
The Nature of Things
The Nature of Things is a Canadian television series of documentary programs. It debuted on CBC Television on November 6, 1960. Many of the programs document nature and the effect that humans have on it. The program was one of the first to explore en...
The Nature of Things
The Nature of Things is a Canadian television series of documentary programs. It debuted on CBC Television on November 6, 1960. Many of the programs document nature and the effect that humans have on it. The program was one of the first to explore environmental issues, such as clear-cut logging. The series is named after an epic poem by Roman philosopher Lucretius: "Dē Rērum Nātūrā" — On the Nature of Things.
The Nature of Things
The Nature of Things is a Canadian television series of documentary programs. It debuted on CBC Television on November 6, 1960. Many of the programs document nature and the effect that humans have on it. The program was one of the first to explore en...

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Episode 1: The Brain That Changes Itself
The revolutionary new understanding of the brain's functional and structural capacities.
Episode 2: Visions of the Future - The Suzuki Diaries
The Suzuki Diaries is a road trip, a travelogue, an adventure. The legendary David Suzuki and his yo...
Episode 3: Visions of the Future - Supercar: Building the Car of The Future
We’ve come a long way since the first “horseless carriages” began to transform not just how we get f...
Episode 4: Visions of the Future - Living City: A Critical Guide
Despite Canada’s overwhelming urban demographic, Canadian cities struggle to provide the services ex...
Episode 5: Visions of the Future - Build Green
Do you remember the children's tale, "Three Little Pigs?" Build a strong house made out of bricks an...
Episode 6: VIsions of the Future - Earth Energy
Filmmaker Bill Lishman journeys around the world in search of earth’s renewable energy. He discovers...
Episode 7: A Murder of Crows
A Murder of Crows is a visually stunning one-hour documentary that offers a rare and intimate glimps...
Episode 1: Why Is It So?
Episode 2: The Roar of the Crowd
Study of brain cells, how research has helped the understanding of learning and memory. Filmed at th...
Episode 3: The Future of Science
Professor Donald Ivey probes the attitudes and working habits of scientists
Episode 4: Schizophrenia
Episode 5: Engineering
Episode 6: Man as an Environment
Episode 7: Science Fiction
Episode 8: A special Christmas edition
Episode 9: The Aurora-Borealis
Episode 10: Man as an Environment – Human Body
Episode 11: Kept Alive
Episode 12: Physics and Games – Laws of Probability
Episode 13: The Face of the Moon
Episode 14: Hibernation
Episode 15: Man and His Environment
Episode 16: Eclipse
Episode 17: Animal Communication
Episode 18: The Speed of Light
Episode 19: Monotony
Dr. John Zubec of the University of Manitoba explains his experiments and studies on boredom and its...
Episode 20: The Chemical Senses
Episode 21: The Mohole: Earth's Crust
Episode 22: Laws of Conservation
Episode 23: Photosynthesis
Episode 24: Physics of Clouds
Episode 25: The Sources of Science
Episode 1: Looking Ahead
Episode 2: Photography in Science
Episode 3: To Educate a Scientist
Episode 4: The Situation Is Fluid
Episode 5: Gallstones
Episode 6: The Upper Mantle Project
Episode 7: The Physics of Music
Episode 8: Survival
An appraisal of the probable effects of a large-scale nuclear blast over a North American city. Dr....
Episode 9: Man and the Moon
Episode 10: Hibernating Molecules
Hosts Dr. Donald Ivey and Dr. Patterson Hume talk about conditions at extremely cold temperatures, w...
Episode 11: Monkey Curiosity
Episode 12: Spermatozoa
Lord Rothschild of the University of Cambridge describes the results of his research in the field of...
Episode 13: Animals With Feathers
Dr. William Swinton, head of the Royal Ontario Museum's Life Sciences Department, and John Livingsto...
Episode 14: Getting the Upper Hand
Episode 15: Thinking about Math
Host Lister Sinclair discusses the thinking that goes into the science of mathematics. Using animate...
Episode 16: The Plague
Episode 17: Instant Heat
Co-hosted by Drs. Patterson Hume and Donald Ivey, of the University of Toronto. They show how electr...
Episode 18: A Science Newsreel
Episode 19: Learning
Episode 20: A Bang-Up Job
Episode 21: Out of Africa
Episode 22: Count on Me
Computers are given the once-over by Drs. Donald Ivey and Patterson Hume.
Episode 23: Blood in the Balance
Episode 24: Episode 24
Examines work of Dr. William Sheldon, who has spent 30 years gathering statistics about the human ph...
Episode 1: Episode 1
Series consultant Lister Sinclair is host on season's opener on which he explains how scientists app...
Episode 2: Brainwashing
British psychaitrist Dr William Sargeant discusses and illustrates various brainwashing techniques s...
Episode 3: Tubes To Transistors
Hosts Dr Patterson Hume and Dr Donald Ivey of University of Toronto talk about electronics age broug...
Episode 4: From Water To Land
Palaeontologist Dr Alfred S. Romer of Harvard University explains evolution of lungs, legs, and a ne...
Episode 5: Chemistry Of Salt
Dr Fred H. Knelman of Montreal, talks about sources and chemistry of salt and industrial application...
Episode 6: Ear Operation
Film of an ear operation from BBC series YOUR LIFE IN THEIR HANDS, with commentary by Dr Hugh Barber...
Episode 7: The Way The Ball Bounces
Professors Donald Ivey and Patterson Hume demonstrate principles behind bounce in a rubber ball.
Episode 8: Lie Detectors
This program examines autonomic nervous system, how it works, and what it can reveal.
Episode 9: Smoking And Lung Cancer
In cooperation with National Cancer Institute and Canadian Cancer Society, today's show explores res...
Episode 10: Science Museum
To commemorate the Canadian Centennial in 1967 it has been proposed that Canada build a national mus...
Episode 11: Tornadoes
Episode 12: The Descent of Man
Recent fossil discoveries in Africa have shed new light on the ancestry and evolution of man. Guest...
Episode 13: Isaac Newton
Series consultant Lister Sinclair pays tribute to Sir Isaac Newton. The program attempts to capture...
Episode 14: New Atoms For Old
Episode 15: Car Crashes
What happens in a car crash - to car and to its occupants? What causes a crash?
Episode 16: Bird Migration
Episode 17: Fact & Fiction
Hosts Dr Donald Ivey and Dr Patterson Hume of University of Toronto, contrast observation to synthes...
Episode 18: Code of Life
Dr Louis Siminovitch, Professor of Medical Biophysics at University of Toronto, discusses what is cu...
Episode 19: The Chemistry Of Bread
Baking bread may be a familiar process, but it is by no means a simple one. A very great number of f...
Episode 20: The Infra-Red
Detection of heatwaves by Special infra-red receptors has many industrial, military and other uses.
Episode 21: Human Overpopulation
In aftermath of industrial revolution, with scientific advances offsetting human control, human spec...
Episode 22: Mars
Episode 23: Spiders
Episode 24: Hypnosis
Episode 1: Einstein, Man & Mathematician
An examination of personality and achievement of Albert Einstein. Dr Jacob Bronowski of Salk Institu...
Episode 2: About The Size Of It
Scientist and broadcaster William Whitehead and Dr WE Swinton, Director of Royal Ontario Museum disc...
Episode 3: Standards For Comparison
Universal standards of measurements are explained in laymen's terms by Dr Patterson Hume and Dr Dona...
Episode 4: Excursion Into Hell
Centuries ago, people in warmer parts of earth believed a dread disease was contracted from unhealth...
Episode 5: Surgery For Parkinson'S Disease
This program shows surgical techniques used in a new treatment for Parkinson's Disease.
Episode 6: Science In Sports
Host Lister Sinclair and guest Lloyd Percival, sports authority, discuss and demonstrate how various...
Episode 7: Lasers
Dr Patterson Hume and Dr Donald Ivey explain recent developments of laser beam since 1960, how it wo...
Episode 8: Blood, Sea And Tears
Man still carries around in him an isolated pool of early Palaeozoic ocean that fed his plankton anc...
Episode 9: Cartography
Host and writer Lister Sinclair talks about map projection, and problems of taking a spherical objec...
Episode 10: The World Of Water
In this program Donald Crowdis, Director of Nova Scotia Museum of Science, talks about water.
Episode 11: Immunology
In this program Donald Crowdis, Director of Nova Scotia Museum of Science, talks about transplants a...
