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When The Lion

Queens arrived a couple

of years back, the world instantly fell in love with the

When The Lion Queens arrived a couple of years back, the world instantly fell in love with the television series and the incredible women foresters featuring in it. Sold in 170 countries, it was seen in every part of the world. High offices like that of prime ministers’ and organisations like UNEP complimented it. Hundreds of newspaper and magazine articles appeared in as many languages and numerous follow up television features applauded the series. It became a subject of a few research theses too! The series and the girls now return to mesmerise the world once again with many more incredible and heart-warming stories. It will be a much bigger television event than its predecessor! An Optimum Television production for Discovery.

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10x30’ in 4K If we leave out a few landscapes that can be counted on fingertips, snakes are everywhere. And, as Man continues to swallow wilderness, they have nowhere to go. Hurt and homeless, they are turning up in cities and homes. It’s happening everywhere. India, a land of 300 species of snakes, including some of the deadliest in the world, is the best, or the worst example of this phenomenon. Enter the Snake Squad. Many young men and women have shunned their prosperous careers to give part of their lives to rescue snakes from urban homes and restore them in the wild. Alex Carpenter, a Briton settled in the beach state of Goa, is one among them. Alex travels to many big Indian cities to meet the Snake Squad and to understand why young people have chosen to do what arguably is the most dangerous job in the world. The series brings to television jaw-dropping rescues, deadly snakes like cobras, and some incredible stories. An Optimum Television production for Discovery.

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60’ in 4K India has just launched an epic exercise to count the most majestic wild animal in the world: the tiger. It’s the largest wildlife survey ever undertaken anywhere in the world. The outcome of this mega headcount will be very special and make global headlines. It will tell the world what the future looks like for the most accomplished predator on earth. Counting Tigers takes audiences behind these headlines, and right inside the ring to show, perhaps for the first time ever, the process of counting wild tigers! An Optimum Television production for National Geographic.

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120’ in 4K

Catching Giants is a heart-warming film that follows renowned researcher, Dr. Francois Deacon, as he embarks on the most ambitious project in giraffe conservation to date. On the rugged and untamed plains of South Africa’s Tswalu Kalahari Reserve, he sets out to capture and collar more than 20 giraffes, a project that will allow him to study these majestic animals closely over next two years.

Joining him on this expedition are 20 researchers from various parts of the world, each with unique scientific background. Catching Giants takes viewers on an incredible journey alongside the conservationists, researchers, and animal specialists as they race against a grim deadline to save the giraffes from extinction.

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A beautiful film that follows three families of the African Savannah --- lionesses, elephants and the all female royal baboons --- that will leave you feeling that the natural kingdom is in fact ruled by females, not males!

Woven around heart-warming stories, the film displays the lifelong bond of mothers and daughters and how the female leaders shepherd their families and, once old, hand over the reins of the kingdom to their daughters.

Sisters of the Savannah 60’ HD

Decoding the Man-Eaters of Sundarbans 60’ HD

The tiger of Sundarbans mangroves is truly an enigma. It doesn’t allow humans to enter his world, and because of his fierce reputation of being a man-eater, man has largely stayed away from him!

Over 14 exciting and tense weeks, the film follows a team of scientists that is making a rare attempt to study these tigers. Would they be able to decode many mysteries and legends surrounding the last of the genuinely wild tigers of the world?

Wildlife

Wildlife

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Poaching is still a menace for wildlife across the world and despite many bans, elephants in particular continue to be slaughtered for their tusks. But silent victims of this heinous act are the young calves that are left orphaned by this traumatic event. All alone and without the care of a mother, they are certain to die in the wild.

But, deep in Kafue National Park in the heart of Zambia, there is a group of extraordinary people who ensure that these elephants still have a fighting chance. Running an ‘elephant orphanage’, these incredible people care for, protect and teach these vulnerable calves, ensuring they can live out full and proper lives. This film is an inside look into the lives of these brave people and the innocent victims left in their care: A Herd of Orphans.

A Herd of Orphans 60’ HD

Last of the Big Tuskers 60’ HD

Thousands of big elephants with tusks heavier than 100 pounds a side strolled the African Savannah not many years ago. Only 22 survive today.

