EP 1AvailableNow playingThe Great Melt
50m·2/11/2009·10.0
The summer melt of Arctic ice provides opportunities for millions of animals.
Nature's Great Events
Season 1 · Episode 1IMDb8.4
- Released
- 2/11/2009
- Duration
- 0h 50m
- Genre
- Documentary
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Cast
- David Attenborough
Overview
Documentary series looking at the most dramatic wildlife spectacles on our planet, showing how life responds to natural events which can dramatically transform entire landscapes.
Episodes
EP 1AvailableNow playing
EP 2AvailableThe Great Salmon Run
50m·2/18/2009·0.0
Every year, the survival of grizzly bears in North America depends on a spectacular natural event: the return of hundreds of millions of salmon from the Pacific Ocean to the mountain streams where they were born. This great return provides food not only for bears, but for killer whales, wolves, bald eagles and the very forest itself. Will the salmon return in time to keep the hungry bears alive?
EP 3AvailableThe Great Migration
50m·2/25/2009·0.0
The story of a lion family's struggle to survive until the return of the great migration.
EP 4AvailableThe Great Tide
50m·3/4/2009·0.0
A look at the sardine run, which happens each winter along the South African coast.
EP 5AvailableThe Great Flood
50m·3/11/2009·0.0
Millions of animals time their migration across the Kalahari Desert to coincide with the the annual flooding of Botswana's Okavango Delta.
EP 6AvailableThe Great Feast
50m·3/18/2009·0.0
The summer plankton bloom in the north-east Pacific draws in animals in great numbers, from the billion-strong shoals of herring to migratory humpback whales.
Cast
Self - Presenter
