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TV Shows & Series: Best "nature documentary" TV Shows/Series

A nature documentary or wildlife documentary is a genre of documentary film or series about animals, plants, or other non-human living creatures. Nature documentaries usually concentrate on video taken in the subject's natural habitat, but often including footage of trained and captive animals, too. Sometimes they are about wildlife or ecosystems in relationship to human beings. Such programmes are most frequently made for television, particularly for public broadcasting channels, but some are also made for the cinema. The proliferation of this genre occurred almost simultaneously alongside the production of similar television series which is distributed across the world. ()
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The Crocodile Hunter(1997-2004)

44min per episode | Documentary, Action & Adventure, Kids & Family
3.8/5 (with 16 votes)

The Crocodile Hunter is a wildlife documentary television series that was hosted by Steve Irwin and his wife Terri. The show became a popular franchise due to its unconventional approach and Irwin's approach to wildlife. It spawned a number of separate projects, including the feature film The Crocodile Hunter: Collision Course and two television spinoffs: The Crocodile Hunter Diaries and Croc Files. The series has been presented on Animal Planet and has been in international syndication on networks worldwide.

With Steve Irwin, Terri Irwin, Bindi Irwin, Wes Mannion

The Secret Life of the Zoo(2016-2021)

47min per episode | Documentary
3.0/5 (with 6 votes)

Chester Zoo is the most popular zoo in Britain. This observational documentary series uses micro-rig camera technology to capture, in incredible detail, the remarkable behaviour of the animals there.

Natural World(1983-)

1h per episode | Documentary
3.4/5 (with 10 votes)

Natural World is a nature documentary television series broadcast annually on BBC Two and regarded by the BBC as its flagship natural history brand. It is currently the longest-running series in its genre on British television, with more than 400 episodes broadcast since its inception in 1983. Natural World is produced by the BBC Natural History Unit in Bristol, but individual programmes can be in-house productions, collaborative productions with other broadcasters or films made and distributed by independent production companies and purchased by the BBC. Natural World programmes are often broadcast as PBS Nature episodes in the USA. Since 2008, most Natural World programmes have been shot and broadcast in high definition.

Prehistoric Planet(2022-2023)

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| Documentary, Action & Adventure
4.2/5 (with 180 votes)

Experience the wonders of our world like never before in this epic series from Jon Favreau and the producers of Planet Earth. Travel back 66 million years to when majestic dinosaurs and extraordinary creatures roamed the lands, seas, and skies.

Directed by Adam Valdez, Andrew R. Jones

Crikey! It's the Irwins(2018-2022)

43min per episode | Documentary
4.2/5 (with 7 votes)

Follow Terri, Bindi and Robert Irwin as they run the extraordinary Australia Zoo in the bushlands of northern Australia. Caring for over 1,200 animals, overseeing a world-class wildlife hospital, and conducting high-octane global conservation expeditions, the Irwins’ lives are full of adventure, fueled by their love of animals and passion for protecting them.

With Terri Irwin, Bindi Irwin, Robert Irwin, Wes Mannion, Chandler Powell

Nature(1982-)

53min per episode | Documentary, Kids & Family
4.0/5 (with 15 votes)

Consistently stunning documentaries transport viewers to far-flung locations ranging from the torrid African plains to the chilly splendours of icy Antarctica. The show's primary focus is on animals and ecosystems around the world. A comic book based on the show, meant to be used an as educational tool for kids, was briefly distributed to museums and schools at no cost in the mid-2000s.

Shark Week(1988-)

42min per episode | Documentary
3.8/5 (with 7 votes)

The Discovery Channel's Shark Week, first broadcast on July 17, 1987, is a weeklong series of feature television programs dedicated to sharks. Held annually, normally in July or August, Shark Week was originally developed to raise awareness and respect for sharks. It is the longest-running cable television programming event in history. Now broadcast in over 72 countries, Shark Week is promoted heavily via social networks like Facebook and Twitter.

Tiny World(2020-2021)

Documentary
4.0/5 (with 68 votes)

This docuseries showcases nature's lesser-known tiny heroes. Spotlighting small creatures and the extraordinary things they do to survive, each episode is filled with surprising stories and spectacular cinematography.

Planet Earth II(2016)

50min per episode | Documentary, Kids & Family
4.3/5 (with 362 votes)

David Attenborough presents a documentary series exploring how animals meet the challenges of surviving in the most iconic habitats on earth.

Dynasties(2018-2022)

50min per episode | Documentary
4.1/5 (with 34 votes)

Follow the true stories of five of the world's most celebrated, yet endangered animals; penguins, chimpanzees, lions, painted wolves and tigers. Each in a heroic struggle against rivals and against the forces of nature, these families fight for their own survival and for the future of their dynasties.

Nature's Great Events(2009)

49min per episode | Documentary
4.2/5 (with 19 votes)

Documentary series looking at the most dramatic wildlife spectacles on our planet, showing how life responds to natural events which can dramatically transform entire landscapes.

Great Migrations(2010)

45min per episode | Documentary
3.8/5 (with 14 votes)

Shot from land and air, in trees and cliff-blinds, on ice floes and underwater, this documentary tells the powerful stories of many of the planet's species and their movements, while revealing new scientific insights with breathtaking high-definition clarity and emotional impact. The beauty of these stories is underscored by a new focus into these species; fragile existence and their life-and-death quest for survival in an ever-changing world.

