Spring Lineup 2019 | Nature & Wildlife | History | Science | People & Culture | Lifestyle | Travel & Adventure | Crime | Feature Docs Wildlife Nature & Amazing Pigs 1 x 60’, 2018, 4K We may not have noticed it yet, but pigs are slowly taking over the planet! There are an estimated two billion of them, living on every continent except Antarctica. Humans are partly to blame – pigs have been a part of our lives for thousands of years. In this film, we follow the many lives of pigs and ask, what is the key to their remarkable success? Terra Mater Factual Studios/Smithsonian Networks/ Humble Bee Films Age Of The Big Cats 3 x 60’, 2018, 4K We think we know big cats pretty well, don’t we? Well actually, we don’t. In this series, recent scientific discoveries shed new light on the extraordinary prehistory of big cats and their ascent to world domination. How did these giant carnivores Beasts In The City survive the ice age extinctions that wiped out the sabretooths, and persist into 1 x 60’, 2018, HD the present day? When we learn that the jaguar was once found in the UK, the tiger ranged from Siberia to Turkey, and the lion, far from being African was a They glide through our urban jungles, breed on the river’s edge and feel quite at true worldwide phenomenon, it’s clear that our view of cats has been blinkered. home in our backyards. You thought they were far away, in the wild. You’re wrong. What happened? Brand-new night vision systems, super slow-motion cameras, They’re here. The urban invaders – a red squirrel nesting in the bird feeder, a and cutting edge computer-generated imagery of a bygone age takes us on a duck on the balcony or a hedgehog at the cat food dish. Join us on a journey into tantalising trail of evidence to answer these questions, revealing incredible and a well-known territory – with very unexpected encounters… surprising stories of the world’s most charismatic predators: The big cats. Terra Mater Factual Studios/CuriosityStream/Ammonite Terra Mater Factual Studios The Blind Monkey Born In The Wild 1 x 60’, 2016, HD 4 x 60’, 2014, HD Follow a year in the life of a young blind macaque monkey and its family. Few ‘Born In The Wild’ explores the reproductive behaviours and biology of the animal monkeys born blind survive infancy, but this youngster is now 15 months and kingdom. Focusing on the elephant, dolphin, kangaroo and orangutan, we take a defying all expectations. Rhesus monkeys have a complex social order. The look at how these animals find, fight for and woo the opposite sex. We explore mother formally a queen is now loosing her status caring for her disabled child. how they mate, give birth and raise their young in extreme environments. Why This film tells the story of a devoted mother, her blind son and adolescent do male elephants transform into sex crazed monsters during musth? How do daughter as they struggle against all odds to survive. orangutans give birth safely high in the trees? Why is the pregnancy of kangaroos LIC China so short? And how do dolphins mate at high speed? Windfall Films Wildlife Nature & The British Garden: Life And Death On Your Lawn 1 x 89’, 2017, HD The British back garden is a familiar setting, but underneath the peonies and petunias is a much wilder hidden world, a miniature Serengeti, with beauty and brutality in equal measure. In this documentary, Chris Packham and a team of wildlife experts spend an entire year exploring every inch of a series of interlinked back gardens. They want to answer fundamental questions: how much wildlife lives beyond our back doors? How good is the great British garden for wildlife? Windfall Films Borneo: Earth’s Ancient Isle 1 x 60’, 2019, 4K The island of Borneo has spent more time in the tropics than any other region on Earth – some 120 million years. In this time, the conditions have combined to create a realm full of bizarre species. The world’s tallest tropical tree and the smallest bears all live here. Millions of years of rainfall have washed away vital nutrients, fuelling an intense competition for life. On Borneo’s mountains, carnivorous plants use raindrops to catch prey. In the rainforests, male orangutans call out to deter would be rivals. On the coast, millions of jellyfish are turning to the sun to get the nutrients they need. But it is in and around Borneo’s caves that the competition for nutrients is at its most intense. At dusk, as hundreds of thousands of bats leave the cave, they are hunted down by pied hornbills – birds with giant bills designed for picking off small fruits and insects. Terra Mater Factual Studios Cantabria: Spain’s Magical Mountains 1 x 60’, or 2 x 60’ or 1 x 90’, 2018, HD The Cantabrian Mountains extend along the Atlantic coast of northern Spain for nearly 500 km’s from