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	Title	Author	Subcategory	Subtitles	Length	Rating
Ever wondered what would happen in your own home if you were taken away, and everything inside was left to rot? The answer is revealed in this fascinating programme. 1	After Life: The Strange Science of Decay	BBC	Biology		90 mins	Like (0 likes)
In the 4th century BC the Greek philosopher Aristotle travelled to Lesvos, an island in the Aegean teeming, then as now, with wildlife. 2	Aristotle's Lagoon	BBC	Biology	English	60 mins	Like (0 likes)
For paleontologist Professor Jenny Clack, who solved one of the greatest mysteries in the history of life on Earth, success was far from inevitable. She recounts how she had to overcome a series of setbacks before she found and described the fossil Acanthostega, a 365 million-year-old creature that offered dramatic new evidence of how fish made the transition onto land. 3	Beautiful Minds Seies 2 - Professor Jenny Clack	BBC 4	Biology		60 mins	Like (0 likes)
Professor Richard Dawkins reveals how he came to write his explosive first book The Selfish Gene, a work that was to divide the scientific community and make him the most influential evolutionary biologist of his generation. He also explores how this set him on the path to becoming an outspoken spokesman for atheism. 4	Beautiful Minds Series 2 - Professor Richard Dawkins	BBC 4	Biology		60 mins	Like (0 likes)
What makes plants grow is a simple enough question. The answer turns out to be one of the most complicated and fascinating stories in science and took over 300 years to unravel. 5	Botany: A Blooming History: A Confusion of Names	BBC 4	Biology	English	60 mins	Like (0 likes)
For 10,000 years or more, humans created new plant varieties for food by trial and error and a touch of serendipity. Then 150 years ago, a new era began. Pioneer botanists unlocked the patterns found in different types of plants and opened the door to a new branch of science - plant genetics. They discovered what controlled the random colours of snapdragon petals and the strange colours found in wild maize. 6	Botany: A Blooming History: Hidden World	BBC 4	Biology	English	60 mins	Like (0 likes)
The air we breathe, and all the food we eat, is created from water, sunlight, carbon dioxide and a few minerals. That's it, nothing else. It sounds simple, but this process is one of the most fascinating and complicated in all of science. Without it there could be no life on earth. It's that important. 7	Botany: A Blooming History: Photosynthesis	BBC 4	Biology	English	60 mins	Like (0 likes)
The experts unearth the amazing breakthroughs that are transforming the resilience and strength of the human body. 8	Brave New World with Stephen Hawking - 5 - Biology	Channel 4	Biology	English	60 mins	Like (0 likes)
In the first programme of the series, the team uncovers the world of the giants that reside in and on our western seas. 9	Britains's Secret Seas - Giants of the West	BBC	Biology	English	60 mins	Like (0 likes)
In the final programme of the series, explorer Paul Rose, marine biologist Tooni Mahto and underwater archaeologist Frank Pope explore our busy southern shores. 10	Britains's Secret Seas - The Bustling South	BBC	Biology		60 mins	Like (0 likes)
A look at the rapidly changing environment of the waters of the UK's eastern coastline. 11	Britains's Secret Seas - The Power of the East	BBC	Biology	English	60 mins	Like (0 likes)
In the second programme in the series, explorer Paul Rose, marine biologist Tooni Mahto and maritime journalist Frank Pope explore the wild seas around Scotland. 12	Britains's Secret Seas - The Wild North	BBC	Biology	English	60 mins	Like (0 likes)
David Attenborough asks three key questions: how and why did Darwin come up with his theory of evolution? Why do we think he was right? And why is it more important now than ever before? 13	Charles Darwin and the Tree of Life	David Attenborough	Biology	English	50 mins	Like (0 likes)
In the first episode of the three-part series, Andrew Marr explores how Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection has taken on a life of its own far beyond the world of science. 14	Darwin's Dangerous Idea - 01 Body and Soul	BBC	Biology	English	60 mins	Like (0 likes)
Andrew Marr discovers something surprising about his own evolutionary history as this epic series continues with an exploration of Darwin's impact on politics and society. 15	Darwin's Dangerous Idea - 02 Born Equal?	BBC	Biology	English	60 mins	Like (0 likes)
In the final episode of this ground-breaking series about Charles Darwin's legacy, Andrew Marr discovers how Darwin's ideas are helping us to save ourselves and all life on earth from extinction. 16	Darwin's Dangerous Idea - 03 Life and Death	BBC	Biology	English	60 mins	Like (0 likes)
Documentary telling the little-known story of how Darwin came to write his great masterpiece, On the Origin of Species, a book which explains the wonderful variety of the natural world as emerging out of death and the struggle of life. 17	Darwin's Struggle: The Evolution of The Origin of the Species	BBC	Biology		60 mins	Like (0 likes)
In fifty years of broadcasting, Sir David Attenborough has travelled the globe to document the living world in all its wonder. Now, in the landmark series, David Attenborough's First Life, he completes his journey by going back in time to the roots of the tree of life, in search of the very first animals. 18	David Attenborough's First Life - Arrival	BBC 2	Biology	English	59 mins	Like (0 likes)
Dallas Campbell delves in to the Horizon archive to discover how our ideas about dinosaurs have changed over the past 40 years. 19	Extinct: A Horizon Guide to Dinosaurs	BBC 4	Biology	English	60 mins	Like (0 likes)
David Attenborough travels to the end of the earth, taking viewers on an extraordinary journey across the polar regions of our planet, North and South. 20	Frozen Planet - 01 To the Ends of the Earth	BBC	Biology		60 mins	Like (0 likes)
Spring arrives in the polar regions, and the sun appears after an absence of five months; warmth and life return to these magical ice worlds - the greatest seasonal transformation on our planet is underway. 21	Frozen Planet - 02 Spring	BBC	Biology		60 mins	Like (0 likes)
It is high summer in the polar regions, and the sun never sets. Vast hordes of summer visitors cram a lifetime of drama into one long, magical day; they must feed, fight and rear their young in this brief window of plenty. 22	Frozen Planet - 03 Summer	BBC	Biology		60 mins	Like (0 likes)
For the animals in the polar regions, autumn means dramatic battles and epic journeys. Time is running out - the Arctic Ocean is freezing over and the sea ice is advancing at 2.5 miles per day around Antarctica. 23	Frozen Planet - 04 Autumn	BBC	Biology		60 mins	Like (0 likes)
There is no greater test for life than winter, as temperatures plummet to 70 below and winds reach 200kph. Darkness and ice extend across the polar regions and only a few remarkable survivors gamble on remaining. 24	Frozen Planet - 05 Winter	BBC	Biology		60 mins	Like (0 likes)
David Attenborough reveals the vast wildnerness of the polar regions and their inhabitants. At the North Pole, the sun returns after six months of darkness. 25	Frozen Planet - 06 The Last Frontier	BBC	Biology		60 mins	Like (0 likes)
David Attenborough journeys to both polar regions to investigate what rising temperatures will mean for the people and wildlife that live there and for the rest of the planet. 26	Frozen Planet - 07 On Thin Ice	BBC	Biology	English	60 mins	Like (0 likes)
This Frozen Planet special brings together the very best highlights of the series, taking viewers on a spectacular journey through the entire polar year - from the depths of winter to the melting world of the polar summer. 27	Frozen Planet - The Epic Journey	BBC	Biology		60 mins	Like (0 likes)
What's really going on inside your stomach? In this documentary, Michael Mosley offers up his own guts to find out. Spending the day as an exhibit at the Science Museum in London, he swallows a tiny camera and uses the latest in imaging technology to get a unique view of his innards digesting his food. He discovers pools of concentrated acid and metres of writhing tubing which is home to its own ecosystem. 28	Guts: The Strange and Mysterious World of the Human Stomach	BBC	Biology		60 mins	Like (0 likes)
Horizon explores the strange and wonderful world of illusions - and reveals the tricks they play on our senses and why they fool us. 29	Horizion - Is Seeing Believing?	BBC 2	Biology	English	60 mins	Like (0 likes)
Horizon reveals the latest research into one of the most mysterious and common human experiences - pain. 30	Horizion - The Secret World of Pain	BBC	Biology	English	60 mins	Like (0 likes)
We are in the grip of an allergy epidemic. 50 years ago one in 30 were affected, but in Britain today it is closer to one in three. Why this should be is one of modern medicine's greatest puzzles. 31	Horizon - Allergy Planet	BBC	Biology		58 mins	Like (0 likes)
The search for extra-terrestrial life has been going for 50 years - but there's been a recent breakthrough. Astronomers have discovered a new planet called Gliese 581 c. It is the most Earth-like planet ever found. It orbits a star and may have habitats capable of supporting life. NASA hopes to find 50 more Earth-like planets by the end of the decade, all of which increases the chance that alien life has begun elsewhere. 32	Horizon - Are we Alone in the Universe?	BBC	Biology	English	50 mins	Like (0 likes)
What makes us good or evil? It's a simple but deeply unsettling question. One that scientists are now starting to answer. 33	Horizon - Are You Good or Evil ?	BBC 2	Biology	English	60 mins	Like (0 likes)
Adam Rutherford meets a new creature created by American scientists - the spider-goat. It is part goat, part spider, and its milk can be used to create artificial spider's web. 34	Horizon - Playing God	BBC 2	Biology	English	60 mins	Like (0 likes)
Why are you more likely to have a heart attack at eight o'clock in the morning or crash your car on the motorway at two o'clock in the afternoon? Can taking your medication at the right time of day really save your life? And have you ever wondered why teenagers will not get out of bed in the morning? 35	Horizon - The Secret Life of Your Bodyclock	BBC	Biology		50 mins	Like (0 likes)
