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In his sandals and khaki shorts, Simon King is your garden-variety nature nerd. Deep in Kenya's beautiful wilderness, King encounters two orphaned cheetah cubs and resolves to raise them before releasing them into the wild. Dubbed Sambu and Toki, they soon grow into sleek, beautiful hunters. The question is, can King give these cheetahs the eye of the tiger, so to speak? This exceptional BBC documentary is heavy with hope and sadness. In the wash-up, it's worth recalling the Midnight Oil lyric: "It's better to die on your feet than to live on your knees."

Jonathan Scott, Saba Douglas-Hamilton and Jeff Turner present a series following the lives and adventures of polar, black and brown bears. In Alaska, Jonathan comes across Blondie, a mother brown bear with three vulnerable cubs. Saba and the polar bear team are in Canada's Hudson Bay. Melting sea-ice is bad news - the bears' hunting season on the ice will be shorter this year. Jeff is off to a flying start in Whistler, Canada when he hooks up with Katie, a female black bear with two spring cubs.

Documentary telling the extraordinary tale of a 14-year-old Polish girl, Rutka Laskier, who was murdered at Auschwitz in 1943.. In 2005, the school notebook in which Rutka recorded her last months in the ghetto of Bedzin was made public, six decades after she hid it under the floorboards of her home there. Rutka was immediately dubbed the 'Polish Anne Frank'.

Not the Nine O'Clock News launched the glittering careers of its key performers - Rowan Atkinson, Mel Smith, Griff Rhys Jones and Pamela Stephenson - as well as those of writers including Richard Curtis.[cut]
For the first time, this film tells the real story behind the show. Interviewees include Rowan Atkinson, Mel Smith, Griff Rhys Jones, Pamela Stephenson, John Lloyd, Richard Curtis, Billy Connolly and Dara O Briain.

The highly evocative adventure telling the story of one man's incredible mission to save a doomed species, the rarest bird in North America, and one of the rarest birds in the world - the Whooping Crane. Dressed in full Whooping Crane costume, Canadian Bill Lishman, guides his birds through every stage of their development - from egg to adulthood.

Why are we so attracted to the music of nature? In this documentary, David Rothenberg interviews leading birdsong scientists and musicians, including Jarvis Cocker and Beth Orton, to support his controversial idea that birds might actually be singing for the sheer joy of it. The film features a unique musical composition combining human music with birdsong, with contributions from Peter Gabriel, the Guillemots - and even an eider duck and a woodpecker.

Deep in a picturesque Devon valley lives the best loved wild animal in Britain. Yet while the badger is easily recognised, remarkably few people have ever seen one alive. For a creature never far from controversy and blamed for all manner of destruction and disease, surprisingly little is known about the badger's private family life.

French aerial photographer Yann Arthus Bertrand spent ten years making a photographic inventory of the earth's surface. From majestic landscapes to rubbish dumps, the images are shockingly beautiful, but for Yann the most important part is the powerful environmental message which accompanies each image.

Paul Atterbury embarks on an alluring journey into the golden age of ocean liners, finding out how these great ships made such a mark on the popular imagination and why they continue to enchant to this day.

Cage fighting (aka mixed martial arts) is one of the world's fastest growing sports. It is violent, shocking and some say barbaric, but hugely popular. Inside the cage, punching, kneeing, kicking, elbowing and choking are all allowed. Whilst men have dominated the sport for years, female fights are now becoming an increasing attraction.