David Attenborough journeys through the Northern Territory of Australia, meeting the mainly Aboriginal people, exploring the landscape and observing the wildlife.
David Attenborough reaches the middle of the Northern Territory of Australia and visits three people in the otherwise deserted area of Borroloola who have chosen to cut themselves off from the civilised world.
David Attenborough looks at the aboriginal artists of Arnhem Land in Australia's Northern Territory. He discovers why they paint and in doing so, gets some insight into the very origins of art.
A team of cavers from Derbyshire explores an extensive network of underground passages, encountering the same excitement and challenges that great explorers have faced in far-flung corners of the world.
Tom Stobart and Ralph Izzard travel across the Persian deserts, witness a mesmerizing knife balancing act, explore the world's richest turquoise mine, and find a mysterious secluded lake, before arriving in the forbidden city of Meshed
An exhilarating tale unfolds as a can of dynamite and two lumberjacks venture into the Alaskan wilderness, accidentally triggering an explosion that fractures a mountain of ice.
Deep within the remote Amazon jungles lies a hidden Garden of Eden, where the Camaiura Indians live in harmony with nature, tensions rise during the rare and solemn Quarup ritual. As events unfold, a new wrestling champion emerges.
A university expedition explores Patagonia, which one traveler has dubbed 'the uttermost end of the earth.' An unforeseen medical emergency leads the group on a perilous mountain ride to the southernmost farm in the world.
Ralph Izzard embarks on a journey across India to explore the village of snake-charmers, seeking to uncover the truth about these performers and their enigmatic 'pets.'
Despite the sunshine, sparkling sea, and a luxurious motor yacht, this scene is not the Mediterranean, but the icy coast of Greenland, where eleven Italian mountaineers are taking on one of the most northerly mountains in the world.
Three young English explorers venture into the stony pampas of South Peru, where they find a remarkably preserved mummified body, beautifully crafted pottery, and unique and puzzling outlines of birds and animals that cover vast areas.
Three young English explorers embark on a quest to uncover a lost civilization, a journey that leads them across the Bolivian Altiplano to the Andes, beneath which they find a village where ancient customs and rituals are still practiced.
Claudio Villas Boas embarks on a perilous mission to pacify a tribe of wild Indians in the Amazon jungle. These indigenous people had never encountered a white man, and their existence was known only from footprints left in the forest.
A young Englishman journeys to West Pakistan to reside in a rural peasant village for six months. Despite initial suspicion, he eventually wins over the villagers, and their attitude transforms into one of warm possessiveness
N 1947, Thor Heyerdahl's remarkable journey across the Pacific on a raft captured global attention and became one of the most thrilling adventures of recent history.
This remarkable wildlife film, shot in the nature reserve of Tanganyika's Ngorongoro Crater, features lions panting in the noon sun, herds of ten thousand zebras, close-ups of soaring vultures, and baby baboons learning to climb.
Four Englishmen embark on a daring kayak mission in the Canadian Arctic to uncover clues about the fate of Sir John Franklin and his lost ships, which were searching for the North-West Passage - a longstanding maritime mystery.
A young anthropologist and his wife return to a remote region in north-east India two decades after completing a Government report about the local tribes.
During the holiday months, thousands of tourists drive along Route 66 in Arizona, occasionally stopping at curio stores to purchase Navajo Indian souvenirs, but one tourist decides to explore the Reservation more closely.
An English and French expedition discovers rock paintings in Tassili which suggest that the Sahara Desert was once anything but the arid landscape that we know today.
Hundreds of expeditions race to save the architectural treasures of the ancient kingdom of Nubia before it is drowned by the waters of the Aswan High Dam.
Formerly savage and oppressed, a tribe of Amazonian Indians revisits their ancestral land, capturing a massive anaconda and performing the remarkable rituals of their totemic clan.
Eric Shipton embarks on a journey to a place where no mans has set foot before - the mysterious Mount Burney, which is said to be the most southerly active volcano in South America,
Beyond the treacherous swamplands of the Sudd, in a forbidden region of Sudan along the White Nile, lives an ancient and warlike civilization. Their ruler is an extraordinary figure - a man who is both king and god, with 106 wives.
The Punjab is the granary of India. In the land of the five rivers live the Sikhs, the fiercest warriors of Asia. But they were originally a pacifist sect. Why do they wear steel bangles and turbans? And why must they never cut their hair?
Two adventurous young Norwegians set out on a perilous 500-mile journey across Greenland using skis and dog sleds, aiming to surpass Nansen's record. They soon realise there is no road back.
The Crusaders built castles and forts along the pilgrim route from Antioch to the Gulf of Aqaba, as well as formidable bastions to protect Jerusalem. Both Christian and Muslim forces played significant roles in this medieval endeavor.
The list of wrecks along the coast of Ceylon stretches back into the past. Down among the treacherous currents that swirl through the canyons of the Great Basses Reef the remains of a mysterious treasure galleon are found.
Ten hydrogen balloons from Holland, Germany, Austria and England gather in the Swiss village of Murren, with plans to fly over the breathtaking peaks and glaciers of the Alps, and into Italy - wind permitting.
Victor von Hagen examines the former splendors that adorned the city of the Caesars, looking back to a time when all roads led not to Rome, but from it
Jane Burton and her husband venture half a mile into a mountain cavern outside Kuala Lumpur to study a vast colony of bats, creatures that only emerge from the darkness to hunt under the night sky.
The tranquil existence in Bali gives way to frenzy during festival days, those special occasions when gods descend from the sacred mountain and inhabit the bodies of ordinary men.
Robert Cundy journeys into the forest interior of British Guiana, in search of the fortune-seeking men known as the 'pork-knockers' along the diamond rivers and creeks.
George Cansdale sees some odd things in Israel, including fish that travel from Lake Galilee to Tel Aviv and end up alive in the markets for Passover, men who use boulders to catch fish in the sea, and others who fish by lamplight.
