The Nature of Things

Episode 1

Rebellion

a unique documentary featuring a one-on-one conversation between David Suzuki and Sir David Attenborough that takes the pulse of our planet and asks whether humans can change their ways in time.

Episode 2

Kids vs. Screens

How screens affect our children's development, learning abilities and mental health.

Episode 3

Wild Australia: After the Fires

Signs of life and hope emerge from the scorched landscapes of the worst wildlife disaster in modern history.

Episode 4

The Covid Cruise

3,711 passengers and crew. 14-day quarantine. 1 deadly infectious disease. Coronavirus aboard the Diamond Princess cruise ship.

Episode 5

Searching for Cleopatra

Uncovering the truth about the richest and most powerful woman in world history.

Episode 6

Wild Canadian Weather: Cold

Canadians push the limits of cold endurance while baby harp seals brave icy water and flying squirrels cuddle.

Episode 7

Wild Canadian Weather: Rain

Rain brings unexpected benefits for Spadefoot toads, grizzlies, and whitewater kayakers - but too much can be deadly.

Episode 8

Wild Canadian Weather: Wind

The invisible element that shapes our lives; falcons, butterflies and spiders hitch a ride, while Canadians harness, and harvest, the wind.

Episode 9

Wild Canadian Weather: Sun

The driving force behind all weather, sunlight creates a banquet for blue whales, helps vultures soar, and is essential for training some extreme athletes.

Episode 10

Making Wild Canadian Weather

Crews go to great lengths to get amazing shots of wildlife people and weather. Working with scientists is essential.

Episode 11

Who Was the Real Neanderthal?

49 mins

Neanderthals - our distant cousins from 400,000 years ago - have long been thought of as brutish and dim-witted. In today's culture, to be called a Neanderthal is the ultimate insult. But it's been impossible to truly grasp who they were and how they lived - until now. New archaeological discoveries, combined with the latest scientific techniques, are bringing us one step closer to Neanderthals - and revealing that they were much closer to the US than we ever imagined. This awe-inspiring journey follows experts as they uncover the Real Neanderthal. They find that Neanderthals were social and caring. They were primitive artists - capable of abstract thought - and perhaps the inventors of the earliest-ever form of graphic communication. They also had advanced medical knowledge, remarkable tools and hunting techniques, and an astonishing mastery of fire.

Episode 12

Kingdom of the Polar Bears: Part I

Veteran polar bear guide Dennis Compayre goes on a remarkable journey into the world of a polar bear mom and her newborn cubs as they leave the safety of their den for the first time.

Episode 13

Kingdom of the Polar Bears: Part II

Veteran polar bear guide, Dennis Compayre watches as a mother bear teaches her young cubs to hunt and discovers how they are struggling to adapt to a rapidly warming Arctic.

Episode 14

The Last Walrus

A filmmaker explores one man's quest to save a walrus, as the debate around marine mammal captivity evolves in Canada.