Untamed Americas on National Geographic

Season 1, Episode 4
Witness the elegance, power and speed of a natural world rarely captured in National Geographic's stunning 4-hour miniseries event focused solely on the Americas.

Season 1, Episode 3
Witness the elegance, power and speed of a natural world rarely captured in National Geographic's stunning 4-hour miniseries event focused solely on the Americas.

Season 1, Episode 4
The journey through the forests of the Americas offer three incredible extremes - frozen tundras, flooded plains and raging fires. As the summer flood season arrives in the Amazonian Rainforest, witness the mighty Amazon River burst its banks and transform a lush rain forest into a watery world where river dolphins hunt along the forest floor and an elusive jaguar takes down a caiman crocodile with stunning expertise. In twisted, tangled treetops, spider monkeys swing and leap, but they have to venture to the forest floor for a meal of mud. Farther north in the Great Bear Rainforest of Canada, see a sub-species of black bear with a white coat - known as 'the spirit bear' - as it emerges during the fall to feast on salmon. We visit the boreal forests of the Americas in the depths of winter to see how creatures survive the big freeze. And in the summer, witness the other extreme - massive fires that ignite, annihilating thousands of square miles of forest in a few hours. From salamanders to bears, animals have a choice: run or take cover. The flames will consume anything that can't escape in time

Season 1, Episode 3
At the frozen poles or the sultry tropics, the coasts of the Americas host some of the greatest spectacles on Earth. Witness the never-before-filmed birth of a lemon shark in the shallow waters of the Caribbean, and the shark's escape to the safety of the mangroves as a hurricane threatens. At the Falkland Islands in the southern end of the Americas, watch male gentoo penguins perform mating jigs to attract females. Farther north, plunge into the Sea of Cortez off the coast of Mexico, where hordes of voracious giant Humboldt squid cannibalize their kin. Swim alongside thousands of graceful mobula rays - each with a wingspan stretching almost ten feet - as they glide through the water and then leap through the air in a dazzling display. Dive with striped marlin around slopes of underwater volcanoes in a stunning feeding frenzy captured on film. And feast with grizzly bears as they devour a stranded humpback whale along the shore.