What is wrong with nudity? Why are people embarrassed about their bodies? How and why did they get the way they are? 36	Horizon - What's the Problem with Nudity?	BBC	Biology	English	50 mins	Like (0 likes)
In this series Professor Iain Stewart tells a stunning new story about our planet. He reveals how the greatest changes to the Earth have been driven, above all, by plants. 37	How to Grow a Planet - 01 - Life from Light	BBC	Biology		60 mins	Like (0 likes)
In the second episode, Iain discovers how flowers have transformed our planet. He journeys to the remote islands of the South Pacific to track down the earliest flowers. 38	How to Grow a Planet - 02 - The Power of Flowers	BBC	Biology		60 mins	Like (0 likes)
In the third episode, Iain discovers the remarkable impact of just one plant: grass. On the savannah of South Africa he sees how grass unleashed a firestorm to fight its greatest enemy, the forests. 39	How to Grow a Planet - 03 - The Challenger	BBC	Biology		60 mins	Like (0 likes)
The Bafta-winning series returns to Australia on the trail of a bird that's been described as a living dinosaur. The cassowary hides in Queensland's tropical rainforests. 40	Inside Natues Giant's - The Dinosaur Bird	Channel 4	Biology	English	47 mins	Like (0 likes)
The team travel to Florida to dissect the ocean's largest reptile - the leatherback turtle. They uncover the evolutionary mystery of how turtles developed shells to protect themselves from some of the sharpest-toothed predators on the planet. 41	Inside Natues Giant's - The Leatherback Turtle	Channel 4	Biology	English	47 mins	Like (0 likes)
The second run of the BAFTA Award-winning series reveals the anatomy of some of nature's most successful predators.The experts travel to South Africa to dissect a 900kg, 15-foot-long great white shark. 42	Inside Nature's Giants - Great White Shark	Channel 4	Biology	English	50 mins	Like (0 likes)
The experts venture into the swamps of the Florida Everglades, where giant Burmese pythons are thriving. 43	Inside Nature's Giants - Monster Python	Channel 4	Biology	English	50 mins	Like (0 likes)
The experts dissect a lion and a tiger, and travel to South Africa to see lions in the wild. 44	Inside Nature's Giants - The Big Cats	Channel 4	Biology	English	50 mins	Like (0 likes)
Creationists question how this extraordinary creature could have evolved such a long neck, but for evolutionary biologist Professor Richard Dawkins the anatomy of the world's tallest animal provides some of the best arguments in favour of Darwinian natural selection. 45	Inside Nature's Giants - The Giraffe	Channel 4	Biology		60 mins	Like (0 likes)
The team explore how this animal has been biologically engineered for speed. They dissect an elite racehorse to reveal the extraordinary spring system that propels it to 45mph, its super-sized organs and built-in turbo-booster. 46	Inside Nature's Giants - The Racehorse	Channel 4	Biology	English	50 mins	Like (0 likes)
The team join Inuit hunters and scientists studying polar bears off the coast of Greenland. Polar bears have become a symbol of climate change as their habitat is threatened. And, at the top of the food chain, they are especially vulnerable to physiological side effects from man-made pollutants. 47	Inside Nature's Giants: Polar Bear	Channel 4	Biology	English	62 mins	Like (0 likes)
This programme looks at how evolution has overcome the challenges of being as big as an elephant. 48	Inside Natures Giants - Elephant	Channel 4	Biology	English	48 mins	Like (0 likes)
Veterinary scientist Mark Evans joins experts in anatomy, evolution and behaviour in a bid to get under the skin of the crocodile. 49	Inside Natures Giants - The Crocodile	Channel 4	Biology	English	30 mins	Like (0 likes)
In this episode experts dissect a 65-foot, 60-ton fin whale - second only in size to its 'cousin' the blue whale - that has died after being stranded off the coast of Ireland. It's a race against time as whale anatomist Joy Reidenberg flies in from New York before the animal's decomposition causes it to explode on the beach. 50	Inside Natures Giants - The Whale	Channel 4	Biology	English	48 mins	Like (0 likes)
In a special episode of Inside The Human Body, all the family can join Michael Mosley as he takes us on a fantastic voyage through the wonders of the human body. Using state-of-the-art graphics, based on real images and scientific research, he reveals the ingenious inner workings of your body, starting with the extraordinary story of how a sperm and egg fuse to create life. 51	Inside the Human Body - Best of Series	BBC 1	Biology	English	60 mins	Like (0 likes)
In this episode, Michael Mosley traces our development from birth to adulthood, and reveals that the human brain is so sophisticated it takes more than twenty years to mature. 52	Inside the Human Body - Building Your Brain	BBC	Biology	English	60 mins	Like (0 likes)
Series exploring the wonders of the human body. Using spectacular graphics based on real images and the latest scientific research, Michael Mosley takes viewers on a voyage through the workings of the inner human universe. 53	Inside the Human Body - Creation	BBC	Biology		60 mins	Like (0 likes)
In this episode, Michael Mosley shows how existence is a struggle and how, minute by minute, from your first breath to your last, your body performs countless small miracles to keep you alive. 54	Inside the Human Body - First to Last	BBC	Biology	English	60 mins	Like (0 likes)
In the final episode of Inside The Human Body, Michael Mosley reveals the ingenious ways in which your body defends itself against a hostile world - where sunlight shatters your DNA and every breath contains microbes that can kill. 55	Inside the Human Body - Hostile World	BBC	Biology		60 mins	Like (0 likes)
In nature, living long enough to breed is a monumental struggle. Many animals and plants go to extremes to give themselves a chance. 56	Life - Challenges of Life	David Attenborough	Biology	English	60 mins	Like (0 likes)
Fish dominate the planet's waters through their astonishing variety of shape and behaviour. 57	Life - Fish	David Attenborough	Biology	English	60 mins	Like (0 likes)
Mammals' ability to learn new tricks is the key to survival in the knife-edge world of hunters and hunted. In a TV first, a killer whale off the Falklands does something unique: it sneaks into a pool where elephant seal pups learn to swim and snatches them, saving itself the trouble of hunting in the open sea. 58	Life - Hunters and Hunted	David Attenborough	Biology	English	58 mins	Like (0 likes)
There are 200 million insects for each of us. They are the most successful animal group ever. Their key is an armoured covering that takes on almost any shape. 59	Life - Insects	BBC	Biology		60 mins	Like (0 likes)
Mammals dominate the planet. They do it through having warm blood and by the care they lavish on their young. 60	Life - Mammals	David Attenborough	Biology	English	60 mins	Like (0 likes)
Plants' solutions to life's challenges are as ingenious and manipulative as any animal's. 61	Life - Plants	David Attenborough	Biology	English	59 mins	Like (0 likes)
Primates are just like us - intelligent, quarrelsome, family-centred. 62	Life - Primates	David Attenborough	Biology	English	58 mins	Like (0 likes)
Reptiles and amphibians look like hang-overs from the past. But they overcome their shortcomings through amazing innovation. 63	Life - Reptiles and Amphibians	David Attenborough	Biology	English	60 mins	Like (0 likes)
The final programme covers the most ancient of the reptiles: the crocodiles and turtles. In the Galápagos Islands, among the giant tortoises, Attenborough explains how the creatures came to develop their shells as a defence against predators. 64	Life In Cold Blood - Armoured Giants	BBC 1	Biology	English	58 mins	Like (0 likes)
The fourth episode focuses on the most modern reptiles, the snakes, exploring how they have managed to become successful despite their elongated body shape. Attenborough explains how they evolved from underground burrowers to surface hunters, losing their limbs in the process. 65	Life In Cold Blood - Sophisticated Serpents	BBC 1	Biology	English	58 mins	Like (0 likes)
The extraordinary and intimate lives of the soft-skinned amphibians. Marsupial frogs where the father carries his young in pouches, giant metre-long salamanders staging wrestling matches and newts that display just like birds of paradise. 66	Life In Cold Blood: Land Invaders	David Attenborough	Biology		57 mins	Like (0 likes)
An encounter with the penguins, whales, albatross and other animals that eke out a living in the Antarctic. First in the series 67	Life in the Freezer - 01 The Bountiful Sea	Alastair Fothergill	Biology		25 mins	Like (0 likes)
Documentary about the wildlife in Antarctica. In September, spring begins, and the programme follows the activities of elephant seals, albatross, penguins, crab-eater seals and snow petrels. Second in the series 68	Life in the Freezer - 02 The Ice Retreats	Alastair Fothergill	Biology		25 mins	Like (0 likes)
Documentary about the wildlife in and around Antarctica during the short summer, when seals and penguins are racing to raise their young before the return of the long winter. Third in the series 69	Life in the Freezer - 03 The Race to Breed	Alastair Fothergill	Biology		25 mins	Like (0 likes)
Penguins, seals, albatross and whales prepare to leave Antarctica before the winter storms shut off their food supplies. Fourth in the series 70	Life in the Freezer - 04 The Door Closes	Alastair Fothergill	Biology		25 mins	Like (0 likes)
About wildlife in Antarctica in the middle of winter. Weddell seals maintain holes in the ice for access to food and shelter from the worst storms. Fish hide in the ice relying on their own natural anti-freeze to stop ice crystals growing in their tissues. Emperor penguins huddle together in groups to incubate a single egg. Fifth in the series 71	Life in the Freezer - 05 The Big Freeze	Alastair Fothergill	Biology		25 mins	Like (0 likes)
