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- A sequel to the 2001's "Mr. Bones," which follows the further adventures of a white African witch doctor.
- This is a powerful documentary, filmed over a 16 year span, about the rise of a Coalition of six lions, branded The Mapogo Lions, and their takeover of the largest territory by a pride.
- Africa is a land sculpted by time where animals have evolved complex weapons to arm them in the battle to live another day. An elephant's tusks can defend, or attack. An octopus uses camouflage to find food, or hide from an enemy. A Cape Fur Seal's speed and agility are valuable tools to catch a penguin, but ineffectual against a Great White Shark. A single hippopotamus holds a pride of twelve lions at bay with his sheer bulk, but backs down when faced with the piercing teeth of another hippo. With lethal weapons wielded by fearsome predators and prey, animals walk a precarious path, here among Africa's Deadliest.
- Animal Fight Night features battles between some of the biggest, baddest and often surprising fighters in the wild. National Geographic dissects the science behind the fight tactics and weapons that human champions wouldn't and couldn't employ.
- A burdened young man finds a troubled horse and contacts a South African horse whisperer for help. The horse whisperer leads the pair down a path of redemption where they heal each other. Inspired by actual events.
- A troubled young man has a series of dreams in which he is a combat soldier in the South African Bush War, where he meets his father at the same age. Getting to know him gives the son insight and compassion, and he is able to let go of life-long feelings of abandonment and anger, which leads to forgiveness and a real-life reconciliation.
- A faraway war - A clash of ideologies - And some of the biggest battles fought on African soil since World War Two.
- While that rich American dentist and the hunting industry at large scramble for excuses and justifications for their actions, your rivals will already have killed your cubs and settled into your territory. Yes, those weak ones who could not challenge you now run your kingdom.
- In worn-torn Afghanistan, young marine Tyler's life is changed when he is saved by a fellow soldier, Quincy, who dies in doing so. Before he dies, he asks Tyler to find his sister who works in Africa. Tyler, torn with guilt, needs to find a way from behind enemy lines to get to Quincy's sister who is running a Christian Mission in Ethiopia, along with her husband, an ex-Marine cowboy-turned-Pastor, where they care for the desperate local people who are constantly terrorized by crazed guerrilla fighters.
- There is a mystery behind that masked grey visage, and ancient life force, delicate and mighty, awesome and enchanted, commanding the silence ordinarily reserved for mountain peaks, great fires, and the sea.
- The rivers of Africa burst with life- invigorating the landscape and providing a bounty for the animals that depend on them for their survival. The seven mighty rivers punctuate the seasons and shape the lives of everything they touch. Whether these rivers are in flow or in retreat, life must still go on- for the animals every dry season is a test of their strength but when the rains pour and the rivers flow they bring with them a time of birth and renewal- for where there is water- there is life.
- Africa's rivers are the wildest places on our planet. Bursting with life, they are home to an array of wildlife who depend on the rivers for their survival.
- Abandoned by her mother, a young lion cub is discovered by a John "JV" Varty and delivered to wildlife writer Gillian Van Houten to raise. This is the fascinating story, of Shingalana: the little hunter's life from infancy to adulthood.
- The mysterious jungles of Thailand are home to some of the rarest wild cats on earth - the Clouded Leopard, The Asian Leopard, The Indian Fishing Cat and the Indo Chinese Tiger. In one of the last truly wild corners of the world this extraordinary collection of secretive predators defend their last remaining stronghold. As their territories intertwine and continuously shift, these cats must cheat death on a daily basis if they are to survive and thrive out in these tangled lands.
- A documentary that focuses on how animals born with unusual colours have a much harder struggle than normal. Follow white lions, a white baboon and a yellow crocodile.
- The dry season is always a struggle for the animals in the in the Luangwa Valley in Zambia - forced to share the last remaining water in the river. This is most strongly felt by the hippo population as they continually need to submerge their overheating bodies. This year the low river will be the least of their worries: An unseen killer is waiting to attack. The congested river and extreme circumstances provide the perfect conditions for an Anthrax epidemic to strike. Before the return of the rains the dominant hippo bull will witness the devastation of a fifth of his pod. This season a young mother and her calf and two brothers must negotiate these terrible odds and try to survive this...Hippo Hell.