Episode 1: "Good and Evil"
Episode 2: "Viruses"
Episode 3: "Survival"
The problem of survival in extreme climatic conditions is examined by Dr. William Whitehead.
Episode 4: Eureka
Discussion and demonstration of "accidental" scientific discoveries.[37]
Episode 5: Flight
Lister Sinclair looks at the artificial flight techniques of man and some of the principles of flyin...
Episode 6: "The Quaking Earth"
Episode 7: Pain
Episode 8: "Lies, Damn Lies and Statistics"
Professors Patterson Hume and Donald Ivey dispute Mark Twain's claim that: "There are lies, damn lie...
Episode 9: Photography
Dr. Walter Clark of the Eastman-Kodak Research Laboratory, and host Lester Sinclair explain what hap...
Episode 10: "Bird Strikes on Aircraft"
At one time, collisions between aircraft and birds usually hurt only the birds. Now, with aircraft f...
Episode 11: "The Pacemakers"
For the first time ever on television, part of the remarkable "pacemaker" heart operation is shown b...
Episode 1: Animals And Man
A series studying animal kingdom, and man's place in it, through comparisons of anatomy, function, a...
Episode 2: Animals On Land
How animals get from place to place, including burrowing, crawling, climbing trees, running,.
Episode 3: Animals In The Water
"Animals In The Water" studies fish, crocodiles, seals and whales.
Episode 4: Animal Adaptation
A look at how animals have developed special means of coping with environments - long neck of giraff...
Episode 5: Animal Adaptation
A look at process of natural selection by which animals have developed special means of coping with...
Episode 6: Animals And Food
How animals locate, obtain, process and eat food using "anatomical tools": beaks, claws etc.
Episode 7: Animals As Engineers
Animals modify their environments in many ways: by building nests, damming streams.
Episode 8: Animals As Engineers
Program shows how animals modify their environments in many ways; by building nests.
Episode 9: Animal Hands And Tools
Man is known as "toolmaker", although certain other animals do use tools.
Episode 10: Animal Vision And Smell
Different combinations of senses are dominant in activities of different animals: vision and smell i...
Episode 11: Animal Territory And Aggression
A look at various ways animals and man defend their homes and their young.
Episode 12: Animal Social Behavior
Episode 13: Episode 13
Episode 14: Animal Learning
How much of animal behavior is inherent, and how much is learned?
Episode 15: Episode 15
Episode 16: Episode 16
Episode 17: Man And Animals
Man, animal species, as he might be described by an objective zoologist from another planet: what is...
Episode 1: The Sun
An examination of sun from various points of view. Includes discussion with illustrative film footag...
Episode 2: Natural History Of The Niagara Gorge
The famous Niagara Falls had their origins at Queenston 12,000 years ago. Since then.
Episode 3: Air And Water Pollution
This program explores serious problem of pollution, which results when more waste materials are pour...
Episode 4: The Battle Against Biting Insects
An examination of some of most sophisticated methods of pest control such as: unbalancing insects' n...
Episode 5: Air Conditioning - Natural And Man-Made
This program considers many aspects of controlling human environment to regulate pressure, humidity,...
Episode 6: The Physics Of Sailing
The scientific study of physics of sailing, is a fairly new field. This program looks at scientific...
Episode 7: Epidemics
Not so many years ago, summer's warmth brought chilling fear of polio and typhus epidemics.
Episode 8: Summer Storms
A look at activities of Stormy Weather Group, scientists at Montreal's McGill University and Macdona...
Episode 9: Fishing And The Splake
Science is developing new and better fish, splake for instance, a product of cross-breeding of lake.
Episode 10: The Value Of Our Parks
This program examines Canada's great national parks and their ecological importance in maintaining h...
Episode 11: Forest And Fires
This program deals with forest succession. Scientists have recently learned a great deal about way.
Episode 12: Water On The Level
There has been great alarm recently over declining level of water in bodies of water as enormous as...
Episode 13: Galapagos: Darwin
First episode of a five-part series on Galapagos islands. This looks at life and work of Charles Dar...
Episode 14: Galapagos: The Islands
A survey of animal and plant life of Galapagos archipelago including: a look at geological origins o...
Episode 15: Galapagos: New Beings
An exploration of scientific phenomenon known as "adaptive radiation", way in which a small founding...
Episode 16: Galapagos: Ways Of Survival
Apart from their external appearance, animals go through behavioural and physiological changes to ad...
Episode 17: Galapagos: Living Laboratory
This final program in series looks at some of endangered species in Galapagos islands, and at impact...
Episode 1: Canadian Wildlife: Retreat to the Rockies
"Retreat to the Rockies" with an especial look at bighorn sheep.
Episode 2: Canadian Wildlife: A Celebration of Swans
A study of the rare and beautiful trumpeter swan, which was nearly extinct but has now returned to a...
Episode 3: Canadian Wildlife: Arctic Summer
The authentic sights and sounds of wildlife activity in the Arctic during the summer. Animals seen i...
Episode 4: Canadian Wildlife: Wild Alberta
Wildlife in Alberta is the subject of tonight's episode. John Livingston narrates this final program...
Episode 1: Thomas Edison
Thomas Edison wasn't merely a lone inventful genius. He invented modern research team makes possible...
Episode 2: Human Engineering
Episode 3: Materials
A review of history of man's oldest materials: wood, stone, iron, bronze and glass.
Episode 4: Structure
Defying force of gravity, man has strewn his structures across earth. This program looks at some of...
Episode 5: Communications
Much of this program deals with basic communications problem of getting a signal through noise.
Episode 6: Canals And Tunnels
The great engineers of past - men like DE Lesseps of Suez fame and Panama infamy and Bradley - whose...
Episode 7: Central Power
One test of civilization is ability to organize sources of energy. Central power was something new i...
Episode 8: Man And Machines
The Greek inventor, Alexander Hero, first defined five basic devices which make all machines possibl...
Episode 9: Land And Water
This program shows how man changes his environment by shaping land he lives on, reclaiming land from...
Episode 10: Man Aloft
This film looks, sometimes whimsically, at examples of old and modern flying machines.
Episode 11: Portable Power
Man's first "portable power" device was part of his own body, energy from contraction of long molecu...
Episode 12: Machines And Man: Transportation
Are problems of urban transportation insurmountable? The traffic jams which are a regular feature of...
Episode 13: Machine And Man: Systems Engineering
A system, according to Oxford dictionary, is a whole composed of parts in orderly arrangement, accor...
Episode 14: Audubon
A study of life and work of Jean Jacques Audubon, great painter-naturalist who captured beauty of Am...
Episode 1: Danger: Man At Work - In The Balance
Part a six-part series on pollution. This program shows how comparatively new science of ecology has...
Episode 2: Danger: Man At Work - The Urban Crisis
Part two of a six-part series on pollution. The ways man has succeeded, and failed, to duplicate in...
Episode 3: Danger: Man At Work - Water
The third program in a six-part series about pollution. This program shows how water is distributed.
Episode 4: Danger: Man At Work - Air Pollution
Fourth program in a six-part series on pollution. The program show history of air pollution from adv...
Episode 5: Danger: Man At Work - Pesticides
Fifth in a six-part series on pollution. All pesticides are poisonous in greater or lesser degrees.
Episode 6: Danger: Man At Work - The Global Crisis
Final program of a sub-series on pollution and conservation. This program offers statements and obse...
Episode 7: The Ages Of Man: A Day In The Life Of A G.P.
A 24-hour day in life of a young family physician, Dr Reg Perkin, covering everything from his 7 am...
Episode 8: The Ages Of Man: A Breath Of Life
Every year, over 12,000 Canadians are born with serious inherited defects. Maureen McChesney, 12, is...
Episode 9: The Ages Of Man: The Attack On Cancer
This program focuses on research into effects of drugs on cancers in mice being conducted by interna...
