* The Last Trapper (2004)

Globe-trotting filmmaker Nicolas Vanier profiles 50-year-old trapper Norman Winther, who lives in the Rocky Mountains with his Nahanni wife, Nebraska, and their beloved dogs, and who stands as a robust living testament to self-sufficiency. Norman and Nebraska live off the land: their house is made of wood from the forest trees, and by hunting and fishing, Norman is capable of providing more than enough food to feed himself, his wife, and their dogs. It's all part of the careful balance between man and nature that has become an intimate part of Norman's and Nebraska's lives.

Endeavour: Everest (2013)

Series looking at three Everest expeditions - by balloon, canoe and climbing without oxygen.

Going Wild (Series) (2014)

Imagine not being able to support your family or love your spouse, or feeling like you have lost all control of your life. Your loved ones don’t know what to do. You feel alone. Is there hope? Can you get your life back? Will you be able to feel alive again? With the help of adventure and survival expert Tim Medvetz, Americans around the country who have hit rock bottom are discovering themselves through a rigorous three-day wildlife intervention adventure forcing them to face their fears and problems head on.

Alaskan Bush People (Series) (2014)

This spring, Animal Planet takes a journey deep into Alaska’s bush, where naturalist and adventurer Billy Brown, along with his wife, Ami, and their seven children, chooses to live life on his own terms, connected to wild nature and bonded to each other. In the new series ALASKA BUSH FAMILY, the family of nine strives to be self-sufficient against all odds- often shunning modern society to live off the wilderness and to walk where no man has ever walked before. After the tragic death of his parents and sister that left him orphaned at 16, Billy Brown vowed to live life on his own terms and create his own family to reclaim the love that he lost. With Ami by his side, Billy traveled the lower 48 states and eventually found home in the sprawling landscape of the last frontier, where they have spent most of the last 30 years raising their children. “Our family is doing what is natural for human beings to do. We survive on what we hunt, fish, trap and barter for,” Brown says. “We explore, we wander, we live. If you think about it, it’s the life we were meant to live.”

Episode 01 – Raised Wild
After being pushed of their land, the unique Brown family of nine travels deep into the Alaskan bush to build a small shack where they will all sleep. The Browns have lived their whole lives in the wild and often go 6 months without seeing an outsider.

Episode 02 – Human Wolf Pack
The Brown brothers are forced to step up when building a one room cabin for the family. During some down time, the wolf pack of five goes into a small bush town to hunt for potential mates. It’s the first time they’ve been in public together in months.

Episode 03 – Blindsided
As the Browns race to finish their cabin, temperatures plummet and an illness hits the family. Their ability to survive the winter rests on the brothers as they race to get essential supplies and complete the home.Then, the unexpected strikes.

Episode 04 – Fight of Flight
A confrontation on the Browns property shuts down production and forces them to make a big decision.

* Africa 2013: Countdown to the Rains (2013)

Kate Humble and Simon King report from Zambia, following the lives of the animals living along the Luangwa River at a critical time in the seasons.

Part 1:
There has been no rain for seven months and every animal, large and small, is locked in a struggle to survive - the elephant and her new born baby, the tiny lion cubs threatened by a power struggle in the pride and the hundreds of hippos and crocodiles squashed uncomfortably close as the river bed dries up. 75 cameras capture every moment as it happens through the last days of the longest dry season in memory to the arrival of the rains that will change everything.

Part 2:
It hasn't rained for seven months but the clouds are building and the drought could break any day. The river is the only water around, and predator and prey are squashed uncomfortably close. Lions and wild dogs, the latter one of the most endangered species on Earth, compete for territory as elephants try to keep cool in the fierce heat and leopards enjoy days of plenty.

Part 3:
It's been the longest dry season in living memory but the rains have finally come and now everything has changed. Thirst has trapped the elephants, buffalo and antelope close to the river where they've been easy prey for the lions, leopards and wild dogs. But now the grazing animals can spread out across the valley and the predators are going to have to work a whole lot harder for their food.

* Fine Dining with Bear Grylls (2012)

The adventurer presents a guide to unusual food and drink that can be scavenged from the wilderness, including fluid from elephant dung and camel milk.

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* Alive - Sixty Days Under Snow (2012)

Skyllberg was rescued by chance as a man on a passing snowmobile stopped thinking he had found a crashed car, after digging through a metre of snow to peer in he saw Peter wrapped in a sleeping bag in the back seat.

