The BEST episodes directed by Gavin Maxwell
#1 - Urban Jungles
Hidden Kingdoms - Season 1 - Episode 3
In the colourful and chaotic streets of Rio, a young marmoset is separated from his street gang and forced to confront of the dangers of the city alone. In the futuristic metropolis of Tokyo, a rhinoceros beetle escapes his captors and begins an extraordinary journey through this alien world to find sanctuary.
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#2 - Land of the Panda
Wild China - Season 1 - Episode 5
China's heartland with its Han people is the centre of a 5,000-year-old civilization. This land contains the Great Wall, the Temple of Heaven, and Beijing's Olympic Stadium and is home to some of China's most charismatic creatures such as the giant panda, golden snub-nosed monkey, and golden takin. China has undergone significant development in the past 50 years, bringing many environmental problems. The programme explores the deep, complex and often extraordinary relationship between the Chinese peoples, their environment and its creatures, and finds out what it means for the future of China.
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#3 - Speed Limits
Richard Hammond's Invisible Worlds - Season 1 - Episode 1
The human eye takes about fifty milliseconds to blink. But it takes our brain around a hundred and fifty milliseconds to process what we see. We're not aware of this time lag going on, but in those few milliseconds, there are extraordinary things happening that completely pass us by. But what if we could break through this speed limit? Bend and stretch time in ways never thought possible. What new marvels would we see?
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Shark Week - Season 2005 - Episode 2
It's the stuff of nightmares...begin attacked by the most fearsome predator in the ocean. Catch up with actual shark attack survivors and discover how the encounters have affected their lives. Learn some surprising reasons why the attacks occured - challenging our assumptions about these man-eating predators.