the east Pyrenees to Galicia. Home to a variety of wildlife China’s Swan Lake including chamois, red deer, wildcats and wolves, the Cantabrians are also the 1 x 60’, 2018, HD westernmost European habitat of brown bears. Harsh conditions will drive prey into the valleys and into the jaws of hungry wolves. As the snow starts to melt, The largest single concentration of whooper swans in China live on a newly and creatures that spent the winter in hibernation emerge from their dens. Female unintentionally created wetland. A remarkable place in the heart of central China, Brown bears, anxious to feed themselves and their cubs, seek out the first fresh Sanmenxia Wetland Park consists of a 385 square kilometer reservoir, two artificial grasses. Starvation is not the only threat, male bears in search of partners can lakes and surrounding wetlands. It is estimated that over 10,000 whooper swans attack and kill young bears. Atlantic salmon migrate from ocean to hinterland to inhabit the park. ‘China’s Swan Lake’ shows the lives of a whooper swans family reach their ancestral spawning grounds. The journey will take them into the path that live on the lake along with invasive black swans and blue herons. of certain danger, along treacherous rapids where ravenous bears await. LIC China Terra Mater Factual Studios/Wanda Visión S.A. Wildlife Nature & Cuddly & Wild: Circus Of The Wild Adorable Animal Babies 1 x 60’ or 1 x 90’, 2018, HD 1 x 60’ or 1 x 90’, 2018, HD Barbary macaques are up to mischief in Gibraltar, pickpocketing unwary tourists. The first year in a wild animal’s life is the most crucial. Will it get enough Their relatives, the Japanese macaques, are much more laid back. On Ellesmere nourishment? How will it cope with sibling rivalry or the ever looming risk of Island, the wolves there have found a lost phone, now they’re playing football predation? Through a series of touching stories, we come face to face with these with it. They make us wonder. Especially when they turn up in unexpected places. dangers. The gray seals of Heligoland are born with fur and a thick layer of fat, Like little droll penguins that toddle over the sandy beaches of South Africa. ready to withstand the bitter wind chill. Getting through the first year may not Shouldn’t they be somewhere a little, well, cooler? guarantee a long life, but from here on in the chances of survival grow. Doclights/NDR Naturfilm/Terra Mater Factual Studios Doclights/NDR Naturfilm/Terra Mater Factual Studios Cute Little Killers: The Predators With Pouches 1 x 60’, 2019, 4K It was a case of mistaken identity. Explorers confused them for ravenous cats, rats and weasels. But they were something completely unknown…a curious band of marsupials with a taste for blood, bone and meat. Scores of different predators with pouches live all across Australia. The lives of many are at risk. Introducing the numbat, the northern quoll, the dibbler – strange names, strange animals – and the strangers who want to keep them safe. Terra Mater Factual Studios Dogs In The Land of Lions 1 x 60’, 2018, HD In the hilltops of Zimbabwe’s Malilangwe Wildlife Reserve, Puzzles and Jigsaw are attempting to raise a family without the help of ‘the pack’ – a course fraught Dragons & Damsels with dangers for these rare Wild dogs. But against the odds, the pair manage to 1 x 60’, 2019, 4K keep their offspring alive. In need of better shelter the pack move to a hilltop cave where Puzzles soon gives birth to her second litter. Jigsaw must now hunt More beautiful than butterflies, better fliers than hummingbirds and with for everyone. But lions are also on the prowl. One afternoon Jigsaw fails to behaviour as intriguing and complex as mammals or birds, dragonflies and return, leaving Puzzles all by herself. But she is still unable to leave her newest damselflies are the ultimate insects. Filmed in unprecedented detail, we’ll explore cubs. The only course of action is to send the older dogs out to hunt. They are how dragon and damselflies hold and defend territories; work together in strict inexperienced, without adult supervision they may lose concentration, lose their hierarchy; and even predict their prey’s movements. A special film depicting prey and perhaps even their lives – to the lions. They hunt for more than their some pretty special animals. family’s survival. Failure is not an option. Terra Mater Factual Studios Terra Mater Factual Studios/Hat Creek Productions/ Mavela Media/Thirteen Productions/WNET Wildlife Nature & Earth: The Nature Of Our Planet Epic Safari Encounters 3 x 60’, 2018, HD 26 x 30’, 2019, 4K The nature of our planet – its beauty, complexity and challenges – is bound to Join Kristina Guberman as she takes you on a tour of some of the most the elements.