- The annual sardine migration up the eastern coast of South Africa creates a moving feast of billions of tiny fish for one of the most diverse shark populations on the planet
- This is the story of the lonely inhabitants of the edge of Botswana's enormous and desolate Pans. The elusive Brown Hyena lives here all year round, but its territory visited by flamingoes, wildebeest zebra and smaller antelopes. During the dry season, time is challenging for the hyena, but when the brief rains spur on the flash floods, the pans come alive with birds and mammals, which in turn are followed by hunters. It is a story of survival in a harsh land and making the most of its resources. Nothing goes to waste, and the hyena eats anything it can scavenge on, bringing back skin, bones and feathers to line its den, home to a small litter of pups. We will follow this elusive and endangered animal and take a glimpse into its struggle for survival.
- Don't blink, don't scream and whatever you do, don't forget to press 'record'.
- A haunting roar echoes across the Liuwa Plain. There is no answer, there hasn't been for years. She has no pride, no support - she alone must safeguard her own survival. She is Lady Liuwa, the Last Lioness.
- Reputed as one of Africa's deadliest animals, buffalo are one of the fiercest and most powerful members of the Big 5. Their volatile tempers and tendency to charge and gore their opponents with their enormous horns ensures that few predators will take them on. Even lions, Africa's most notorious predators, scatter before their hooves! But there is a greater threat than predators facing the buffalo herds.... Two years ago they might have gored him; now they eat out of his hands. Lindsay Hunt has wound his way deep into the buffalo world, to earn the trust of one of Africa's most fearsome beasts. In the face of devastating disease epidemics, he has devoted his life to fighting for the buffalo on every front. Lindsay Hunt is the 'Buffalo Warrior.'
- Africa's Deserts are hostile and unforgiving realms, in which all living things bow to the power of the elements. These formidable landscapes, with their near total lack of resources, have forged creatures unlike any other on earth. In Untamed Africa: Deserts, animal encounters reveal the astonishing adaptations of and struggles faced by the inhabitants of a world devoid of most life.
- Lazy relatives. Jealous neighbors. Runaway kids. The everyday troubles of one family - except this family is a pride of lions. Shot over three years during the most extreme seasonal changes in Africa, the film follows Mfumu - the pride's leader - as he struggles to defend his turf, and his mate Chipazuwa as she tries to produce offspring. Among the threats: a river infested with crocodiles that have taken every litter of cubs -- and a rival male, bent on taking over the pride.
- A war is raging just outside Johannesburg, South Africa. Each year, nearly 700 rhinos fall prey to poachers over the commercial demand for rhino horns, an exotic commodity more valuable than gold. With park rangers being murdered trying to protect the wildlife, former U.S. Special Operatives go on the front lines to help defeat the poachers before the rhinos become extinct.
- Blue Reef Adventures is a dive adventure series showing South African wildlife filmmakers, Peter and Stefania Lamberti, travelling to the most exciting dive destinations that Africa and the Indian Ocean Islands have to offer. Encounter astounding and perilous marine life as they explore breathtaking underwater locations from diving with great white sharks off the Cape coast to exploring the shipwrecks of the Red Sea. Join them as they search for the elusive ornate eagle ray of the Maldives and squadrons of hammerhead sharks in Sudan. They brave the deep blue waters of the Indian Ocean in search of the silver tip sharks in the Mozambique Channel as well as the ragged tooth sharks of Aliwal Shoal. Peter and Stefania investigate and dive with the diamond divers, who risk their lives braving the rough seas to retrieve diamonds off the ocean floor. They witness the world's deepest diver, Nuno Gomes, breaking the world record, reaching a depth of almost 300 metres below the water, followed by a gruelling 12-hour journey back to the surface. Not all of these diving adventures are dangerous, our explorers join the gentle whale sharks as they journey down the east coast of Southern Africa, following the plankton rich waters. They glory in the schools of friendly dolphins. This marine mammal strikes the heart of most people and these intelligent creatures seem to enjoy the company of humans, swimming up to them and even riding in the bow waves of their boats. They observe the sea turtles, under severe threat of extinction. Here these two adventurers find the few places where turtles are thriving, witnessing how laboriously the turtle digs her nest to lay eggs, the hatchlings finally emerging and making a perilous dash for the sea. They revel in a stunning underwater interlude with the graceful Manta rays 'flying' through waters with perfect coral reefs and an infinite array of tropical fish.
