Dark fears over the North Pole. Long sheltered from large-scale industrial exploitation, the Arctic is now at risk of becoming the last El Dorado for major oil companies. This, combined with the melting of ice caused by global warming, poses enormous ecological risks: the impact of an oil spill, for example, would be incomparably more serious in this extreme climate than in any other part of the world.
Liz Bonnin introduces a cast of charismatic animals to reveal the remarkable strategies they use to ...
Against the backdrop of the sixth mass extinction, an all-woman team of biologists set out to save b...
In a dark, ambiguous environment, minuscule particles drift slowly before the lens. The image focuse...
Every year, thousands of Antarctica's emperor penguins make an astonishing journey to breed their yo...
Filmmakers Alastair Fothergill and Keith Scholey chronicle a year in the lives of an Alaskan brown b...
The culture of Japan is incredible, from bloom festivals to ultra-modern cities. But there are also ...
A documentary on Al Gore's campaign to make the issue of global warming a recognized problem worldwi...
Consisting of a single shot, Spiders on a Web is one of the earliest British examples of close-up na...
Once there was an age of ice but it is disappearing. This is a lyrical and thought-provoking film ab...
Costa Rica's motto is Pura Vida - Pure Life - and this deceptively small country is bursting with so...
This documentary film is about wolves and the negative myths surrounding the animal. Exceptional foo...
Ida, the grandniece of Simona Kossak, travels to the Bialowieza Forest at the Polish-Belarussian bor...
Werner Herzog's documentary film about the "Grizzly Man" Timothy Treadwell and what the thirteen sum...
A glimpse into the raw and simple power of nature through encounters with farm animals: the eponymou...
This pioneering documentary film depicts the lives of the indigenous Inuit people of Canada's northe...
An epic documentary film that sends nine scientists to extraordinary parts of the world to uncover u...