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	Title	Author	Subcategory	Subtitles	Length	Rating
Jonathan Dimbleby travels through Brazil, the continent's largest country. 1	A South American Journey with Jonathan Dimbleby - Brazil	BBC 2	Geography	English	60 mins	Like (0 likes)
Dimbleby discovers how Chile has transformed since the demise of General Pinochet. 2	A South American Journey with Jonathan Dimbleby - Chile and Bolivia	BBC 2	Geography	English	60 mins	Like (0 likes)
Jonathan travels across Colombia and Venezuela, South America's Caribbean giants. 3	A South American Journey with Jonathan Dimbleby - Colombia and Venezuela	BBC 2	Geography	English	60 mins	Like (0 likes)
As the highest water bills ever land on doormats across the UK this April, this film investigates the future of the world's water, and paints a disturbing picture of a world running out of the most basic of life's essentials. 4	A World Without Water	Brian Woods	Geography		75 mins	Like (0 likes)
A journey through the parts of Afghanistan that don't normally feature in news coverage to meet some amazing people and see fascinating places. Lyse Doucet uses her many years experience in Afghanistan to show a different side of a country which has been at war for 30 years. 5	Afghanistan: The Unknown Country	Lyse Doucet	Geography	English	60 mins	Like (0 likes)
Beneath the America we think we know lies a nation hidden from view - a nomadic nation, living on the roads, the rails and in the wild open spaces. In its deserts, forests, mountain ranges and on the plains, a huge population of modern nomads pursues its version of the American dream. 6	American Nomads	BBC 4	Geography	English	90 mins	Like (0 likes)
Safety and security are two of the biggest challenges faced by each and every metropolis. Whether earthquake, terrorism, flood or just crime, it's the geology, politics and social makeup of the megacities that make them some of the most profitable and dangerous places to live. 7	Andrew Marr's Megacities - Cities on the Edge	BBC 1	Geography	English	60 mins	Like (0 likes)
Andrew Marr looks at how people live in London, Dhaka, Tokyo, Mexico City and Shanghai. 8	Andrew Marr's Megacities - Living in the City	BBC 1	Geography	English	60 mins	Like (0 likes)
Andrew finds out how megacities stay fed, and joins Mexico City's traffic cops in the air. 9	Andrew Marr's Megacities - Sustaining the City	BBC 1	Geography	English	60 mins	Like (0 likes)
Time Shift reveals the history of the frozen continent, finding out why the most inhospitable place on the planet has exerted such a powerful hold on the imagination of explorers, scientists, writers and photographers. 10	Antarctica: Of Ice and Men	BBC 4	Geography		60 mins	Like (0 likes)
David Attenborough explores just how far climate change is altering our planet, from drought-stricken rainforest to declining polar bears, from flooded homes to bleached coral. He searches for the evidence that it is our daily activities which are radically changing the climate, leaving the future of Earth largely up to us. 11	Are We Changing Planet Earth?	BBC	Geography		59 mins	Like (0 likes)
A unique journey around the weird and wonderful planet that we call home. 12	Around the World in 60 Minutes	BBC	Geography	English	60 mins	Like (0 likes)
Dan Cruickshank final journey begins in Mostar in Bosnia and its famous bridge. 13	Around the World in 80 Treasures - Episode 10 - Bosnia to France and Home	BBC	Geography		55 mins	Like (0 likes)
In Australia outback Dan Cruickshank unearths termite mounds and erotic cave paintings. 14	Around the World in 80 Treasures - Episode 3 - Australia to Cambodia	BBC	Geography		55 mins	Like (0 likes)
From swords of the samurai to the tranquillity of a temple, Dan Cruickshank experiences the extremes of Japan. Then, in China, he walks the Great Wall, contemplates the massed ranks of the Terracotta Army and finds peace in the Empress of China's marble boat 15	Around the World in 80 Treasures - Episode 4 - Japan to China	BBC	Geography		55 mins	Like (0 likes)
In Calcutta, Dan Cruickshank tangles with a ten-armed naked goddess. 16	Around the World in 80 Treasures - Episode 5 - India to Sri Lanka	BBC	Geography		55 mins	Like (0 likes)
The rarely visited trading domes of Uzbekistan and Fire Temple of Azerbaijan get an incisive Dan Cruickshank appraisal, before he moves on to scale a cliff face towards arguably the biggest archaeological puzzles of the 19th century. 17	Around the World in 80 Treasures - Episode 6 - Uzbekistan to Syria	BBC	Geography		55 mins	Like (0 likes)
Dan searches for the Arc of the Covenant, from Jordan, through the Holy Land to Ethiopia. 18	Around the World in 80 Treasures - Episode 7 - Jordan to Ethiopia	BBC	Geography		55 mins	Like (0 likes)
Dan Cruickshank journey reaches new heights of discomfort in the heat of the desert. 19	Around the World in 80 Treasures - Episode 8 - Mali to Egypt	BBC	Geography		55 mins	Like (0 likes)
