants, us. But humans take a back seat in this narrative. Instead, Earth is placed centre stage. Chris Packham reveals what happened to our world before we even crawled from the mud – including massive bombardments from space, extreme changes in climate and the collision of whole continents. Told over five dramatic episodes, the series uses the latest cutting edge VFX to bring this unique story of creation to life.
Return to an unspoilt corner of Africa’s Serengeti for more real-life animal drama. There’s humour, heartbreak and nail-biting tension as new characters move in and familiar faces continue their stories. Bakari the baboon struggles with family life. Kali the lioness makes a difficult decision. A family of leopards arrive – and the adorable and adventurous cubs test their mother’s patience as they get used to their new home. Immerse yourself in the complex relationships, thrilling battles and tender moments that punctuate the lives of nature’smost captivating characters.
Planet Earth 3 explores the greatest habitats on our planet and the extraordinary animals that live in them. Filled with wonder and insight, Planet Earth III celebrates places and animals beyond our imagination. From the depths of the ocean to the most remote jungle, discover the planet’s last great wild places and the astonishing strategies animals have evolved to survive. Each episode focuses on a distinct and dazzling habitat, including grasslands and deserts, forests, freshwater habitats, and coasts. This contemporary chapter of Planet Earth also reveals the new challenges that wildlife faces in our modern and crowded world.
All 13 episodes from the first two series of the nature documentary
narrated by David Attenborough. Filmed eleven years apart, the series
explores frozen places across the planet, from the Arctic and Antarctic
regions to the Himalayas. Many animals and their struggles to survive
are featured, including the Antarctic blue whale, chinstrap penguins,
snow petrels, harp seals, golden eagles, an Amur leopard and a Lapland
bumble bee.
The story behind the most fascinating, hilarious and dramatic quests to find a mate and leave a lasting legacy. Some species need to overcome the challenges of a vast environment just to find a member of the opposite sex. Others find themselves pitched against their neighbours in mass mating aggregations. Some must impress with complex displays. Others build extraordinary structures just to prove their worth. One thing, however, connects them all – the drive to succeed at all costs. Exploring five different habitats across six continents, this series reveals the varied, fascinating and downright bizarre strategies different animals use to find and attract a mate. It is the ultimate inside view on what it takes to succeed at the mating game.
Created with ground-breaking technology, where Hollywood techniques meet the best in nature film-making, Enchanted Kingdom is an immersive adventure, transporting you from grey urbanity to the vibrancy and vitality of the natural world. We travel through seven distinct realms in the wildest continent on Earth, Africa, to discover that nature is so much more surprising and extraordinary than you could ever have imagined. It is as enchanting as any fictional world or storybook. In each realm, we experience just how different and astounding nature can be, and encounter extraordinary animal characters, who reveal amazing lessons about the world. We are plunged into nature at its most generous and most harsh, most terrible and most beautiful. We explore an enchanted land where nature weaves it’s incredible magic, finally transforming into an abundant paradise, where life is at its most joyful. It is a thrilling, immersive journey where you will experience the wonders of our planet as never before. An experience so alive that you’ll feel you’re really there, in the heart of the wild. Let yourself be swept back into nature and leave your urban life behind. You will never look at nature, or your own world, the same way again.
Documentary written and introduced by David Attenborough. This wildlife programme charts the lives of various animals on our planet, chronicling their differing journeys from birth to adulthood, each from their own unique perspective. Each episode focuses on one stage of the animals' lives, depicting the struggles they face in the quest to reach adulthood and the duty to continue their bloodline if they are successful in overcoming the odds and reaching parenthood.
David Attenborough presents this landmark documentary which brings to life, in unprecedented detail, the last days of the dinosaurs. Palaeontologist Robert DePalma makes an incredible discovery in a prehistoric graveyard known as Tanis in North Dakota – fossilised creatures, astonishingly well preserved, that could help change our understanding about the final days of the dinosaurs. Meanwhile, state-of-the-art visual effects transport David Attenborough back in time to the Late Cretaceous to find out about the creatures which lived at Tanis. Finally, based on new evidence, witness the events minute-by-minute on the day an asteroid devastated our planet and wiped out the dinosaur.