Renowned wildlife filmmaker James Currie travels through the sandy treks of Africa for almost four years to profile some of the legendary big tuskers --- Tim, Isilo, Masthuelele and Satao.

James is looking for an answer to the big questions: Would these 22 mega tuskers survive? If yes, for how long? Can these natural wonders be saved before it is too late?

Wildlife

Wildlife

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Set in the iMfolozi wilderness, South Africa, in the oldest game park in Africa, Sisters of the Wilderness tells the story of five young Zulu women from underprivileged backgrounds going into the wilderness for the first time in their lives on a journey of self-discovery. It offers them an opportunity to grow and heal, and serves as a reminder that we are intimately linked to nature and what we do to her we do to ourselves.

Sisters Of The Wilderness 60’ HD

The Tigers of Scotland 60’ HD

Scottish Wildcats, affectionately known as ‘Highland Tigers’, are the only ‘big cat’ left to be found in the UK. Tigers of Scotland delves deep into the world of these striped cats.

Keeping tabs on them is important for their preservation but their numbers are scarce as is, making tracking them down a huge challenge in itself. Following and studying them is another hurdle altogether. Will this film be able to find these struggling felines and help protect them? Or are they destined to follow suit of other big cats around the world and disappear out of existence?

Nature

Wildlife

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Kaziranga National Park is nature’s paradise. It’s about the only place where one can hope to capture India’s magnificent BIG FIVE wild animals in one frame --- the last surviving population of eastern swamp deer, Asiatic elephants, wild buffalos, tiger and rhinoceros.

We spend three seasons in this incredible park to bring home some amazing tales. These are the tales of the big, bulky and often angry rhinos, who, if not busy eating, are relentlessly pursuing females, and of massive elephant herds.

Tales from Rhino Land 6x30’ HD

Saving Sirga 6x60’ HD

Shocking, heart-warming and beautiful, Saving Sirga is a must-see for everyone who cares about the wildlife and its future on earth.

Valentin rescued the dying lion cub, Sirga, from a rogue lion enclosure, but can he save it from a lifetime in captivity?

Filmed with unrivalled intimacy, this unforgettable and authentic story, set against the backdrop of the magnificent Kalahari Desert of Botswana, takes an in-depth look at a remarkable cross-species bond, the consequences inherent in raising a lion cub by hand, and the passion and dedication required to save just one lion.

Natural World

Nature

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In 1999, a Dutch scientist, Dr Karin Hartman, gave up everything and decided to dedicate her life to study the unknown Risso’s dolphins in the Azores. SCARS: Politics in the Big Blue is the spectacular outcome of her 18 years’ of painstaking study. With some amazing camera work --- underwater and out --- the film provides answers to many mysteries about marine life that have baffled scientists and the public alike: how males form gangs while females make nurseries; why dolphins engage in synchronized swimming; are they as peaceful as they appear; why male politics is crucial for reproduction and why they are covered in SCARS!

SCARS is a compelling personal story of a life dedicated to studying Risso’s dolphins as well as the incredible discoveries

SCARS 60’ HD

The Elephant Whisperer And Maya Memsaab

60’ in 4K

The crew of this film was busy with a herd of wild elephants when a young one decided to give them a charge.

It was at this moment that Debu happened! The young forester lunged forward and urged the elephant to go away. The Elephant Whisperer and Maya Memsaab is an amazing story of Debu and his life-long fascination for the leader of the largest herd of 40 wild elephants in Kaziranga, Maya.

Wildlife

Natural World

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Sabah in Borneo is a land where centipedes have evolved to be giants and elephants to be pygmies. The film extensively explores this amazing island, home of the world’s smallest bears, and the long-nosed monkeys who are living in the shadow of giant trees, documenting their various struggles to survive.

Big Pygmies, Little Giants 60’ HD

Monkey Menace 60’ HD

Avoiding the conventional narrative, Monkey Menace attempts to get to the heart of one of the greatest human-animal conflicts in the world, taking place in New Delhi, India’s capital and one of the most populous cities in the world. The show will try to understand what life is like for the displaced rhesus macaque as it encroaches on urban habitation and brings upon itself the threat of human retaliation.