Documentary series. Dan Cruickshank visits Turkey, Russia, Poland and Germany. 20	Around the World in 80 Treasures - Episode 9 - Turkey to Germany	BBC	Geography		55 mins	Like (0 likes)
David Attenborough returns to the island of Madagascar on a very personal quest. 21	Attenborough and the Giant Egg	BBC 2	Geography	English	60 mins	Like (0 likes)
Phil Agland revisits the Baka Pygmy family he filmed 25 years ago in his BAFTA award winning documentary 'Baka: People of the Rainforest'. An extraordinary journey into the heart of the rainforest in Cameroon. 22	Baka: A Cry from the Rainforest	Phil Agland	Geography		90 mins	Like (0 likes)
How scientist James Lovelock came to see the Earth as a holistic, self-regulating system. 23	Beautiful Minds - James Lovelock	BBC	Geography	English	60 mins	Like (0 likes)
Beginning in a familiar garden setting, Alan peels back the layers of Britain's varied past. He travels to his native Yorkshire to reveal how innocent sounding place names provide evidence of a wild legacy. On Scotland's Isle of May, he discovers how white seal pups hold a clue to Britain's snowy heritage. Finally, Alan explores how diverse rock formations are a testament to Britain's turbulent past. 24	British Isles: A Natural History - Episode 1 - 3 Billion Years in the Making	BBC	Geography		46 mins	Like (0 likes)
From Jurassic Oxford to Scotland's Himalayas, Alan explores the secret history hidden in the rocks beneath our feet. He discovers how Scotland and England drifted together from their original locations, near the Equator and the South Pole, and finds fossils which reveal that the Yorkshire Dales was once a sea with coral reefs. 25	British Isles: A Natural History - Episode 2 - Dinosaurs, Deserts and Volcanoes	BBC	Geography		46 mins	Like (0 likes)
Alan gets under the skin of the much misunderstood Neanderthal man, examines relics from the past and discovers that an ice sheet covering most of Britain stopped at London's Finchley Road tube station.. 26	British Isles: A Natural History - Episode 3 - Ice Age	BBC	Geography		46 mins	Like (0 likes)
Alan ventures 50 metres below the Channel, scales an ancient tree in the New Forest and stalks red deer in Scotland to tell the story of how island Britain was created. He searches for clues across the country, discovering tropical nickar nuts in Scotland, palm trees growing at latitudes where polar bears should feel more at home and watching whooper swans in Cambridgeshire who arrive from Siberia for Britain's milder winters. 27	British Isles: A Natural History - Episode 4 - Islands Apart	BBC	Geography		46 mins	Like (0 likes)
In the second of a two-part documentary, David Attenborough explores how much climate change is altering our planet, suggesting ways we can help. 28	Can We Save Planet Earth?	BBC	Geography		59 mins	Like (0 likes)
The nation's love affair with the coast will be reawakened for this entertaining and ambitious exploration of the entire UK coastline. Across 13 programmes Coast celebrates the unique character of the UK's coastal communities, exploring a wealth of fascinating human stories through a mixture of expert comment, contemporary storytelling and computer-generated images. This is the coast as never seen before. 29	Coast : Series 1 Episode 01	BBC	Geography		60 mins	Like (0 likes)
The South Wales coast, by the Second Severn Bridge, has the second highest tidal range in the world, at around 14.5 metres (the highest is the Bay of Fundy, located off the northern coast of Maine, USA). It's also home to an extraordinary tidal phenomenon - the Severn Bore. 30	Coast : Series 1 Episode 03	BBC	Geography		60 mins	Like (0 likes)
The coast of North West England covers some classic industrial landscapes and playgrounds, and a dangerous world of shifting sands. 31	Coast : Series 1 Episode 05	BBC	Geography		60 mins	Like (0 likes)
Scotland's west coast has the most jagged and dramatic coastline in Great Britain. It's only 300 miles as the seagull flies, but once you add in the dozens of islands anchored off this rugged coastline it is thousands of miles. 32	Coast : Series 1 Episode 07	BBC	Geography		60 mins	Like (0 likes)
This is a coast of two halves, divided by the broad Humber. We start on the craggy grandeur of the Yorkshire coast and finish by wading through the vast salt marshes and mudflats of the Wash. 33	Coast : Series 1 Episode 11	BBC	Geography		60 mins	Like (0 likes)
Every beach, bay and cliff edge along this stretch of coast has a story to tell of people who struggled with changing sea levels, the perils of flooding, subsidence and erosion. Whole towns have been lost to the sea, houses teeter on cliff tops... the very land is crumbling away. 34	Coast : Series 1 Episode 12	BBC	Geography		60 mins	Like (0 likes)
