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- A filmmaker forges an unusual friendship with an octopus living in a South African kelp forest, learning as the animal shares the mysteries of her world.
- A professional diver tutor returns to deep waters after 1 year, following an almost fatal encounter with a great white shark. The nightmare from the deep is still lurking - more carnivorous and hungry than ever.
- RESIDENT ORCA tells the unfolding story of a captive whale's fight for survival and freedom. After decades of failed attempts to bring her home, an unlikely partnership between Indigenous matriarchs, a billionaire philanthropist, killer whale experts, and the aquarium's new owner take on the impossible task of freeing Lolita, captured 53 years ago as a child, only to spend the rest of her life performing in the smallest killer whale tank in North America. When Lolita falls ill under troubling circumstances, her advocates are faced with a painful question: is it too late to save her? From first time feature documentary directors, Sarah Sharkey Pearce and Simon Schneider and Executive Producers Squil-le-he-le (Raynell Morris) and Tah-Mahs (Ellie Kinley) of Lummi Nation, this intimate and heart-breaking narrative explores our relationship to the natural world through a captive whale and the attempts to return her to her wild family. As the effort to free Lolita approaches success, her life comes to mirror our own human failures while calling us to step forward into a new understanding of nature and our role within it.
- Incarceration Nation connects the relentless government intervention since colonisation to the trauma and disadvantage experienced by Indigenous Australians - the two key drivers of incarceration.
- Nature's most remarkable feats on land, at sea, in winter and summer, are revealed in these five-minute documentaries.
- Blue Reef Adventures is a dive adventure series showing South African wildlife filmmakers, Peter and Stefania Lamberti, travelling to the most exciting dive destinations that Africa and the Indian Ocean Islands have to offer. Encounter astounding and perilous marine life as they explore breathtaking underwater locations from diving with great white sharks off the Cape coast to exploring the shipwrecks of the Red Sea. Join them as they search for the elusive ornate eagle ray of the Maldives and squadrons of hammerhead sharks in Sudan. They brave the deep blue waters of the Indian Ocean in search of the silver tip sharks in the Mozambique Channel as well as the ragged tooth sharks of Aliwal Shoal. Peter and Stefania investigate and dive with the diamond divers, who risk their lives braving the rough seas to retrieve diamonds off the ocean floor. They witness the world's deepest diver, Nuno Gomes, breaking the world record, reaching a depth of almost 300 metres below the water, followed by a gruelling 12-hour journey back to the surface. Not all of these diving adventures are dangerous, our explorers join the gentle whale sharks as they journey down the east coast of Southern Africa, following the plankton rich waters. They glory in the schools of friendly dolphins. This marine mammal strikes the heart of most people and these intelligent creatures seem to enjoy the company of humans, swimming up to them and even riding in the bow waves of their boats. They observe the sea turtles, under severe threat of extinction. Here these two adventurers find the few places where turtles are thriving, witnessing how laboriously the turtle digs her nest to lay eggs, the hatchlings finally emerging and making a perilous dash for the sea. They revel in a stunning underwater interlude with the graceful Manta rays 'flying' through waters with perfect coral reefs and an infinite array of tropical fish.
- This is the story of a courageous little seal who braves the ocean and all its perils - a real adventurer at heart who leaves the colony to follow one of the greatest migrations on Earth - the Sardine Run. Each year millions upon millions of sardines leave the waters off the southern tip of Africa to move en masse up the east coast of South Africa. They follow the cool winter currents for almost 1000 kilometres. For the sardines it's a perilous journey - their migration awakens a great following of formidable predators that attack from sea and air. Huge flocks of Cape gannets pursue the great shoals while thousands of dolphins strike relentlessly from the surface and hundreds of sharks mount the attack from the depths. Among the predators there are a few adventurous seals that join this frenzied journey. To this day, what makes a seal embark on the sardine run remains a mystery.
- In the desert wilderness of Namibia there is a river that lies hidden beneath the sand for most of the year. The abundance of water flowing over the desert is short-lived, in just a few days it all seeps into the ground and the plants and animals of the desert have to rely once more on their skills to survive in one of the harshest environments on Earth.
- Africa's landscape is sculpted by some formidable rivers and the Zambezi is one of the continent's mightiest. When the summer rains come to the valley, and fill the pools of the land buffaloes and elephants leave the river, but some animals, like the resident birds and spotted-neck otters, will always rely on this river - one of Africa's mightiest - the Zambezi.
