TV season
1991-09-28
Episode 1
1991-09-28 • 53 min
This program features the Kogi tribe who live in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta in Columbia. They are pre-Columbian peoples, and consider themselves as the elder brothers of humankind. They insist that it is the modern world, the younger brothers, who are destroying the harmony of life on earth.
Episode 2
1991-10-13 • 53 min
Vietnam's wildlife is reappearing after the great losses suffered during the war.
Episode 3
1991-11-03 • 53 min
Simon King films a lioness and her pride during winter on Africa's Serengeti plain.
Episode 4
1991-11-17 • 53 min
A look at the environmental crisis on Madagascar and new conservation efforts being made.
Episode 5
1991-11-24 • 53 min
This first episode in the miniseries explores the European discovery and settlement of the New World. Two views are presented, that of the colonists struggles to survive in their new and unfamiliar setting, as well as the Native Americans success within the same environment.
Episode 6
1991-11-24 • 53 min
A look at the colonization of Canada and the fur trade.
Episode 7
1991-11-25 • 53 min
A focus on the prospect of gold in the new world, and the Spanish exploration of Florida in search of that alluring metal.
Episode 8
1991-11-25 • 53 min
An exploration of the Great Plains of North American from the Lewis and Clark expedition through to the present day.
Episode 9
1991-11-26 • 53 min
A focus on the Rocky Mountains and Yellowstone National Park.
Episode 10
1991-11-26 • 53 min
A look at life in the Sonoran Desert.
Episode 11
1991-11-27 • 53 min
Exploring the people and wildlife of Alaska.
Episode 12
1991-11-27 • 53 min
This last episode in the miniseries looks at the landscape and wildlife of California.
Episode 13
1991-12-08 • 53 min
Episode 14
1992-01-05 • 53 min
This program follows a herd of zebras along their yearly migration route through the African plains.
Episode 15
1992-01-12 • 53 min
Follows the yearly migration of the caribou of Alaska and the Yukon Territory in an effort to find suitable birthing grounds, all will trying to avoid wolves and other predators.
Episode 16
1992-01-19 • 53 min
India's remote Ladakh region in the Himalaya Mountains, home to the snow leopard and other rare wildlife.
Episode 17
1992-02-09 • 53 min
Chimpanzees and other primates survive on Tiwai, an Upper Guinea island where witchcraft and taboos still exist.
Episode 18
1992-02-16 • 53 min
Roger Tory Peterson's fight to save America's birds and their habitats.
Episode 19
1992-03-01 • 53 min
The life cycle of a female northern elephant seal is documented.
Episode 20
1992-03-08 • 53 min
Explores the lives of dolphins all around the world, and the scientists who are trying to communicate with them.
Episode 21
1992-05-31 • 53 min
Loggers and conservationists have conflicting plans for ancient forests of redwoods, Douglas firs, hemlocks and Sitka spruce trees along the Northern Pacific rim.
