Extraordinary Australia

Surviving Earth

July 2025 •English

Meet the bizarre, amazing and breathtaking creatures and landscapes of a vibrant lost world; and discover how life not only survived during the cataclysmic events of this prehistoric era, but thrived.

National Parks: USA

July 2025 •English

Venture across world-famous and lesser-known national parks to reveal the diversity and wonder of the United States, from the lush valley floors of Yosemite to the constantly erupting volcanoes of Hawai'i.

Countryfile

July 2025 •English

The people, places and stories making news in the British countryside.

Queens

July 2025 •English

In six remote and beautiful places on our planet are queendoms run by the most powerful leaders in the animal world. These queens are sisters, single mothers, grandmothers. This documentary series tells their stories of resilience, strength, love and loss for the first time.

Life Story

July 2025 •English

The remarkable and often perilous story of the journey through life. It is a story that unites each of us with every animal on the planet, because we all set out on this journey from the moment we are born. For animals there is just one goal in life – to continue their bloodline in the form of offspring. This series follows that journey through its six crucial stages: first steps, growing up, finding a home, gaining power, winning a mate and succeeding as a parent.

Walking with Dinosaurs

July 2025 •English

Combining fact and informed speculation with cutting-edge computer graphics and animatronics effects, the series set out to create the most accurate portrayal of prehistoric animals ever seen on the screen.

The Bond

July 2025 •English

An intimate look at the unique bond between animals and humans, spotlighting these relationships in its purest forms and telling the remarkable, moving, and surprising stories of men, women, and children bonding deeply with animals that we might think of as wild.

Coast Australia

July 2025 •English

Coast Australia follows renowned Scottish archaeologist and historian Neil Oliver on his very first trip to Australia, as he and a diverse group of co-hosts gather stories about our spectacular coastline: the history, the people, the archaeology, the geography and the marine life, investigating interesting and little known facts along the way. Oliver’s co-hosts, all experts in their field, are journalist and Australian arts and culture specialist Miriam Corowa, environmentalist Professor Tim Flannery, marine scientist Dr Emma Johnston, anthropologist Dr Xanthe Mallett and television presenter and landscape architect Brendan Moar.

Alaska: Earth's Frozen Kingdom

July 2025 •English

Three-part series that looks at a year in Alaska, revealing the stories of pioneering Alaskans, both animal and human, as they battle the elements and reap the benefits of nature's seasonal gold rush.

The Pacific: In The Wake of Captain Cook

July 2025 •English

History is taking to the seas and walking in the footsteps of Captain James Cook. 250 years after Cook began his epic exploration of the Pacific, Sam Neill (Jurassic Park, The Piano) journeys in his wake uncovering stories that resonate from those times on both sides of the beach. Sam begins with a disclaimer – he is merely an actor – but the story of Cook, and the impact he has had on the Pacific in the 250 years since his first voyage, has always fascinated him.

Nature's Miracle Orphans

July 2025 •English

The first months of an animal's life are crucial - if they lose their mothers, they'll need help. Meet the wild orphans getting a second chance, and those devoted to saving them.

Once Upon a Time in Punchbowl

July 2025 •English

Tells the inside story of the challenges the Lebanese Australian community has faced in Australia and how they have fought to overcome them. This landmark documentary series hears from community leaders, police, families and individuals, as they combine to tell the compelling and dramatic story of a proud and resilient community, under intense pressure and scrutiny. The story begins in the 1970s when large numbers of Lebanese migrants flooded into Australia. Many were Muslim, most were traumatised by civil war, all were desperate to build a better future. Over the coming decades, these new Australians struggled to establish a new life in their adopted country.

Big Little Journeys

July 2025 •English

Dive into the extraordinary worlds of six tiny animals as they embark on the biggest journeys of their lives.

Walking with Cavemen

July 2025 •English

Professor Robert Winston meets Lucy, the first upright ape, and follows her ancestors on the three-million-year journey to civilisation.

Last Chance to See

July 2025 •English

A follow-up to the 1990 Radio 4 series in which the late Douglas Adams and Mark Carwardine travelled around the world in search of endangered species. 20 years later Stephen Fry and Mark Carwardine go back to see what has become of the animals in two decades, and to discover what has affected their fortunes.

Nationalparks im Baltikum

July 2025 •German

Hidden Habitats

July 2025 •English

Hidden habitats that are self-contained ecosystems are explored.

Taylor's Australia

July 2025 •English

Bert Taylor travels around Australia's vast countryside.

Rise of the Continents

July 2025 •English

The Earth’s continents are instantly recognizable. These iconic landmasses seem permanent and unchanging, yet they are merely the wreckage of a much larger long-lost supercontinent – Pangaea. In this stunning four part series Professor Iain Stewart uncovers the evidence for this ancient past. He reveals how the world around us is full of clues – in the rocks, the landscapes and even the animals. All of which tell us how the land we live on was created.

Kingdom of the Oceans

July 2025 •French

A four-part documentary series on ocean life around the world.