Documentaries
Primeval New Zealand
A place where wild meets weird – and nothing is quite what it seems. Presenter Peter Elliott unravels the ancient past of New Zealand revealing astonishing new facts about the origins of our iconic animals. Be prepared to be shocked.
Predator or Prey
Life in the ocean is a constant battle to eat but not get eaten, to find a mate, to pass on your genes to the next generation…to survive.
Islands of Life
Pacific Islands range from coral atolls and smoking volcanoes to pieces of a lost continent. Discover the wildest stories of adaptation and survival on these Islands of Life.
Predator Battleground
South America’s Weirdest Animals is a 3-part series about South America’s wildest, weirdest and the most diverse animal life – from northern reaches of Colombia to the southern tip of Argentina and Chile.
Land of Giants and Pygmies
South America’s Weirdest Animals is a 3-part series about South America’s wildest, weirdest and the most diverse animal life – from northern reaches of Colombia to the southern tip of Argentina and Chile.
Wild Mutants
South America’s Weirdest Animals is a 3-part series about South America’s wildest, weirdest and the most diverse animal life – from northern reaches of Colombia to the southern tip of Argentina and Chile.
Panda Nursery
Witness an amazing partnership between humans and pandas as together they raise two tiny twin cubs in an effort to increase the world’s wild panda population.
Top Picks
Poor Knights Islands
New Zealand’s Poor Knights Islands is considered one of the world’s top dive sites and for good reason, with a rich collection of extraordinary characters and bizarre behaviors, including a unique congregation of stingrays and sex-changing Sandagers Wrasse.
Reefs of Riches
A mysterious and beautiful life form, the Pacific’s coral reefs are challenging the very definition of what makes a species.
Paradox of the Andes
Ecuador’s Andes are mountains of paradox, where tropical species live alongside ice age relics in an unpredictable alpine desert.
Series
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Primeval New Zealand
A place where wild meets weird – and nothing is quite what it seems. Presenter Peter Elliott unravels the ancient past of New Zealand revealing astonishing new facts about the origins of our iconic animals. Be prepared to be shocked.
Predator or Prey
Life in the ocean is a constant battle to eat but not get eaten, to find a mate, to pass on your genes to the next generation…to survive.
Islands of Life
Pacific Islands range from coral atolls and smoking volcanoes to pieces of a lost continent. Discover the wildest stories of adaptation and survival on these Islands of Life.
Predator Battleground
South America’s Weirdest Animals is a 3-part series about South America’s wildest, weirdest and the most diverse animal life – from northern reaches of Colombia to the southern tip of Argentina and Chile.
Land of Giants and Pygmies
South America’s Weirdest Animals is a 3-part series about South America’s wildest, weirdest and the most diverse animal life – from northern reaches of Colombia to the southern tip of Argentina and Chile.
Wild Mutants
South America’s Weirdest Animals is a 3-part series about South America’s wildest, weirdest and the most diverse animal life – from northern reaches of Colombia to the southern tip of Argentina and Chile.
Panda Nursery
Witness an amazing partnership between humans and pandas as together they raise two tiny twin cubs in an effort to increase the world’s wild panda population.
Shorts
Environment
Megastructures: Singapore’s Vegas
Singapore’s Marina Bay Sands is one of the world’s most complicated construction projects.
Megastructures: Shanghai Super Tower
What do you get if you take sixty thousand tons of steel, 260,000 cubic meters of concrete, 2000 dedicated Chinese workers and the best design brains in the business? The Shanghai World Financial Center (SWFC).
Megastructures: China’s Ultimate Port
Over the centuries China has produced some of the world’s greatest engineering feats from The Great Wall to The Forbidden City. The Deep Water Port at Yangshan is on track to becoming China’s latest record breaking construction feat as the biggest deep water port ever built.
Man Made Marvels: The World’s Highest Railway
Faced with the perils of permafrost and the threat of earthquakes a team of engineers race to build a railway across the roof of the world at extreme altitude.
History
A song for Pakiri
Laly Haddon and daughter Olivia grew up on the pearly sands of their turangawaewae at Pakiri, and have witnessed radical change.
The Curse of the Elephant Man
Joseph Merrick, the Elephant Man, was the most shockingly disfigured person in history. This compelling detective story uses forensic and genetic science to provide insights never before revealed about his tragic condition, and modern imaging techniques to reconstruct the face of the man beneath the deformities.
Treasure and Death—Secrets of a Moche Tomb
As archaeologists uncover ancient Peruvian tombs they piece together the mysterious lives and savage deaths of one of America’s most brilliant civilisations, the Moche.
Hong Kong Garrison – The Making of a Soldier
Through the eyes of two new recruits, we go behind the lines of the People’s Liberation Army in China to experience what it takes to become a member of Hong Kong’s defence force.
Pregnancy
Pregnancy and childbirth make up an area of medicine that has suffered greatly from social, medical, religious and historical whims and misconceptions. This episode takes viewers on a journey through medical history from the ancient Egyptians, who linked fertility with the flooding of the Nile, to the dark ages when midwives were seen as witches and burned at the stake.
My Favourite Monkey
Find out why macaques have become the world’s most successful monkey, and how they play a part in human cultures everywhere.
Turning Back Time
The story of the Pacific Island nation of Vanuatu—one of only a few isolated places on Earth where many people still live as they did thousands of years ago and others are returning to the old way.
Cradle of the Storms (Part Two)
The Aleutians: Cradle of the Storms, is a two part series that tells the absorbing story of an island chain and its people who have endured and survived wave after wave of invaders. In Part Two we pick up the story of the Native Aleuts as the violence of a world at war arrives on their islands.
Living World
Primeval New Zealand
A place where wild meets weird – and nothing is quite what it seems. Presenter Peter Elliott unravels the ancient past of New Zealand revealing astonishing new facts about the origins of our iconic animals. Be prepared to be shocked.
Predator or Prey
Life in the ocean is a constant battle to eat but not get eaten, to find a mate, to pass on your genes to the next generation…to survive.
Predator Battleground
South America’s Weirdest Animals is a 3-part series about South America’s wildest, weirdest and the most diverse animal life – from northern reaches of Colombia to the southern tip of Argentina and Chile.
Land of Giants and Pygmies
South America’s Weirdest Animals is a 3-part series about South America’s wildest, weirdest and the most diverse animal life – from northern reaches of Colombia to the southern tip of Argentina and Chile.
Wild Mutants
South America’s Weirdest Animals is a 3-part series about South America’s wildest, weirdest and the most diverse animal life – from northern reaches of Colombia to the southern tip of Argentina and Chile.
Panda Nursery
Witness an amazing partnership between humans and pandas as together they raise two tiny twin cubs in an effort to increase the world’s wild panda population.
Aerial Assassins
Extreme birder James Currie sets out to find the sky wolves of Arizona, the Harris Hawk – in the depths of the Sonoran desert.
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