Episode 10: The Ages Of Man: Drugs
A study of how medical researchers are using animals to determine effect of drugs such as marijuana...
Episode 11: The Ages Of Man: The Cell
The theme of biology for past 20 years has been origin of biological constancy. The theme of next 20...
Episode 12: The Ages Of Man: Arthritis
One quarter of all Canadians will be affected some time in their lives by arthritis.
Episode 13: The Ages of Man: Decade Science Review
Episode 14: The Ages Of Man: Heart Disease
A look at coronary thrombosis which kills three out of ten adults; heart research in Canada.
Episode 15: The Ages Of Man: Transplants
History and research in field of organ transplants.
Episode 16: The Ages Of Man: A Definition Of Death
When is a man dead? Canadian physicians discuss medical, ethical and legal questions involved with d...
Episode 17: Wild Africa: As It Was
A look at luxuriant parks and reserves where various species of wild animals and birds still survive...
Episode 18: A Sense Of Time
First in a three-part series visiting some of Canada's 700 museums in an attempt to show how people...
Episode 19: Wild Africa: Something New
Africa as it was during 18th and 19th centuries. Final program in this season's series.
Episode 20: A Sense Of Time
Second in a series of three programs on Canada's museums. This program presents views from adults -...
Episode 21: A Sense Of Time
A look "backstage" at Ontario Science Center, Royal Ontario Museum and Old Fort Henry.
Episode 22: Oceanography
Recent advances in oceanography.
Episode 23: Continental Drift
The theory that Earth's continents are moving is examined.
Episode 24: Sense Substitution
Research on new electronics and mechanical devices to help blind and deaf realize true sensory perce...
Episode 25: Physical Sciences: Stellar Evolution
The latest observations of astronomers have turned up new kinds of stars; mysterious emanations from...
Episode 26: Physical Sciences: Making Waves
Research into physics of sound and hearing has caused increasing alarm among scientists and physicia...
Episode 27: Physical Sciences: Energy Conversion
The physics of energy and problem of producing large quantities of energy with little pollution form...
Episode 28: Physical Sciences: Laser
The qualities of laser and normal light are contrasted. Final program in series.
Episode 1: "The Last Stand: Western Mountain Parks"
The first in a four-part series entitled The Last Stand. The series looks at a variety of areas in t...
Episode 2: "The Last Stand: The Everglades of Florida"
The Everglades, unique in the world, are dependent entirely on water. But the beautiful birds and an...
Episode 3: The Last Stand: Point Pelee
The third in a four-part series entitled "The Last Stand." Point Pelee is a tiny peninsula in southw...
Episode 4: The Last Stand: The Southwestern Desert
The last in a four-part series entitled The Last Stand. This program looks at Sonoran Desert in US S...
Episode 5: A Sense Of Time: The Age Of The Universe
The first in a three-part series entitled "A Sense of Time". This examines past and present ideas on...
Episode 6: A Sense Of Time: The Age Of The Earth
This program focuses on a new geophysical concept of our planet.
Episode 7: A Sense Of Time: The Age Of Man
Planet Earth has supported life for some three billion years; but Man, characterized by his powers o...
Episode 8: The Great Lakes
Sociologists tell us that Great Lakes are basis for civilization around them. If lakes fail.
Episode 9: The Great Lakes
Immediate implementation of pollution control in our Great Lakes is urgently needed if we are to pre...
Episode 10: Population Problems: Everybody'S Baby
Population: Everybody's Baby" examines projected consequences of overpopulation and-controversy surr...
Episode 11: Population Problems: Tomorrow'S Child
Featuring a national opinion poll on public attitudes in Canada towards population growth.
Episode 12: Who Help Themselves
Dealing with McGill University Settlement Mental Health Unit project in Montreal..
Episode 13: Psychiatry: Heavy Night
Psychiatry: Heavy Night
Episode 14: Psychiatry: Street Fighting Mad
A visit to Montreal's Allan Memorial Institute, where a disturbed teenager responds to treatment.
Episode 15: Psychiatry: Human Potential
A look at Vancouver-area encounter groups.
Episode 1: Banting, Best And Insulin
Season opener: The Nature of Things looks at discovery of insulin by Dr Frederick Banting and Dr Cha...
Episode 2: Cancer In Canada
Chances of recovery by a cancer patient in Canada are examined. Guests: Dr James Till, Toronto's Pri...
Episode 3: Parkinsonism
A look at research which may bring hope to sufferers of a crippling disorder that affects those on t...
Episode 4: The Fur Trade
A look at the endangered species of animals used in the fur trade, focusing on the Canadian market
Episode 5: The Harp Seal
The life history of the seal, currently the object of the great spring seal hunt; the physiology and...
Episode 6: Grouse Country
The world of the colorful bird family admired by hunters and birdwatchers alike.
Episode 7: The Polar Bear
Pictorial life history of the Arctic animals throughout the seasons.
Episode 8: Lobsters and the Sea
A glimpse into the world of an unusual and amusing ocean inhabitant.
Episode 9: Vanishing Peoples: Yanomami
Documentary look at the Yanomami, a fast-vanishing Indian tribe inhabiting the tropical rainforest o...
Episode 10: The Blue Holes of Andros
A visit to a deep network of underwater caves found offshore from the island of Andros, with Dr. Geo...
Episode 7: Episode 7
Episode 1: Up Close and Personal: The Ecology of David Suzuki
The program is about the natural history of this invisible world: the things that float in the air a...
Episode 2: Reefer Madness 2
There is a growing number of people who regard marijuana (cannabis) as a benign medicine, offering r...
Episode 3: Grasslands
Episode 4: Good Wood
Episode 5: Look Who's Talking...How Animals Communicate
It is only recently that humans have become aware that animal communication is often elegant, elabor...
Episode 1: Phallacies
Episode 2: How to Live to 100
Episode 3: The Hidden Killer: Portrait of an Epidemic
Episode 4: Parkinson's: Lynda's Story
Episode 5: Lost
We've all felt the terror of being lost - even for just a few moments. We lose our way; a child unex...
Episode 6: Designing for Dignity: Engineering Body Parts
Episode 7: Race for the Future
Episode 8: Race for the Future, Part 2
Episode 9: The Sleep Famine
Episode 10: Do Parents Matter?
How much are children influenced by their peers? The documentary Do Parents Matter? examines a contr...
Episode 11: Silent Sentinels
Episode 12: Wild Goose Chase
Episode 13: Humans: Who are We, Part 1 – The Birth of The Human Mind
The Birth of The Human Mind takes viewers on an amazing journey back in time, exploring the use of l...
Episode 14: Humans: Who Are We?, Part 2 – The Human Invasion
Paleoanthropologists, linguists, archeologists and other scientists offer the latest interpretations...
Episode 15: Weather: Dragons of Chaos
The nature of weather is so complex that it is really a system of chaos. Weather is often benign, bu...
Episode 1: Nuclear Dynamite
Episode 2: Breath of Life
Episode 3: Spare Parts
Episode 4: Lost Worlds: Wild South America
Episode 5: Lost Worlds: Wild South America: Monkey Jungles
Episode 6: Lost Worlds: Wild South America: Amazon Jungle
Episode 7: Lost Worlds: Wild South America: The Mighty Amazon
South America is a land of extremes. It boasts the world's longest mountain chain, the Andes; the mi...
Episode 8: Lost Worlds: Wild South America: The Andes
Episode 9: Amanda's Choice
Amanda is an insightful 19-year-old from Timmins, Ontario. She has a three-year-old son and a dilemm...
Episode 10: The Secret Life of the Crash Test Dummy
Episode 11: Lost Worlds: Wild South America: Penguin Shores
PENGUIN SHORES is part five of the magnificent six-part BBC series Lost Worlds, covering the amazing...
Episode 12: Lost Worlds: Wild South America: Great Plains
Lost Worlds - A six-part series on the breath-taking natural world of South America takes viewers on...
Episode 13: Coastal Forest/Salmon Forest
Episode 14: The Price of Salmon
Salmon are considered an excellent source of nutrition. And farmed salmon provide it inexpensively....
Episode 15: Surgeons of the Future
Episode 16: Maisin People In Papua New Guinea
Episode 17: Toxic Legacies
Episode 18: Hospital at the End of the Earth
Episode 19: Worst Case Scenario
Albertans have traditionally been proud of their mighty petroleum industry. But lately, they have be...
