Family

MEERKAT FAMILY SAGA is a 1997 BBC - Discovery Networks coproduction documentary featuring the trials of ''Digger'', a.k.a ''Little-Boy'' and his small family as they struggle to survive. With all the love, squabbling, self-sacrifice and rivalry found in any family, a group of meerkats struggles to survive in Africa's Kalahari Desert. Animal Planet's new 13-part series, Meerkat Manor, is All My Children meets Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom. Don't let their cuddly appearance fool you though — there's a good reason these meerkat families are called a "mob."

The story is set between the two World wars. The Topalovic family consists of five generations of males, with the youngest one aged 25 and the oldest aged 120. Conflicts break out in the family because the youngest member refuses to carry on the morticians' trade, which for decades, from generation to generation has been his family's occupation. The manufacturing of coffins is more and more lucrative, new technologies are introduced, burials are faster and easier, the era of crematoriums is here. But the youngest member of the family, Mirko, is not interested. He believes in a "better, nicer and more honest occupation"….

This three-part series reveals the extraordinary history of three of Britain’s longest-running family businesses. Few businesses last beyond two generations, but against the odds, the families in this series have survived in business for more than three centuries.They’ve come through more than 50 recessions, the Industrial Revolution, two World Wars, and the rise of internet shopping.

When pregnant mom, Shanann Watts and her two daughters vanish without a trace, her husband Chris pleads for his family's safe return. But as the investigation digs deeper, dark secrets are revealed and he transforms from family man to monster.

"Uncut Family" focus upon a three member family that is presented in its most sensitive and raw form, right at the point where its apparent stability collapses.

Director: Michael Mak
Prolific Hong Kong filmmaker Lau Kar-wing directed this gangster-themed crime-drama about the internecine struggles within a powerful triad family. Lung Ying (Ko Chun Hsiung) is the patriarch of the clan, and – in a setup used in many such films since The Godfather – is attempting to slowly move the family away from criminal enterprises and into legitimate business, although his sons and employees make it nearly impossible…

ABC Studios brings to life the story of the Powells. They're an every day, typical American family who undergo a remarkable transformation after the charter plane they hired crashes in the Amazon River.