David Attenborough visits Captain Scott's abandoned hut in Antarctica and recounts the epic story of his struggle to be the first human being to stand at the South Pole. Now there is a permanent settlement of scientists. He explains the techniques, both old and new, used to capture the images used in "Life in the Freezer." Sixth in the series 72	Life in the Freezer - 06 Footsteps in the Snow	Alastair Fothergill	Biology		25 mins	Like (0 likes)
Life on Earth: A Natural History by David Attenborough is a groundbreaking television natural history series made by the BBC in association with Warner Bros. and Reiner Moritz Productions. It was transmitted in the UK from 16 January 1979. 73	Life on Earth - 1 - The Infinite Variety	BBC	Biology		45 mins	Like (0 likes)
Revealing the wildlife at home in Madagascar's most bizarre and dramatic places. 74	Madagascar - Island of Marvels	BBC 1	Biology	English	60 mins	Like (0 likes)
Follows the animals' fortunes through the wet and dry seasons in this island of extremes. 75	Madagascar - Land of Heat and Dust	BBC 1	Biology	English	60 mins	Like (0 likes)
A look at the eastern coast of the island and its unique wildlife. 76	Madagascar - Lost Worlds	BBC 1	Biology	English	60 mins	Like (0 likes)
A look behind the scenes at the Natural History Museum to join the people who are uncovering secrets, solving mysteries and making discoveries among the 70 million items in the historic collections. 77	Museum of Life - Episode 01: A Museum in a Modern World	BBC	Biology	English	60 mins	Like (0 likes)
Jimmy Doherty and the team find out about the discovery of a new dinosaur, the latest thinking on the personality of a T Rex, and what scientists are learning from a human skull over a hundred thousand years old. 78	Museum of Life - Episode 02: Digging Up the Past	BBC	Biology	English	60 mins	Like (0 likes)
This episode explores projects from the construction of a life-sized whale to a life-saving trip to Uganda. The true image of a dodo is revealed, and a nine-foot sturgeon turns up with the strangest tale of any object in the museum. 79	Museum of Life - Episode 03: All Creatures Great and Small	BBC	Biology	English	60 mins	Like (0 likes)
Jimmy Doherty and the team go behind the scenes at the Natural History Museum to enter the extraordinary world of insects. They explore the great butterfly collection, meet the most stung man in the museum and discover how the museum is using insects to help at murder scenes. 80	Museum of Life - Episode 05: The Power of Insects	BBC	Biology	English	60 mins	Like (0 likes)
Manta rays are one of the most intelligent creatures in the ocean and, at up to seven metres long, one of the largest. Yet despite their size and curious nature, almost nothing is known about their lives. Young marine biologist Andrea Marshall has given up everything for a life in Mozambique, diving amongst these beautiful animals. Superb underwater photography reveals new manta ray behaviour including breathtaking footage of their ritual courtship dances. The film follows Andrea as she studies these endangered animals up close. With the discovery of a giant new species and remarkable insights into mantas' secretive lives, Andrea's findings are already rocking the world of marine biology. 81	Natural World - Andrea - Queen of Mantas	BBC	Biology	English	58 mins	Like (0 likes)
Wildlife documentary. In the forests of northern Minnesota, biologist Lynn Rogers uses food to gain the trust of wild black bears, a controversial technique developed over his own forty-year journey from fear to fascination. Following the fortunes of mother bear June and her three cubs over a year, the film reveals an intimate portrait of the lives of black bears. 82	Natural World - Bearwalker of the Northwoods	BBC	Biology	English	58 mins	Like (0 likes)
Wildlife film maker Rebecca Hosking investigates how to transform her family's farm in Devon into a low energy farm for the future, and discovers that nature holds the key. With her father close to retirement, Rebecca returns to her family's wildlife-friendly farm in Devon, to become the next generation to farm the land. But last year's high fuel prices were a wake-up call for Rebecca. Realising that all food production in the UK is completely dependent on abundant cheap fossil fuel, particularly oil, she sets out to discover just how secure this oil supply is. Alarmed by the answers, she explores ways of farming without using fossil fuel. With the help of pioneering farmers and growers, Rebecca learns that it is actually nature that holds the key to farming in a low-energy future. 83	Natural World - A Farm for the Future	BBC	Biology	English	50 mins	Like (0 likes)
This is the emotional story of one young killer whale's quest for companionship after he was separated from his family. Luna was just two years old when, alone and confused, he found himself on the rugged, wild coast of Vancouver Island. Following his tumultuous life, the film records the human friendships he developed and the trouble this led him into. From death threats to numerous capture attempts by the government, the film-makers watched as people tried to determine his fate. Luna shows us how quickly our lives can once again cross with the natural world. 84	Natural World - A Killer Whale Called Luna	BBC	Biology	English	59 mins	Like (0 likes)
Broken Tail was the most flamboyant tiger cub Colin Stafford-Johnson had seen during many years spent filming India's wild tigers. 85	Natural World - A Tiger Called Broken Tail	BBC 2	Biology	English	60 mins	Like (0 likes)
This fascinating programme takes you deep into the secret world of the badger, following one family throughout the course of a year. Explore the habits, behavior and survival techniques of one of our country's most shy and elusive creatures. 86	Natural World - Badgers: Secrets Of The Set	BBC	Biology		50 mins	Like (0 likes)
Natural World investigates the vital bond between animal mothers and their babies. The more we study animals, the more we realise just how emotional they are; all mothers are faced with tough choices as they struggle to bring up babies in a difficult and dangerous world, constantly balancing their own needs with those of their infants. Yet there are many ways to raise your brood, from the fish who looks after her young in her mouth to the extended childhoods of gorillas or orang-utans. 87	Natural World - Bringing Up Baby	BBC	Biology	English	58 mins	Like (0 likes)
A real-life drama about a family of chimps trapped in a lost world. They live in a deep and ancient forested gorge that runs though the African savannah and for fifteen years it has been cut off from the rest of the jungle. 88	Natural World - Chimps of the Lost Gorge	BBC 2	Biology	English	60 mins	Like (0 likes)
Cork producer and wildlife enthusiast Francisco Garrett explains what will be lost if cork stoppers are replaced by plastic or screwtops. 89	Natural World - Cork : Forest In A Bottle	BBC	Biology		50 mins	Like (0 likes)
Just how does the cuckoo trick other birds into accepting its eggs and raising its young? In this film, new photography is combined with archive footage and the latest scientific findings to solve a puzzle which, as narrator David Attenborough explains, has perplexed nature-watchers for thousands of years. 90	Natural World - Cuckoo	BBC	Biology		49 mins	Like (0 likes)
A celebration of the life and legacy of Echo, the world's most famous elephant, who was born in 1945 and died in 2009, and who Natural World followed for the last 20 years of her life. The timing of Echo's death could not be worse. The wise old matriarch had guided her family for half a century but the cruellest drought in living memory devastated her home under the shadow of Kilimanjaro. Will her 38-strong band of relatives and descendants overcome the loss of their leader, hunger and poachers to survive? 91	Natural World - Echo - An Unforgettable Elephant	BBC 2	Biology	English	60 mins	Like (0 likes)
This is the remarkable story of two baby elephants struggling to survive their first six months in the oldest desert on earth. The desert elephants of Namibia suffered a 'poaching holocaust' in the 1980s. As the most endangered elephant population in the world recovers, every calf is vital. Himba and Dusty were born in a boom year, but when the short-lived rivers on which they depend disappear underground, their lives depend on the memories, experience and decisions of the females who lead them. 92	Natural World - Elephant Nomads of the Namib Desert	BBC	Biology		50 mins	Like (0 likes)
Botswana's elephants are doing very well, too well perhaps. People are worried that too many elephants will damage their fragile desert home and have suggested that up to 60,000 should be culled. Researcher Mike Chase studies ancient elephant migration routes - he has tracked them across vast deserts, desolate salt pans, and Angolan minefields. Now he thinks he has a plan that could safeguard their future. 93	Natural World - Elephants Without Borders	BBC	Biology	English	50 mins	Like (0 likes)
Natural World visits the Arizona desert, where a new honey ant queen wages an intense battle for survival as she attempts to build and defend her empire. Eliminating rivals with ruthless efficiency, sacrificing thousands in her quest for domination, murder, cannibalism, genocide - she will do anything to keep her crown. Empire of the Ants is the epic story of one honey ant queen's dramatic rise to power - her brutal fall from grace. 94	Natural World - Empire of the Desert Ants	BBC 2	Biology	English	60 mins	Like (0 likes)
Deep in the rainforest of Central Africa lies an elephant oasis - a remarkable place that holds the key to the future for Forest Elephants. Over the last 20 years, Andrea Turkalo has been studying these enigmatic giants, getting to know over 4,000 intimately. She has begun to unravel the secrets of their complex social lives and the meanings of their unique vocalisations. New acoustic research is shedding light on the many mysteries that still surround forest elephant society. Will these endangered elephants finally speak out and tell Andrea what it is they need to survive? 95	Natural World - Forest Elephants - Rumbles in the Jungle	BBC	Biology	English	59 mins	Like (0 likes)
