The Nature of Love

From the sea horse that mates in an hypnotic underwater ballet to the rodent who copulates until he literally drops dead, THE NATURE OF SEX spans the globe to illustrate how an astonishing diversity of life forms find their mates and conceive, raise, and protect their offspring. This Web companion to the four-part series takes a close look at the primal instinct that causes animals to come together in order to pass along their genes to the next generation.

A unique window into the mysterious world of the Great Horned Owl, taking us across North America to meet passionate owl experts, volunteers, scientists and the owls they love.

To us, it’s garbage. To them, it’s dinner. There are some busy scavengers who live among us crafty critters who share our cities and recycle the mountains of food waste our messy society leaves behind. Through the help of thoughtful and passionate scientists who have come to understand and love these creatures, we uncover just what makes scavengers tick. Debunking some myths along the way, we learn what adaptations they have evolved for this “messy” job, what benefits they can provide us, and how us humans can work with them so they can do their job even better.

It’s a mysterious realm right at the ocean’s edge where some of the planet’s most unusual creatures live. It’s right on our doorstep, yet few have penetrated its secrets. Until now. Twice each day, low tide briefly exposes this astounding world — a narrow band of rocky shore known as the intertidal zone. It’s home to a unique species of fish that breathes air, armies that battle for supremacy and space, and a creature that turns itself inside out to eat its enemies alive. Sarika Cullis-Suzuki discovered this magical kingdom and its inhabitants at age six in the tidal pools near her family cottage in British Columbia.

We cherish our memories. They tell us who we are. They help us recall our first love affair, where we had dinner last week. And what else happened there. Or do they? Memory is under heavy scrutiny by a new generation of scientists and they’re posing an uncomfortable question: Can we trust what we remember about our lives? Just as we often recall someone’s name incorrectly, scientists say we can misremember critical personal events, catastrophes and even crimes we think we saw or committed. Recent studies are questioning the fragile unreliability of the human memory with enormous implications for justice, psychology and our sense of who we are.

A documentary about the life and work of hannah arendt, the prolific and unclassifiable thinker,political theorist, moral philosopher and polemicist, and with her encounter with the trial of Eichmann a high ranking nazi.

A scientist carelessly dumps some toxic waste into a river. The gardener at a nudist camp drinks the water, turns into a monster and attacks all the (female) nudists.

Documentary series about hate crime in the US told through murders with elements of love and passion as well as prejudice. Each film tells the story of one unfolding case.

Series charting a year on Upper and Lower Lough Erne in the west of Northern Ireland.