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Season 8
S8E3 22 octobre 1989 53 min

The Great Rift: Breaking the Continent

Nature - Season 8

Examines the Red Sea, the island of Madagascar and East Africa.

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Season 8

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E1 8 octobre 1989 53 min

The Great Rift: Footprints in the Valley

The area's evolutionary roots opens this look at the African valley.

E2 15 octobre 1989 53 min

The Great Rift: Out of the Ashes

The wildlife that lives on the Great Rift's ash plains.

E3 22 octobre 1989 53 min

The Great Rift: Breaking the Continent

Examines the Red Sea, the island of Madagascar and East Africa.

E4 29 octobre 1989 53 min

Under the Ice

Soft coral, sponges, tubeworms, anemones and giant cod adapt to life in Antarctica's subzero waters.

E5 12 novembre 1989 53 min

Land of Dragons

Profiles the wildlife living within the British crown colony of Hong Kong

E6 19 novembre 1989 53 min

The Great Wood of Caledon

An exploration of the Caledonian forest in Scotland, Britain's largest remaining area of ancient woodland.

E7 10 décembre 1989 53 min

Gorillas

A portrait of the endangered mountain gorilla in equatorial Africa.

E8 17 décembre 1989 53 min

Forest of Fear

A look at the maneating tigers of the Sundarbans delta in India.

E9 7 janvier 1990 53 min

Gran Paradiso

Resource management in Italy's alpine Gran Paradiso National Park has consequences beyond the parks boundaries.

E10 21 janvier 1990 53 min

Cranes of the Grey Wind

Scientists study sandhill cranes on Nebraskan plains, Alaskan and Siberian coasts and in the Northwest Territories.

E11 4 février 1990 53 min

King Solomon's Mountains

The forests and waters of Ethiopia's Bale Mountains, may one day renew the country's depleted landscape.

E12 11 février 1990 53 min

Hunters of the Sky

A look at how Europe's birds of prey have adapted.

E13 18 février 1990 53 min

A Wolf in the Fold

The relationship between working sheepdogs and flocks of sheep. Selective breeding yields a sheepdog with outstanding abilities to tend the creature other canines prey upon.

E14 4 mars 1990 53 min

The Colorado

Tracing the course of the Colorado River.

E15 11 mars 1990 53 min

The Emerald Isle

Thousands of years of human settlement provide the backdrop by which to discover the wildlife of Ireland.

E16 18 mars 1990 53 min

Giant Otters

The fur trade continues to threaten the South American otter with extinction, despite its status as an endangered species.

E17 25 mars 1990 53 min

The Haida Gwai: Islands of the People

Profiles the Haida Indians who live on British Columbia's Queen Charlotte Island.

E18 1 avril 1990 53 min

Presque Isle: Land in Motion

An exploration of the environmental impact of man's attempts to halt the erosion of Presque Isle beaches.

E19 8 avril 1990 53 min

Yellowstone on Fire

The effect of the 1988 fire on the ecosystem of Yellowstone National Park.

E20 15 avril 1990 53 min

Serpents

A natural history of the snake includes its significance to man as a symbol of fertility, immortality and death.

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