Episode list

Explorer visits Japan's Izu Oceanic Park with photographer and diver David Doubilet.

A daring team of twelve men run a wild Icelandic river, the Jökulsá á Fjöllum, from its source in a huge glacier to its mouth at the Arctic Ocean.

The Pantanal region in Brazil is the home of howler monkeys, jaguars, anteaters, birds, and even web-footed deer.

Alaska's Denali also known as Mount McKinley towers over one of the most diverse wildernesses in the world. It contains grizzly bears, wolves, and caribou.

Explorer goes to England in order to look at some novel bicycle designs.

Explorer profiles Andrew "Tan" Brunet a Cajun decoy carver and poet.

An international team of spelunkers explore the limestone caves of Chiapas Mexico.

Explorer examines the ruins of the Roman city of Herculaneum which was destroyed along with Pompeii in 79 A.D. by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius.

Explorer examines the ancient way of life practiced by China's Mongolian people.

Self-trained naturalist Gerald Durrell explores the River Wye in Wales and examines its creatures.

Explorer profiles Dr. Merlin Tuttle who is investigating bats deep in the caves of Texas.

Explorer goes to the heart of Italy's marble country with American artist Helaine Blumenfeld and discovers a sculptor's paradise in the village of Pietrasanta.

A family of modern pioneers create a living built of self-sufficiency in Canada's Yukon.

Explorer looks at the intimate connection between life and water by examining water's role in evolution.

Explorer looks at the life cycle of the mosquito the insect responsible for more human deaths than any other.

Explorer follows Emory Kristof and his high-tech crew as they probe the ocean depths off of Bermuda and look at the bizarre, fluorescent underwater lifeforms.

Explorer profiles the Cutticchio family who carry on a four generation tradition of the small theaters of Palmero, Italy.

Explorer looks at the feral pigs of French countryside and the men who hunt them for sport.

Explorer profiles Irving Johnson who has traveled the oceans for more than six decades and has recorded many of his adventures on film.

Explorer takes the Trans-Siberian Express across the frozen frontier of the Soviet Union.

Explorer profiles George Nakashima a 79-year-old furniture builder whose views his craftsmanship as spiritual work.

Explorer follows a group of pilgrims who are hiking to a sacred waterfall in Haiti for ritual cleansing. Their rites combine both Roman Catholicism and Voodoo.

Naturalist Gerald Durrell returns to Greece and recaptures his childhood interest in small creatures.

A french free climber attempts to scale a sheer wall of rock with only his fingertips and toes.

Explorer follows an expedition of divers who are using a revolutionary submarine suit to explore the remains of the Breadalbane a British ship lost in the arctic ocean.

Explorer looks at the threat of extinction that is facing wildlife.

Explorer follows a group of Coast Guard trainees as they hone their skills by guiding ships through rough seas at the National Motor Lifeboat School in Washington State.

Explorer visits the island of Sato where communal musicians preserve the ancient Japanese art of drum-beating.

Explorer goes to the volcanic island of Lanzarote in the Canary Islands where its people cultivate an almost lunar landscape.

A trio of daredevils travel to Angel Falls. Two of them hang glide from the top of the falls while the third attempts a parachute jump.

Explorers looks at the work of mice, spiders, lice, and snakes when it examines the art of making compost.

Explorer travels to the desert of southern Argentina where volunteers capture penguins for a study focusing on their conservation.

Explorer goes to the Swiss Alps where scientists study the causes of avalanches.

Explorer watches as the camera of wildlife photographer Dietmar Fill reveals microscopic life in an Australian Lake.

Explorer looks at the artisans of Murano, Italy who make masterworks of Venetian glass.

Explorer goes to Alaska and observes the cycle of the seasons and its effects of wildlife.

Residents of Papua New Guinea recall the horrors of military occupation during World War II.

Explorer follows a group of death-defying Mohawk Indians as they tread the narrow steel girders of an under construction Manhattan skyscraper.

Explorer looks at the history of tattooing, both primitive and modern, and discussing its use as an ornament, badge, and personal statement.

Explorer looks at the powerful effects of a drought in Australia.

Explorer looks at the first half of the 20th century when magnificent ocean liners ruled the sea.

Wildlife photographer Yann Arthus-Bertrand goes on a photo safari in Kenya's Masai Mara Natural Reserve.

Explorer visits an island off the coast of West Africa where women are in complete control.

Explorer looks at the insect and animal life teeming at a thousand year old parish in the heart of the New Forest in Hampshire.

The festival of Las Fallas in Valencia, Spain, celebrates the working class with music, fireworks, and giant sculptures.

Explorer investigates why some whales fling themselves onto beaches and die. Is it confusion or suicide?

Gerald and Lee Durrell discover a complex ecosystem in the middle of New York City. It includes feral dogs, rats, and migratory birds.

Harold Bate has developed a car that runs on methane.

A team of Frenchmen give a dramatic and unnarrated glimpse into the world of ice climbing.

National Geographic celebrates the bicentennial of hot-air ballooning. It follows a balloon safari in East Africa, observes a recreation of the first balloon flight by the Montgolfier brothers, and goes to Paris for the Gordon Bennett Race.