- Hidden between the mountains of Africa's Rift Valley flows a majestic river that brings an abundant surge of water to the Luangwa Valley. But after six months of no rain life for the animals becomes extremely desperate. Just as there seems to be no hope of survival, the clouds gather over the mountains and rain brings relief to the Luangwa Valley and its inhabitants.
- One of Africa's most remarkable rivers spreads its waters over the desolate plains of the Kalahari Desert, forming the largest inland delta on earth, the Okavango. Fed by the summer rains that fall over southern Angola, the Okavango River flows into the heart of the desert in Botswana. As the water recedes, the desert reclaims its land.
- The seasons bring life to the valleys forged by the African rivers, but they also play a part in nature's tragedies. For most of the year, the Mara River flows peacefully through the wide plains of southern Kenya, but during the dry months it displays the ultimate life-and-death struggle: the crossing of hundreds and thousands of wildebeests.
- The quest to find the source of the Nile built and shattered explorers' dreams for centuries, until it was eventually discovered that the river's birthplace is Lake Victoria. Nile crocodiles have been using the banks of the river as nesting sites for centuries, showing a nurturing side unique in the reptile world.
- The Sand River is shorter and smaller than many of Africa's rivers, but it has great importance because it supports such an abundance of wildlife. Lions stay close to the river, knowing that their prey, such as buffalo, must pass regularly through their territory. To avoid competition with these powerful nocturnal predators, the cheetah hunts by day.
- The Limpopo river in southern Africa is a giant in size, and in the wealth of animal life it supports. In the dry season, it is the only source of water for the giants such as elephants, predators such as the python and the leopard. The river is a lure for their prey, particularly in winter.
- The Rufiji River flows through Tanzania in East Africa, through the vast Selous Game Reserve - the largest reserve in the whole of Africa. It is home to a variety of creatures such as the unique Selous wildebeest, and is a precious haven for endangered animals such as elephants and wild dogs.
- At the southern tip of Africa, the Olifants (Elephant) flows through and nourishes the unique Cape Floral Kingdom. Despite being the smallest of the world's six plant kingdoms, it is the richest and most spectacular, containing 3% of all the plant species found in the whole world.
- When in flood, the Pongola River creates a whole new wild world of quiet backwaters, hidden animals and ancient rituals. With the summer rains, the Pongola floods, filling its pans which are home to hippos, great white egrets and Goliath herons. Cane rats live in the lush vegetation along the banks, unseen by the warthogs and other creatures.
- The Ogooue River flows throughout the year through the lush tropical rainforest of Gabon in West Africa. The country is an unspoiled wildlife haven where nature is almost untouched by humans, providing a precious refuge for endangered primates such as western lowland gorillas, chimpanzees and black colobus monkeys.
- The Shire River is one of the few African rivers that flows steadily and peacefully throughout the year. It flows serenely through southern Malawi, fed by the abundant waters of Lake Malawi. The lake contains more fish species than any other lake in the world, including at least 600 types of cichlids, small colourful fish that protect their eggs and fry in the mother's mouth.
- The great white shark has long been the centre of media hype, but is it really the vicious killer it is made out to be? We take a look at the hunting strategies of this incredible shark and find that it actually is an intelligent, calculative and cunning predator.
- The most endearing mammals in the world are the dolphins. We follow a family of bottlenose dolphins as they move in their home waters and over a reef of the southern Indian Ocean. We watch them play, fight, love and 'cry'.
- The sand tiger, or ragged tooth shark, is a sinister-looking humped back creature with a mouthful of wicked teeth - the embodiment of nightmares. Yet it is hardly the vicious killer of our imagination and on a reef off the coast of South Africa divers have grown to love this ugly shark. In this episode we follow the ragged tooth shark from its summer habitat in the Cape to its winter mating waters in KwaZulu-Natal. (Diver/shark interaction to show how close divers actually get to the sharks)
- Off the coast of Mozambique there is a small reef which is the castle of an imposing king - Bert the Bass. He is a huge potato bass. Like all basses he has an unusual life history - he began his life as a female and changed sex when he grew into an adult. He now rules over his harem of females as well as this small patch of reef.