In this programme we look back at some of the highlights of our journey, exploring the future of our coast and what it'll mean for us as an island nation. 35	Coast : Series 1 Episode 13	BBC	Geography		60 mins	Like (0 likes)
Aubrey Manning explores a revolution in our understanding of the planet. He starts out by trying to date the Earth, aided by surviving fragments of early Earth found in Greenland and South Africa's Barbertan Mountains. First in the series 36	Earth Story - 01 The Time Travellers	Danielle Peck	Geography		59 mins	Like (0 likes)
Aubrey Manning follows the research submarine "Alvin" on a dive to the world's longest mountain range. Second in the series 37	Earth Story - 02 The Deep	Danielle Peck	Geography		58 mins	Like (0 likes)
Aubrey Manning discovers Pacific seawater in a Bolivian volcano 6,000m above sea level. Third in the series 38	Earth Story - 03 Ring of Fire	Danielle Peck	Geography		58 mins	Like (0 likes)
Aubrey Manning investigates volcanic activity worldwide. Fourth in the series 39	Earth Story - 04 Journey to the Centre of the Earth	Danielle Peck	Geography		12 mins	Like (0 likes)
Aubrey Manning explains how scientists have developed new theories concerning mountain formation, by studying the Himalayas at the top of the Indian subcontinent. Fifth in the series 40	Earth Story - 05 The Roof of the World	Danielle Peck	Geography		10 mins	Like (0 likes)
Aubrey Manning traces the turbulent history of the Ice Age in a journey spanning the globe. Sixth in the series 41	Earth Story - 06 The Big Freeze	Danielle Peck	Geography		12 mins	Like (0 likes)
Aubrey Manning continues his global trek from the jungles of Indonesia to the plains of Africa, and discovers how chance events in history have shaped the evolution of life on Earth. Seventh in the series 42	Earth Story - 07 The Living Earth	Danielle Peck	Geography		11 mins	Like (0 likes)
Aubrey Manning sets out to discover why the Earth is a living planet and our planetary neighbours like Mars and Venus are not. Eighth in the series 43	Earth Story - 08 A World Apart	Danielle Peck	Geography		10 mins	Like (0 likes)
Documentary series. Dr Iain Stewart reveals the role natural forces have played in the creation of the planet Earth, beginning with volcanoes 44	Earth: The Power Of The Planet: 01 Volcanoes	UKTV	Geography		59 mins	Like (0 likes)
Nature documentary that takes a breathtaking flight on the wings of birds across six continents and experiences some of the world's greatest natural spectacles from a bird's-eye view.This episode takes flight across North America, as snow geese fall prey to bald eagles. 45	Earthflight - 01 North America	BBC	Geography		60 mins	Like (0 likes)
This episode takes flight over Africa, as cape gannets join the great sardine run. 46	Earthflight - 02 Africa	BBC 1	Geography		60 mins	Like (0 likes)
Cranes and geese soar over Venice, the white cliffs of Dover and Edinburgh. 47	Earthflight - 03 Europe	BBC	Geography		60 mins	Like (0 likes)
The nature series gives a bird's-eye view of South America. 48	Earthflight - 04 South America	BBC	Geography		60 mins	Like (0 likes)
The nature series gives a bird's-eye view of Asia and Australia. 49	Earthflight - 05 Asia and Australia	BBC	Geography		60 mins	Like (0 likes)
Special programme looking at the techniques used in the production of Earthflight. 50	Earthflight - 06 Flying High	BBC	Geography		60 mins	Like (0 likes)
Michael Palin explores China, staying in the Governor's Castle in Qingdao where Mao slept, meeting the owner of a Chinese vineyard which produces Chardonay and having a street massage. He travels to Shanghai and then by train and boat to the Yangtse Gorge, where a huge engineering project to create a dam is in progress, which will flood the towns and areas in which he is now travelling. Third in the series 51	Full Circle with Michael Palin - China	BBC	Geography		17 mins	Like (0 likes)
Michael Palin travels to Japan, starting at the island of Sado where he meets the famous Kodd Drummers. From there he moves down to Tokyo and is shown around by Mayumi, an early Japanese Monty Python fan. 52	Full Circle with Michael Palin - Japan and Korea	BBC	Geography		40 mins	Like (0 likes)
This programme tells the story of the most extraordinary river in the world - the Ganges. Human life and nature bustle along her river banks, in a kaleidoscope of colour and energy in this dramatic BBC documentary. 53	Ganges	Dan Rees	Geography		49 mins	Like (0 likes)
Jared Diamond embarks on a world-wide quest to understand the roots of global inequality, tracing humanity's meanderings across 13,000 years of history. 54	Guns, Germs and Steel	More 4	Geography	English	91 mins	Like (0 likes)
Michael Palin visits the Potala Palace and the great monasteries of Tashilunpo and Sera, where the traditional Tibetan towns are being replaced by modern Chinese cities, he then accompanies some pilgrims to the holy Namtso Lake. 55	Himalaya With Michael Palin - The Roof Of The World	UKTV	Geography		47 mins	Like (0 likes)