* Woman Raised By Monkeys (2013)

This is the incredible true story of a little girl's kidnap, her five year survival alone in the jungle…and the monkeys who saved her. A unique journey from feral child to modern day Grandma now living happily in Bradford, England. Marina Chapman doesn't know her real name or her biological family. She claims that as a child in Colombia she was abducted and abandoned in the jungle, and that she survived by living alone with monkeys for five years. Now, fifty years later, Marina is returning to Colombia with her daughter to try and uncover the truth. Scientists will analyse her bones, test her subconscious responses, examine the inner workings of her mind and a leading primatologist will try and pick holes in her knowledge of monkeys and their behaviour. Who were her real family? Why was she kidnapped? Could a five year old girl really survive in the jungle so long in the company of monkeys? Is Marina Chapman a fantasist? Or was she truly raised by monkeys? What the journey uncovers is incredible. But do the experts give her the answers she's been searching for? Or will they shoot her story down in flames?

* Shackleton - Death or Glory (2013)

In 1916, Sir Ernest Shackleton's Trans-Antarctic Expedition met with disaster when his ship The Endurance sank in the Antarctic. His heroic leadership saved the lives of 27 men stranded for more than 500 days, and has inspired explorers and leaders over many generations. Renowned Australian adventurer, scientist and author Tim Jarvis and his crew of five explorers set out to replicate this astonishing voyage in a replica of Shackleton's boat, using only the tools and supplies the original team used. Shackleton: Death or Glory documents the gruelling trip in three gripping parts, as Jarvis and the group test themselves against the roughest ocean on the planet, deadly crevasse field and impossible climbs in one of the last wildernesses on Earth.

Part 1: Escaping the Ice
Polar explorer Tim Jarvis embarks on a mission to discover the story behind one of history's most famous survival stories - Ernest Shackleton's Endurance expedition.

Part 2: Lost at Sea
In a replica wooden lifeboat with 100-year-old equipment, a team of six men battles the ocean in an attempt to find out what happened on Ernest Shackleton's Endurance expedition.

Part 3: Beyond Endurance
Following the sea crossing from Elephant Island, polar explorer Tim Jarvis must traverse the mountains of South Georgia to complete his re-enactment of Ernest Shackleton's expedition.

* Miracle In The Desert (2013)

Robert Bogucki went missing in Western Australia's Great Sandy Desert in July, 1999. Bogucki survived 43 days and was eventually found some 400km from his departure point by an Australian television news helicopter. He'd lost 30 kilograms, endured six weeks without food and 12 days without water but miraculously survived one of the world's most inhospitable wildernesses. Bogucki is not a typical adventurer. He is not interested in being the first or the fastest. Nor is he interested in fame or notoriety. He decided to cross the Australian Great Sandy Desert in an attempt to find solitude in one of the world's last untamed wildernesses. When tourists happened upon Bogucki's abandoned bicycle and supplies on a remote desert track, one of the largest manhunts in Australian history was launched. Australian police and local Aboriginal trackers struggled to follow Bogucki's tracks through almost impenetrable bush. After 15 days, the search was called off. Refusing to believe their son had perished in the desert, Bogucki's parents hired a volunteer American search and rescue team to travel to Broome, in what many believed would be a body retrieval exercise...

* In the Footsteps Of Thesiger (2013)

Adrian will be recounting his 44 day and 1000 mile crossing of the ‘Empty Quarter’ of the Arabian Desert by foot and camel in the trail of legendary 1940s British explorer Sir Wilfred Thesiger at the Royal Geographic Society, London, on Thursday 30th January 2014 at 7:00pm.

Former Gurkha officer and Arabic speaking Hayes first learned of Thesiger when he served a 2 year tour with the Sultan of Oman’s Forces in the 1990s and vowed one day to repeat his first crossing of the desert. In his powerful story, accompanied by stunning images and film, he speaks of the largely unheralded achievements of Thesiger and his companions’ journeys in the 1940s, the reality of attempting the same journey 65 years later with his own Bedouin team and the changed lives and culture of the Bedouin and peoples of the Arabian Peninsula.

Led by British explorer, Adrian Hayes, the three companions brave some of toughest conditions on earth as they navigate the journey by stars, sun, local knowledge and time travelled. The group walk and ride camels through the gruelling 1,600km trail in traditional Arabic clothes and follow a modest diet. From the monsoon- drenched tropical forest of Salah, to Oman and over some of the most dangerous dunes in the world, through the Empty Quarter, where even the most accustomed locals seldom dare to tread. With dramatic adventure, genuine hardship, fascinating science and historical legacy, this audacious re-enactment captures culture, heritage and action all in one unforgettable journey.