Episode 1: Me, My Brain And I Unmasking The Mystery of the Conscious Mind
Bob thinks but doesn't feel. Christina feels but has trouble thinking. Virginia can neither think or...
Episode 2: Warnings from the Wild
All over the planet, temperature increases are affecting wildlife. Some species are spreading to new...
Episode 3: Touch: The Forgotten Sense
A film about the amazing, but often overlooked sense of touch. The film takes us on an artistic and...
Episode 4: Psychopaths
A documentary that looks at the understanding of this condition in the scientific community, and wha...
Episode 5: Drug Deals: The Brave New World of Prescription Drugs
Are our regulatory agencies doing their best to ensure drug safety? Or are they buckling to corporat...
Episode 6: Bioterror
Since the September 11th terrorist attack on The World Trade Center, the news has been saturated wit...
Episode 7: Race Against Time
It's an epidemic of staggering proportions. Thirty-six million people are infected with the HIV viru...
Episode 8: Return of the Peregrine
Adept at diving at speeds normally reserved for fighter pilots, the peregrine falcon is the fastest...
Episode 9: Living Forever
Biologists have seen within our genes the possibility of extending human life spans to 300 years or...
Episode 10: Genetically Modified Foods
In 2001 the Government of Canada approved the following genetically modified crops for food use: can...
Episode 11: Self-Experimenters
Most major advances in medicine and science and are made by people who push the envelope. From morph...
Episode 12: Morphine on Trial
Episode 13: Cyberman: Canada's Original Cyborg
Episode 14: Wired for Life
Episode 15: Intuition
Episode 16: Beluga Speaking Across Time
Episode 17: Hot Flash on Menopause
Episode 1: Up Close and Toxic
Episode 1: The Ghosts of Lomako
Episode 1: Sex, Lies and Secrecy: Dissecting Hysterectomy
Episode 2: Terrible Lizards of Oz
Episode 3: Selling Sickness
Episode 4: Arktika: The Russian Dream That Failed
Episode 5: Shipbreakers
Episode 6: Clot Busters
Episode 7: Killed By Care: Making Medicine Safe
Episode 8: Tale of a Tiny Bird
Episode 9: Apocalypse Cow: The Mad Cow Story (Part 1)
Episode 10: Apocalypse Cow: The Mad Cow Story (Part 2)
Episode 11: Bhopal: The Search for Justice
Episode 12: Forbidden Forest
Episode 13: Passion & Fury: The Emotional Brain: Anger
Episode 14: Passion & Fury: The Emotional Brain: Love
Episode 15: Passion & Fury: The Emotional Brain: Fear
Episode 16: Passion & Fury: The Emotional Brain: Happiness
Episode 17: Fighting Fire with Fire
Episode 18: Being Caribou: Part 1
Episode 19: Being Caribou: Part 2
Episode 20: Whale Mission: The Last Giants
Episode 21: Whale Mission: Keepers of Memory
Episode 22: Origins of Human Aggression: The Other Story
Episode 23: Five Seasons
Episode 1: Tarantula: Australia's King of Spiders
The hair-raising journey to discover the secret lives of these ancient crawlers. They have been roam...
Episode 2: Nature Bites Back: The Case of the Sea Otter
Episode 3: Earth Energy
Episode 4: Change of Heart
Episode 5: The Secret Life of Babies
Episode 6: Tsepong: A Clinic Called Hope
Episode 7: Port Hope: A Question of Power
Episode 8: Everyday Einstein
Everyday Einstein provides a fast-paced and jazzy look at the extraordinary impact Einstein continue...
Episode 9: Homo Sapiens: The Rise of Our Species (Pt.1)
Homo Sapiens: The Rise of Our Species will introduce you to the ultimate family tree. This story is...
Episode 10: Homo Sapiens: The Rise of Our Species (Pt. 2)
Homo Sapiens deftly employs both docu-drama and interviews with key scientists to illuminate the rem...
Episode 11: Ghosts of Futures Past: Tom Berger in the North
Episode 12: Blue Buddha: Lost secrets of Tibetan Medicine
A look at the rising interest in the ancient healing arts of traditional Tibetan medicine.
Episode 13: Beetalker: The Secret World of Bees
Examining how bees communicate.
Episode 14: Cuba: The Accidental Revolution (Pt. 1)
Examines Cuba's response to the food crisis created by the collapse of the Soviet Bloc in 1989.
Episode 15: Cuba: The Accidental Revolution (Pt. 2)
In spite of the economic crisis and US embargo, the Cuban health system is an outstanding success st...
Episode 16: When Less Is More
Episode 17: Stephen Lewis: The Man Who Couldn't Sleep
Episode 18: Wild Caribbean: Hurricane Hell
Every year the Caribbean paradise is turned into a hurricane hell. From the beginning of June until...
Episode 19: Build Green
In a refreshing hour, Build Green advises making the sun, the wind, and the rain – along with dirt,...
Episode 20: Wild Caribbean: Reefs and Wrecks
The clear blue waters that surround the Caribbean islands are home to some of the world's most stunn...
Episode 21: Wild Caribbean: Treasure Island
Take the island hop of your life. Discover the rich variety of islands that are the Caribbean, and w...
Episode 22: Wild Caribbean: Secret Shores
The Caribbean is not just the islands. We explore the least known Caribbean, that area beyond the Se...
Episode 23: Cuttlefish – The Brainy Bunch
Imagine an alien with three hearts, blue blood and a doughnut shaped brain. In an instant it could b...
Episode 24: Mystery of the Giant Sloths Cave
Today's sloths rank highly among the most surprising creatures of the animal kingdom: living suspend...
Episode 25: Geologic Journey: The Great Lakes
Episode 26: Geologic Journey: The Rockies
Episode 27: Geologic Journey: The Canadian Shield
Episode 28: Geologic Journey: The Appalachians
Episode 29: Geologic Journey: The Atlantic Coast
Episode 1: The Bear Man of Kamchatka
Canadian bear expert Charlie Russell rescues two orphaned cubs destined for death in a squalid Russi...
Episode 2: Living Forever: The Longevity Revolution
Explorer the ongoing quest to extend human life, the cutting-edge research and the latest discoverie...
Episode 3: Weather Report
Climate change is irrevocably altering the world as we know it, challenging our sense of the future...
Episode 4: Game Over: Conservation in Kenya
Explore the impact of both colonial and contemporary initiatives in Kenya and how they affect the pe...
Episode 5: The Man with the Golden Cells
The emerging world market in living cells, where an individual's genes can be bought and sold as com...
Episode 6: The Nature of Things Magazine
Witness the exciting lead up to the launch of the new High Speed One service out of St. Pancras Stat...
Episode 7: Climate Change I: An Uncertain Future
Now that climate change is an accepted, if inconvenient, truth, how are we coping? David Suzuki take...
Episode 8: Climate Change II: Hot Times in the City
Hot Times in the City takes the pulse of three major Canadian cities: Vancouver, Toronto and Halifax...
Episode 9: The Nature of Things Magazine
A look into the multi-billion dollar underworld of counterfeit drugs, the tale of the Lunokhod a sel...
Episode 10: The Edge of Eden – Living with Grizzlies
Episode 11: The Science of the Senses: Hearing
In Hearing, episode one of The Science of the Senses, finding the answer to that question will take...
Episode 12: The Science of the Senses: Touch
In The Science of the Senses: Touch we will take a journey through the skin, into the subcutaneous w...
Episode 13: The Science of the Senses: Smell/Taste
In this episode of The Science of the Senses, we explore how smell combines with taste, somewhere in...
Episode 14: The Science of the Senses: Sight
This episode takes viewers on a fascinating tour of our visual world, from the moment light enters o...
Episode 15: Wild China: Heart of the Dragon
Explores how China's 1.3 billion people interact with their extraordinary wildlife and landscapes.
Episode 16: Wild China: Shangi-La
Beneath billowing clouds in China's far southwest, rich jungles nestle below towering peaks and jewe...
Episode 17: Wild China: The Tibetan Plateau
Explore the vast windswept wilderness in one of the world's most remote places - the size of Western...
Episode 18: Wild China: Land of the Panda
Travel across China's heartland where its Han people are the centre of a 5,000-year-old civilization...
Episode 19: Wild China: Beyond the Great Wall
Warrior nomads, bizarre wildlife and extreme weather conditions are found beyond the Wall, built by...
Episode 20: Wild China: Tides of Change
China's coast is an area of huge contrast-from futuristic modern cities jostling traditional seaweed...
Episode 21: Antarctic Mission: Islands at the Edge
The SEDNA IV sails across the Polar Front, an area where cold turbulent Antarctic waters meet warmer...
Episode 22: Antarctic Mission: Window on a Changing Climate