Earthquakes are among the most devastating natural disasters on the planet. In the last hundred years they have claimed the lives of over one million people. Earthquakes are destructive mainly because of their unpredictable nature. It is impossible to say accurately when a quake will strike but a new theory developed by Professor Geoffrey King could help save lives by preparing cities long in advance for an earthquake 56	Horizon - Earthquake Storms	UKTV	Geography		46 mins	Like (0 likes)
The world's oceans claim on average one ship a week, often in mysterious circumstances. With little evidence to go on, investigators usually point at human error or poor maintenance but an alarming series of disappearances and near-sinkings, including world-class vessels with unblemished track records, has prompted the search for a more sinister cause and renewed belief in a maritime myth: the wall of water 57	Horizon - Freak Wave	BBC	Geography		48 mins	Like (0 likes)
In the early 1950's, oil geologists discovered the signs of a giant tsunami, half a kilometer high, that hit a remote bay in Alaska. After research, scientists concluded that the tsunami was created by a landslide in the ocean off the coast. Since then, scientists who study tsunamis have discovered several sites around the world where major under water landslides could create giant or mega tsunami 58	Horizon - Mega-tsunami	BBC	Geography		10 mins	Like (0 likes)
Particle physicist and ex D:Ream keyboard player Dr Brian Cox wants to know why the Universe is built the way it is. He believes the answers lie in the force of gravity 59	Horizon - What on Earth is Wrong with Gravity	BBC	Geography		48 mins	Like (0 likes)
It's easy to think of the human impact on the planet as a negative one, but as this programme discovers, this isn't always the case.It is clear that humans have unprecedented control over many of the planet's geological cycles; the question is, how will the human race use this power? 60	How Earth Made Us - Human Planet	BBC	Geography	English	60 mins	Like (0 likes)
Professor Iain Stewart tells the epic story of how geology, geography and climate have influenced mankind.In this first episode, Iain explores the relationship between the deep Earth and the development of human civilisation. He visits an extraordinary crystal cave in Mexico, drops down a hole in the Iranian desert and crawls through seven-thousand-year-old tunnels in Israel. 61	How Earth Made Us - Part 01: Deep Earth	BBC	Geography	English	60 mins	Like (0 likes)
Professor Iain Stewart continues his epic exploration of how the planet has shaped human history.This time he explores our complex relationship with water. Visiting spectacular locations in Iceland, the Middle East and India, Iain shows how control over water has been central to human existence. 62	How Earth Made Us - Part 05 : Water	BBC	Geography	English	60 mins	Like (0 likes)
The Arctic is the harshest environment on Earth: little food grows, it's dark for months on end, and temperatures stay well below freezing for much of the year. Yet four million people manage to survive here. 63	Human Planet - Arctic - Life in the Deep Freeze	BBC	Geography	English	60 mins	Like (0 likes)
A total of 10 stories from across the Human Planet series, closely linked to the KS2 Geography curriculum, look at how humans have learnt to live with extremes, and explore how people across the globe live with extreme cold; live in desert environments without water; and how they live in mountain regions facing daily hazards. 64	Human Planet - Change and Sustainability	BBC	Geography	English	60 mins	Like (0 likes)
From lush cloud forests to bare summits that take your breath away, the higher you climb the tougher life gets on a mountain. Human Planet explores the extraordinary ways in which people survive at extreme altitudes where nature becomes utterly unforgiving. 65	Human Planet - Mountains - Life in Thin Air	BBC	Geography	English	60 mins	Like (0 likes)
As an air-breathing animal, the human is not built to survive in water. But people have found ways to live an almost aquatic life so they can exploit the sea's riches. 66	Human Planet - Oceans - Into the Blue	BBC	Geography	English	60 mins	Like (0 likes)
The demand for energy has risen relentlessly over the last 150 years in line with industrial development and population growth. 67	If the Oil Runs Out	BBC	Geography		59 mins	Like (0 likes)
Japan's Tsunami: Caught on Camera captures the impact of the earthquake and tsunami that devastated Japan in March 2011, using amateur footage filmed by those caught up in the disaster. 68	Japan's Tsunami: Caught on Camera	Channel 4	Geography		60 mins	Like (0 likes)
