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Series
Ultimate nature collection volume 2
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Follow the journey of a rebel named Black Wolf who breaks from his pack and survives to be one of the oldest wolves in Yellowstone. He'll travel paved roads most wolves avoid at all costs as he ventures out to mate with a rival pack's females. At nearly twice the age most wolves reach, Black Wolf's unorthodox lifestyle likely means he has more pups than any wolf in Yellowstone. National Geographic cameras capture the action when he finally achieves...
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
In this double feature, National Geographic explores the amazing and secret world of the great apes. Mystery gorillas: Join primatologist Mireya Mayor at the heart of the jungle to explore the great apes' secret world. Search for the great apes: Join Dian Fossey and Biruté Galdikas to better understand the mountain gorilla and the elusive orangutan.
Series
Language
English
Description
Global warming is transforming Glacier National Park, as its inhabitants₂ race to adapt. As melting glaciers push some wildlife to the brink of extinction, other animals battle tirelessly to persist despite the rapidly warming environment in what is truly one of America's wildest spaces. When arriving at Blackfoot Glacier once one of the park's largest witness the transformation taking place, from disappearing waterfalls to the newly uncovered sculpted...
Series
Ultimate nature collection volume 2
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Meet the largest carnivore on Earth: the great Kodiak bear. Travel to Alaska's Kodiak Island where 4,000-foot mountains rise up along hundreds of miles of jagged coastline. Hike these ancient feeding trails where bears as big as 1,500 pounds gorge on berries and roll down salmon-rich rivers past cubs learning to fish. Renowned wildlife filmmaker Wolfgang Bayer even takes you inside a den. Plus, witness dramatic home videos of dangerous tourist encounters...
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
Experience the wildlife and natural history of Yellowstone, told with a fresh voice, tuned to the experience of extremes. With gorgeous visuals, captured with revolutionary new cinematic tools and techniques, this show conveys the immersive intimacy and epic scale of this remarkable global destination. This is a land of fire and ice. A world at once unimaginably ancient and dynamically alive.
Series
Language
English
Description
Explores the unspoiled wilderness of Tierra del Fuego, an island at the southern tip of Patagonia in South America. Shows the Magellanic penguins, elephant seals, right whales, and guanacos, who inhabit this stark, wind-whipped wilderness. Looks at the challenges they and their homeland face from human actions.
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Animal enthusiast Peter Gaulke and his sidekick Fred Wolf host an ailing wildlife television show called Strange Wilderness. The program is in a steep ratings decline. Desperate to save the show, Peter devises an incredible scheme to find the one animal that could truly turn the show around and change the nature-show landscape forever - Bigfoot.
Language
English
Formats
Description
For 65 million years, Madagascar was lost to the world, isolated, undiscovered, and untouched by humans. Left to its own devices it became a hotbed of evolution, resulting in the greatest concentration of unique creatures anywhere on the planet. More than 80% of Madagascar's animals and plants are found nowhere else on Earth. Recognized as one of the world's most important biodiversity hotspots.
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Travel with renowned photographer Joel Sartore as he photographs at-risk and rare species in the wild, in zoos, and in nature preserves. The three-part series explores his Photo Ark initiative, which aims to document every species at risk of extinction. The captivating and visually stunning special will reveal why ensuring species future matters to everyone.
11) Life
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
[Original UK broadcast version].
Language
English
Description
Four years in the making, and filmed over 3000 days across every continent and in every habitat, see 130 incredible stories from frontiers of the natural world. Discover the glorious variety of life on Earth and the spectacular and extraordinary tactics animals and plants have developed to stay alive. This is evolution in action: individual creatures under extreme pressure to overcome challenges from adversaries and their environment.
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Formats
Description
The American Buffalo delves into over 10,000 years of North American history, exploring the evolution and significance of buffalo to Native American people on the Great Plains and highlighting the near-extinction of the American buffalo, driven by factors such as the buffalo robe trade, westward expansion, diseases, and drought. The second episode follows a diverse group, including Theodore Roosevelt and Charles Goodnight, in their efforts to rescue...
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Travel all over the world with Martin and Chris Kratt, award-winning wildlife filmmakers, as they live with the animals on their turf seeking to understand what it's like to Be the Creature. Features wild dogs, lions, killer whales, grizzlies and more. As seen on National Geographic Channel.
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Hummingbirds are the tiniest of birds, yet they are some of the toughest creatures on the planet. Using cameras able to capture over 500 images a second, the hummingbirds' magical world can finally be seen and appreciated. Nature reveals their stunning abilities as they have never been seen before. Narrated by F. Murray Abraham.
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Follow nature photographer Michael Forsberg as he examines the remaining wilderness in the Great Plains of North America. Featuring stunning imagery, the program is based on Forsberg's book of the same name. Less than 200 years ago, the Great Plains was one of the greatest grassland ecosystems on Earth, stretching nearly a million square miles down the heart of the continent. But as America grew, and the land was settled and tamed, the wilderness...
Series
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
The loneliest animals: Follows the plight of several unique, charismatic species and the struggles of the dedicated conservationists who fight for them.
Frogs: the thin green line: Frogs, existing on this planet for more than 250 million years, are today considered to be at the center of a great mass extinction of amphibians. A fungus called chytrid has been identified as the major culprit, but no methon has yet been found to stop it.
Series
Blue planet volume 2
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
David Attenborough returns to the world's oceans in this sequel to the acclaimed documentary filming rare and unusual creatures of the deep, as well as documenting the problems our oceans face.
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
The Cheetah Orphans: veteran filmmaker Simon King takes on the role of mother to two cheetah cubs, Toki and Sambu. The Desert Lions: Dr. Philip (Flip) Stander, carnivore specialist seeks out the world's most extraordinary population of lions who live in the Namib Desert on Africa's wild and forbidding coast.
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