A mother grizzly bear brings up her two cubs in the wilds of Alaska. She must keep them safe from prowling males, teach them to hunt and prepare them to survive the savage winter. 96	Natural World - Grizzlies of Alaska	BBC	Biology		60 mins	Like (0 likes)
This stunningly beautiful film reveals the unique wildlife of the Scottish Highlands, seen through the eyes of film-maker Fergus Beeley. Based for a year at Loch Maree and the surrounding hills in Scotland's far north-west, Beeley presents his personal view of the shy animals whose lives are ruled by the rains. He follows the fortunes of rare black-throated divers and white-tailed sea eagles, which both breed there, while capturing the red deer and salmon whose lives also revolve around the loch. With an evocative score provided by local musician Phil Cunningham, this enchanting film captures the magic of a very special place. 97	Natural World - Highland Haven	Fergus Beeley.	Biology	English	50 mins	Like (0 likes)
A preview of Natural World: Jungle Gremlins of Java, showing some of the mysteries that make this primate so special. 98	Natural World - Jungle Gremlins of Java	BBC	Biology		107 mins	Like (0 likes)
The wild Hamadryas Baboons of Ethiopia have a friend in biologist Mat Pines, they even pick the nits from his hair. He's been studying and living with them for five years in the remote and arid Awash National Park. 99	Natural World - Living with Baboons	BBC	Biology		59 mins	Like (0 likes)
This is the moving true story of a man who came to New Mexico in 1893 to kill a wolf but ended up saving the American wilderness instead. Ernest Thompson Seaton's epic duel with the wolf that he called Lobo became a pivotal moment in American history, helping to change the way people see wolves forever. Based on the personal diaries of Ernest himself and incorporating dramatic early footage, this film presents the methods he used to track wolves and to finally catch the big prize, Lobo himself. This is the story of a unique meeting of man and animal, set against the remarkable backdrop of the very wild west. 100	Natural World - Lobo: The Wolf That Changed America	BBC	Biology		50 mins	Like (0 likes)
Pure white lemurs called silky sifaka live in the remote rainforests of Madagascar. They are one of the rarest animals in the world. Now a passionate scientist joins forces with an undercover detective to investigate whether there is a link between these endangered lemurs, illegal logging and expensive guitars in the USA. 101	Natural World - Madagascar, Lemurs and Spies	BBC	Biology		60 mins	Like (0 likes)
Tiger experts in Bangladesh have a problem: how can they encourage local people to protect the beautiful and endangered Bengal Tiger when these animals have developed a taste for human flesh? 102	Natural World - Man-eating Tigers of the Sundarbans	BBC	Biology		49 mins	Like (0 likes)
From the giant King Cobra to the tiny sawscaled viper, India is home to many of the world's deadliest snakes. Now a new report has revealed that India is in the middle of a snakebite epidemic of epic proportions, with a loss of human life far in excess of any official figures. 103	Natural World - One Million Snakebites	BBC 1	Biology	English	58 mins	Like (0 likes)
This moving film reveals the differing fortunes of a mother polar bear and a mother grizzly bear, and their new-born cubs, in a rapidly-changing world. The shrinking Arctic ice may be making life much tougher for polar bears, but it is offering new opportunities for grizzly bears to the south. 104	Natural World - Polar Bears and Grizzlies - Bears on Top of the World	BBC	Biology		48 mins	Like (0 likes)
Natural World Special. The story of Machli, the most famous tiger in the world. She is a legendary fighter and a wise mother of nine cubs who has founded a vast dynasty of tigers. 105	Natural World - Queen of Tigers	BBC	Biology		60 mins	Like (0 likes)
In deepest Borneo, a remarkable young Frenchman called Chanee is combining his love of music and his passion for gibbons. These magical singing apes of the rainforest are in danger of extinction and to help save them, Chanee has set up a rescue centre, and become the world expert at matchmaking gibbons. Only when a pair has successfully bonded can they be released back into the wild. To increase awareness of the gibbons' plight, Chanee has created his own radio station, Radio Kalaweit, named after the local word for gibbon. Its music and message has now made it the most successful radio station in Borneo. 106	Natural World - Radio Gibbon	BBC	Biology	English	59 mins	Like (0 likes)
Wildlife documentary. How does a chimpanzee see the world? A research project at Edinburgh Zoo is designed to answer just that question in an innovative new way - by training chimps to use video touch screens and giving them a special chimp-proof camera. How will they react to tools which in evolutionary terms are a few million years ahead of them? As chimp specialist Betsy Herrelko finds out, trying to communicate with chimps using video technology has its trials and tribulations as power struggles, bites and fights get in the way of the hairy chimp directors. However, by the end of the programme we are privileged to see the world's first film shot by chimpanzees. 107	Natural World - The Chimpcam Project	BBC	Biology	English	60 mins	Like (0 likes)
Documentary looking at the wildlife of the most stunning mountain range in the world, home to snow leopards, Himalayan wolves and Tibetan bears. Snow leopards stalk their prey among the highest peaks. Concealed by snowfall, the chase is watched by golden eagles circling above. On the harsh plains of the Tibetan plateau live extraordinary bears and square-faced foxes hunting small rodents to survive. In the alpine forests, dancing pheasants have even influenced rival border guards in their ritualistic displays. Valleys carved by glacial waters lead to hillsides covered by paddy fields containing the lifeline to the East, rice. In this world of extremes, the Himalayas reveal not only snow-capped mountains and fascinating animals but also a vital lifeline for humanity. 108	Natural World - The Himalayas	BBC	Biology	English	59 mins	Like (0 likes)
Wildlife documentary following the search for grizzly bears in the beautiful Cascade Mountains of Canada. Wildlife filmmaker Jeff Turner has spent a lifetime tracking grizzly bears around the world, and now he has come home to spend a year in the mountains of his youth to discover if the grizzly is still surviving in this beautiful area of British Columbia. 109	Natural World - The Last Grizzly of Paradise Valley	Jeff Turner	Biology	English	58 mins	Like (0 likes)
The harpy eagle is the most powerful bird of prey in the world, plucking monkeys from the branches of the jungle canopy. Rare and elusive, they are seldom seen, but with the discovery of a harpy nest in the remote Orinoco rainforest of Venezuela, wildlife film-maker Fergus Beeley has a unique opportunity to follow the life of a chick from birth to adulthood. Fergus ascends high into the canopy to reveal a stunning world of colour and sound, following the trials of the harpy eagle's newly hatched chick as it grows up. Fergus becomes just another member of the dazzling community of birds and animals surrounding the harpy nest and develops an unexpectedly close bond with the chick. 110	Natural World - The Monkey-Eating Eagle of the Orinoco	BBC 2	Biology	English	58 mins	Like (0 likes)
The Jungle Book's Baloo the bear character is based on the secretive sloth bear who lives in India's wildest places. The real Baloo does chase fancy ants, but his life is a lot tougher than that of his fictional friend. 111	Natural World - The Real Jungle Book Bear	BBC	Biology		60 mins	Like (0 likes)
Jonathan Scott narrates the extraordinary story of the leopard - the one big cat that still survives across half the world while tigers, cheetahs and lions are all struggling. By following the lives of leopard mothers and their cubs in East Africa, the film investigates what it is about the natural history of these cats that makes them born survivors. Perhaps the most extraordinary revelation is that leopards are living undercover on farms and even in cities across Africa and Asia. 112	Natural World - The Secret Leopards	BBC	Biology	English	60 mins	Like (0 likes)
The killer whale is one of the most feared predators in the ocean and most would consider it madness to enter the water with one. But New Zealander Dr Ingrid Visser thinks differently - and by swimming with her beloved whales she has come to know almost all of them by sight. But there's been an unusual number of deaths recently and Ingrid is on a mission to find out what is going on. Her findings reveal disturbing new information about the health of our oceans. 113	Natural World - The Woman Who Swims with Killer Whales	BBC 2	Biology	English	30 mins	Like (0 likes)
In the flooded forests of the Peruvian Amazon lives one of the world's rarest and most mysterious primates, the red-faced uakari monkey. Local people call them English monkeys because of their resemblance to sunburnt visitors. Now there is a new Englishman on the scene, Mark Bowler, a young biologist who battles through the forest in his quest to understand the monkeys' secret lives. The film shows the first footage of these extraordinary animals in the wild and reveals why ice cream could be the greatest threat to their survival. 114	Natural World - Uakari: Secrets of the English Monkey	BBC	Biology	English	50 mins	Like (0 likes)
Seals, parakeets and even pelicans that eat pigeons have all made London their home. That's as well as badgers, foxes, scorpions, and pigeons that ride the tube. 115	Natural World - Unnatural History of London	BBC	Biology		60 mins	Like (0 likes)
Mark Meakin attempts to unravel the mysterious wanderings of the biggest fish in the sea. 116	Natural World - Whale Shark	BBC	Biology		48 mins	Like (0 likes)
Documentary following the lives of the members of the world's largest wolf pack in Yellowstone National Park. Daughters plot behind their father's back, sister slays sister and steals her lover, and a family is torn apart. 117	Natural World - Wolfpack	BBC	Biology		50 mins	Like (0 likes)
