The BEST episodes of The Island with Bear Grylls

#1 - Episode 5

Season 5 - Episode 5 - Aired 4/30/2018

Facing their last week of isolation, the two camps decide to settle their class issues and battle the high seas, in a joint bid to raft to the neighbouring island. Can they bury their differences before Bear arrives.

#2 - Episode 1

Season 4 - Episode 1 - Aired 4/23/2017

Old and young go head to head for the fourth series of Bear Grylls epic survival show. With just the clothes on their backs and a handful of basic tools, which generation has what it takes to survive when pushed to the limits of human endurance?

#3 - Episode 3

Season 4 - Episode 3 - Aired 5/1/2017

With the old and young living side by side, the islanders hope to hit their stride. But hunger and frayed tempers lead to bust-ups as the islanders turn on one of their own.

#4 - Episode 4

Season 4 - Episode 4 - Aired 5/8/2017

The islanders face mother nature at her most violent and brutal. Having endured a series of torrential downpours which have ravaged their campsite, unknown to them a hurricane is brewing 100 miles to the north.

#5 - Episode 5

Season 4 - Episode 5 - Aired 5/14/2017

After four weeks on the island, the group have collectively lost almost 30 stone. Can Aran and Jacqui make a killing with a dangerous caiman crocodile and provide food for all?

#6 - Episode 5

Season 3 - Episode 5 - Aired 4/25/2016

Following Patrick's fall, the island is in crisis as the safety team struggle to land in a stormy sea. And with the need for food as urgent as ever, Tilly wants to join the hunt.

#7 - Episode 1

Season 5 - Episode 1 - Aired 4/2/2018

Bear drops the castaways in caiman-infested mangroves and deep water. As the two teams meet, the prospect of living together kickstarts a class war.

#8 - Episode 2

Season 5 - Episode 2 - Aired 4/9/2018

After a class war on the Pacific desert island, the wealthy and less well-off teams go their separate ways and set up two camps at opposite ends of the same beach.

#9 - Surviving the Island

Season 5 - Episode 6 - Aired 5/1/2018

Bear Grylls arrives on the island eager to get the stories behind the castaways' class war and their often dubious survival strategies.

#10 - The Men's Island

Season 2 - Episode 10 - Aired 5/13/2015

Malnourished, exhausted and under pressure, the group turn on each other. Vic and Sam argue, while a fishing venture goes disastrously wrong for Will.

#11 - Episode 4

Season 5 - Episode 4 - Aired 4/23/2018

After three weeks on the island, the castaways are malnourished. Still living at opposite ends of the same beach, the wealthy and less well-off teams finally put their differences aside in a joint hunting expedition.

#12 - The Women's Island

Season 2 - Episode 11 - Aired 5/14/2015

Hunger and disorganisation is causing the group to fragment. Lauren and Beth make a push for leadership but Jaime and Belinda push back.

#13 - The Men's Island

Season 2 - Episode 12 - Aired 5/20/2015

After five weeks on the island, the men are low on food and energy. They make a last bid to hunt for food before Bear arrives to take them back to civilisation.

#14 - Surviving the Island

Season 2 - Episode 13 - Aired 5/21/2015

Bear meets the men and women who made it through six weeks on a Pacific island, to see how they coped battling hunger, thirst, and each other, in one of the biggest tests of their lives

#15 - Episode 1

Season 3 - Episode 1 - Aired 3/28/2016

The two groups swim ashore to face a storm and a life-or-death search for water. A row breaks out with the men, while one of the women sees something that makes her suspect they may not be alone.

#16 - Episode 2

Season 3 - Episode 2 - Aired 4/4/2016

The men and women meet on the beach and agree to unite. Iraq veteran Hannah attempts to motivate the group to bond more, but a vicious tropical storm has a devastating effect.

#17 - Episode 3

Season 3 - Episode 3 - Aired 4/11/2016

The islanders have been marooned for ten days with barely anything to eat. Faced with starvation, they start taking increasingly terrifying chances, including a risky swim in the deep.

#18 - Episode 4

Season 3 - Episode 4 - Aired 4/18/2016

#19 - Episode 6

Season 3 - Episode 6 - Aired 5/2/2016

It's been a month, and the men and women are hungry and on the brink of disaster as their bodies start to fail. Simon leads a hunt in the jungle for the dangerous caiman crocodile.

#20 - Surviving the Island

Season 3 - Episode 7 - Aired 5/3/2016

In this special show, Bear Grylls takes an in-depth look at how the castaways survived the latest series. How did they cope with all the extremes?

#21 - Episode 2

Season 4 - Episode 2 - Aired 4/24/2017

The young group's campsites turns into a swamp in the rain. They join up with the orders but immediately there's a row. Freddie kills a snake, and Kaggy goes on a turkey hunt.

#22 - Surviving the Island

Season 4 - Episode 6 - Aired 5/14/2017

Bear Grylls examines how the two groups from different generations survived their five weeks as castaways. Was it the wisdom of age or the energy of youth that proved most valuable?

#23 - Episode 3

Season 5 - Episode 3 - Aired 4/16/2018

In search of much-needed food, Barnes decides to risk strong currents and riptides on a journey by raft to a nearby island. But the voyage has disastrous consequences.

#24 - The Women's Island

Season 2 - Episode 9 - Aired 5/6/2015

It's almost four weeks into the experiment and the women are entering dangerous medical territory. They're given a 36-hour deadline to turn things around.

#25 - The Women's Island

Season 2 - Episode 8 - Aired 4/30/2015

The extreme conditions are taking their toll, with the women on the brink of starvation. Lauren, Beth and Belinda go pig hunting in the jungle.