David Mitcham

Some of the world's most majestic birds display delightfully captivating mating rituals, from flashy dancing to flaunting their colorful feathers.

Северо-Западная Африка, тысячи километров голой, выжженной пустыни. У этого побережья находится небольшой, удаленный архипелаг, окруженный Атлантическим океаном. Семь вулканических островов, и каждый из них – отдельный мир. Здесь теплые экваториальные течения смешиваются с холодными водами северной Атлантики. Планктон поднимается с глубины и собирается у поверхности океана. Рыбы из разных климатических зон встречаются в водах вблизи Канарских островов. Пассаты, дующие над водой, приносят жизнь на острова. Они собирают влагу, пересекая океан, и создают условия для поражающего воображение разнообразия флоры и фауны.

Go up-river and deep into the jungle far from Brazil's cities and stadiums, where families of giant otters, tufted capuchin monkeys and mischievous coati (South American raccoon cousins) rally their wits to survive in a breathtakingly beautiful yet dangerous land.

British intelligence undertook an audacious operation to listen in on the private conversations of 10,000 German prisoners of war without their ever knowing they were being overheard. The prisoners' unguarded reminiscences and unintentional confessions have only just come to light, and prove how closely the German army were involved in the atrocities of the Holocaust. British intelligence requisitioned three stately homes for this epic task, and converted each into an elaborate trap. The 100,000 hours of conversation they captured provided crucial intelligence that changed the course of the war, and revealed some of its worst horrors, from rape to mass executions to one of the earliest bulletins from the concentration camps. But when the fighting ended, the recordings were destroyed and the transcripts locked away for half a century. Only now have they been declassified, researched and cross-referenced.

Documentary originally produced for BBC's television series "Natural World".