To the Ends of the Earth

Black Mamba

The series about some of the world's most remote natural wonders returns with Mark O'Shea travelling to South Africa to

Arctic Explorer

The story of Steve Martin and Dave Mitchell, who in March of last year completed the first British unsupported trek to t

Phantom Tiger

The thyacine or Tasmanian tiger, terror of the island's first white settlers, was a kind of carnivorous kangaroo with th

Mummies of the Takla Makan

They had reddish blonde hair, finely woven tartan robes, long noses and the bone structure of ancient Celts or Saxons. S

The Hanover

The Cornish coastal waters in which a Falmouth Packet ship foundered in 1763 are as treacherous today as they were then,

Cave Man Space Man

Under the mountains of New Mexico lies a dangerous cave system where scientists hope to find chemical life forms -- and

The Storm

The story of 'Halloween Horror', the 1991 storm that devastated the eastern coastline near Boston with 100mph winds and

Return to Loch Ness

More than 20 years since he first went questing for Nessie, Bob Rines leads a new expedition equipped with the latest so

The Fearless Vampire Hunters

Adventurous British cryptozoologists John and Graham go in search of the chupacabra or goatsucker, bloodsucking killer o

Back from the Dead

The Druze religious sect of Lebanon believe that they are reincarnated. Their children claim to recall their past lives,

The Abyss

Low's Gully, a two-mile-deep fissure in the mountains of Borneo, made world headlines in 1994 when a British army expedi

Danger UXO

During the Vietnam war, the USA dropped the equivalent of a B-52 planeload of bombs on Laos every six minutes for nine y

Racing with the Wind

American Steve Fossett has climbed Everest, swum the Channel, and completed a triathlon at 52. Now he's attempting to fl

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Return to the Valley of the Kings

The Carnarvon family has tended to steer clear of Egypt ever since the fifth Earl died within weeks of discovering Tutan

The Battle for Titanic

Oceanographer James Ballard, whose 1985 discovery of the sunken Titanic sparked a feeding frenzy, is now a vociferous op

Big Snake

How one Robert Twigger aims to collect the $50,000 prize, never claimed in 80 years, for bringing the Bronx Zoo a live,

Search for the Sons of Abraham

Anthropologist Tudor Parfitt uses genetic research to determine whether Africa's Lemba tribe are of Jewish descent, as t

Who Killed Fletcher Christian?

Archaeologists are trying to log the history of the settlement on remote Pitcairn island, where Christian and fellow mut

The Lost Worlds of Mulu

Explorer Robin Hanbury-Tenison revisits the tropical rainforests of Mulu in Borneo some 20 years after his first expedit

Death, Deceit and the Nile

Michael Asher attempts to unravel the mystery behind the death of Hanning Speke, the man who, with Richard Burton, claim

The Mystery of the Missing U-Boat

Divers find the wreck of a German U-Boat off the coast of New Jersey, USA. The records say it shouldn't be there. Three

Revenge of the Lost Tribe

London students put theories about eco-tourism into practice in the heart of the Amazonian jungle.

The Meteorite That Vanished

What's reputed to have been the largest meteorite to bounce against our planet is thought to have landed in the Sahara i

Deadly Cargo

The documentary adventure series ends with the work of salvage master Arjen Hoekstra and his team who have to save an ab

Hell on High Water

On December 26, 1998, 112 yachts set out on the annual Sydney- Hobart Yacht Race. Within 24 hours, a cyclone had left si

Quest for the Lost City

An expedition searches the Guatemalan jungle for a lost ancient Maya city.

China's Titanic

Maritime historian Nigel Pickford and treasure-hunter Michael Hatcher set out to prove the existence of a legendary Chin

Dreaming on Desolation Island

Journalist and former MP Matthew Parris journeys to an island so battered by Antarctic gales and snow that no one has ev

Yeti: Hunt for the Wildman

Bhutan is the setting for the first in this new series in which a zoologist, a primatologist, a cameraman and a science

Ride the Wild Surf

Well beyond the realm of the surfer dudes of Newquay - or even California - is an elite group whose life mission is to r

The Strange Case of Peking Man

In 1923 a Canadian doctor Davidson Black discovered fossilized remains in China that helped to prove the evolutionary li

Jungle Trip

When an Oxford-trained academic goes in search of South American forest magic, talking plants and a shaman who could gui

In Search of Eden

Dr Erika Hagelberg tries to make contact with tribes on the Andaman islands in the Bay of Bengal and solve the mystery o

Alien Big Cats

A Canadian fur trapper and an English ex-patriate investigate sightings of mysterious large felines roaming the British

The Real Bravo Two Zero

At the height of the Gulf War, eight SAS soldiers were dropped behind enemy lines in an audacious mission. Three died, f

Pacific Hell

In 2001, Jim Shekhdar became the first person to cross the Pacific Ocean alone in a boat. It took the arthritic "fiftyso

A Dangerous Obsession

A year ago Tom Hart Dyke set off on a journey from Panama to Colombia in pursuit of rare orchids, but found himself kidn

The Lost Army of King Cambyses

2500 years ago an army of Persians vanished apparently without trace while crossing the remote Western Sahara. Examining