Documentary

A celebration of the paragliding lifestyle around the world, as two top acro-pilots travel to spectacular aerial locations across the globe - in search of the perfect thermal.

Reinhold Messner, the world's greatest mountain climber, looks back over his career with surprising candor and self- revelation, with rare film footage of his astonishing climbs of the world's highest mountains.

Two-time Emmy nominated film of blind climber Eric Weihenmayer's renowed summit of Mt. Everest - a climb that earned him the cover of TIME magazine.

World paragliding record holder Will Gadd attempts the ultimate challenge: to paraglide across the Grand Canyon.

National Geographic photographer Chris Rainier and filmmaker Ethan Boehm team up to bring Rainier's photographs and Boehm's cinematography of the sacred temples and Buddhist monks of Angkor Wat poetically to film. With music by Anushka Shankar.

National Geographic photographer Chris Rainier and filmmaker Ethan Boehm team up to bring Rainier's photographs of tatoos and scarring rituals around the world poetically to film. With music by Anushka Shankar.

Before movies became sexually explicit, the female form was hidden from the male on the silver screen. Through rare archive material (featuring Marilyn Monroe and Joan Crawford among others), clips from films, stills and magazines, this programme presents a fascinating social record of glamour in an age of supposed innocence!

The threatened ecosystem of the arctic tundra in the northernmost part of Alaska, a natural paradise floating on top of gigantic petroleum deposits.

The elephant conflict and a world in which an inexorably growing human population is hungry for new land to cultivate; the land which rightfully belongs to the enormous pachyderms.

The passionate history of the American bison and its salvation in extremis from a seemingly inevitable extinction.

The great austral whale and the other species which share its frozen environment.

The world of the Bengali tigers and the sinister market for their bones as a remedy for sexual impotence.

The mysterious fauna of Madagascar and its most representative species: the marvellous and enigmatic lemur.

The ecology of Venezuelan plains and some of the most seriously threatened species that inhabit it : anacondas, Orinoco crocodiles, oatzines, ocelots?

The marine or porous crocodile, the largest crocodile on earth, and its alarming situation in Australia.

The world of the Great Barrier Reef in Australia and its delicate and complex biological community.

Flamingos in Spain and their survival adventure in the industrialised nations of Western Europe.

The common problem of different species of rhinoceros and their legendary aphrodisiacal born.

The diverse and threatened jungles of Costa Rica and the natural world found within.

New acquisitions allowed species to be more competitive. When it came to looking for food or avoiding being eaten and the penalty for falling behind was death.