Africa's wildest river is home to the most spectacular wildlife. Hippos fight for territory while herds of elephant, water buffalo and zebra depend on it for life. 118	Natural World - Zambezi	BBC	Biology		60 mins	Like (0 likes)
The great flood in the Okavango turns 4,000 square miles of arid plains into a beautiful wetland. Elephant mothers guide their families on an epic trek across the harsh Kalahari Desert towards it, siphoning fresh water from stagnant pools and facing hungry lions. Hippos battle for territory, as the magical water draws in thousands of buffalo and birds, and vast clouds of dragonflies. Will the young elephant calves survive to reach this grassland paradise? The experienced mother elephants time their arrival at the delta to coincide with the lush grass produced by the great flood. In a TV first, the programme shows the way they use their trunks to siphon clean water from the surface layers of a stagnant pool, while avoiding stirring up the muddy sediment on the bottom with their feet. Bull hippos also converge on prime territories formed by the rising flood water. Two big bulls do bloody battle, at times being lifted out of the water by their rival. Lechwe swamp deer, zebras, giraffes, crocodiles and numerous fish and thousands of birds arrive in the delta. And, in a phenomenon never before filmed in the Okavango, thousands of dragonflies appear - seemingly from nowhere - within minutes of the flood arrival, mating and laying eggs. As the flood finally reaches its peak, elephants and buffalo, near the end of their epic trek across the desert, face the final gauntlet of a hungry pride of lions. In a heart-wrenching sequence, a baby elephant is brought down by a lion in broad daylight. 119	Nature's Great Events 01:The Great Melt	BBC	Biology	English	59 mins	Like (0 likes)
Every year grizzly bear families in North America depend for their survival on a spectacular natural event: the return of hundreds of millions of salmon from the Pacific Ocean to the mountain streams where they were born. The salmon travel thousands of miles to spawn and then die. The great run not only provides food for bears, but for killer whales, wolves, bald eagles, and even the forest itself. The question is: will the salmon return in time to keep hungry bears alive? A mother grizzly and her cubs emerge from their den high in snowy Alaskan mountains. Filming from the air the team capture a TV first, following the bears as they negotiate a near vertical slope on their journey to the coast where they await the return of the salmon. Meanwhile, the salmon are making their way to the to river mouths where they must swim upstream and against the current. The programme reveals how they tackle the torrents and leap over waterfalls, a feat equivalent to a human jumping over a house. Dozens of hungry bears eagerly await the salmon that make it up river. In another TV first, underwater cameras record the ingenuity and fancy footwork they use to collect dead salmon from the bottom of deep pools. 120	Nature's Great Events 02: The Great Salmon Run	BBC	Biology	English	59 mins	Like (0 likes)
Each year more than one million wildebeest and zebra invade the Serengeti grasslands, making it a paradise for the predators that live there. But what happens when the herds move off again? We follow the moving story of one lion family's struggle to survive until the return of the great migration. Nature's Great Events tells the story of the epic trek of herds that follow the rains to fresh pastures, and the tale of the predators they leave behind. The crew captures the desperate plight of a single pride of lions, revealing a different side to the Serengeti. Rather than being a predators' paradise, it is a land in constant change, with wildebeest following the rains and leaving the lions to tough it out. The Ntudu pride has seven cubs, and is already suffering as the wildebeest leave to find fresh pastures. The four pride females struggle to find enough food for their hungry offspring. As weeks turn to months, the pride members become more emaciated and frailer, and the number of cubs dwindles to just two. As the herds begin to return, the plains reveal one final secret. For the first time since 1967 the Serengeti's only active volcano, Ol Doinyo Lengai, begins to billow ash and smoke. Filmed from the air, the team captures the exciting action. Fertilised by the volcanic ash over millions of years, these short grass plains are among the most productive grasslands in the world. After months of hardship, the pride's tragic story, through sickness, drought and fire, is over as the herds return, providing plentiful food. 121	Nature's Great Events 03: The Great Migration	BBC	Biology	English	59 mins	Like (0 likes)
A mighty army of dolphins, sharks, whales, seals and gannets hunt down the billions of sardines along South Africa's east coast each winter. This is the Sardine Run: an underwater Armageddon, the greatest gathering of predators anywhere on the planet, and the most spectacular event in the world's oceans. From intimate moments of the creatures caught up in the run, to the dramatic finale of this spectacular event, The Great Tide is an action-packed feeding-frenzy, filmed underwater, on the ocean's surface, and in the air. However, in recent years the sardine run has become less predictable, perhaps due to the warming effects of climate change. If the sardine run does not happen, the lives of the animals caught up in the drama hang in the balance. Pioneering a unique boat stabilised camera mount for surface filming, the Nature's Great Events crew capture all the high octane action as the predators compete for sardines, filmed with aerial, underwater and above water cameras. Super slow motion cameras also capture the very moment gannets plunge into the water, hitting it at sixty miles an hour. A violent winter storm is the trigger for the sardines to begin their desperate dash. They are followed by a super-pod of 5,000 dolphins and further up the coast more predators gather. A shoal of sardines 15 miles long is pushed into the shallows and aerial shots show thousands of sharks gathering to feed on them. The climax to the sardine run is a spectacular feeding frenzy as the dolphins round the sardines up into balls on which all the predators feast. Gannets rain down in their thousands, sharks pile in scattering the fish and a Bryde's whale lunges in taking great mouthfuls of sardines. 122	Nature's Great Events 04: The Great Tide	BBC	Biology	English	59 mins	Like (0 likes)
The great flood in the Okavango turns 4,000 square miles of arid plains into a beautiful wetland. Elephant mothers guide their families on an epic trek across the harsh Kalahari Desert towards it, siphoning fresh water from stagnant pools and facing hungry lions. Hippos battle for territory, as the magical water draws in thousands of buffalo and birds, and vast clouds of dragonflies. Will the young elephant calves survive to reach this grassland paradise? The experienced mother elephants time their arrival at the delta to coincide with the lush grass produced by the great flood. In a TV first, the programme shows the way they use their trunks to siphon clean water from the surface layers of a stagnant pool, while avoiding stirring up the muddy sediment on the bottom with their feet. Bull hippos also converge on prime territories formed by the rising flood water. Two big bulls do bloody battle, at times being lifted out of the water by their rival. Lechwe swamp deer, zebras, giraffes, crocodiles and numerous fish and thousands of birds arrive in the delta. And, in a phenomenon never before filmed in the Okavango, thousands of dragonflies appear - seemingly from nowhere - within minutes of the flood arrival, mating and laying eggs. As the flood finally reaches its peak, elephants and buffalo, near the end of their epic trek across the desert, face the final gauntlet of a hungry pride of lions. In a heart-wrenching sequence, a baby elephant is brought down by a lion in broad daylight. 123	Nature's Great Events 05:: The Great Flood	BBC	Biology	English	59 mins	Like (0 likes)
Every summer in the seas off Alaska humpback whales, sea lions and killer whales depend on an explosion of plant life, the plankton bloom. It tranforms these seas into the richest on Earth. But will these animals survive to enjoy the great feast? The summer sun sparks the growth of phytoplankton, microscopic floating plants which can bloom in such vast numbers that they eclipse even the Amazon rainforest in sheer abundance of plant life. Remarkably, it is these minute plants that are the basis of all life here. But both whales and sea lions have obstacles to overcome before they can enjoy the feast. Humpback whales migrate 3,000 miles from Hawaii, and during their 3 month voyage lose a third of their body weight. In a heart-rending scene a mother sea lion loses her pup in a violent summer storm, while another dramatic sequence shows a group of killer whales working together to kill a huge male sea lion. In late summer the plankton bloom is at its height. Vast shoals of herring gather to feed on it, diving birds round the fish up into a bait ball and then a humpback whale roars in to scoop up the entire ball of herring in one huge mouthful. When a dozen whales work together they employ the ultimate method of co-operative fishing - bubble net feeding. One whale blows a ring of bubbles to engulf the fish and then they charge in as one. Filmed from the surface, underwater and, for the first time, from the air, we reveal how these giant hunters can catch a tonne of fish every day. 124	Nature's Great Events 06: The Great Feast	BBC	Biology	English	59 mins	Like (0 likes)
A visit to arguably the most famous archipelago on Earth, the Galapagos. It's home to a myriad of bizarre and unique creatures, endemic to these islands - but how did they get here and what is the key to these extraordinary islands that allows them to thrive? The programme reveals that this key holds not just the secret to life here, but also to how Darwin was able to leave with the ideas that would revolutionise biology. 125	Nature's Microworlds - Episode 01: Galapagos	BBC	Biology		30 mins	Like (0 likes)