Attenborough and the Giant Sea Monster
Attenborough and the Sea Dragon
Attenborough and the Giant Dinosaur
Attenborough and the Giant Egg
Groundbreaking BBC documentary looking at the history of our planet. Presenter Aubrey Manning unravels the secrets of the Earth, from the craters of active volcanoes to the ocean floor, combining cutting-edge digital footage with the latest animation techniques.
The demise of the dinosaurs, 65 million years ago, did not leave the world empty. A succession of extraordinary creatures has since come and gone, leading to our own ancestors, and yet we know virtually nothing about them. These bizarre beasts were some of the most fascinating creatures ever to have inhabited our planet. The award-winning team that brought us Walking With Dinosaurs now explores the rise of the mammals. The latest scientific findings, advanced computer graphics and strong natural history stories are combined as we return to the sights and sounds of extinct worlds... this time full of life you hardly knew existed. Walking With Beasts takes you on a journey through time to distant worlds: from the hottest, wettest climate the earth has ever known to one of the coldest... the Ice Age. See the early forerunners of the whale (walking!), avoid the carnivorous pig the size of a rhino, and pity the horse the size of a cat, eaten by a bird the height of a man! And we humans are not safe either... mighty saber-toothed cats with teeth the size of carving knives have a taste for our own ancestors!
In recent years, our knowledge of what goes on in our Ocean has been transformed. Blue Planet 2 uses cutting-edge breakthroughs in science and technology to explore new worlds, reveals astonishing creatures and extraordinary new animal behaviours. As we journey through our deep seas, coral reefs, open ocean, green seas and coasts we share these extraordinary new discoveries. But we now know that ocean health is under threat. Never has there been a more crucial time to explore our remotest seas, and to examine what the future will hold for our blue planet. Episodes:
Box set containing the complete BBC natural history series examining life beneath the world's oceans. 'The Blue Planet' presents an overview of the programmes to come, offering a sense of the amazing variety and complexity of the underwater kingdom. 'The Deep' explores the deepest depths of the oceans and looks at the predators which live there. 'Open Ocean' examines the stretches of deserted sea where very little life can be found, except some of the most dangerous predators of all. In 'Frozen Seas' life in the Arctic seas is compared with life in the Antarctic. 'Seasonal Seas' looks at the way the sun effects the marine environment in the temperate seas. 'Coral Seas' examines the way coral reefs are formed, the life which flourishes among them, and the destruction which ultimately comes their way. In 'Tidal Seas' the series examines tidal movements and their effect upon marine life. And finally 'Coasts' looks at the way underwater life uses the regions above the tide line, a habitat which holds few indigenous species but plays host to many visitors. Also included are two special episodes: 'Making Waves', a look at some of the characters who helped bring the series to the screen; and 'Deep Trouble', an investigation of man's relation to the sea.
The Blue Planet
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Blue Planet II
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Transporting you to locations across the globe and back in time through tens of millions of years, Planet Dinosaur uses unique hi-tech graphics to bring to life the most awesome and amazing creatures that ever lived. Almost all the dinosaurs featured were discovered in the last 10 years or so and forced a rewriting of the prehistory books. Palaeontologists now know that dinosaurs spread to every part of the globe, and evolved in ways so monstrous, horrific and bizarre they make T Rex look very tame indeed. Planet Dinosaur is a completely immersive visual experience studded with curious facts and jaw-dropping action as well as charismatic monsters. Presenting a brand-new global perspective on the prehistoric era, the series re-creates the creatures, their habitats and how they lived, from analysing their bones to watching them fight to the death.
Walking With Dinosaurs The makers of Walking With Dinosaurs returned to make two specials, The Ballad Of Big Al and Land Of Giants & The Giant Claw to continue to delight fans of the original series.
The Ballad of Big Al
Land of Giants & The Giant Claw
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