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Africa Earth's Wild Home (2026)
8.0/10on IMDb
First aired
This National Geographic series connects animal behavior with the landscapes that make it possible. Its crews move between many parts of Africa, so choose it for a wide first look. Digital reconstructions show geological history, while the footage of living animals gives the locations their character.
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Tiger Island (2026)
7.9/10on IMDb
First aired
A team of film crews and big cat specialists sets out to find wild tigers in Nepal. Their search makes the camera work visible: the teams have to decide where to look and work with the limited time a tiger stays in view. Choose it when you want the expedition to be part of the story.
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Humanlike - The Chimps of Fongoli
Anthropologist Jill Pruetz and local guide Dondo Kanté are part of a long study of Senegal’s Fongoli chimpanzees. The film stays with one community long enough to connect particular behaviors with the landscape. It is a closer, more place-specific watch than a survey of primates around the world.
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Blue Planet III (2026)
First aired
The installment first aired in the United Kingdom in 2026. Underwater camera work shows wildlife at scales and depths that make the filming part of the pleasure. Start here if you want a marine series and keep the U.K. release separate from the later U.S. launch.
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Secret Garden (2026)
8.4/10on IMDb
First aired
David Attenborough follows the animals living in British gardens. Choose it for the big change in scale from sweeping geography: hedges, lawns, and the edges of a house can become habitats worth watching as closely as a much larger landscape.
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Lion (2026)
8.1/10on IMDb
First aired
A crew follows a lion cub named Kio through the life of his pride. The continuing story makes the same animals’ choices and changing relationships easier to follow than in a roundup of unrelated cat behaviors.
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Guardians of Yellowstone: The Yellowstone Cougar Project (2026)
Released
Trail cameras and long-running research bring Yellowstone’s cougars into view in this documentary. It moves between phases of a project that took much longer than the finished program. Choose it for the practical question of how biologists learn from a species that spends most of its time out of sight.
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Becoming Elephant: The Orphans Of Reteti (2026)
First aired
Follow the team raising orphaned elephants at Kenya’s Reteti sanctuary as the animals get old enough to leave. This is a conservation series with a practical endpoint. It lets you see the caretakers change their work as calves become more independent.
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Force of Nature (2026)
7.8/10on IMDb
First aired
This wildlife series follows animals adapting to a changing climate across different habitats. Pick it for direct comparisons between animals facing different changes to the spaces where they find food, shelter, or water.
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Our New World (2026)
First aired
A changing climate creates different living conditions from place to place. This series looks at how nature is adapting and where people can support that process. It makes a good choice when you want habitat change and the actions people can take to sit next to the wildlife footage.
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Hammerhead Sharks Up Close with Bertie Gregory (2026)
7.4/10on IMDb
Released
Bertie Gregory dives in Mexico’s Pacific waters to film hammerhead sharks. Pick the special if you want to see how going into protected waters can make a difference to what the crew is able to observe, with conservation and filming part of the same story.
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Nuisance Bear (2026)
8.0/10on IMDb
Released
The documentary follows polar bears where people already share the landscape with them. Guides, visitors, and wildlife officers make different demands on what happens when a bear gets too close. Choose the 2026 feature if you want those encounters to be the subject as much as the bears themselves.
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World's Biggest Mako (2026)
Released
Researchers search waters north of New Zealand for exceptionally large mako sharks. The search has a clear question to anchor it: what signs would suggest a local population is recovering? Choose it if you’d rather follow a specific research target than tour shark species in general.
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Shark Island Showdown (2026)
Released
Three shark researchers investigate why several species gather around Norfolk Island. The island makes a defined field site. It suits viewers who want a comparison of sharks sharing the same waters and the clues scientists use to explain possible overlap.
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Sharks: Reef Rivals (2026)
Released
The crew investigates a concentration of sharks in a lagoon on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef. This is a useful change from journeys following one spectacular individual: it asks what makes one area important to many animals.
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On the Fence (2026)
Released
Australia’s Dingo Fence provides a way into the question of how people and wild dingoes share land. This film follows the wildlife and the different views of the people who live around the fence. Pick it for conservation about a real boundary you can see on the ground.
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Ages of Ice (2026)
8.3/10on IMDb
First aired
Scientists look for evidence that can show how living things responded to earlier glacial conditions. Pick it for fieldwork with a much longer time horizon than the other programs, adding reconstruction and fossil evidence to footage from the landscapes researchers actually study.
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Yellowstone Wild Through Time (2026)
Released
The documentary joins Yellowstone’s natural history with an original score and research about how the park changed. Choose it for a shift from tracking individual animals to seeing the longer history of the habitat they are in.
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Wild London (2026)
8.1/10on IMDb
Released
Visit London’s parks, streets and waterways with Sir David Attenborough. The film follows wildlife such as foxes and hedgehogs within a city where close observations can reveal how animals use spaces people pass through every day.
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Pole to Pole with Will Smith (2026)
First aired
The series follows Will Smith alongside guides, scientists and explorers. Start with one of the episodes involving wildlife fieldwork for the places, equipment and local knowledge behind the animal encounters.
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Secrets of the Bees (2026)
First aired
Bertie Gregory and the crew use close-up cameras to film bees’ lives in and around a colony. Pick it for a small-scale view in which camera work reveals what the insects do as a group.
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