Antarctica's inhabitants are telling us that their world is changing in complex and subtle ways. The...
Episode 23: Antarctic Mission: The Great Ocean of Ice
A cold and mysterious world that is home to some of the toughest and most unusual creatures on the p...
Episode 24: Antarctic Mission: The Last Continent
Follow mission leader Jean Lemire and his crew as they endure 17 months on the expedition to measure...
Episode 1: The Hobbit Enigma
One of the greatest controversies in science today: just what did scientists really find when they u...
Episode 2: Rodney's Robot Revolution
Has the time come to meet an artificially intelligent robot? Engineer and inventor Rodney Brooks thi...
Episode 3: The Adventurers: The Last Nomads
Linguist Ian Mackenzie has tracked the last true nomadic hunting and gathering people on earth - the...
Episode 4: The Adventurers: The Everlasting Oasis
University of Toronto archaeologist Tony Mills travels to the eastern desert of Egypt where he and o...
Episode 5: The Adventurers: A Story Told in Stone
Archeologist Edmundo Edwards pulls back the vines and trees of the jungle to find huge stone cities...
Episode 6: The Suzuki Diaries: Europe
David Suzuki and his daughter Sarika head out on a road trip across Europe to see sustainability in...
Episode 7: The Adventurers: The Lost People of Baja
Canadian paleo-pathologist Eldon Molto is leading the search for clues of the mysterious Pericu peop...
Episode 8: The Brain that Changes Itself
Based on the best-selling book by Toronto psychiatrist and researcher Dr. Norman Doidge, a look at h...
Episode 9: Gone Sideways
A light-hearted look at serendipity in science, from life-saving cancer cures to the x-ray machine a...
Episode 10: Black Wave: The Legacy of the Exxon Valdez
A saga about what happens when ordinary people struggle for justice against a huge corporation that...
Episode 11: Supercar: Building the Car of the Future
Engineering professor Brian Fleck on a quest to meet the engineers, designers and even students who...
Episode 12: Living City: A Critical Guide
What's wrong with Canada's cities? What's right? Award-winning urban affairs columnist Christopher H...
Episode 13: Inuit Odyssey
Canadian Arctic anthropologist Niobe Thompson takes us on a visually stunning journey across the Nor...
Episode 14: American Savannah
Our lawns are one of our simplest pleasures. Grass is a luxury that represents relaxation, freedom,...
Episode 15: Arctic Meltdown: A Changing World
From new companies rushing to claim the Arctic's plentiful resources to the effect climate change ha...
Episode 16: Arctic Meltdown: The Arctic Passages
Until recently, only a few ships braved travel through these ice-strewn waters. More and more ships...
Episode 17: Arctic Meltdown: Adapting to Change
A look at two different Arctics - one that is the storybook land of ice, snow and polar bears and th...
Episode 1: A Murder of Crows
A rare and intimate glimpse into the inner life of one of the most intelligent, playful and mischiev...
Episode 2: Mini Monsters of Amazonia
A look at the astonishing and complex relationships of the "mini monsters", insects of the Membracid...
Episode 3: Broken Tail's Last Journey
A personal quest to discover the truth behind the disappearance of a captivating tiger, one of the w...
Episode 4: Darwin's Brave New World: Origins
The extraordinary and often harrowing story of Charles Darwin's 30-year struggle to piece together t...
Episode 5: Darwin's Brave New World: Evolutions
Episode 6: Darwin's Brave New World: Publish and Be Damned
Episode 7: Suzuki Diaries: Coastal Canada
A father and daughter set out with hope on a journey of discovery to Canada's three coasts determine...
Episode 8: To Bee or Not to Bee
Could bees be an early warning sign of a larger problem with our ecology? Are they the canary in the...
Episode 9: Bugs, Bones & Botany: The Science of Crime
Meet nature's detectives; how bugs, plants, bones ... even dust can be formidable enemies of crime.
Episode 10: The Downside of High
Is today's strong pot damaging young minds? That provocative question is at the heart of this new do...
Episode 11: Bat & Man
Bats are scientifically extraordinary creatures. Now scientists have begun unlocking the secrets of...
Episode 12: My Nuclear Neighbour
What would you do if you discovered a nuclear plant might be built right next door? Two women from P...
Episode 13: Uakari: Secrets of the Red Monkey
A journey into the rainforests of the Peruvian amazon to investigate the mysterious Red Uakari monke...
Episode 14: One Ocean: Birth of an Ocean
Explore the ocean's tumultuous history and how the ocean transformed the earth into the livable, blu...
Episode 15: One Ocean: Footprints in the Sand
Ancient traditional fisheries, over-development and the places of recovery that can give us hope for...
Episode 16: One Ocean: Mysteries of the Deep
Starting in the deepest part of the ocean, take a secret and magical world of bizarre creatures and...
Episode 17: One Ocean: The Changing Sea
Explore some of the most stunning underwater locations in the world and set sail on a scientific rac...
Episode 18: Masters of Space
Is space becoming a new war zone? A revealing look at the fine line between space-faring and space w...
Episode 1: Aliens of the Deep Sea
The octopus is a close cousin of the oyster and snail. And yet, even by human standards the multi-li...
Episode 2: Changing Your Mind
Once thought to be incapable of fundamental change, our growing awareness of the adult brain's capac...
Episode 3: For the Love of Elephants
An intimate look at the bond that is formed between humans and baby orphaned elephants at the David...
Episode 4: Geologic Journey 2: Tectonic Europe (July 8 1997)
Traverse the Eurasian plate across Europe — from Iceland, where new land is formed - to the Alps, wh...
Episode 5: Geologic Journey 2: Along the African Rift (September 2, 1997)
For millions of years the East African Rift has been widening at the seams, tearing the African plat...
Episode 6: Geologic Journey 2: The Western Pacific Rim (November 4, 1997)
Focusing on the Asia-Pacific side of The Pacific Rim of Fire, which stands as a living testament to...
Episode 7: Geologic Journey 2: The Pacific Rim: Americas (January 13, 1998)
Nick Eyles continues to explore the Pacific Rim, this time looking at the west coast of North Americ...
Episode 8: Geologic Journey 2: The Collision Zone: Asia (March 17, 1998)
The fiery unpredictability of Indonesia’s volcanoes at one end, the massive Himalayas at the other a...
Episode 9: When North Goes South
Learning and discussing the consequences of magnetic pole inversion.
Episode 10: Code Breakers
Who were the first peoples of North America? Anthropologist Niobe Thompson embarks on a voyage of sc...
Episode 11: Tipping Point: The Age of the Oil Sands
Tipping Point: The Age of the Oil Sands is a two-hour visual tour de force, taking viewers inside th...
Episode 12: The Last Grizzly
Filmmaker Jeff Turner documents grizzly bears in the Northern Cascades of British Columbia.
Episode 13: Return of the Prairie Bandit
Revisiting the 2009 release of nearly extinct black-footed ferrets in Saskatchewan to see what happe...
Episode 14: Raccoon Nation
Is your garbage can making raccoons smarter? Stunning footage shot in the deep, dark of night combin...
Episode 15: The Real Avatar
In James Cameron's film, Avatar, an alien tribe on the distant planet of Pandora fights the human in...
Episode 16: Force of Nature: The David Suzuki Movie
David Suzuki, scientist, educator, broadcaster and activist, delivers what he describes as 'a last l...
Episode 17: Save My Lake
Save My Lake is a TV documentary episode.
Episode 18: 50 Years of the Nature of Things
A celebration of half a century of a landmark science and natural history series, and an unrivaled C...
Episode 1: The Nano Revolution: Welcome to Nano City
Episode 2: The Nano Revolution: More Than Human
Episode 3: The Nano Revolution: Will Nano Save the Planet?
Episode 4: Jungle Prescription
One of the most powerful hallucinogenic drugs on the planet is in a tea made from medicinal plants:...
Episode 5: Emperor's Lost Harbour
In Istanbul, Turkey, workers building a railway tunnel make a remarkable discovery - an ancient harb...
Episode 6: Myth or Science
Scientist Jennifer Gardy turns her critical eye towards the myths, lies, misunderstandings and error...
Episode 7: Waking the Green Tiger
Examining modern China's ideas about nature and the environment.
Episode 8: Autism Enigma