The science behind the earthquake and tsunami that have devastated Japan 69	Japan's Tsunami: How It Happened	Channel 4	Geography	English	48 mins	Like (0 likes)
This programme was part of This Is Scotland - a BBC Four season which celebrated and examined aspects of Scottish culture, art, film-making, heritage, landscape and psyche. 70	Jonathan Meades: Off Kilter Episode 01	BBC	Geography	English	60 mins	Like (0 likes)
On the Isles of Lewis and Harris, Meades discovers Calvinism and peat bog bodies. 71	Jonathan Meades: Off Kilter Episode 02	BBC	Geography	English	60 mins	Like (0 likes)
Meades celebrates an oil refinery and takes potshots at overpaid footballers. 72	Jonathan Meades: Off Kilter Episode 03	BBC	Geography	English	60 mins	Like (0 likes)
Kevin McCloud travels to Mumbai to explore one of the biggest slums in Asia and spends time living among its one million residents. 73	Kevin McCloud: Slumming It	Channel 4	Geography	English	48 mins	Like (0 likes)
Documentary, featuring specially commissioned research, which reveals for the first time what really happened during the eruption of the volcanic island Krakatoa in 1883 74	Krakatoa Revealed	Nick Petford	Geography		11 mins	Like (0 likes)
In a series about the extraordinary stories behind maps, Professor Jerry Brotton uncovers how maps aren't simply about getting from A to B but are revealing snapshots of defining moments in history and tools of political power and persuasion. 75	Maps 01: Power, Plunder and Possession - Windows on the World	BBC	Geography	English	58 mins	Like (0 likes)
Jerry Brotton shows how maps can reveal the fears, obsessions and prejudices of their age. 76	Maps 02: Power, Plunder and Possession - Spirit of the Age	BBC	Geography	English	58 mins	Like (0 likes)
In the last of a three-part series about the extraordinary stories behind maps, Professor Jerry Brotton uncovers how maps are snapshots of a moment in history and offer visions of distant lands, tempting explorers to plunder and conquer. 77	Maps 03: Power, Plunder and Possession - Mapping the World	BBC	Geography	English	60 mins	Like (0 likes)
Iain finds out how gung-ho geologist Edward Bailey discovered Scotland was once home to super volcanoes. And how unsung hero Arthur Holmes solved the mystery of what makes continents move across the surface of the globe. 78	Men of Rock 02 - Moving Mountains	BBC	Geography	English	60 mins	Like (0 likes)
In the final episode, Iain finds out about daredevil scientist Louis Agassiz, who first imagined the world had been gripped by an ice age. Plus, the story of humble janitor James Croll, who used the planets to work out the natural rhythms of the earth's climate. 79	Men of Rock 03 - The Big Freeze	BBC	Geography	English	60 mins	Like (0 likes)
High in the Tatra mountains of Slovakia, Michael skins a pig, and learns how to make sausages. He then departs to Brno to visit Tibor Turba's famous mime school, where he is asked to mime a cockerel. Travelling in a DC3, used during the Berlin airlift, he visits the island of Rugen, built by Hitler for his KDF ('Strength through Joy') programme. 80	Michael Palin's New Europe - Journey's End	Michael Palin	Geography		59 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. 81	Natural World - The Himalayas	BBC	Geography	English	59 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. 82	Natural World - The Secret Leopards	BBC	Geography	English	60 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. 83	Natural World - Uakari: Secrets of the English Monkey	BBC	Geography	English	50 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. 84	Nature's Great Events 01:The Great Melt	BBC	Geography	English	59 mins	Like (0 likes)
Steve Backshall tries to discover just what makes it possible for a river to stop in the middle of a desert. The Okavango is the world's largest inland delta and home to a one of Africa's greatest congregations of wildlife, and in asking the difficult questions Steve reveals the astounding secret to its existence. 85	Nature's Microworlds - Episode 05: Okavango	BBC	Geography		30 mins	Like (0 likes)
In a revelatory look at Svalbard, the most northerly region in the series, Steve Backshall leaves no stone unturned as he unravels the secrets that lie covered in ice for most of each year. Svalbard is cold, dark and foreboding, yet it is home to the world's largest land predator and the most northerly population. 86	Nature's Microworlds - Episode 06: Svalbard	BBC	Geography		30 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. 87	Oceans - Episode 02: Southern Ocean	Paul Rose	Geography		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. 88	Oceans - Episode 03: Red Sea	Paul Rose	Geography		60 mins	Like (0 likes)
