Animals At Play

Across the planet, young animals spend huge amounts of time playing – but it’s a behaviour that has long been overlooked by science. Now new research reveals that play is at the heart of almost everything an animal learns. In ANIMALS AT PLAY we uncover why play is so much more than just having a good time.

Shark Squad

Sharks are threatened globally - portrayed as mindless killers by the media and victimized by reckless overfishing. In some of the most-remote regions on the planet, researchers dive deep and brave danger to unlock secret shark behaviours, challenge myths about sharks, and fight for the protection of these supreme predators - before it’s too late.

Wildlife ER

Wildlife ER offers a rare insight into the care and treatment of sick and injured native animals at Australia’s busiest wildlife hospital. Across six engaging episodes, we follow dedicated professionals and volunteers as they work to save iconic and often endangered species that are struggling to survive human encroachment into their habitats. From dramatic rescues, through to life saving surgery, extraordinary treatments and remarkable round the clock care, we witness the journey of a range of creatures, great and small, right up to the moment of release. It can be dangerous, challenging and sometimes confronting but the wildlife team approach it all with an endearing mix of skill, passion and humour - as they work to return these vulnerable native animals back to their natural world.

Deep In The Heart

Narrated by Matthew McConaughey, DEEP IN THE HEART is a visually stunning celebration of Texas wildlife. Told through the eyes of animals ranging from the mysterious blind catfish to the elusive ocelot, the film showcases Texas’ most spectacular landscapes and natural events. Featuring state-of-the-art cinematography, this family-friendly film flows from the high peaks in West Texas, through aquifers, rivers, and bays, and deep into the Gulf of Mexico. DEEP IN THE HEART shows both the natural beauty of an iconic state and its ecological importance at a continental scale.

Airborne

This stunning blue-chip tentpole series is an exhilarating immersion into the sky world - celebrating and unravelling the unique challenges and ultimate freedom of defying gravity. From great soaring condors to leaping lemurs, and from gliding squirrels to beautifully buzzing orchid bees - prepare to embark on a worldwide adventure in the air. These creatures of the sky world learn to catch air, snatch in-flight meals, navigate crowded skies, and soar through the most challenging environments on the planet. Charismatic characters take centre stage as we follow each of their trials and triumphs. For these airborne creatures to thrive and survive means defying gravity and mastering the air around them, and they do so in extraordinary ways. AIRBORNE is full of never-before captured footage, and incredible natural storytelling that will hold audiences captive with wonder at our natural world.

Extreme Animals Babies

Get ready for a top ten countdown of the world’s most extreme animal infants in EXTREME ANIMAL BABIES.

Wild Asia

A dramatic and poignant portrayal of the fragile alliances and desperate strategies for survival adopted by three species of animals caught in the no-man’s land where the human and natural worlds of Asia collide.

Animal Senses

From the earliest primitive life forms to sophisticated animals like mammals, primates and birds, animals have evolved powerful senses to perceive their environment. These developed senses can turn mechanical waves, airborne particles, and photons into information that helps animals find food, shelter, mates, and communicate with each other. ANIMAL SENSES traces the evolutionary history of those senses.

Wild Antarctica

Antarctica is the most remote and pristine wilderness on the planet. It is a timeless and harsh land like no other. Night here can last three months and in the peak of summer, the sun never sets. To understand how life can exist in this continent of snow and icebergs we must spend a year there. We discover that despite being the least habitable place on Earth, life abounds in Antarctica. Megafauna such as humpback whales and orcas, massive seals and stately penguins all take the brutal conditions head on and thrive in this year on ice.

Neu Earth

Neu Earth is a place and a time where humanity has triumphed against climate change. What does Neu Earth look like? The answer unfolds through the investigations of a future historian living in 2050 and looking back in time. Key global innovations become apparent: controversial cloud manipulation experiments, the enhancing of photosynthesis to create food and energy, and innovations in construction with bamboo and fungi. Efforts to capture carbon dioxide directly also loom large. The future historian discovers the origins of an atmospheric filtration system, and the development of methods to capture carbon by land, soil and sea.