Natural World
TV-PG
8.6
1983
Documentary
Natural World is a nature documentary television series broadcast annually on BBC Two and regarded by the BBC as its flagship natural history brand. It is currently the longest-running series in its genre on British television, with more than 400 episodes broadcast since its inception in 1983. Natural World is produced by the BBC Natural History Unit in Bristol, but individual programmes can be in-house productions, collaborative productions with other broadcasters or films made and distributed by independent production companies and purchased by the BBC. Natural World programmes are often broadcast as PBS Nature episodes in the USA. Since 2008, most Natural World programmes have been shot and broadcast in high definition.
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- Cast:
- David Attenborough , John Hannah , Juliet Stevenson
Episode 17 : Echo of the Elephants: Africa's Forgotten Elephants
April. 06,1997
Following film-maker Cynthia Moss in her search for the unknown elephants of Africa.
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Episode 15 : Postcards From the Past
March. 16,1997
Examines the landsacpe of the British isles and how it has been affected by its journey from the South Pole where it was located 600 million years ago.
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Episode 14 : The Wild Dog's Last Stand
March. 09,1997
Looks at the wilderness existence of packs of African wild dogs, filmed in Selous Game Reserve in Tanzania and Kruger National Park in South Africa. Shows their hunting techniques, peculiar social lives and co-operative behavioural habits. They are considered to be one of the world's most endangered species.
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Episode 13 : New Guinea: An Island Apart
March. 02,1997
New Guinea is the world's largest tropical island and is home to one of the most unusual collections of animals and plants on earth.
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Episode 12 : Wings Over the Serengeti
February. 23,1997
Documentary on the vultures who live on the plains of the Serengeti in Africa.
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Episode 11 : Grand Canyon: From Dinosaurs to Dam
February. 16,1997
Looks at the wildlife that inhabits the Grand Canyon today, and how the ecology of the area has been affected by the building of two huge dams. Originally home to dinosaurs, it is now occupied by a strange mixture of species from bighorn sheep to ravens, lizards and tarantulas.
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Episode 9 : Benguela and the Burning Shore
January. 26,1997
Documentary looking at the wildlife found in the Namib Desert in Africa- where baking sand dunes lie beside an ocean cooled by an icy current - The Benguela.
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Episode 8 : Wolves and Buffalo: an Ancient Alliance
January. 19,1997
Documentary on the Wood Buffalo National Park in Northern Alberta in Canada. Follows the buffalo herds in the last place where they roam freely and the timber wolves who prey on them.
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Episode 7 : Himalaya
November. 17,1996
Documentary about the geological and natural history of the Himalayas, the highest and youngest mountain range in the world. The landscape is home to a remarkable diversity of wildlife, including red pandas, snow leopards and iridescent pheasants.
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Episode 6 : The World in a Wood
November. 10,1996
An investigation into Wytham Wood outside Oxford, which has been studied by biologists for more than fifty years to examine the dependence between plants and animals.
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Episode 5 : Beetlemania
November. 03,1996
Documentary investigating beetles - which account for a quarter of all animals on earth.
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Episode 4 : Mandrills: Painted Faces of the Forest
October. 27,1996
A look at the complex social behaviour of a mandrill troop in Gabon, West Africa and associated rainforest species - many of which are relatively unknown.
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Episode 3 : Penguins In and Out of Water
October. 20,1996
Documentary on penguins- not looking at their traditionally viewed habitat Antartica, but at those penguins who have adapted to life in the deserts of Peru, and the cities of New Zealand.
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