Nature Planet: Squirrels

In the 1970s, Strange Fruit were it. They lived the rock lifestyle to the max, groupies, drugs, internal tension and an ex front man dead from an overdose. Even their demise was glamorous; when lightning struck the stage during an outdoor festival. Twenty years on, these former rock gods they have now sunk deep into obscurity when the ...

Runtime

1h 35m

Director

Brian Gibson

Cast

Stephen Rea, Billy Connolly, Jimmy Nail

Amidst her own personality crisis, a southern housewife meets an outgoing old woman who tells her the story of Idgie Threadgoode and Ruth Jamison, two young women who experienced hardships and love in 1920s Whistle Stop, Alabama.

Runtime

2h 10m

Director

Jon Avnet

Cast

Kathy Bates, Jessica Tandy, Mary-Louise Parker

Every year, thousands of Antarctica's emperor penguins make an astonishing journey to breed their young. They walk, marching day and night in single file 70 miles into the darkest, driest and coldest continent on Earth. This amazing, true-life tale is touched with humour and alive with thrills. Breathtaking photography captures the tr...

Runtime

1h 20m

Director

Luc Jacquet, Jérôme Maison

Cast

Charles Berling, Romane Bohringer

A documentary on Al Gore's campaign to make the issue of global warming a recognized problem worldwide.

Runtime

1h 40m

Director

Davis Guggenheim

Cast

Al Gore, Billy West

A documentary of insect life in meadows and ponds, using incredible close-ups, slow motion, and time-lapse photography. It includes bees collecting nectar, ladybugs eating mites, snails mating, spiders wrapping their catch, a scarab beetle relentlessly pushing its ball of dung uphill, endless lines of caterpillars, an underwater spider...

Runtime

1h 20m

Director

Claude Nuridsany, Marie Pérennou

Cast

Jacques Perrin, Kristin Scott Thomas