The Coming of the Rains • 2017 • episode "S1E3" • The Big Dry

53:13

Woodpeckers: The Hole Story goes deep into the woods to explore the lives of a unique avian family. Woodpeckers come in 239 species, each one a colorful character with a story of its own. But all woodpeckers share some very special gifts – they are acutely adapted to life in the trees and are experts at working with wood. They have tree climbing feet, a forest flying technique, and chisel-tipped bills to carve out holes in sol

PBS Nature • 2022 • Nature

55:06

Predator and prey live and die by lunar rules, as moonlight reveals or conceals life's nightly battle for survival.

S1E1 • Moon: Nature's Secret Force • 2025 • Nature

28:55

Mike and his team confront an armour-plated catfish, discover a 45-metre hole in the riverbed and come face to face with an anaconda.

S1E3 • Amazon Abyss • 2005 • Nature

58:33

In this first episode, he discovers how the Cape vulture has inspired a flying submarine; how a giraffe's neck can stop a jet pilot losing consciousness; how a woodpecker's skull can safely protect a light bulb dropped from space; and how a South American butterfly holds the secret to making any mobile phone waterproof.

S1E1 • Richard Hammond's Miracles of Nature • 2012 • Nature

56:10

Attenborough describes the course the Amazon, starting high up in the Andes of Peru, whose streams flow into the great river. Young rivers are by nature vigorous and dangerous: they flow fast and form rapids, thick with mud and sediment.

8/12 • The Living Planet • 1984 • Nature

52:14

With more than half of all primate species threatened with extinction, this episode follows scientists and conservationists working to understand and protect our closest animal relatives through groundbreaking research and conservation efforts.

S1E3 • Primates • 2020 • Nature