A fresh perspective on autism research with the developing "Bacterial Theory" of autism. The fastest...
Episode 9: Programmed to be Fat?
New science links man-made chemicals to the global obesity epidemic. Man-made chemicals may be progr...
Episode 10: Surviving :) The Teenage Brain
A look at the science deep within the teenage brain and a celebration of evolution's masterpiece - t...
Episode 11: Mysteries of the Animal Mind
Scientists explore the mysteries of animal consciousness and find growing evidence of compassion, co...
Episode 12: The American Tiger
Most tigers today are privately owned - experts estimate that the number of tigers living in the Uni...
Episode 13: MS Wars: Hope, Science and the Internet
Multiple sclerosis patients use social media to engage in an unprecedented battle with the Canadian...
Episode 14: Suzuki Diaries: Future City
In a new installment of Suzuki Diaries, David and his daughter, Sarika, set out to discover whether...
Episode 15: Journey to the Disaster Zone
David Suzuki travels to the areas most affected by the tsunami on its anniversary.
Episode 16: The Perfect Runner
Anthropologist Niobe Thompson explores the evolutionary past of humans.
Episode 17: Smarty Plants
The secrets of plant behavior.
Episode 18: Polar Bears: A Summer Odyssey
Shot over twelve months, this blue chip wildlife documentary tells the story a young polar bear's ep...
Episode 1: The Buffalo Wolves
Wolves and Buffalo follows the fortunes of one pack of wolves, the Delta Pack. Will the pups survive...
Episode 2: Babies: Born to be Good?
Episode 3: Nuts About Squirrels
There are those of us who see squirrels as cute and fascinating, but there is also a large contingen...
Episode 4: The Norse: An Arctic Mystery
Are we alone in the universe? We may be very close to finding out. For millennia humans studying the...
Episode 5: Lights Out!
Twelve hours of light. Twelve hours of dark. For our entire history we have lived and worked in rhyt...
Episode 6: David Suzuki's Andean Adventure
Episode 7: Zapped: The Buzz About Mosquitoes
People struggle to combat a blood-sucking little insect that is both delicate and deadly.
Episode 8: Shattered Ground
Episode 9: Meet the Coywolf
There is a new hybrid species which is part wolf, part coyote.
Episode 10: The Fruit Hunters: Evolution of Desire (Part 1 of 2)
The exotic world of fruit and the story of nature, commerce and obsession.
Episode 11: The Fruit Hunters: Evolution of Desire (Part 2 of 2)
Episode 12: Billion Dollar Caribou
The conservation of the caribou and their environment is much-contested territory.
Episode 13: The Beaver Whisperers
The national symbol has a new role as an ecological superhero.
Episode 14: The Beetles Are Coming
Episode 15: The Man Who Tweeted Earth
Through pictures, music and poetry, Canadian Commander Chris Hadfield brings us a view of earth from...
Episode 1: Carpe Diem: A Fishy Tale
North America is under attack by a sly and wily aquatic invader. Introduced in the ‘70s for the purp...
Episode 2: Ticked Off: The Mystery of Lyme Disease
Lyme disease, a mysterious tick-borne illness, has become one of the fastest-spreading diseases in N...
Episode 3: Myth or Science 2: The Quest for Perfection
Dr. Jennifer Gardy is back. But this time, Dr. Gardy’s journey of scientific discovery will plumb ou...
Episode 4: Brain Magic: The Power of Placebo
What if each of us could make the symptoms of an illness disappear? Cast a spell so powerful it woul...
Episode 5: Invasion of the Brain Snatchers
Episode 6: Untangling Alzheimer's
Episode 7: A Dog's Life
Episode 8: Survival of the Fabulous
Episode 9: Where Am I?
Episode 10: The Great Butterfly Hunt
Canadian scientist Fred Urquhart unravels the mystery of the monarch's winter home.
Episode 11: How to Be a Wild Elephant
Orphan elephant Sities must learn how to be a wild elephant when she leaves the safety of a Kenyan s...
Episode 12: Secrets in the Bones - The Hunt for the Black Death Killer
The quest to solve a great mystery in history: Identify the Black Death killer and unlock secrets th...
Episode 13: Trek of the Titans
A rare look at the leatherback turtle as it migrates between the chilly waters off Eastern Canada an...
Episode 14: The Allergy Fix
Scientists are attacking food allergies in new and inventive ways, driven by the alarming increase i...
Episode 15: Wild Canada: The Eternal Frontier
A remarkable journey across Canada’s natural landscapes revealing the surprising influence early hum...
Episode 16: Wild Canada: The Wild West
From the Rockies to the Pacific, western Canada has astonishing wildlife and landscapes, some of whi...
Episode 17: Wild Canada: The Heartland
From the prairies to Canada's vast boreal forest that stretches almost from coast to coast, we revea...
Episode 18: Wild Canada: Ice Edge
In the country's harshest climate, the wildlife survive in the tundra of ice.
Episode 19: Making Wild Canada
Making the incredible Wild Canada series. Meet Jeff Turner, the series director, and see stories fro...
Episode 1: Stonehenge Uncovered
The biggest archaeological survey ever conducted of the Stonehenge landscape finds new evidence of a...
Episode 2: Gorilla Doctors
Dr. Mike Cranfield looks at how he managed to be working in a Canadian veterinarian surgery to end u...
Episode 3: Dreams of the Future
Dr. Jennifer Gardy tries out new technology and looks at fresh ideas of our relationships with natur...
Episode 4: The Cholesterol Question
A investigation into whether or not Cholesterol really is the cause of heart problems.
Episode 5: Decoding Desire
From preening peacocks to promiscuous primates, what do animals reveal about our own sexual behaviou...
Episode 6: Chasing Snowflakes
Scientists are unraveling the delicate mysteries of the snowflake. And what they’re learning is amaz...
Episode 1: Moose: A Year in the Life of a Twig Eater
Experience a calf’s first year of life as it grows up in Jasper National Park amid some of the most...
Episode 15: The Equalizer
Every year, athletes keep going higher, farther and faster, shattering previous world records and se...
Episode 1: Pompeii's People
Despite intense archaeological scrutiny, much of the ancient city of Pompeii still remains a mystery...
Episode 5: Destination: Mars
The race to get to Mars is on, seizing the imagination of the world. Every month there seems to be a...
Episode 1: The Wild Canadian Year: Spring
The first days of spring sees Arctic fox pups take their first steps and black bear cubs learn to cl...
Episode 2: The Wild Canadian Year: Summer
Killer whales and blue sharks are on the hunt, while amorous fireflies light up the night forest wit...
Episode 3: The Wild Canadian Year: Fall
Fall chronicles a remarkable season of change: young northern gannets leap off perilous cliffs as ch...
Episode 4: The Wild Canadian Year: Winter
Lynx hunt snowshoe hares in the boreal forest and the ancient dance between wolves and caribou on Ca...
Episode 5: Making the Wild Canadian Year
Watch the incredible feats of endurance and technical wizardry needed to capture the sequences featu...
Episode 6: Lost Secrets of the Pyramid
The Great Pyramid of Egypt may be humanity’s greatest achievement. It’s a skyscraper of stone built...
Episode 1: Equus: The Story of the Horse - Origins
A journey around the world and back in time to discover why horses and humans make perfect partners.
Episode 2: Equus: The Story of the Horse - First Riders
Travel back to the moment humans tamed the horse, and learn how horsepower made history.
Episode 3: Equus: The Story of the Horse - Chasing the Wind
How did humans save the wild horse from extinction? And how did we create over four hundred speciali...
Episode 4: A Day in the Life of Earth
From volcanoes to earthquakes & dust migration to meteorites — scientists reveal how much the Earth...
Episode 5: The Real T.Rex
Join an investigative journey around the world to uncover the mysteries of the most famous dinosaur...
Episode 6: The Memory Mirage
Can we trust what we remember about our own lives? Memory scientists say most memories are full of d...
Episode 7: Spying on Animals
A look at how innovations in remote unmanned cameras let us bear witness to animal behaviour 24/7 -...
Episode 8: The Genetic Revolution
Trailblazing scientists are making ground-breaking discoveries in the rapidly evolving world of gene...
Episode 9: Stay-at-Home Animal Dads
From emus to penguins, meet some of the most devoted stay-at-home animal dads on the planet.
Episode 10: Food for Thought
When it comes to diet, we swallow a lot of advice. Food for Thought sorts through the latest science...

