Bill Taylor and his family encounter frozen lava, spouting boiling water, erupting volcanoes, whale hunters, and a haunted lake during their quest across Iceland, as they search for the volcanic crater that inspired Jules Verne.
A film about the bizarre customs and rituals of an unusual tribe in Southern Ethiopia whose organised life-cycle is centred upon fertility and culminates in an extraordinary ceremony called Gadamoji.
Tony Beamish hires elephants to venture into a swampy and uncharted part of Laos, where he encounters the Yao tribe - an extremely civilized group whose accomplishments stand in stark contrast to their jungle home.
Victor von Hagen leads the Roman Road expedition as it follows the route of the legions into Tuscany, discovering traces of the Etruscans, a mysterious people whose origins are still much debated.
Ten members of a Trinity College expedition head to Greenland in a chartered plane to battle melting glaciers and swollen rivers as they attempt to reach an isolated Eskimo settlement in Scoresbysund
Colin Thubron embarks on a journey south from Tangier into the Atlas Mountains of Morocco, to find the Berber tribe, where women have the unique privilege of selecting a new husband each year, to replace their previous spouse.
A film recounting a search in the remote backlands of Amazonia for a forgotten El Dorado, a private empire in South America once so rich that its owner once declined an offer of £25 million for it.
A film depicting the pilgrimage to Mecca, the Holy City of Islam, which no Christian may enter. Pilgrims circle seven times round the Ka'bah,; spend from dawn to dusk on the scorching plain of Arafat and hurl stones at the Devil.
Sir Edmund Hillary is well acquainted with the villagers living in the high valleys around Mount Everest, but his annual visits to see them primarily focus on matters other than mountain climbing.
While the global population of large animals declines each year, India faces unique challenges due to man-eating tigers, rogue elephants, and other wildlife that can pose risks to those living in close proximity
A BBC cameraman joins the Royal Navy and the British Antarctic Survey Society on a large and successful expedition to the Sandwich Islands on the edge of Antarctica to study some of the volcanic islands.
