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A diver visits the same octopus every day for a year in a South African kelp forest.

Emperor penguins walk seventy miles to breed in the Antarctic winter; Morgan Freeman narrates.

Al Gore's slideshow on climate change; the cherry picker up the CO2 graph.

RKO’s adaptation of Rachel Carson’s book - she hated the script and never sold film rights again.

The first Disney True-Life Adventure feature: the Sonoran desert, and a scorpion square dance nobody has forgiven.

Disney on the American plains, and the bison birth that got the film briefly banned in New York.

Cousteau and Louis Malle invent the underwater documentary, in colour, from aboard the Calypso.

Disney in the Arctic - and the film whose staged lemming sequence created a myth that outlived it.