A look at one of the most famous habitats on the planet, the Serengeti in East Africa, a vast grassland that is home to some of the greatest concentrations of herbivores on the continent. But what is the key to this exceptional grassland that allows such density and diversity? 126	Nature's Microworlds - Episode 02:Serengeti	BBC	Biology		30 mins	Like (0 likes)
Steve Backshall lifts the lid on an incredible world of intricate relationships and unexpected hardship in the Amazon rainforest, explores the way that the jungle's inhabitants interact, and reveals a hidden secret that might just be what keeps the whole place alive. 127	Nature's Microworlds - Episode 03:Amazon	BBC	Biology		30 mins	Like (0 likes)
Monterey Bay on California's coast is one of the most diverse marine ecosystems in the world, its giant kelp forest bursting with life, from microscopic plankton to visiting ocean giants. The secret key to success in such a busy microworld is balance. Steve Backshall guides us through the unique geography of the bay and introduces some of its key characters in a quest to find the one species that keeps life in the kelp forest in check. 128	Nature's Microworlds - Episode 04: Monterey Bay	BBC	Biology		30 mins	Like (0 likes)
Wildlife documentary series in which naturalist Nick Baker hunts down some of the strangest creatures on the planet. Nick journeys to the Andes to seek out the giant 'saggy-skinned' Lake Titicaca frog, the world's largest aquatic frog 129	Nick Baker's Weird Creatures	Nick Baker	Biology		60 mins	Like (0 likes)
This episode explores the intimate details of the largest animals that have ever lived on our planet - the great whales. From the balmy waters of the Indian Ocean to the freezing seas of the Arctic, two daring underwater cameramen - Doug Allan, Planet Earth's polar specialist, and Didier Noirot, Cousteau's front-line cameraman - come face-to-face with fighting humpback whales and two-hundred-ton feeding blue whales. Teaming up with top whale scientists, Giant Lives discovers why southern right whales possess a pair of one-ton testicles, why the arctic bowhead can live to over two hundred years old, and why size truly matters in the world of whales. 130	Ocean Giants - Episode 01: Giant Lives	BBC 2	Biology	English	60 mins	Like (0 likes)
Humans have long wondered if the universe may harbour other intelligent life forms. But perhaps we need look no further than our oceans? 131	Ocean Giants - Episode 02: Deep Thinkers	BBC	Biology		60 mins	Like (0 likes)
Whales and dolphins are nature's supreme vocalists, with a repertoire to put an opera singer to shame. The mighty sperm whale produces deafening clicks in its blowhole which it uses to locate giant squid two miles down in the ocean abyss, while migrating narwhals use similar sounds to pinpoint vital breathing holes in Arctic ice-floes. 132	Ocean Giants - Episode 03: Voices of the Sea	BBC	Biology		60 mins	Like (0 likes)
The team investigates why parts of the Southern Ocean are warming twice as fast as the rest of the world's oceans and looks at the impact of this phenomenon. 133	Oceans - Episode 02: Southern Ocean	Paul Rose	Biology		57 mins	Like (0 likes)
The team explores the remote and unexplored Southern Red Sea, teeming with marine life and home to some of the warmest waters on the planet. 134	Oceans - Episode 03: Red Sea	Paul Rose	Biology		60 mins	Like (0 likes)
In the first of two episodes in the rich tropical waters of the Indian Ocean, the team explore its remote and pristine underwater worlds. 135	Oceans - Episode 05: Indian Ocean	Paul Rose	Biology		57 mins	Like (0 likes)
Extraordinary photography reveals the incredible swarm intelligence that lies behind animal invasions. 136	One Million Heads, One Beautiful Mind	Philip Dalton	Biology		58 mins	Like (0 likes)
In the first episode, Dr Alice Roberts looks at how our skeleton reveals our incredible evolutionary journey. Trekking through the forests of our ancient ancestors, she goes to meet the apes who still live there today - chimpanzees. 137	Origins of Us - Episode 01: Bones	BBC	Biology		60 mins	Like (0 likes)
In this second episode Dr Alice Roberts charts how our ancestors’ hunt for food has driven the way we look and behave today – from the shape of our face, to the way we see and even the way we attract the opposite sex. 138	Origins of Us - Episode 02: Guts	BBC	Biology		60 mins	Like (0 likes)
In the wake of the swine flu outbreak, virologist Dr Mike Leahy uses over 50 years of BBC archive to explore the history of pandemics - infectious diseases caused by bacteria, viruses and parasites. 139	Pandemic: A Horizon Guide	BBC	Biology	English	60 mins	Like (0 likes)
This episode looks at the influence of the sun and reveals how its seasonal journey affects the lives of all creatures. 140	Planet Earth - Episode 01: From Pole to Pole	BBC	Biology	English	46 mins	Like (0 likes)
Fresh water defines the distribution of life on land. Follow the descent of rivers from their mountain sources to the sea. Watch spectacular waterfalls, fly inside the Grand Canyon and explore the wildlife in the world's deepest lake. 141	Planet Earth - Episode 03: Freshwater	BBC	Biology		46 mins	Like (0 likes)
Caves are remarkable habitats with equally bizarre wildlife. Cave angel fish cling to the walls behind waterfalls with microscopic hooks on their fins. Cave swiftlets navigate by echo-location and build nests out of saliva. The Texas cave salamander has neither eyes nor pigment. Planet Earth gets unique access to a hidden world of stalactites, stalagmites, snotites and troglodytes. 142	Planet Earth - Episode 04: Caves	BBC	Biology		46 mins	Like (0 likes)
The Arctic and Antarctic experience the most extreme seasons on Earth. Time-lapse cameras watch a colony of emperor penguins, transforming them into a single organism. The film reveals new science about the dynamics of emperor penguin behaviour. In the north, unique aerial images show a polar bear swimming more than 100km. Diving for up to two minutes at a time. The exhausted polar bear later attacks a herd of walrus in a true clash of the Titans. 143	Planet Earth - Episode 06: Ice Worlds	BBC	Biology		46 mins	Like (0 likes)
06-01-2007, Jungles cover roughly three per cent of our planet yet contain 50 per cent of the world's species. High-definition cameras enable unprecedented views of animals living on the dark jungle floor 144	Planet Earth - Episode 08: Jungles	BBC	Biology		46 mins	Like (0 likes)
06-01-2007, A humpback whale mother and calf embark on an epic journey from tropical coral paradises to storm ravaged polar seas. 145	Planet Earth - Episode 09: Shallow Seas	BBC	Biology		46 mins	Like (0 likes)
06-01-2007, Life goes to extraordinary lengths to survive this immense realm. A 30 tonne whale shark gorges on a school of fish and the unique overhead heli-gimbal camera reveals common dolphins rocketing at more than 30km an hour. 146	Planet Earth - Episode 11: Ocean Deep	BBC	Biology		46 mins	Like (0 likes)
How can a hamster survive falling from the top of a skyscraper, ants carry over 100 times their own body weight and geckos climb across the ceiling? 147	Royal Institution Christmas Lectures 2010 01: Why Elephants Can't Dance	BBC	Biology	English	60 mins	Like (0 likes)
Dr Mark Miodownik zooms into the microscopic world beneath our fingertips. In this unfamiliar landscape, strange forces dominate the world and common sense goes out of the window. 148	Royal Institution Christmas Lectures 2010 02: Why Chocolate Melts and Jet Engines Don't	BBC	Biology	English	60 mins	Like (0 likes)
There is a battle playing out inside your body right now. It started billions of years ago and it is still being fought in every one of us every minute of every day. It is the story of a viral infection - the battle for the cell. 149	Secret Universe: The Hidden Life of the Cell	BBC 2	Biology		60 mins	Like (0 likes)
Secrets of Our Living Planet showcases the incredible ecosystems that make life on Earth possible. Using beautifully shot scenes from all over the world, Chris reveals the hidden wonder of the creatures that we share the planet with, and the intricate, clever and bizarre connections between the species, without which life just could not survive. 150	Secrets of our Living Planet - Episode 01:The Emerald Band	BBC	Biology		60 mins	Like (0 likes)
Secrets of Our Living Planet showcases the incredible ecosystems that make life on Earth possible. Using beautifully shot scenes in the wild, Chris Packham reveals the hidden wonder of the creatures that we share the planet with, and the intricate, clever and bizarre connections between the species, without which life just could not survive 151	Secrets of our Living Planet - Episode 02: The Secret of the Savannah	BBC	Biology		60 mins	Like (0 likes)
Secrets of Our Living Planet showcases the incredible ecosystems that make life on Earth possible. Using beautifully shot scenes in the wild, Chris Packham reveals the hidden wonder of the creatures that we share the planet with, and the intricate, clever and bizarre connections between the species, without which life just could not survive. 152	Secrets of our Living Planet - Episode 03: The Magical Forest	BBC	Biology		60 mins	Like (0 likes)
David Attenborough investigates arguably the most important issue of the 21st century - the future of life on Earth 153	State of the Planet - 01	David Attenborough	Biology		58 mins	Like (0 likes)
David Attenborough investigates arguably the most important issue of the 21st century - the future of life on Earth 154	State of the Planet - 02	David Attenborough	Biology		58 mins	Like (0 likes)
David Attenborough investigates arguably the most important issue of the 21st century - the future of life on Earth 155	State of the Planet - 03	David Attenborough	Biology		58 mins	Like (0 likes)
