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...

In small town Alaska, a news reporter recruits his ex-girlfriend - a Greenpeace volunteer - on a campaign to save a family of gray whales trapped by rapidly forming ice i 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...

'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...

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...

Christopher McCandless is a bright, likable, precociously perceptive, young middle-class college graduate, who, tortured by his dysfunctional childhood, is determined to find a simpler, purer and more harmonious life. He gives away all that he has and sets out across North America, his ultimate goal the perfect isolation of the Alaskan wilderness. Based on real events 'Into The Wild' is beautifully judged, paced and performed; an epic, gloriously visualised road trip and also a moving and though find out more...

One of the most stunning nature documentaries ever seen on British TV. The ubiquitous David Attenborough navigates on an epic voyage through one of Earth's last-remaining and most delicate wildernesses, the Antarctic. find out more...

In the main this is a fantastical, perilous ocean odyssey by one bright, resilient young man and a fearsome Bengali tiger named Richard Parker. Ang Lee’s visually gorgeous adaptation of find out more...

Another re-working of Herman Neville's novel sees the mad bad and dangerous to know Captain Ahab taking his increasingly reluctant crew on an all consuming quest for vengeance against the infamous white whale, Moby Dick. A class cast and some decent production values make this a tempting alternative to actually reading the classic. find out more...

A voyage to the deep following the journeys of sperm whales. Despite some reasonable CGI depictng a surreal ocean bed the commentary is rather banal, think more Discovery than BBC, this is not Attenborough or his crew. find out more...