- life is hard for inhabitants of luangwa valley during the dry season with intence competition for food and water supplies dangerously low as well as outwitting their predators
- Aerial Africa reveals the fascinating stories you'd never find if you weren't in the air.
- Every day a struggle for survival, keeping out of the way of massive bulls or escaping the razor-sharp teeth of great white sharks. This is the story of a courageous seal braving the ocean and its perils.
- Are sharks really out to get us? Are these predators mindless man eaters demonized by the popular media and movies like "Jaws"? That's the driving question behind this high-adrenaline, two-hour live National Geographic event. Shark Attack Experiment: LIVE! will beam from the world's most shark-infested location off the coast of South Africa. Here, a team of free-diving shark junkies and conservationists put their own safety on the line to run a series of hi-tech tests to separate shark attack myths from realities. Also on location during Shark Attack Experiment: LIVE! are shark attack survivors willing to tell their stories and enter the water, some for the first time since their traumatic encounters. Their objective is no stunt; their goal is to raise public awareness that the world's shark species are being destroyed by over-fishing.
- Not only is Zimbabwe's Hwange National park home to the world's largest concentration of elephants and wild dog's but it also supports more then 300 lions, which feast on an unusual abundance of herbivore prey.
- On the final day of his vacation in Palau, National Geographic research grantee and world-renowned paleoanthropologist Lee Berger accompanies a local guide to a hidden cave where he discovers a cache of fossilized human remains. Berger returns to the cave six weeks later with a team of elite scientists and finds not just one human skeleton, but several, unlike any he has ever seen. Measurements show that these people were some of the smallest humans to walk the earth, but they had enormous teeth. Has Berger discovered a lost human species or a tribe of mutants? The story of human evolution is filled with unexpected twists and turns. In 2004, a groundbreaking discovery made headlines around the world when scientists revealed evidence of a lost human species on the remote Indonesian island of Flores. Researchers believe Homo floresiensis, nicknamed "The Hobbit," shared the earth with modern humans for at least 80,000 years. Is it possible that a wandering tribe of hobbit-like humans made their way 1,800 miles from Flores to Palau?
- This is the story of an incredible place where predators thrive, in particular, where the apex predators of the river meet the most powerful predators of the ocean. Kosi Bay is a beautiful estuarine system in Southern Africa. Predators of all sizes lurk throughout these varied habitats and the greatest of them all come face to face where the fresh waters of the lakes meet the sea, the crocodile and the Zambezi or bull shark.
- On the northern bank of the Sand River in the Mala-Mala Game Reserve in South Africa, seven magnificent creatures reside in an area the size of Manhattan Island. Tracking them for 24 hours reveals a never-ending daily drama.
- On Botswana's Linyanti Plains, a band of brothers reigns amongst the top predators: three cheetahs - partners since birth and one of the most efficient hunting forces on the plains - until tragedy strikes. Achilles, the hunt leader of the brotherhood, is killed by a cobra bite, leaving his brothers Odin and Shiva to fend for themselves. With their coalition diminished they must adapt fast: learning to hunt as a twosome and defend their kills without the help of Achilles. Confounding their efforts is a host of predators: an injured leopard, a cunning hyena and a devious black-backed jackal. Making matters worse, a lone male cheetah begins to trespass on their land. Will these cheetah blood brothers survive the overwhelming odds stacked against them?
- To survive in Africa's harshest landscapes, an array of the continent's iconic wildlife employ astounding feats of behaviour and unimaginable adaptations in their continuous war against mother nature and each other.
- The Swamp Pride is on its knees. Its mighty male was killed by poachers, leaving three mothers and their cubs defenseless in one of the toughest landscapes for a lion in Africa. Busanga Swamp is a quagmire, even in the dry season. Hunting in shoulder-deep water is all but impossible, and deadly hippos and crocodiles patrol the ever-present waters. Keeping cubs alive here is hard work, but for these lionesses it just got even harder: two massive young male lions are hunting them down. The males want to claim the Swamp Pride and its territory as their own, but to take over a pride they must kill its cubs. The mothers must fight tooth and claw to make sure that doesn't happen.
- Sharks are our oceans' most ancient predators. Patrolling the waters from beneath the deepest depths and along the shallow coastal waves - they are the ultimate masters of the hunt, perfecting their technique over millennia. Fast, powerful and armed to the teeth - sharks are a hot contender for the top spot of our planet's most deadly creatures. But with so many different shark species, which one is the most deadly? This incredible series counts down the Ocean's TOP 10 DEADLIEST SHARKS.