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Our Planet(2019-2023)

50min per episode | Documentary, Action & Adventure
4.3/5 (with 157 votes)

Experience our planet's natural beauty and examine how climate change impacts all living creatures in this ambitious documentary of spectacular scope.

Directed by Alastair Fothergill - With David Attenborough
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The Life of Mammals(2002-2003)

50min per episode | Documentary
4.2/5 (with 21 votes)

David Attenborough presents a nature documentary series looking at why mammals are the most successful creatures on the planet.

Planet Earth III(2023)

Documentary
4.7/5 (with 9 votes)

Journeying to the far reaches of our planet, this eight part series follows some of the world's most amazing species, telling extraordinary stories that are dramatic, thrilling, funny and sometimes heart-breaking, but always full of hope.

The Life of Birds(1998)

50min per episode | Documentary
4.0/5 (with 17 votes)

In the documentary series produced by the BBC, The Life of Birds, Sir David Attenborough unveils a new investigation into the behaviour of birds, perfectly adapted animals that conquer the air. This ten-part series reveals the secret of the birds' great success, their remarkable strategies for finding food, their complex social systems, and their ingenious and often bizarre ways of mating and breeding. From the high speed of large airborne hunters to long distance migrations or the bright colors of nectar feeding hummingbirds, this is the ultimate bird series that every ornithologist should not miss.

Savage Kingdom(2016-)

50min per episode | Documentary
3.9/5 (with 19 votes)

A rare look at warring animal clans battling for survival in a remote region of Africa, which is drying up after years of flood-soaked abundance.

Call Me Bruna(2016-2020)

48min per episode | Drama
3.6/5 (with 191 votes)

Raquel is a girl, adopted by an upper-middle-class family, who rebelled at 17 and left her family and studies at a traditional college in São Paulo to become a prostitute.

With Maria Bopp

Den stora älgvandringen(2019)

24h per episode | Reality-TV, Documentary
3.5/5 (with 1 vote)

For several thousand years the moose have walked the same path to get to the rich pastures of summer. Follow the walk live from Kullberg in the north of Sweden.

Serengeti(2019-)

59min per episode | Documentary
3.6/5 (with 7 votes)

Capturing the high drama of the Serengeti’s distinctive wildlife up close.

The Hunt(2015)

1h per episode | Documentary
4.1/5 (with 33 votes)

This major landmark series looks in detail at the fascinating relationship between predators and their prey. Rather than concentrating on ‘the blood and guts’ of predation, the series looks in unprecedented detail at the strategies predators use to catch their food and prey use to escape death. Sir David Attenborough narrates.

A Real Bug's Life(2024-)

Documentary

An adventure into a world beyond your imagination where life is on a completely different scale and little creatures rely on amazing powers to make it through the day.

Sexology with Shan Boodram(2020-)

Certified Sexologist Shan Boodram, the most sought-after sex educator on the internet, shows you how to navigate sex, dating and relationships today—when the rules of love and attraction are confusing and fluid.

Life on Earth(1979)

55min per episode | Documentary
4.5/5 (with 17 votes)

The story of life, from the first primitive cells to the plants and animals that now live around us.

Super/Natural(2022)

44min per episode | Documentary
3.5/5 (with 7 votes)

Utilizing the latest scientific innovations and leading-edge filmmaking technology, this documentary reveals the secret powers and super-senses of the world’s most extraordinary animals, and invites viewers to see and hear beyond normal human perception to experience the natural world as a specific species does — from seeing flowers in bee-vision to eavesdropping on a conversation between elephant seals to soaring the length of a football field with glow-in-the-dark squirrels.

Machos(2003)

45min per episode | Soap / Telenovela, Drama
1.5/5 (with 1 vote)

A severe and authoritarian father is on the verge of an existential crisis when his children are not able to fulfill his expectations and image of "strong and tough men" that he wishes for all of them. Will he be able to straighten the lives of his sons? Or will he have to learn that each of them have already clipped their own wings?

Directed by Herval Abreu - With Héctor Noguera

Frozen Planet II(2022)

57min per episode | Documentary
3.9/5 (with 12 votes)

Ten years on from the original Frozen Planet, this documentary series takes audiences back to the wildernesses of the Arctic and Antarctica and tells the complete story of the entire frozen quarter of our planet that’s locked in ice and blanketed in snow.

A Perfect Planet(2021)

44min per episode | Documentary
4.5/5 (with 22 votes)

A unique fusion of blue chip natural history and earth science that explains how our living planet operates. This five-part series shows how the forces of nature drive, shape and support Earth’s great diversity of wildlife.

The Private Detective Mike(2002)

54min per episode | Crime

Mike Hama, Private Detective, is a chain-smoking, wisecracking tough guy with a weakness for the ladies and a soft spot in his heart, especially for his kid sister Akane. Mike's so down on his luck he'll take any case, from finding a lost pet to spying on cheating spouses. But every now and then, along comes a client with dubious and dangerous case… and that's when Mike shows his stuff.

Earth at Night in Color(2020-2021)

30min per episode | Documentary
4.0/5 (with 15 votes)

Filmed across six continents, this docuseries uses cutting-edge camera technology to capture animals' nocturnal lives, revealing new behaviours filmed in full color like never before.

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