The team explores a corner of the Atlantic Ocean. This ocean is the youngest of the great oceans and critical in influencing our climate. 89	Oceans - Episode 04: Atlantic Ocean	Paul Rose	Geography		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. 90	Oceans - Episode 05: Indian Ocean	Paul Rose	Geography		57 mins	Like (0 likes)
The team explores the coastal waters of the Indian Ocean to discover what happens when the powerful Indian Ocean collides with the edge of a continent. 91	Oceans - Episode 06: Indian Ocean - Coastal	Paul Rose	Geography		57 mins	Like (0 likes)
The team embarks on an expedition to explore the profound effect that man is having on the Mediterranean Sea. Western civilisation developed around its shores, but now human activity is threatening to destroy it. 92	Oceans - Episode 07: Mediterranean Ocean	Paul Rose	Geography		57 mins	Like (0 likes)
The team ventures into one of the world's most hostile environments, the Arctic Ocean, which plays a crucial role in controlling our climate. 93	Oceans - Episode 08: Arctic Ocean	Paul Rose	Geography		60 mins	Like (0 likes)
Panorama talks to pilots who have almost passed out at the controls and passengers who say they've been made ill by toxic fumes. The air breathed on airliners is drawn past the engines and can become polluted by any leaks of engine oil. 'Fume events' are rare but there are no accurate figures of just how many occur each year. Panorama wanted to discover what was really in the air passengers, crew and pilots breathe on planes 94	Panorama - There's Something in the Air	BBC	Geography		29 mins	Like (0 likes)
Six months on from one of the world's most devastating tsunamis, Panorama's Paul Kenyon returns to Japan to hear remarkable tales of survival amid the epic destruction. 95	Panorama - Tsunami: The Survivors' Stories	BBC 1	Geography	English	30 mins	Like (0 likes)
Tour the mightiest mountain ranges, starting with the birth of a mountain at one of the lowest places on Earth and ending at the summit of Everest. 96	Planet Earth - Episode 02: Mountains	BBC	Geography		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. 97	Planet Earth - Episode 03: Freshwater	BBC	Geography		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. 98	Planet Earth - Episode 04: Caves	BBC	Geography		46 mins	Like (0 likes)
12-01-2007, Around 30% of the land's surface is desert, the most varied of our ecosystems despite the lack of rain. Saharan sandstorms reach nearly a mile high and desert rivers run for a single day. 99	Planet Earth - Episode 05: Deserts	BBC	Geography		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. 100	Planet Earth - Episode 06: Ice Worlds	BBC	Geography		46 mins	Like (0 likes)
05-01-2007, The Taiga forest, on the edge of the Arctic, is a silent world of stunted conifers. The trees may be small but filming from the air reveals its true scale. A third of all trees on Earth grow here and during the short summer they produce enough oxygen to change the atmosphere. 101	Planet Earth - Episode 10: Seasonal Forests	BBC	Geography		46 mins	Like (0 likes)
Why is the tallest building on earth less than half a mile high? Why don't we have mountains as tall as those on Mars? 102	Royal Institution Christmas Lectures 2010 03: Why Mountains Are So Small	BBC	Geography	English	60 mins	Like (0 likes)
Documentary series charting the visual appeal and historical meaning of maps. The Hereford Mappa Mundi is the largest intact Medieval wall map in the world and its ambition is breathtaking - to picture all of human knowledge in a single image. The work of a team of artists, the world it portrays is overflowing with life, featuring Classical and Biblical history, contemporary buildings and events, animals and plants from across the globe, and the infamous 'monstrous races' which were believed to inhabit the remotest corners of the Earth. The Mappa Mundi, meaning 'cloth of the world', has spent most of its long life at Hereford Cathedral, rarely emerging from behind its glass case. The programme represents a rare opportunity to get close to the map and explore its detail, giving a unique insight into the Medieval mind. This is also the first programme to show the map in its original glory, revealing the results of a remarkable year-long project by the Folio Society to restore it using the latest digital technology. The map has a chequered history. Since its glory days in the 1300s it has languished forgotten in storerooms, been dismissed as a curious 'monstrosity', and controversially almost sold. Only in the last 20 years have scholars and artists realised its true depth and meaning, with the map exerting an extraordinary power over those who come into contact with it. The programme meets some of these individuals, from scholars and map lovers to Turner Prize-winning artist Grayson Perry, whose own work, the Map of Nowhere, is inspired by the Mappa Mundi. 103	The Beauty of Maps - Episode 01: Medieval Maps - Mapping the Medieval Mind	BBC	Geography	English	30 mins	Like (0 likes)
