Seasons & episodes

A focus on the prospect of gold in the new world, and the Spanish exploration of Florida in search of that alluring metal.

An exploration of the Great Plains of North American from the Lewis and Clark expedition through to the present day.

A focus on the Rocky Mountains and Yellowstone National Park.

A look at life in the Sonoran Desert.

Exploring the people and wildlife of Alaska.

This last episode in the miniseries looks at the landscape and wildlife of California.

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S10 · E14Horse Tigers 1992-01-05 · 53 min＋

This program follows a herd of zebras along their yearly migration route through the African plains.

Follows the yearly migration of the caribou of Alaska and the Yukon Territory in an effort to find suitable birthing grounds, all will trying to avoid wolves and other predators.

India's remote Ladakh region in the Himalaya Mountains, home to the snow leopard and other rare wildlife.

Chimpanzees and other primates survive on Tiwai, an Upper Guinea island where witchcraft and taboos still exist.

Roger Tory Peterson's fight to save America's birds and their habitats.

The life cycle of a female northern elephant seal is documented.

S10 · E20Dolphins: Close Encounters 1992-03-08 · 53 min＋

Explores the lives of dolphins all around the world, and the scientists who are trying to communicate with them.

Loggers and conservationists have conflicting plans for ancient forests of redwoods, Douglas firs, hemlocks and Sitka spruce trees along the Northern Pacific rim.

This miniseries starts off by exploring the abundance of wildlife around the Volga Delta in Russia’s Astrakhan region.

An exploration of the wildlife of the Russian Arctic, and in particular Wrangle Island, featuring polar bears, musk oxen, Ross’s Gulls, reindeer, foxes, walruses, and the Red-breasted Goose.

A focus on the wildlife of the Central Asian deserts.

Between China and Central Asia is the Tian Shan mountain range, home to Marco Polo sheep, white-clawed bears, snow leopards, yaks, and the ibex.

A look at the wildlife in the huge Siberia forest reveals bears, elk, wolves, and musk deer among many other creatures in this frozen expanse.

This last program in the miniseries explores Kamchatka Peninsula where the Russian Arctic meets Southeast Asia. Home to perhaps the highest concentration of volcanoes in the world, this remote region is teeming with life both on land and in the sea, from the Amur Tiger to the Giant Pacific Octopus.

Fish, bats, birds, whales, giant squids, sharks, dolphins, sea lions and more flourish in and around the Sea of Cortez.

The African Blackwood is prized the world over for its wood in the making of musical instruments. Nature takes you on a journey through the history of this “tree of music” and into modern day efforts in Tanzania to save this ever dwindling resource.

Get right inside the hives of bees and wasps to see the inner workings of these complex societies.