Wildlife

Urban Nature

Author duo, Libor Spacek and Petra Dolezalova, pick up cameras and embark on a mission that would take them to remote corners of the world in search of Nature’s wonders. In this multi-award winning series, they are travelling to six island destinations to explore nature, people, places and cultures.

Escape to Nature 6x60’ HD

Escape to Costa Rica 3x60’ in 4K

Costa Rica is a naturally blessed land. It’s home to over half a million species. Only a fraction of them have been discovered so far. It’s a land of mysteries waiting to be explored. Award winning filmmakers, Petra Dolezalova and Libor Spacek spend almost two years filming three elements of this land --- Earth (people), jungle and Ocean.

A trilogy that is full of breath-taking beauty and heart-warming emotions

Nature

Nature

How The Rhino Got A Temper

Rudyard Kipling had a story as to how the Indian rhino got its infamous temper. He shared it with young audiences around the world in his famous Just So Stories series.

The film starts from where Mr Kipling had left and travels to India’s Kaziranga National Park in search of the answer: Do the rhinos really have a temper?Three seasons of up-close encounters and many angry rhino charges later, the film returns home with some fascinating answers and insights.

60’ HD

Simon Berrow is an Irish marine biologist who has been leading expeditions since 2012 to see where the humpback whales disappear after feeding off Ireland in summer autumns. He finds them breeding in spring in Cape Verde. In 2014, he stumbles upon something that he was not expecting: humpback whales turning up in Cape Verde at the ‘wrong time’ in September. He subsequently establishes that these are actually the fish from southern hemisphere, who travel long way to Cape Verde, making it the breeding ground for both northern and eastern humpback whales.

The Humpback Whales of Cape Verde 60’ HD

Tanhavash The Loneliest Cheetah on Earth

60’ HD

'Tanhavash' (lonely in Persian) is the loneliest cheetah on earth!

He belongs to the family of Asiatic cheetah, a sub-species of its African cousin, that has disappeared from everywhere else except Iran. There are reported to be 100 of them in the Middle Eastern desert of Iran, but they cannot be seen, at least easily. Numerous trail cameras deployed for six years in Iran’s largest national park, Kavir, yielded only one cheetah image.

Filmmaker Fathollah Amiri spends countless days and nights in the sandy landscape hoping to find more. He is particularly hopeful of a cheetah with 4 cubs, whose presence has been reported but not seen. Will he be able to find them?

Documentary/ Nature

Documentary/ Natural World

Discovering Langkawi 2x60 in 4K

Tigers & Humans 60’ HD

A stunning investigative film, shot amid threats and risks, Tigers & Humans uncovers the secretive trade of tiger parts and poaching of the already-precariously-poised Amur tigers of the Russian far east. Only 580 majestic Amur tigers survive in the wild, mostly in the Ussuri river belt. Filmed in secret in many Asian countries, and in Russia, the film reveals how the wild tigers are being poached and parcelled to the food and medicine industries in a few countries. The film will provide many startling facts, and clues to some elusive answers.

Nature/ Discovery

Wildlife/ Current Affairs

Naturalist Irshad Mubarak takes us on a memorable journey to Langkawi, a paradise spread over an archipelago of 99 islands that have remained untouched and unexplored for a millennia. The stunning landscape, brilliant cinematography and incredible stories from this unique laboratory of nature will have audiences craving for more.

As Mubarak uncovers stones over 1 billion years old and introduces us to a majestic line up of plants and animals, you can’t help but appreciate how amazing it is to live in harmony with nature.

Gyamo, the female snow leopard and her 2 cubs haven't been seen since the big male snow leopard appeared.

The father-son wildlife filmmaker duo, Mike and Gautam, return to the same mountain to pick up their trail and find the cubs. Exploring this amazing landscape they discover there are many challenges that surround this endangered cat.

Scientists estimate that 4500-10,000 snow leopards remain in the wild but their exact numbers are still not known. Even before the cats can be understood, its landscape is changing under the impacts of development and tourism. To truly understand the snow leopard it is imperative to understand the people who share its home and find solutions to protect this elusive cat and its habitat before it disappears forever.

Gyamo Queen of the Mountains

60’ HD

Evolution in Isolation 60’ HD

On the Mediterranean island farthest from any mainland, where many flightless animals died out, the film discovers one species of lizard that did survive and became unique in the world.