The British Library is home to a staggering 4.5 million maps, most of which remain hidden away in its colossal basement, and the programme delves behind the scenes to explore some amazing treasures in more detail. This is the story of three maps, three 'visions' of London over three centuries; visions of beauty that celebrate but also distort the truth. It's the story of how urban maps try to impose order on chaos. On Sunday 2 September 1660, the Great Fire of London began reducing most of the city to ashes, and among the huge losses were many maps of the city itself. The Morgan Map of 1682 was the first to show the whole of the City of London after the fire. Consisting of sixteen separate sheets, measuring eight feet by five feet, it took six years to complete. Morgan's beautiful map symbolised the hoped-for ideal city. In 1746 John Rocque produced what was at the time the most detailed map ever made of London. Like Morgan's, Rocque's map is all neo-Classical beauty and clinical precision, but the London it represented had become the opposite. In engravings of the time, such as Night, the artist William Hogarth shows a city boiling with vice and corruption. Stephen Walter's contemporary image, The Island, plays with notions of cartographic order and respectability. His extraordinary London map looks at first glance to be just as precise and ordered as his hero Rocque's but, looking closer, it includes 21st-century markings, such as 'favourite kebab vans' and sites of 'personal heartbreak'. 104	The Beauty of Maps - Episode 02: City Maps - Order out of Chaos	BBC	Geography	English	30 mins	Like (0 likes)
The Dutch Golden Age saw map-making reach a fever pitch of creative and commercial ambition. This was the era of the first ever atlases - elaborate, lavish and beautiful. This was the great age of discovery and marked an unprecedented opportunity for mapmakers, who sought to record and categorise the newly acquired knowledge of the world. Rising above the many mapmakers in this period was Gerard Mercator, inventor of the Mercator projection, who changed mapmaking forever when he published his collection of world maps in 1598 and coined the term 'atlas'. The programme looks at some of the largest and most elaborate maps ever produced, from the vast maps on the floor of the Royal Palace in Amsterdam, to the 24-volume atlas covering just the Netherlands, to the largest atlas in the world, The Klencke Atlas. It was made for Charles II to mark his restoration in 1660. But whilst being one of the British Library's most important items, it is also one of its most fragile, so hardly ever opened. This is a unique opportunity to see inside this enormous and lavish work, and see the world through the eyes of a king. 105	The Beauty of Maps - Episode 03: Atlas Maps - Thinking Big	BBC	Geography	English	30 mins	Like (0 likes)
The series concludes by delving into the world of satirical maps. How did maps take on a new form, not as geographical tools, but as devices for humour, satire or storytelling? Graphic artist Fred Rose perfectly captured the public mood in 1880 with his general election maps featuring Gladstone and Disraeli, using the maps to comment upon crucial election issues still familiar to us today. Technology was on the satirist's side, with the advent of high-speed printing allowing for larger runs at lower cost. In 1877, when Rose produced his Serio Comic Map of Europe at War, maps began to take on a new direction and form, reflecting a changing world. Rose's map exploited these possibilities to the full using a combination of creatures and human figures to represent each European nation. The personification of Russia as a grotesque-looking octopus, extending its tentacles around the surrounding nations, perfectly symbolised the threat the country posed to its neighbours. 106	The Beauty of Maps - Episode 04: Cartoon Maps - Politics and Satire	BBC	Geography	English	30 mins	Like (0 likes)
Poet Roger McGough narrates the extraordinary story of how a simple invention - the shipping container - changed the world forever and forced Britain into the modern era of globalisation. 107	The Box That Changed Britain	Graeme McAulay	Geography	English	60 mins	Like (0 likes)
A history of one of the world's most challenging mountains, the Eiger, and its infamous north face. The film gets to the heart of one of Europe's most notorious peaks, exploring its character and its impact on the people who climb it and live in its awesome shadow. 108	The Eiger Wall of Death	BBC 4	Geography		60 mins	Like (0 likes)
