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More beautiful than butterflies, more spectacular fliers than hummingbirds, and with intriguing behavior as complex as mammals or birds. They’ve been flying around for hundreds of millions of years, crossing paths with dinosaurs before we mammals were even a twinkle in the eye of evolution.

From the magical rainforests of the Pacific coast to the majestic peaks of the Rocky Mountains, from the endless sea of grass of the prairie to the ice fields of the Arctic - the massive Canada, with its many, very different habitats is a world of its own. - Created with stunning aerial photographs and fascinating, some never before seen animal behaviors, unique time-lapse and slow motion sequences and elaborately staged historical scenes in this four-part documentary series, a comprehensive and fascinating portrait of the natural world and Canadian history.

In three episodes, “Amur - Asia‘s Amazon” explores the unspoilt natural world along the river and its tributaries and tells amazing stories of the wildlife and traditional communities that battle to survive in a unique and, to western eyes, largely unknown environment. This is a visual and dramatic journey of discovery along the mighty Amur/Heliongjiang, an expedition into a lost and exotic world.

This two part documentary is dedicated to our pets. Animals are Man's best friends. Every animal is unique thanks to its character. This film shows how our pets keep their instincts, despite their domestication, and stay true to the game of their wild side. Refined recording techniques, hidden cameras and their creative application help us to see the world of our pets through their eyes and reveal us their secrets.

49,000 year old Neanderthal bones have been discovered by chance in a remote, mountainous region of Northern Spain. The bones may help solve the biggest Neanderthal puzzle of all - why we are here today and Neanderthals are not. ‘The Neanderthals’ dark Secret’ revolves around ongoing investigations deep inside the forbidding subterranean cave system called El Sidr'n. Here, Palaeontologist Antonio Rosas and Archaeologist Marco de la Rasilla are in their 11th year of excavation.

We use ‘bird-brained’ as an insult - Maybe we’ve got that wrong. Bird brains are sophisticated high speed processors. They have to be. Birds fly. Formation flying is hard enough with nine jet aircraft. But starlings do it with millions of other birds. Let's reconsider birds' brains.

Brazil is a land of gigantic proportions. Energetic, flamboyant and fun, Brazil is also overwhelmingly beautiful. Within its mountains, seas, rainforests, deserts and millions of miles of rivers, are many of our planet’s last wild frontiers. Its diversity of life and landscape is second to none. In each episode, the viewer will be taken on a journey across fabulous landscapes and will meet carefully selected, charismatic and little-known animal species.

David Attenborough travels to the Jura Mountains in the Swiss Alps, to find out about one of the largest animal societies in the world, where over a billion ants live in peace.

Viewed from space, our blue planet seems as familiar as a long -time friend – so familiar that we forget how extraordinary it really is.

What happened in the Netherlands in 1637 is the blueprint for many examples of speculative frenzies in the world's history: in an incomparable attack of collective madness and boundless greed, the country's citizens put their money into market speculation – involving derivatives, futures, options and investment certificates – all for tulip bulbs. People sold all they had for a few plants or financial products involving the plants' bulbs. The prices and market values of these colorful blossoms soared. Some bulbs were sold for the same price as a grand villa.