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Nature Documentaries have the simple power to amaze, astonish, surprise and bewilder us as we discover the incredible natural world in which we live.

Our top nature documentaries have been divided into 8 categories for easy navigation, so we can explore the life of plants, journey into space, climb Mount Everest, witness wildlife on the plains of Africa, explore our humanity and our food, walk with dinosaurs and so much more.

We've sourced hundreds of free nature documentaries from all over the internet, and provided them right here on Nature Documentaries for everyone to enjoy and to watch for free, regardless of age or location in the world. So put your feet up and immerse yourself into our amazing world, with nature documentaries from the BBC, PBS, Nova, ABC Australia and many more quality sources!

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Human Senses

Human Senses

Nearly everyone has experienced a moment when a faint fragrance brings a memory of a long-lost moment in time crashing back to the forefront of their minds.Often we will ...

Plants For A Future

Plants For A Future

Plants For A Future: Edible & Useful Plants For A Healthier World offers invaluable information on creating natural gardens, woodlands, and farms that are in harmony with ...

Andy Goldsworthy’s Rivers And Tides

Andy Goldsworthy’s Rivers & Tides

Documentarian Thomas Riedelsheimer shows us Andy Goldsworthy as he creates art in natural settings using natural materials such as driftwood, ice, mud, leaves, and stones. Goldsworthy ...

Carl Jung: Matter of Heart

Carl Jung: Matter of Heart

The psyche is the greatest of all cosmic wonders and the “sine qua non” of the world as an object. It is in the highest degree ...

The Divine Michelangelo

The Divine Michelangelo

To produce one of the world’s great masterpieces is impressive. To create three is truly astonishing – but this is exactly what Michelangelo did five hundred years ago. ...

My Big Breasts And Me

My Big Breasts And Me

This BBC documentary follows the lives of three women who feel uncomfortably defined by their naturally large bust size. One is terrified of having breast reduction ...

The Endurance – Shackleton’s Legendary Antarctic Expedition

The Endurance – Shackleton’s Legendary Antarctic Expedition

In 1914, explorer Ernest Shackleton set out to become the first man to cross the frozen wastes of the Antarctic continent on foot; however, ...

Darwin’s Nightmare

Darwin’s Nightmare

Forty years ago, a voracious predator was introduced into the waters of Tanzania's Lake Victoria where it quickly extinguished the entire stock of native fish. Its ecological impact aside, ...

My Brilliant Brain

My Brilliant Brain

Three films exploring the very thing that makes us human. Each episode features an extraordinary character who can do extraordinary things with their brain.

Marc Yu is only 7 ...

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David Attenborough BBC Documentary The series utilises time-lapse sequences extensively in order to grant insights that would otherwise be almost impossible. Plants live on a different time...
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The psyche is the greatest of all cosmic wonders and the “sine qua non” of the world as an object. It is in the highest degree odd that Western man, with but very few – and ever fewer – exceptions,...
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Ten years in the making, this award-winning feature-length documentary was filmed during nine journeys throughout Tibet, India and Nepal. Cry of the Snow Lion brings audiences to the long-forbidden “rooftop...
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In 1542, the Spanish Conquistador, Francisco de Orellana ventured along the Rio Negro, one of the Amazon Basin’s great rivers. Hunting a hidden city of gold, his expedition found a network of farms, villages...
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It has long been considered the most compelling question in our history: Where do human beings come from? Although life has existed for millions of years, only in the past century-and-a-half have we begun to...