Visible from space, Africa's Great Rift Valley runs three thousand miles from the Red Sea to the mouth of the Zambezi. It's a diverse terrain of erupting volcanoes, forest-clad mountains, spectacular valleys, rolling grasslands, huge lakes and mighty rivers, and is home to crocodiles, hippos, lions, elephants, flocks of flamingos and a diversity of indigenous peoples. Using state-of-the-art high definition filming techniques, this series investigates the geological forces which shaped East Africa's Great Rift, and which make it one of the world's most wildlife-rich landscapes. The valley is the product of deep-seated geological forces which have spewed out a line of cloud-wreathed volcanoes stretching from Ethiopia to Tanzania. Their peaks provide a refuge for East Africa's most extraordinary wildlife, including newly discovered and previously unfilmed species which have evolved surprising survival strategies to cope with their challenging mountain environment. 109	The Great Rift: Africa's Wild Heart - Episode 01: Fire	BBC	Geography	English	60 mins	Like (0 likes)
Visible from space, Africa's Great Rift Valley runs three thousand miles from the Red Sea to the mouth of the Zambezi. It's a diverse terrain of erupting volcanoes, forest-clad mountains, spectacular valleys, rolling grasslands, huge lakes and mighty rivers, and is home to crocodiles, hippos, lions, elephants, flocks of flamingos and a diversity of indigenous peoples. Using state-of-the-art high definition filming techniques, this series investigates the geological forces which shaped East Africa's Great Rift and which make it one of the world's most wildlife-rich landscapes. The Great Rift Valley channels a huge diversity of waterways - rivers, lakes, waterfalls, caustic springs and coral seas - spanning from Egypt to Mozambique. Some lake and ocean deeps harbour previously unseen life-forms, while caustic waters challenge life to the extreme. But where volcanic minerals enrich the Great Rift's waterways, they provide the most spectacular concentrations of birds, mammals and fish in all Africa. 110	The Great Rift: Africa's Wild Heart - Episode 02: Water	BBC	Geography	English	60 mins	Like (0 likes)
Visible from space, Africa's Great Rift Valley runs three thousand miles from the Red Sea to the mouth of the Zambezi. It's a diverse terrain of erupting volcanoes, forest-clad mountains, spectacular valleys, rolling grasslands, huge lakes and mighty rivers, and is home to crocodiles, hippos, lions, elephants, flocks of flamingos and a diversity of indigenous peoples. Using state-of-the-art high definition filming techniques, this series investigates the geological forces which shaped East Africa's Great Rift and which make it one of the world's most wildlife-rich landscapes. The Great Rift Valley provides the stage for an epic battle between trees and grass - its course influenced by volcanic eruptions, landscape and rainfall. On its outcome rests the fate of Africa's great game herds. In the Rift's savannas, grazers and their predators struggle to outwit each other, forcing one group of primates to develop a social system that paved the way for the evolution of mankind. 111	The Great Rift: Africa's Wild Heart - Episode 03: Grass	BBC	Geography	English	60 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. 112	The Nile - Episode 01: Crocodiles and Kings	BBC Natural History Unit	Geography		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. 113	The Nile - Episode 02: The Great Flood	BBC Natural History Unit	Geography		46 mins	Like (0 likes)
From the heart of Africa to the Mediterranean Sea runs the world’s longest river. Since the Egyptians first settled along its banks men have dreamt of discovering where the Nile was born, but for centuries the river kept its secrets close. The obsession grew and by the mid-19th century some were prepared to risk their lives to be the first to discover the source of the Nile. 114	The Nile - Episode 03: The Search for the Source	BBC Natural History Unit	Geography		46 mins	Like (0 likes)
A documentary series in which expert scientific testimony and stunning CGI visuals combine to create the most realistic perfect storms imaginable. This edition speculates on what could happen if a mega-tornado were to strike. 115	The Perfect Disaster - Super Tornado	Channel Five	Geography		59 mins	Like (0 likes)
Andrew Marr looks at life in Britain at the time of the 2011 Census, revealing unexpected trends and facts about a country we only think we know. 116	This is Britain with Andrew Marr	BBC	Geography	English	60 mins	Like (0 likes)
How the biggest international forensic operation in history identified the victims of the most devastating natural disaster of recent times. 117	Tsunami - Naming the Dead	Barbara Flynn	Geography		10 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. 118	Wild China: 01 Heart of the Dragon	BBC	Geography		59 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. 119	Yellowstone - Autumn	BBC 4	Geography	English	58 mins	Like (0 likes)

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