Wildlife Documentaries

Wildlife can be found in all ecosystems. While the term in popular culture usually refers to animals that are untouched by human factors, most scientists agree that wildlife around the world is impacted by human activities. Humans have historically tended to separate civilization from wildlife in a number of ways including the legal, social, and moral sense. Anthropologists believe that the Stone Age peoples and hunter-gatherers relied on wildlife, both plant and animal, for their food. In fact, some species may have been hunted to extinction by early human hunters. Today, hunting, fishing, or gathering wildlife is still a significant food source in some parts of the world. Excerpt from Wikipedia

With all the lions and tigers, and even polar bears, there's something in our wildlife documentaries for everyone to watch, marvel at, and enjoy with our wonderful range of Wildlife Documentaries to watch online and streaming free!

In The Valley Of Wolves

PBS Documentary In 1995, the first gray wolves were transported from Alberta, Canada to Yellowstone National Park, to repopulate the sprawling landscape with the species, absent for more than 70 years. The following year, a second wave of wolves was brought to the park from British Columbia, Canada; five of them were released together, and they...

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Supersense

BBC Documentary You are starting a journey into a world of senses different from your own. We experience life through five main senses, but even these are better developed in some familiar animals. Smell your way across an ocean as a salmon does. See, through the multi-aspected eye of a fly, what a human hand looks like when it is about to strike....

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Louis Theroux’s African Hunting Holiday

Louis Theroux Documentary In this episode of the popular BBC Documentary series, Louis Theroux journeys to the centre of the controversial South African hunting industry. It’s big business, attracting thousands of holiday hunters annually. Keeping wild animals fenced in on farms has made it cheaper and easier to hunt than ever before, but Louis...

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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, the Nile Perch became highly prized for its tender, plump fillets, hardly meeting the demand at elegant 4-star European restaurants. Huge, empty foreign cargo...

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Clever Monkeys

David Attenborough BBC Documentary The life of a monkey is full of ups and downs. Like us, monkeys form strong friendships and bitter rivalries. They fight for each other and take care of one another. And the leader of a monkey troop, when deposed, will even exhibit signs of depression. When we watch their behavior we get the sense that their...

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Lord of the Ants

Nova Documentary Every so often a giant emerges on the stage of science, someone who transcends the narrow boundaries of a particular line of research and alters our perspective on the world. E.O. Wilson was renowned for his scientific study of ants. His 1975 study concluded that evolutionary principles could explain social behavior throughout the...

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Predators: The Ultimate Killing Machines

BBC Documentary Life-and-death contests between hunter and hunted have been filmed for BBC television in an entirely new way. Predators, a series of six half-hour films uses miniaturised cameras mounted on the hunters themselves to show the chase from their perspective. The series also uses action replays and computer animations, allowing it to...

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Animal Weapons

In the competitive struggle for survival, less powerful animals have developed an ingenious array of strategies to find and kill their targets. Traps, lures and lies may be the best-known tricks to man, but are also skilfully employed by creatures in the animal kingdom. With weapons of deception, animals can disarm and entice prey to their death....

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Inside Nature’s Giants

BBC Documentary Inside Nature’s Giants dissects the largest animals on the planet to uncover their evolutionary secrets. Most wildlife documentaries tell you how an animal behaves, but by dissecting the animal and studying its anatomy we can we can see how an animal works. Experts in comparative anatomy, evolution and behavior put some of the...

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The Life of Mammals

David Attenborough BBC Documentary The Life of Mammals is a BBC nature documentary series written and presented by David Attenborough. The Life of Mammals is a study of the evolution and habits of the various mammal species, it was the fourth of Attenborough's specialised surveys following his major trilogy that began with Life on Earth. Each of...

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