Series in which mathematician Marcus du Sautoy explores the stories behind some of the world's most familiar and influential scientific diagrams. In the last hundred years, one diagrammatic image stands above all others. It represents a scientific breakthrough that has been voted the most significant in the 20th century, more important than penicillin or the first working computer. The double helix shows us what the structure of our DNA looks like. Francis Crick and James Watson announced their discovery in Nature magazine in April 1953, and their article included a diagram of the structure by Odile Crick. The image she drew has become so well known and loved that we now find it in a whole range of consumer products - there are double helix ties, dogs chews and even a perfume. So has the image of the double helix become so divorced from its original scientific setting that no one knows what it really is or what it stands for? 156	The Beauty of Diagrams - Episode 05: DNA	Marcus du Sautoy	Biology	English	30 mins	Like (0 likes)
Wildlife documentary looking in particular at the elusive Blue whale, and following a Grey Whale and her newborn calf as they are pursued by Killer whales 157	The Blue Planet - 01 - Introduction	BBC	Biology		46 mins	Like (0 likes)
2007. A thousand metres down, in the twilight zone, animals play a constant game of hide and seek. 158	The Blue Planet - 02 - The Deep	BBC	Biology		46 mins	Like (0 likes)
2007. An unfortunate shoal of sardines is first attacked by three-metre-long striped marlin with metre-long, needle-sharp javelins on their heads. The commotion attracts juvenile yellowfin tuna and then a 14-metre Sei whale scoops up the remains. 159	The Blue Planet - 03 - Open Oceans	BBC	Biology		46 mins	Like (0 likes)
2007. In winter the temperature drops to below -50 degrees centigrade and in Antarctica most animals escape the weather. But emperor penguins stay put and huddle together, incubating their eggs and rearing their chicks in the worst weather on the planet. Weddell seals also remain, keeping their breathing holes open by scraping away the ice with their teeth. 160	The Blue Planet - 04 - Frozen Seas	BBC	Biology		46 mins	Like (0 likes)
This next instalment is about coral reefs, which are so crowded that they play host to a perpetual battle for space, even among the coral itself. It starts life as a larva that becomes a polyp. Having multiplied, it hardens into a limestone skeleton and grows to form a reef. As the community flourishes, animals develop relationships with one another and such a place can feature a huge variety of ocean life. 161	The Blue Planet - 05 - Coral Seas	BBC	Biology		11 mins	Like (0 likes)
This programme surveys the effects of the seasons on the world's temperate seas — the most productive on Earth. 162	The Blue Planet - 06 - Seasonal Seas	BBC	Biology		11 mins	Like (0 likes)
2007. A huge tidal wave, sweeps 200 miles inland up the River Amazon. It's an event that only happens on key days each month, when the moon and sun combine their gravitational pull to maximum effect. The force of the wave shatters immense rainforest trees. 163	The Blue Planet - 07 - Tidal Seas	BBC	Biology		46 mins	Like (0 likes)
2007. Each year the entire population of green turtles that live off the coast of Brazil undertakes a massive 5,000-mile migration to the tiny seven-mile-wide island of Ascension, lost in the middle of the Atlantic. 164	The Blue Planet - 08 - Coasts	BBC	Biology		46 mins	Like (0 likes)
In a three-part series, Dr Adam Rutherford tells the extraordinary story of the scientific quest to discover the secrets of the cell and of life itself. Every living thing is made of cells, microscopic building blocks of almost unimaginable power and complexity. This episode explores how scientists delved ever deeper into the world of the cell, seeking to reveal the magic ingredient that can spark a bundle of chemicals into life. Their discoveries have brought us to the brink of being able to create life for ourselves. 165	The Cell - Episode 02: The Chemistry of Life	BBC	Biology		60 mins	Like (0 likes)
In a three-part series, Dr Adam Rutherford tells the extraordinary story of the scientific quest to discover the secrets of the cell and of life itself. Every living thing is made of cells, microscopic building blocks of almost unimaginable power and complexity. The final part reveals how our knowledge of cells has brought us to the brink of one of the most important moments in history. Scientists are close to repeating what has happened only once in four billion years - the creation of a new life form. 166	The Cell - Episode 03: The Spark of Life	BBC	Biology		60 mins	Like (0 likes)
Looking at how our species coped with the rival Neanderthals and the Ice Age. 167	The Incredible Human Journey - Europe	BBC 2	Biology	English	58 mins	Like (0 likes)
Dr Alice Roberts travels the globe to discover the incredible story of how humans left Africa to colonise the world - overcoming hostile terrain, extreme weather and other species of human. She pieces together precious fragments of bone, stone and new DNA evidence and discovers how this journey changed these African ancestors into the people of today. Alice travels to Africa in search of the birthplace of the first people. They were so few in number and so vulnerable that today they would probably be considered an endangered species. So what allowed them to survive at all? The Bushmen of the Kalahari have some answers - the unique design of the human body made them efficient hunters and the ancient click language of the Bushmen points to an early ability to organise and plan. Humans survived there, but Africa was to all intents and purposes a sealed continent. So how and by what route did humans make it out of Africa? Astonishing genetic evidence reveals that everyone alive today who is not African descends from just one successful, tiny group which left the continent in a single crossing, an event that may have happened around 70 thousand years ago. But how did they do it? Alice goes searching for clues in the remote Arabian Desert. 168	The Incredible Human Journey- Out of Africa	BBC 2	Biology	English	58 mins	Like (0 likes)
This first programme chronicles birds' development, from 150 million years ago, when a few small dinosaurs started sprouting feathers, to the period when mammals were still small and birds ruled the planet, and up to the present, and the extraordinary variety of feathered beasts that now grace the planet 169	The Life of Birds - Episode 01: To Fly or not to Fly? (DVD at Reception)	BBC	Biology		60 mins	Like (0 likes)
In this programme, David Attenborough looks at how birds have perfected the art of flying - from high-speed hunting at 200mph to precision hovering. The filming includes spectacular footage of birds in landscapes from Japan, Idaho and the Gulf of Mexico 170	The Life of Birds - Episode 02: The Mastery of Flight (DVD at Reception)	BBC	Biology		58 mins	Like (0 likes)
In this programme David Attenborough focuses on the voracious eating habits of birds, showing how beaks have evolved to suit the diets of their owners 171	The Life of Birds - Episode 03: The Insatiable Appetite (DVD at Reception)	BBC	Biology		58 mins	Like (0 likes)
A look at the natural history of birds, narrated by David Attenborough. This programme reveals how birds have become highly sophisticated communicators, using extraordinary patterns of colour and beautiful songs to deter predators, intimidate rivals and impress potential mates. 172	The Life of Birds - Episode 06: Signals and Songs	BBC	Biology		58 mins	Like (0 likes)
A look at the natural history of birds, narrated by David Attenborough. This programme reveals how male birds use extraordinary displays and bizarre mating rituals to attract the attentions of females. 173	The Life of Birds - Episode 07: Finding Partners	BBC	Biology		58 mins	Like (0 likes)
David Attenborough presents a natural history of birds. In this programme, he examines the variety of ways in which birds construct their nests and protect their eggs from predators. Including breathtaking scenes of aerial piracy and a remarkable 3-D animated view of the processes involved in laying an egg. 174	The Life of Birds - Episode 08: The Demands of the Egg	BBC	Biology		58 mins	Like (0 likes)
David Attenborough presents a natural history of birds. This programme provides an illustration of the fascinating diversity of feeding practices and behavioural patterns employed by birds. Sweeping through an incredible range of species, including pelicans, sea eagles, babblers and finch chicks, it offers a thorough study of the way in which birds solve the problems of parenthood. 175	The Life of Birds - Episode 09: The Problems of Parenthood	BBC	Biology		58 mins	Like (0 likes)
David Attenborough presents a natural history of birds. This programme looks at how birds cope with living in some of the harshest and most bizarre places on the planet, looking at the sandgrouse in the Namibian desert, spectacled eiders in the Arctic, a 10,000-strong nesting colony of oilbirds in a Venezuelan cave, and black vultures nesting on the sixteenth floor balcony of a skyscraper in Sao Paulo. 176	The Life of Birds - Episode 10: The Limits of Endurance	BBC	Biology		58 mins	Like (0 likes)
Since the dawn of history the miraculous annual floodwaters have risen to transform the desert into a fertile paradise where the great civilisation of Ancient Egypt grew, but their existence was on a knife-edge held hostage by the river and the Pharaoh maintained the balance by appeasing the gods to ensure the gifts of the river. 177	The Nile - Episode 01: Crocodiles and Kings	BBC Natural History Unit	Biology		46 mins	Like (0 likes)
The annual flooding of the Nile brought the water and fertile volcanic soil that made the Ancient Egyptian civilisation possible, but impassable rapids made it impossible for them to discover the source of this bounty they attributed to the gods. 178	The Nile - Episode 02: The Great Flood	BBC Natural History Unit	Biology		46 mins	Like (0 likes)
The documentary series about the solar system examines how our understanding of the evolution of life on earth has changed, and explores the evidence for life on other planets. In 1976, two robotic probes suggested that the surface of Mars was dead. But the latest research reveals that this may not be the case and that it is possible that life on earth may have evolved from Mars. 179	The Planets - Episode 07: Life	BBC 2	Biology	English	50 mins	Like (0 likes)