Episode 11: The Wonder of the Northern Lights
The aurora borealis delights and amazes us, but we're just beginning to understand its beauty.
Episode 1: She Walks with Apes
The epic story of three legendary women who fought to save the great apes — and inspired a generatio...
Episode 5: : First Animals
Episode 1: Rebellion
Global temperatures are rising and so are we: millions of young people rise up to demand their right...

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...

Episode 4: The Covid Cruise
3,711 passengers and crew. 14-day quarantine. 1 deadly infectious disease. Coronavirus aboard the Di...

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 squirre...

Episode 7: Wild Canadian Weather - Rain
Rain brings unexpected benefits for spadefoot toads, grizzlies, and whitewater kayakers - but too mu...

Episode 8: Wild Canadian Weather - Wind
The invisible element that shapes our lives; falcons, butterflies and spiders hitch a ride, while Ca...

Episode 9: Wild Canadian Weather - Sun
The driving force behind all weather, sunlight creates a banquet for blue whales, helps vultures soa...

Episode 10: Making Wild Canadian Weather
Crews go to great lengths to get amazing shots of wildlife people and weather. Working with scientis...

Episode 11: The Real Neanderthal
Neanderthals weren't brutish or dim-witted. New discoveries reveal they were more human than we ever...

Episode 12: Kingdom of the Polar Bears: Episode 1
Veteran polar bear guide Dennis Compayre goes on a remarkable journey into the world of a polar bear...

Episode 13: Kingdom of the Polar Bears: Episode 2
Veteran polar bear guide, Dennis Compayre watches as a mother bear teaches her young cubs to hunt an...

Episode 14: The Last Walrus
A filmmaker explores one man’s quest to save a walrus, as the debate around marine mammal captivity...

Episode 1: Inside the Great Vaccine Race
The inside story of the high-stakes race to defeat a killer virus and save millions of lives.

Episode 2: Nature's Big Year
When humanity hits pause, nature reboots. Scientists discover the surprising ways pandemic lockdowns...

Episode 3: The Machine That Feels
Artificial intelligence is becoming more empathic, emotionally intelligent, and creative. So what do...

Episode 4: The New Human
Disappearing tendons? Longer legs? Artificial body parts? What will humans look like in the future?

