Living Dangerously describes how humans have harnessed the forces of the wild, from the first fire to warm a cave to the unlocking of nuclear power. What is in store for the Earth as we strive to master the forces of the wild?
Heavenly Partners investigates the Earth’s most important neighbors the sun and the moon. These control the seasons and the tides, the very rhythms of life from the high reaches of the Arctic to the super-heated tropics.
Heavenly Partners investigates the Earth’s most important neighbors the sun and the moon. These control the seasons and the tides, the very rhythms of life from the high reaches of the Arctic to the super-heated tropics.
Perpetual Motion explores two great agents of creation and destruction – the atmosphere and the oceans. Together they create the patterns of life from rainforest to desert – and also produce the furies of hurricanes and tornadoes.
In the Beginning is the story of the origin of our solar system and the formation of our planet. Gorgeous visual images clearly illustrate the long geological history of ice and fire which formed the Earth’s crust, spawned volcanoes, created our atm
Scientists teach a gorilla to use sign language to communicate with them; narrator Martin Sheen.
Individuals care for a population of once-captive chimpanzees that scientists used for research.
A band of young scientists discovers a radical new theory of the natural world.
The current threats by man to five endangered species of rhino are contrasted with its flourishing history.
A newborn fawn faces the challenges of growing up, learning about life and outwitting predators.
Explores relationships within a wild-dog pack.
Diverse plants and animals have adapted to the harsh climatic conditions of southwest Africa.
Capture the interaction between the Kalahari Desert and the Okavango River delta.
Watch as the Kalahari swarms with life brought forth by a brief season of sudden storms.
Undisturbed the saguaro cactus can grow to 60 feet, weigh 10 tons and live 150 years.
The history of diamonds, from their beginnings in the earth's core to mining and acquisition.
How wildlife and animal life survive in a severe landscape with temperatures well above 115 degrees.
The 1883 eruption of Krakatau.
Animals endure hostile environment of South Africa's Drakensberg Mountains.
Volcanoes, monstrous waves and whales of Hawaii.