- On Zambia's Liuwa Plain two star-crossed spotted hyena cubs are born to warring rival clans: Twaambo, a male cub and Nasanta, a female, are destined to lead converging lives as their extreme environment forces them together.
- On the African plains, where only the strong survive, one big cat rules supreme. This is life in the raw: savage, beautiful and unforgettable. During the eight years that Jurgen Jozefowicz filmed a pride of lions in South Africa's Kruger National Park, he won the trust of the dominant male and, astonishingly, was accepted into the pride. This is his story. How does it feel to live amidst a group of the most feared predators on the African continent as they fight to survive in a harsh, unforgiving world? Jurgen's film shows what it's like and is the result of his remarkable adventures. Jurgen is one of the world's premier wildlife photographers. His story of his life with these lions is one that spans a period of political struggles, disease and drought, showing the highs and the lows of life in the lion pride.
- Will the Cheetah blood brothers survive the odds stacked against them?
- We take an exclusive peek into the mysterious lives of the most secretive animals of the African Bushveld. For the first time ever, we take an exclusive peek into the mysterious lives of the most secretive animals of the African Bushveld. We will expose the behaviors of these animals seldom, if ever, seen before as we delve into the shadowy existence of animals rarely seen, let alone captured on television. We will investigate seven enigmatic creatures - the serval, aardvark, pangolin, genet, African wildcat, civet and porcupine - as they furtively go about their top-secret activities. Each story will introduce us to one of these animals, and give us a privileged glimpse into their extremely private lives and their particular adaptations for life in the dangerous wilderness, where they battle against tremendous odds. We witness how each one cunningly outwits the super-predators in its own special way, with extra-sharp senses and other strategies for survival.
- Africa is a land of giants. Its mighty rivers sculpt the earth and form impressive valleys and waterways home to many imposing and powerful inhabitants. These are the rivers where massive elephants and hippos live, feed and drink and where ancient crocodiles hunt and breed. They share the rivers with other creatures of their kind, such as porcupines - the giant rodents in Africa, the martial eagle - the biggest of its kind on the continent, and the leopard - a giant among the spotted cats.
- Get up close and personal with wildlife in South Africa's Kruger National Park. Experience the thrill of lions on the hunt, a hyena feeding frenzy or an intimate encounter with an elephant family as it happens live, from the comfort of your couch. For one week South Africa's Kruger National Park offers an unadulterated perspective of the area's wildlife. On location at Nwanetsi Concession at Singita, one of Africa's preeminent safari game reserves housed inside Kruger National Park, Caught on Safari: Kruger beautifully captures the landscape, which is nestled among the Lebombo Mountains overlooking the African plain, and the Nwanetsi river. Through an insider's peek into life at the reserve, we hear directly from the game rangers and wildlife trackers watching over Singita, and learn about Africa's conservation issues. This concession in the Kruger National Park represents one of Africa's few territories where large prides of lions thrive, along with many other species including buffalo, leopard, white and black rhino, cheetah and elephant, among others. November in the park marks the beginning of summer, bringing with it the birth of many young animals around the park including impala lambs. Cameras are set up at watering holes around the park and other locations to non-invasively capture animals at home in their environment and filming takes place both during the morning and the afternoon. Wildlife correspondent Michaela Strachan, filmmaker John Varty and professional wildlife guide Andy Coetzee accompany us on this exciting adventure.
- Harsh seasons determine life or death, testing creatures against crocs, droughts, and more. Survival demands cunning as predators lurk in waters and along banks. In this predator's world, witness the struggle for life unfold.
- A once-in-a-lifetime, action-packed adventure through Africa's last untamed, majestic wildernesses. Massive Africa is a unique and unparalleled visual journey.
- Travel 13 of the greatest rivers in Africa. From rivers that hide underground to vast sweeps of water that thunder over some of the most dramatic waterfalls in the world; Waterways that have poems written about them, rivers that brings fourth life and death.
- Madagascar is a place like no other. It's like mother nature went into a frenzy during some secret experiments in the basement and then tried to hide away the resulting bizarre assortment of flora and fauna on this magical island, only for the eyes of those really intent on seeing it.