Episode 5: Chef Secrets: The Science of Cooking
The secret ingredient to becoming a better cook? Science! Top chefs and culinary experts explain the...

Episode 6: Curb Your Carbon
Narrated by Ryan Reynolds, Curb Your Carbon reveals the easy and effective ways we can all fight cli...

Episode 7: In Your Face
We see faces in everything. Facial recognition is an evolutionary superpower unique to humans.

Episode 8: Ice and Fire: Tracking Canada's Climate Crisis
Goodbye backyard ice rinks, mountain glaciers, and forest biodiversity: what Canada might lose due t...

Episode 9: Why We Dance
It may surprise you to learn that you are a dancer. In fact, we are all dancers. This film takes us...

Episode 10: Carbon: The Unauthorized Biography
The key element of life on Earth, it has the power to build and destroy.

Episode 11: How the Wild Things Sleep
Unraveling the secrets of the most extreme sleepers of the animal kingdom. Why and how do animals sl...

Episode 12: The Teenager and the Lost Maya City
A young Canadian is going on the adventure of a lifetime. He believes he knows the location of a los...

Episode 13: The Musical Animal
We know that humans are a musical species. We sing, we dance, we groove. But are we the only musical...

Episode 14: The Science of Success
Success has little to do with performance, winners and losers are chosen by society. Now, scientists...

Episode 1: Last of the Right Whales
North Atlantic right whales are on the brink of extinction. Follow the fight to save them.

Episode 2: Rat City
Remarkable superpowers make rats the evolutionary heroes of the animal kingdom.

Episode 3: Science & Cannabis
Is cannabis a medical cure-all or snake oil? Scientists distinguish the medicine from the myths.

Episode 4: Secret Agents Of The Underground Railroad
How staff at a luxury hotel in Niagara Falls, NY helped ferry enslaved people to freedom.

Episode 5: Walking With Ancients
New archaeological discoveries are challenging our understanding of when the first people arrived in...

Episode 6: Apocalypse Plan B
Some scientists are proposing radical ways to cool our warming planet – but others say it’s time to...

Episode 7: True Survivors
How have humans survived extreme environmental change in the past? And what will it take to survive...

Episode 8: Grizzly Rewild
Five orphaned grizzly bear cubs get a second chance at life in the wild, but can they survive withou...

Episode 9: Bug Sex
Broken genitals and cannibalism. Welcome to the weird and wonderful world of how bugs get busy.

Episode 10: War for the Woods
Thirty years after historic logging protests on Vancouver Island, the battle to protect old growth f...

Episode 11: The Secrets of Friendship
Step into the world of 'friendship detectives', who are unravelling the mysteries of social behaviou...

Episode 12: Woodpeckers: The Hole Story
Inside the secret and rhythmic world of one of nature’s best lumberjacks.

Episode 13: Suzuki Signs Off
For 44 years, David Suzuki has taken us around the world to explore science, technology, and nature...
New hosts Sarika Cullis-Suzuki and Anthony Morgan take on The Nature of Things, the world's longest-running science documentary series.

Episode 1: A User's Guide to the Voice
The human voice is the most sophisticated communication tool, but most of us don’t know how to unloc...

Episode 2: The Mystery of the Walking Whale
Sarika Cullis-Suzuki travels back in time to solve the evolutionary mystery of the walking whale.

Episode 3: Butt Seriously
Anthony Morgan shines a light where the sun doesn’t usually shine. Why we have butts, how they evolv...

Episode 4: Jawsome: Canada’s Great White Sharks
Shark nerds are on a mission to reveal the JAWSOME lives of Canada’s Great White Sharks.

Episode 5: I am the Magpie River
A pristine river in Quebec is granted rights through legal personhood, protecting it and those who c...

Episode 6: Love Hurts: The Science of Heartbreak
Find out if science can ease the human conditions of loss, rejection, and unrequited love.

Episode 7: Hairy Tales
A hair-raising journey into the salon, the lab, a remote Chinese village, a baby nursery and even a...

Episode 8: Little Sapiens
Thanks to cutting-edge technology, experts are finally learning the story of prehistoric kids and ho...

Episode 9: Fluid: Life Beyond the Binary
Mae Martin explores the science of gender and sexual fluidity.

Episode 10: Secrets of the Jurassic Dinosaurs
Anthony Morgan joins the fossil dig of a lifetime as palaeontologists discover why a tiny patch of l...

Episode 11: Lost World of the Hanging Gardens
ISIS destroyed thousands of ancient artefacts and buildings in Mosul. Now, archeologists are making...

Episode 101: Secret World of Sound: Hunters and Hunted
In nature, sound can mean the difference between finding a meal and becoming one.

Episode 102: Secret World of Sound: Love and Rivals
Sound is used in extraordinary ways to impress, find a mate and fight off rivals.

Episode 103: Secret World of Sound: Finding a Voice
Baby animals rely on sound to survive after they’re born — and even before.
New hosts Sarika Cullis-Suzuki and Anthony Morgan take on The Nature of Things, the world's longest-running science documentary series.

Episode 1: Teenager
The science of adolescence: understanding this dramatic, mysterious and critically important phase o...

Episode 2: Sweat!
As global temperatures rise, Anthony Morgan investigates the human body's natural cooling system; he...

Episode 3: Foodspiracy
Sarika Cullis-Suzuki and Anthony Morgan study ultra-processed foods; they examine why these foods ar...

Episode 4: Shared Planet: Cities
From New York to Kolkata, there are surprising benefits to us that come from sharing space with the...

Episode 5: Shared Planet: Open Spaces
Grasslands account for half of the total land area on the planet and most have been converted for hu...

Episode 6: Shared Planet: Waters
Water provides the largest habitat on Earth, but water-dependent wildlife is declining fast. Learnin...

Episode 7: Shared Planet: Forests
Forests are essential for life on our planet, but humans are cutting more down every year; these ins...

Episode 8: The Secret Knowledge of Animals
From goats that can sense upcoming volcanic eruptions to birds that know how to avoid tsunamis and c...

Episode 9: Singing Back the Buffalo
A richly visual and deeply uplifting story of humanity’s connections to buffalo how their return to...

Episode 10: Dances with Cranes
A year in the life of whooping cranes, and the humans saving them from extinction.

Episode 11: Plastic People
Microplastics are everywhere. Sarika Cullis-Suzuki joins science journalist Ziya Tong for an investi...

Episode 12: Animal Pride
This is nature's coming out story. Connel Bradwell challenges mainstream biology's blindspots and ex...

Episode 13: Dad Bods
Science is revealing the truth about 'dad bods' and how having a child can dramatically affect the b...

Episode 14: Implosion: The Titanic Sub Disaster
A dive to the Titanic. A fatal implosion. Inside the investigation to uncover the truth about the Ti...
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For an attorney who despises losing to men and an A-list actor who distrusts women, love means nothing — until they're f...
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Never Have I Ever
After a traumatic year, all an Indian-American teen wants is to go from pariah to popular -- but friends, family and fee...
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Daniel Feeld, writer of the film Karaoke, starts to believe that his characters are coming alive.
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Sleepers
Sleepers (sleeper agents) are agents deeply incorporated into the structure of opposing forces. They are recruited befor...
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Dragons, Monsters, and Men
Discover your purpose and slay the dragons that stand in your way. Watch the new 4-part series on men, masculinity, and...
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Encore!
Kristen Bell is giving one high school musical cast from 20 years ago the chance for a nationally televised Encore!
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