Shrewd, intelligent and exploring, its extreme curiosity saved it from extinction. It learnt to survive on a variety of diets.

A brilliant film with amazing camerawork, images and stories.

Natural World

Nature/ Discovery

For an enthusiastic young ecologist, Madagascar is a land of wonders. But when his search for the world’s largest lemur, the Indri Indri, leads him to discover just how close to extinction such species are, he searches for reassurance that all is not lost. Traveling the country, he gets to know the wildlife and the people of Madagascar, seeing first hand the harsh reality of the evolutionary fight for survival. Along the way, we learn of the origins of life on this island, and what so threatens its future.

Evolution of Madagascar 60’ HD

A F$sh Full Of Dollar$ 60’ HD

An investigative documentary that explores the business of shark fishing, and its calamitous effects on the species.

Shot in the tropical waters with spectacular underwater images, the film is an eye-opener in more ways than one.

Documentary/ Natural World

Documentary/ Current Affairs

Sea has always been regarded as an inexhaustible resource, but many areas are empty of their inhabitants today. Are there places where fish and other marine life can reproduce without disturbance?

Follow Armin, Birgitta and Nanna, who travel worldwide on a diving expedition in their sailboat. They scan the beds of seas and oceans in the Mediterranean, the Atlantic and Scandinavia in search of the answer.

Are they happy with what they discovered?

Life Against All Odds 60’ HD

Vamizi The Cradle of Coral

60’ HD

A film with stunning cinematography and gripping story-telling! Off the coast of East Africa, there is a magical place, hidden by geography and time, where man and nature thrive side-by-side, where ancient cultures and abundant marine life create a landscape like none other on earth: Vamizi. A dedicated team of scientists from around the world is scrambling to save this natural wonder before it too meets the same fate as many other coral reefs in world have met --- total destruction.

Nature

Documentary/ Current Affairs

Reintroduced in 1995, the great grey wolf has divided America sharply: Many want them to stay, survive and flourish but others want them gone.

The iconic species stands right in the middle of a conflict that is seeing death threats, court battles and fiery debates. Does it have a chance to survive?

The Trouble With Wolves 60’ HD

Flying Rainbow 60’ HD

Watch, and fall in love with a dwarf kingfisher, as it struggles to save itself from all the odds stacked up against it by nature. Its home in the pristine Western Ghats has been ravaged by the thunderous monsoon, destroying its family. It once again gets ready to raise the next generation of dwarf kingfishers, nature’s challenges notwithstanding. Shot beautifully and with a lot of love, there are many sequences in the film that will make your eyes wet!

Wildlife

Documentary/ Natural World

The amazing underwater show returns for the 4th season with eleven new episodes of exciting stories. Host Jonathan visits an underwater human habitat (!), joins efforts to save the Lake Sturgeon, helps a team of archaeologists excavate a pirate ship, explores an island teeming with sea-snakes and hand-feeds bull sharks, to name a few exciting adventures.

Blue World 32x30’ HD

Birding Adventures 45x30’ HD

Meet James Currie, one of the finest birding and wildlife experts in the world. The native South African is on a global trail in search of the most outstanding birds of the planet.

The quest has taken James to four corners of the world. In the process, he has collected an amazing set of encounters with a variety of wildlife - from swimming with whale sharks and alligators to spending hours in silence in the presence of African lionesses.

A unique wildlife show that puts birds in the front.

Underwater World

Birds Galore

Sultan, dominant tiger of Ranthambore Reserve, goes missing.

More than 12 tigers have disappeared from the park between 2012 and 2017. Such young tigers are usually thought to have been poached or just lost forever.

Tigers know no borders and young sub adult tigers must walk hundreds of kilometres to find a new home, prey and a new mate.

However, when Sultan goes missing, renowned wildlife filmmaker Mike Pandey decides to launch a massive hunt. Mike, and his filmmaker son, Gautam, had been following and filming him since he was a cub. In the film, they try to solve the mystery of his disappearance.