Adrian Hayes is a British record-breaking polar explorer and adventurer, best known for reaching the three extreme points of the Earth—the Three Poles Challenge—which involved walking all the way to the North Pole, South Pole and summiting Mt. Everest, all in the shortest period of time (1 year, 217 days - his first Guinness World record).

* Climbing Everest with a Mountain on My Back - The Sherpas Story (2013)

Every year, over a thousand climbers try to reach the summit of Mount Everest, with the annual record for successful attempts currently standing at 633. But of that number, nearly half were Sherpas - the mountain's unsung heroes. Yet the Sherpa community has remained secretive about their nation, culture and experiences living in the shadow of the world's highest mountain. Now, for the first time, they open the door into their world. Without the expertise of the Sherpas, only the hardiest and most skilful climbers would succeed. Every day they risk their lives for the safety of others, yet they seek neither glory nor reward, preferring to stay in the background. Following the stories of four such Sherpas - Phurba, Ngima, Ngima Tenji and Gelu - this film reveals the reality of their daily lives, not just up the mountain, but with their families after they return home.

* Congo - The Grand Inga Project (2012)

INGA:  They are the world's biggest rapids, 1.6 million cubic feet of water per second, thundering down the final pitch of the mighty Congo River.  They are twice as steep and 100 times the average volume of those found on the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon.  Explorers have tried to conquer these rapids for generations, but none have succeeded.  "It would be insanity in a successor," wrote famed explorer Henry Morton Stanley in 1877, after his right-hand man drowned. "There's nothing shameful in portaging," declared Col. John Blashford-Snell during his multinational team's highly publicized attempt in 1974.  And popular French TV Adventurer Philippe De Dieuleveult never had the chance to comment, as the entire team who attempted the rapids with him, mysteriously vanished in 1985.  The Inga rapids have remained the "the choking stone of navigation" up or down the Congo River for centuries!

After years of planning and research, kayaking icon Steve Fisher first visited the Democratic Republic of Congo in 2007, to initiate his attempt.  He and his logistical team of Pete Meredith and Boston Ndoole, quickly encountered the insurmountable obstacles that come with the maddening politics of a broken country, and it wasn't until 2011 that the team finally got the go-ahead to mount their expedition.  For this mission, Fisher handpicked an elite team of top paddlers including Tyler Bradt of Missoula, Montana; Benny Marr of Ottawa, Canada; and Rush Sturges from Forks of Salmon, California.

"The Grand Inga Project" is the riveting 80-minute documentary that follows the expedition as the team struggles to navigate complicated logistical challenges, and then the historic first descent of a 50-mile section of the Congo River.  No effort is spared in telling the story of what really happens when you decide to take on the deadliest rapids on earth.  "This is a river like no other," recalls Fisher, who's logged dozens of major first descents, "We may have survived, but somehow we feel more humbled than proud."

* Cannibal Island (2009)

In 1933 Stalin organizes a great "cleansing" of Moscow and Leningrad of all the citizens deemed a social nuisance. This film recounts the untold story of these 6000 "unwanted", sent to Nazino, a lost island in the middle of Siberia. Deported with no food, clothes or tools, these poor men, women and children suffered the torture of hunger until they had no choice but to devour each other... An unbelievable and terrible story that plays like a thriller and with a tension that lasts until the end.

* Bear Grylls: How to Stay Alive (2012)

MAN VS. WILD host, author and seasoned adventurer BEAR GRYLLS began a lifetime of exploration at an early age. Bear grew up on the Isle of Wight, and as a young boy would go mountain climbing with his father.

He served three years with the Special Air Service, a special forces unit of the British army. During his service, he broke his back in three places in a parachuting accident over Southern Africa.

* An Inside Look - Survival Training (2004)

Imagine being stranded behind enemy lines. All that keeps you alive are your wits and training. For American aviators this scenario has played out all too often. To give their pilots a fighting chance the Us military puts its aviators thoug the toughest tests it can come up with. Pilots learn to respond instantly to a variety of survival situations. While thes aviators are only role playing now, these are not games. Training their minds as well as their bodies so this training becomes instict and they know how to survive.