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...

From Pole to Pole; the introduction to the series looks at our planet as a whole. This includes awesome and unique footage of a pack of African Wild Dogs hunting. find out more...

Caves; jumpers parachuting into 400m deep holes, unique ecosystems full of strange and exotic troglodytes, the world's largest colony of cockroaches living on bat dung and the beautiful and unsurpassable Chamber of Chandeliers deep underground in New Mexico. find out more...

Great Plains; how many of you know that the most numerous bird on the planet is the Red-billed Quelea? Now do you want to see the size of their flocks? And, for the less faint-hearted, did you know that a largish pride of hungry Kalahari lions (30 in this example) will bring down and kill a largish elephant if it's isolated from the herd? find out more...

Seasonal Forests; from General Sherman, a giant sequoia ten times the size of a blue whale and the largest living thing on the planet, to 4,000 years old bristlecone pines that pre-date the pyramids. From the world's greatest insect emergence, cicada, to the baobab forests of Madagascar. find out more...

A mind boggling expose of what lurks in the salty wet stuff and, quite probably, the most comprehensive and beautifully filmed glimpse of our mysterious oceans that presently exists. find out more...

Seasonal Seas; the effects of the seasons on the world's temperate seas. Grey seals breed and the pups are marooned for weeks until they can swim. Spring heralds the bloom of phytoplankton, providing food for copepods, which, in turn, are prey to vast swarms of jellyfish. Giant kelp grows at a summer rate of a metre a day providing sanctuary for fish and sea otters. Late summer sees Pacific salmon waiting in the open sea, as the water level in their chosen river is too low, and falling prey to a find out more...

'Making Waves' is a 50 minute documentary about the making of The Blue Planet. find out more...

A ravishing journey across China; from the glittering peaks of the Himalayas to the barren steppe, the sub-Arctic to the tropical islands, through deserts both searingly hot and mind-numbingly cold, to observe the mysterious, beautiful and rare creatures of this immense and environmentally diverse nation and the traditional customs of its different ethnic groups. find out more...