For many years our place in the universe was the subject of theologians and philosophers, not scientists, but in 1960 one man changed all that. 180	The Search for Life: The Drake Equation	BBC	Biology	English	60 mins	Like (0 likes)
Michael Mosley takes an informative and ambitious journey exploring how the evolution of scientific understanding is intimately interwoven with society's historical path. 181	The Story of Science: Power, Proof and Passion - Episode 05: What Is the Secret of Life?	BBC 4	Biology	English	60 mins	Like (0 likes)
Michael Mosley takes an informative and ambitious journey exploring how the evolution of scientific understanding is intimately interwoven with society's historical path. We now know that the brain - the organ that more than any other makes us human - is one of the wonders of the universe, and yet until the 17th century it was barely studied. The twin sciences of brain anatomy and psychology have offered different visions of who we are. Now these sciences are coming together and in the process have revealed some surprising and uncomfortable truths about what really shapes our thoughts, feelings and desires. And the search to understand how our brains work has also revealed that we are all - whether we realise it or not - carrying out science from the moment we are born. 182	The Story of Science: Power, Proof and Passion : Who Are We?	BBC	Biology	English	60 mins	Like (0 likes)
Blue Peter gardener Chris Collins celebrates the humble and sometimes hated plants we call weeds. He discovers that there is no such thing as a weed, botanically speaking, and that in fact what we call a weed has changed again and again over the last three hundred years. 183	The Wonder of Weeds	BBC	Biology	English	59 mins	Like (0 likes)
Louie Psihoyos' Oscar-winning documentary shows in chilling detail the illicit slaughter of dolphins at Taijia, a rural Japanese cove. 184	True Stories - The Cove	Channel 4	Biology	English	86 mins	Like (0 likes)
The film hints at the global consequences of CCD continuing unchecked: the possibility that the crops, fruit and flowers that humanity rely will not be pollinated and will die out. 185	True Stories - The Last of the Honeybees	Channel 4	Biology	English	66 mins	Like (0 likes)
More than anywhere, the Serengeti is synonymous with wilderness and has even come to represent Africa. But the story of the Serengeti is just as much about humans as it is about wildlife. Right from the origin of our species in Africa, humans have been profoundly shaping this unique wilderness - hunters and pastoralists with cattle and fire, ivory traders and big game hunters, conservationists, scientists, film-makers and even tourists have all played a part in shaping the Serengeti. Probably most powerful of all was a tiny microbe unknowingly brought to Africa by a small Italian expeditionary force - Rinderpest, a deadly virus that swept through the continent decimating cattle and wildlife alike and forever changing the face of the wild. The Serengeti is far from timeless, it is forever changing - and wherever there is change, the influence of Homo sapiens is not far behind. 186	Unnatural Histories - Episode 01: Serengeti	BBC 4	Biology	English	60 mins	Like (0 likes)
As the world's first national park, Yellowstone has long served as a model for the protection of wilderness around the world. For Americans it has become a source of great national pride, not least because it encapsulates all our popular notions of what a wilderness should be - vast, uninhabited, with spectacular scenery and teeming with wildlife. But Yellowstone has not always been so. At the time of its creation in 1872, it was renowned only for its extraordinary geysers, and far from being an uninhabited wilderness it was home to several American Indian tribes. This film reveals how a remote Indian homeland became the world's first great wilderness. It was the ambitions of railroad barons, not conservationists, that paved the way for a brand new vision of the wild, a vision that took native peoples out of the picture. Iconic landscape paintings show how European Romanticism crossed the Atlantic and recast the American wilderness, not as a satanic place to be tamed and cultivated, but as a place to experience the raw power of God in nature. Forged in Yellowstone, this potent new version of wilderness as untouched and deserving of protection has since been exported to all corners of the globe. 187	Unnatural Histories - Episode 02: Yellowstone	BBC 4	Biology	English	60 mins	Like (0 likes)
The Amazon rainforest is the epitome of a last great wilderness under threat from modern man. It has become an international cause celebre for environmentalists as powerful agricultural and industrial interests bent on felling trees encroach ever deeper into virgin forest. But the latest evidence suggests that the Amazon is not what it seems. As more trees are felled, the story of a far less natural Amazon is revealed - enormous manmade structures, even cities, hidden for centuries under what was believed to be untouched forest. All the time archaeologists are discovering ancient, highly fertile soils that can only have been produced by sophisticated agriculture far and wide across the Amazon basin. This startling evidence sheds new light on long-dismissed accounts from the very first conquistadors of an Amazon teeming with people and threatens to turn our whole notion of wilderness on its head. And if even the Amazon turns out to be unnatural, what then for the future of wilderness? 188	Unnatural Histories - Episode 03: Amazon	BBC 4	Biology	English	60 mins	Like (0 likes)
Usain Bolt is the fastest man on the planet and a sportsman like no other. But what makes him so much faster than any other man in the history of the human race? 189	Usain Bolt: The Fastest Man Who Has Ever Lived	Stephen Lyle	Biology	English	60 mins	Like (0 likes)
About 20 million years before the appearance of the first dinosaurs, the biggest extinction the world had ever known had occurred. Towards the end of the Triassic, 220 million years ago, there was another extinction, which wiped out many of the non-dinosaurs including the dicynodonts such as Placerias and primitive archosaurs such as Postosuchus. It was after this that dinosaurs really started to radiate and diversify. Another extinction at the very end of the Triassic, wiped out the remaining basal archosaurs and the dinosaurs were the only large land animals left 190	Walking with Dinosaurs - Episode 01: New Blood	Tim Haines, Jasper James	Biology		27 mins	Like (0 likes)
The earliest dinosaurs were pretty small. Eoraptor was only about 1 m long. However the plant-eating prosauropod, Plateosaurus, that appeared at the end of the Triassic period, was a harbinger of things to come. At up to 9 m long it was the first really big dinosaur. In the Early Jurassic the maximum size of both herbiviores and carnivores increased, and this trend continued throughout the Jurassic culminating in the staggeringly large sauropods such as Apatosaurus and Brachiosaurus 191	Walking with Dinosaurs - Episode 02: Time of the Titans	Tim Haines, Jasper James	Biology		27 mins	Like (0 likes)
While dinosaurs were ruling on land, the sea was the dominion of an entirely different group of animals: the marine reptiles. The programme concentrates on these amazing creatures that were every bit as awesome as their counterparts on land. The main source of fossil evidence comes from a layer of sediment called the Oxford Clay. The clay stretches from the English coast at Weymouth all the way to Scarborough in Yorkshire, but the richest fossil grounds in this clay are in the vicinity of Bedford and Peterborough where the clay is dug for brick manufacture 192	Walking with Dinosaurs - Episode 03: Cruel Sea	Tim Haines, Jasper James	Biology		27 mins	Like (0 likes)
This episode is set in the early Cretaceous, a time when the world’s continents were breaking apart. It follows an enormous journey made by a giant pterosaur and many different geographical regions are covered in the programme. Our journey starts in Brazil, where there is a fertile source of pterosaur fossils called the ‘Santana formation,’and then goes north following the coast of North America. The pterosaur crosses the Atlantic, which was not the same undertaking as it would be today. Back in the early Cretaceous the Atlantic had only just started to form and at that point it was probably as little as 200 miles wide in places. The pterosaur then flies over what we now know as Europe, although back then it was part of the greater continent of ‘Eurasia’ 193	Walking with Dinosaurs - Episode 04: Giant of the Skies	Tim Haines, Jasper James	Biology		27 mins	Like (0 likes)
Documentary which tells the story of evolution theory since Darwin postulated it in 1859 in 'On the Origin of Species'. 194	What Darwin Didn't Know	Armand Leroi	Biology		88 mins	Like (0 likes)
Bees are dying in their millions. It is an ecological crisis that threatens to bring global agriculture to a standstill. Introduced by Martha Kearney, this documentary explores the reasons behind the decline of bee colonies across the globe, investigating what 195	Who Killed the Honey Bee?	BBC	Biology		60 mins	Like (0 likes)
China is a vast country with an astonishingly diverse landscape. Through unprecedented access, this six-part series reveals the little-known natural treasures and secret wildlife havens of China's wildest regions. 196	Wild China: 01 Heart of the Dragon	BBC	Biology		59 mins	Like (0 likes)
Ancient, dramatic and full of bizarre animals, Australia is like no other place on earth. Wild Down Under explores the extraordinary landscapes and breathtaking array of strange and often dangerous wildlife that lives around this beautiful continent. 197	Wild Down Under	BBC	Biology		38 mins	Like (0 likes)
What are we and where do we come from? Professor Brian Cox finds out. 198	Wonders of the Universe - Episode 02: Stardust	BBC	Biology	English	60 mins	Like (0 likes)
A natural history portrait of a year in Yellowstone, following the fortunes of America's wildlife icons as they face the challenges of one of the most extraordinary wildernesses on Earth. 199	Yellowstone - Autumn	BBC 4	Biology	English	58 mins	Like (0 likes)

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