A breathtaking exploration of the deepest parts of the earth's vast oceans, populated by creatures both fascinating and creepy. Aliens of the Deep doesn't have quite the informative cache of the BBC's very similar series but it's an eye-popping journey nonetheless. find out more...

Having already swum the full lengths of the Danube, Mississippi and Yangzte, the extraordinary manic obsessive Slovene Martin Strel, makes a 70 day attempt to repeat the effort in the Amazon. If what you expect is a super-athlete that's not what you get, this overweight 50-year-old eats horseburgers, drink drives and wires batteries to his head! What he is though is a hero, a man dedicated to and succeeding in extraordinary non-rational tasks. Fascinating stuff - more Herzogian than Aguirre or find out more...

An utterly gob smacking documentary that follows the wilfully suicidal three year journey of a group of surfers, intent on catching every monstrous wave that the globe has to offer. Billabong Odyssey is a stunning real life adventure, whatever your opinion of a man on a board, on a wave might be. find out more...

Blackfish tells the story of Tilikum, a performing Orca whale that killed several people while in captivity. Told mainly through interviews with ex-trainers and the families of the vic find out more...

During the winter of 1975 in Hawaii, surfing was shaken to its core. A group of young surfers from Australia and South Africa sacrificed everything and put it all on the line to create a sport, a culture, and an industry that is today worth billions of dollars and has captured the imagination of the world. With a radical new approach and a brash colonial attitude, these surfers crashed headlong into a culture that was not ready for revolution. Surfing was never to be the same again.
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For the English, the French port town of Calais is the gateway to Europe or a place to buy cheap alcohol. For hundreds of refugees and migrants it is the final barrier in the desperate search for a new life in England. This intimate film weaves together character driven stories of refugees, migrants and English expatriates to build a picture of life in a transient town where the inhabitants dream of somewhere better. Original music by Mustafa Santic and Michel Duvoisin. Rented with kind permissi find out more...

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'Until now, we've only touched the surface', that's what they say anyway. Apparently there's a lot of undiscovered stuff down in the deep blue sea that up until now, mankind just hasn't had the know-how to get a look at. Expect to see stuff that will have you leaping out of your armchair, shouting 'What the bloody hell is that?!' and 'Jesus, that thing looks like a bogey with fairy lights on it!'. One thing which threw me was the total absence of David Attenborough, his replacement is Michael Ga find out more...

While the Americans were trying to reach the moon the economically and politically suffering British had found a new sort of hero, long distance yachters. The Sunday Times put up a prize for the person who could make the fastest non-stop solo circumnavigation of the globe, a feat thought beyond the endurance of man or machine and so it proved for all but one of the Kiplingesque adventurers who stepped into the breech. This remarkable documentary, from the team that brought us Touching The Voi find out more...

The film focuses on three particular animals; polar bears struggling to survive, a herd of elephants crossing the Kalahari desert to the Okavango Delta, including the now famous shots of a group of lions attacking a lone elephant, and a humpback whale and her calf migrating from tropical waters to the Antarctic. find out more...