Consistently stunning documentaries transport viewers to far-flung locations ranging from the torrid African plains to the chilly splendours of icy Antarctica. The show's primary focus is on animals and ecosystems around the world. A comic book based on the show, meant to be used an as educational tool for kids, was briefly distributed to museums and schools at no cost in the mid-2000s.
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1. Realms of the Russian Bear: Green Jewel of the Caspian
October 5, 1992 · 53 min
This miniseries starts off by exploring the abundance of wildlife around the Volga Delta in Russia’s Astrakhan region.
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2. Realms of the Russian Bear: the Arctic Frontier
October 5, 1992 · 53 min
An exploration of the wildlife of the Russian Arctic, and in particular Wrangle Island, featuring polar bears, musk oxen, Ross’s Gulls, reindeer, foxes, walruses, and the Red-breasted Goose.
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3. Realms of the Russian Bear: the Red Deserts
October 6, 1992 · 53 min
A focus on the wildlife of the Central Asian deserts.
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4. Realms of the Russian Bear: the Celestial Mountains
October 6, 1992 · 53 min
Between China and Central Asia is the Tian Shan mountain range, home to Marco Polo sheep, white-clawed bears, snow leopards, yaks, and the ibex.
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5. Realms of the Russian Bear: Siberia, the Frozen Forest
October 7, 1992 · 53 min
A look at the wildlife in the huge Siberia forest reveals bears, elk, wolves, and musk deer among many other creatures in this frozen expanse.
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6. Realms of the Russian Bear: Born of Fire
October 7, 1992 · 53 min
This last program in the miniseries explores Kamchatka Peninsula where the Russian Arctic meets Southeast Asia. Home to perhaps the highest concentration of volcanoes in the world, this remote region is teeming with life both on land and in the sea, from the Amur Tiger to the Giant Pacific Octopus.
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7. Shadows in a Desert Sea
October 18, 1992 · 53 min
Fish, bats, birds, whales, giant squids, sharks, dolphins, sea lions and more flourish in and around the Sea of Cortez.
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8. The Tree of Music
October 25, 1992 · 53 min
The African Blackwood is prized the world over for its wood in the making of musical instruments. Nature takes you on a journey through the history of this “tree of music” and into modern day efforts in Tanzania to save this ever dwindling resource.
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9. Slaves to the Queen
November 29, 1992 · 53 min
Get right inside the hives of bees and wasps to see the inner workings of these complex societies.
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10. Ice Fox: Struggle for Survival
January 10, 1993 · 53 min
A look at two separate families of arctic foxes. One living in the frozen, barren tundra of northern Russia, the other living in the slightly more comfortable surroundings of the Norwegian coastline.
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11. Cheetahs in the Land of Lions
January 24, 1993 · 53 min
A study of cheetah behavior follows a mother and her cubs on the Serengeti plains.
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12. Gorilla: King of the Congo
February 14, 1993 · 53 min
A gorilla orphanage and a proposed forest reserve may save the lowland gorilla.
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13. American Trickster
February 21, 1993 · 53 min
As its numbers increase and its natural range diminishes, the coyote moves into populated regions like Los Angeles.
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14. Hebrides: the Secret Islands
February 28, 1993 · 53 min
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15. Echo of the Elephants
March 14, 1993 · 53 min
In Kenya’s Amboseli National Park is a family of elephants led by its matriarch Echo. Elephant expert Cynthia Moss, takes us up-close and inside the lives of these magnificent animals.
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16. The Ghosts of Ruby
May 9, 1993 · 53 min
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17. The Bandit and the Builder
May 16, 1993 · 53 min
Raccoon and beaver lifestyles in the Canadian wilderness.
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18. Spirit of the Sound
May 23, 1993 · 53 min
Exploration of Puget Sound's ecosystem.
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