Looking For Sultan 60’ HD

Living With Elephants 30’ HD

Winner at Jackson Hole

Valparai, a small hill district in Southern India is known for its tea. Following their ancient migratory route, about100 elephants traverse through tea plantations every year. Herds of elephants walking through tea estates full of people is a recipe for disaster. People get killed and the result is retaliation and anger towards the animals. Two Scientists from the Nature Conservation Foundation analysed the attacks and found that most deaths were a result of people accidentally bumping into the elephants, without realising they were so close. They develop an ingenious way of warning people, using the power of the mobile phone. Would it work?

Wildlife

Wildlife

In 1992, the sea turtles of Lamu were beyond endangered... they were approaching extinction. Poaching in Africa isn't just elephant tusks and rhino horns, it also includes sea turtles.

This is the story of Odo, a former poacher, who is now single-handedly saving sea turtles on the remote Manda Island off the coast of Kenya in the Lamu archipelago. He and his brother are helping the turtles overcome the odds of 1 in a 1000 to survive. Besides poachers, sharks, birds, ghost crabs, and even plastic bags they eat as jellyfish, all pose a challenge.

The newest threat is the biggest and may be insurmountable... the new sea port in Lamu. An oil pipeline through Kenya will make Lamu the biggest port in Africa. The turtles may just have met a foe they cannot overcome.

Sea Turtles of Lamu 60’ HD

Jungle Life 3x60’ HD

An outstanding series that takes viewers right into the hidden jungles of earth's oldest ecosystem. It focuses on some of the easily missed inhabitants of the jungles and shows how they are inextricably linked to the overall survival chain.

The series is made up of three episodes - The Jungles, The Birds and The Insects.

Wildlife

Nature

Elephants in the Coffee takes a close look at the battle for survival between coffee farmers and endangered Asiatic elephants in the forests of southern India.

The story unfolds as a group of college students from America must run for their lives when they encounter a herd of elephants inside a small coffee estate. But as they learn, this is what coffee farmers and workers face on a daily basis. More than 100 people in India are killed by elephants every year, and conflict over agriculture is now the greatest threat to endangered Asian elephants.

While attempts are being made, unsuccessfully, though, to fence away wild elephants, one coffee farm tries to co-exist with them.

Will it help calm down the raging battle?

Elephants In The Coffee 60’ HD

Rivers of Australia 60’ HD

Rivers of Australia: A Journey Along the Murray is an epic adventure of grandeur - two kayaks, two explorers, two cattle dogs, and one mighty Murray River!

Despite its size, nearly 3000 kilometres, the Murray river is largely unknown to the world. Two adventurers, James Livingstone and Albany Asher, along with their faithful canine companions, go about exploring the beauty and importance of this mega water body.

Wildlife

Environment

Champion race car driver and conservationist Mario Haberfeld fulfils his childhood dream as he launches one of the biggest and boldest projects in Brazil: Projecto Oncafari, a project that will see the largest cat in the Americas, jaguars, being habituated in the wetlands of Pantanal.

Jaguar: Closer Than Ever Before captures the struggle of Mario and his team as they work relentlessly to see the elusive cat settling down in the new environment.

Jaguar, Closer Than Ever Before 60’ HD

Snows Of The Nile 30’ HD

Uganda's Rwenzori Mountains rise 5000m from the heart of Africa. At their summits are some the only equatorial glaciers on Earth. But these "Mountains of the Moon", whose very existence caused a sensation in Europe when they were first climbed in 1906, are changing fast. Their glaciers have shrunk by more than 80% in the last century, and scientists predict that the remaining ice will disappear in less than 20 years.

Snows of the Nile follows Dr. Neil Losin and Dr. Nate Dappen, two scientists and photographers, on an ambitious expedition to re-capture historical glacier photographs from the Rwenzoris. would bear witness to a century of climate change.

A multiple award winning film.

Wildlife

Nature

From Billions to None tells the incredible, forgotten story of extinction of the passenger pigeons about 100 years ago, and highlights pressing conservation issues today, such as depletion of shark species worldwide.

From Billions To None 60’ HD

Silencing The Thunder 30’ HD

When temperatures drop, wild bison migrate to lower elevations outside the boundaries of Yellowstone National Park. But once outside, they run the risk of being killed because some carry a chronic disease called brucellosis that ranchers fear could spread to cattle. Silencing the Thunder presents the epic battle between ranchers and those trying to protect one of America’s most iconic animals.

Nature

Nature

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