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Wild Faces of Switzerland

The ibex, marmot, and European adder have all developed strategies to survive the alpine winter.

2025-12-25 21:23:04 +0000 UTC → 2025-12-25 22:26:02 +0000 UTC (1h2m)

Wild Faces of Switzerland

Get to know a comparatively unknown corner of Switzerland, the Jura region. The film is a journey of discovery into almost untouched nature in the change of the seasons. The Jura Mountains are the little brother of the Alps

2025-12-25 20:19:47 +0000 UTC → 2025-12-25 21:23:04 +0000 UTC (1h3m)

Wild America

Part 2 continues to explore the wild turkey as one of game management's greatest success stories. Our traditional symbol of Nature's abundance was once feared to be gone as a gamebird due to overhunting by humans and a loss of their habitat.

2025-12-25 19:42:56 +0000 UTC → 2025-12-25 20:19:47 +0000 UTC (36m)

Wild America

A creature chosen by the Pilgrims for the first Thanksgiving meal that's now a rarity in Nature. Our largest gamebird with its flamboyant courtship.

2025-12-25 19:06:07 +0000 UTC → 2025-12-25 19:42:56 +0000 UTC (36m)

Wild America

We're fascinated by the Jaguar's spots, the Skunk's stripes, and the Raccoon's mask and Ringtailed. Maybe it's because these characteristic markings enable us to identify them easier and they even add an extra dimension to their personalities.

2025-12-25 18:29:16 +0000 UTC → 2025-12-25 19:06:07 +0000 UTC (36m)

Wild America

This medium sized rodent lives anywhere it can find plant food and still water. A diligent worker, it's always swimming, digging, or eating. Beady eyed and all business, it can be quarrelsome.

2025-12-25 17:52:25 +0000 UTC → 2025-12-25 18:29:16 +0000 UTC (36m)

Wild America

Managing wildlife most often means managing humans -- the primary predator in virtually all our ecosystems. Through this complex, but vital, process, we constantly try to balance our own conflicting interests with those of our native wild creatures.

2025-12-25 17:15:35 +0000 UTC → 2025-12-25 17:52:25 +0000 UTC (36m)

Wild America

From the Arctic Ground Squirrel of Alaska and the Golden-mantled of the Rockies to the ubiquitous Prairie Dog, our concealed cameras shed light on why these under-appreciated little critters allow us all to enjoy Nature's most magnificent species.

2025-12-25 16:38:43 +0000 UTC → 2025-12-25 17:15:35 +0000 UTC (36m)

Wild America

In French, the Fox is called "Reynard", meaning "unconquerable through his cleverness". Is this charming canid as crafty as the fables portray? Does it deserve its reputation as henhouse bandit?

2025-12-25 16:01:50 +0000 UTC → 2025-12-25 16:38:43 +0000 UTC (36m)

Wild America

Elegant and graceful, the Lynx is one of Nature's finest physical specimens. Its primary quarry is the elusive Snowshoe Hare. This fascinating, unexplained phenomenon is only one of many mysteries in the Great North Woods.

2025-12-25 09:52:52 +0000 UTC → 2025-12-25 10:29:45 +0000 UTC (36m)

Wild America

Through the night, a ravenous predator stalks its unwary prey. With a swift bite to the skull, it slays the victim, then throws back its head and howls.

2025-12-25 09:16:02 +0000 UTC → 2025-12-25 09:52:52 +0000 UTC (36m)

Wild America

Intimately linked together are two birds -- the speedy Goshawk and the alert Ruffed Grouse. Many predators pursue the Grouse, but none is so well-adapted to catch it as the Goshawk.

2025-12-25 08:39:09 +0000 UTC → 2025-12-25 09:16:02 +0000 UTC (36m)

Wild America

Prey can become play, for this solitary hunter sometimes pesters its captured quarry to death. Easily confused with its cousin, the Lynx, the Bobcat flourishes in close proximity to humans.

2025-12-25 08:02:16 +0000 UTC → 2025-12-25 08:39:09 +0000 UTC (36m)

Unearth

Experts explain our history and evolution of Earth over its 4 billion year history and take us through to the current emergency where humans may be one of the species to become extinct.

2025-12-25 07:00:35 +0000 UTC → 2025-12-25 08:02:16 +0000 UTC (1h1m)

Unearth

We look closely at the search within our solar system, Mars, Titan and the ice moons. Speaking with experts in their fields of Mars robotic missions, Nuclear scientists probing the structure of ice on the distant moons.

2025-12-25 06:00:00 +0000 UTC → 2025-12-25 07:00:35 +0000 UTC (1h)

Space Greed

Human needs have always created opportunities for human greed. And energy might be the most crucial need of all. Could we end up paying a subscription fee for sunlight?

2025-12-25 05:45:56 +0000 UTC → 2025-12-25 06:00:00 +0000 UTC (14m)

Space Greed

Space is home to crucial resources, important discoveries, and big potential profit.

2025-12-25 05:32:56 +0000 UTC → 2025-12-25 05:45:56 +0000 UTC (13m)

The New Frontier

Asteroids, the debris from the early solar system hold tantalizing clues to planetary formation. The spacecraft Psyche readies to study a unique metallic asteroid. As Lucy is on its way to the trojan asteroids that share Jupiter's orbit.

2025-12-25 05:02:51 +0000 UTC → 2025-12-25 05:32:56 +0000 UTC (30m)

The New Frontier

The ISS is the workhorse of the international spacefaring community, but its days are numbered. Replacement space stations are on the drawing board. However, with commercial interests these stations will add tourism and manufacturing to the mix.

2025-12-25 04:32:48 +0000 UTC → 2025-12-25 05:02:51 +0000 UTC (30m)

The New Frontier

Venus once may have been as hospitable to life as Earth is now. Then something changed and Venus became shrouded in hot dense toxic clouds. There are now plans to send advanced probes to the surface of Venus and find out what happened to our twin.

2025-12-25 04:03:12 +0000 UTC → 2025-12-25 04:32:48 +0000 UTC (29m)