Three documentaries; the first, set in New Guinea, about the stunningly handsome birds of paradise and those marvellous architects the bower birds. The second, and best of the three, is from Attenborough's youth and involves a successful anthropological trip into the New Guinea mountains to make first contact with some of the isolated hills people living there. In the third our hero tracks down the origin of a beautiful statuette he bought at auction and takes us to Easter Island with its fabulo find out more...

The first episode deals entirely with bower birds, the artists of the natural world, and their incredibly decorated nests/bowers. The second episode examines animal noises, birds singing, whales calling, apes vocalising, and speculates about the origins of human music. The third episode is a biography of Sir David, largely across his years as the presenter of BBC Wildlife, and includes many of the highlights of those years. Ace stuff. find out more...

Chronicles the life and times of Nucky Thompson, the undisputed ruler of Atlantic City, who was equal parts politician and gangster.
High production values and a fine ensemble cast: HBO knows how to do TV.

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From Pole to Pole; the introduction to the series looks at our planet as a whole. This includes awesome and unique footage of a pack of African Wild Dogs hunting. find out more...

Caves; jumpers parachuting into 400m deep holes, unique ecosystems full of strange and exotic troglodytes, the world's largest colony of cockroaches living on bat dung and the beautiful and unsurpassable Chamber of Chandeliers deep underground in New Mexico. find out more...

Great Plains; how many of you know that the most numerous bird on the planet is the Red-billed Quelea? Now do you want to see the size of their flocks? And, for the less faint-hearted, did you know that a largish pride of hungry Kalahari lions (30 in this example) will bring down and kill a largish elephant if it's isolated from the herd? find out more...

Seasonal Forests; from General Sherman, a giant sequoia ten times the size of a blue whale and the largest living thing on the planet, to 4,000 years old bristlecone pines that pre-date the pyramids. From the world's greatest insect emergence, cicada, to the baobab forests of Madagascar. find out more...

Lots of talking heads discuss serious issues related to the series. find out more...

A ravishing journey across China; from the glittering peaks of the Himalayas to the barren steppe, the sub-Arctic to the tropical islands, through deserts both searingly hot and mind-numbingly cold, to observe the mysterious, beautiful and rare creatures of this immense and environmentally diverse nation and the traditional customs of its different ethnic groups. find out more...

A ravishing journey across China; from the glittering peaks of the Himalayas to the barren steppe, the sub-Arctic to the tropical islands, through deserts both searingly hot and mind-numbingly cold, to observe the mysterious, beautiful and rare creatures of this immense and environmentally diverse nation and the traditional customs of its different ethnic groups; find out more...