Season 8

Episodes • 1989

George Page
The Great Rift: Footprints in the Valley

1. The Great Rift: Footprints in the Valley

53 min

The area's evolutionary roots opens this look at the African valley.

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The Great Rift: Out of the Ashes

2. The Great Rift: Out of the Ashes

53 min

The wildlife that lives on the Great Rift's ash plains.

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The Great Rift: Breaking the Continent

3. The Great Rift: Breaking the Continent

53 min

Examines the Red Sea, the island of Madagascar and East Africa.

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Under the Ice

4. Under the Ice

53 min

Soft coral, sponges, tubeworms, anemones and giant cod adapt to life in Antarctica's subzero waters.

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Land of Dragons

5. Land of Dragons

53 min

Profiles the wildlife living within the British crown colony of Hong Kong

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The Great Wood of Caledon

6. The Great Wood of Caledon

53 min

An exploration of the Caledonian forest in Scotland, Britain's largest remaining area of ancient woodland.

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Gorillas

7. Gorillas

53 min

A portrait of the endangered mountain gorilla in equatorial Africa.

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Forest of Fear

8. Forest of Fear

53 min

A look at the maneating tigers of the Sundarbans delta in India.

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Gran Paradiso

9. Gran Paradiso

53 min

Resource management in Italy's alpine Gran Paradiso National Park has consequences beyond the parks boundaries.

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Cranes of the Grey Wind

10. Cranes of the Grey Wind

53 min

Scientists study sandhill cranes on Nebraskan plains, Alaskan and Siberian coasts and in the Northwest Territories.

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King Solomon's Mountains

11. King Solomon's Mountains

53 min

The forests and waters of Ethiopia's Bale Mountains, may one day renew the country's depleted landscape.

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Hunters of the Sky

12. Hunters of the Sky

53 min

A look at how Europe's birds of prey have adapted.

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A Wolf in the Fold

13. A Wolf in the Fold

53 min

The relationship between working sheepdogs and flocks of sheep. Selective breeding yields a sheepdog with outstanding abilities to tend the creature other canines prey upon.

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The Colorado

14. The Colorado

53 min

Tracing the course of the Colorado River.

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The Emerald Isle

15. The Emerald Isle

53 min

Thousands of years of human settlement provide the backdrop by which to discover the wildlife of Ireland.

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Giant Otters

16. Giant Otters

53 min

The fur trade continues to threaten the South American otter with extinction, despite its status as an endangered species.

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The Haida Gwai: Islands of the People

17. The Haida Gwai: Islands of the People

53 min

Profiles the Haida Indians who live on British Columbia's Queen Charlotte Island.

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Presque Isle: Land in Motion

18. Presque Isle: Land in Motion

53 min

An exploration of the environmental impact of man's attempts to halt the erosion of Presque Isle beaches.

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Yellowstone on Fire

19. Yellowstone on Fire

53 min

The effect of the 1988 fire on the ecosystem of Yellowstone National Park.

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Serpents

20. Serpents

53 min

A natural history of the snake includes its significance to man as a symbol of fertility, immortality and death.

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