Season 50
18 episodes · Sep 23, 2010
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- S50E1
Aliens of the Deep Sea
Sep 23, 2010The octopus is a close cousin of the oyster and snail. And yet, even by human standards the multi-limbed creature is considered highly intelligent. From Spain to Vancouver Island to Capri, Italy, scientists are testing the brain-power of the mysterious and mythic octopus.
- S50E2
Changing Your Mind
Sep 30, 2010Once thought to be incapable of fundamental change, our growing awareness of the adult brain's capacity for neuroplasticity is opening new doors to treatments for diseases and disorders once thought incurable.
- S50E3
For the Love of Elephants
Oct 14, 2010An intimate look at the bond that is formed between humans and baby orphaned elephants at the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust rehabilitation centre just outside of Nairobi, Kenya.
- S50E4
Geologic Journey 2: Tectonic Europe (July 8 1997)
Oct 21, 2010Traverse the Eurasian plate across Europe — from Iceland, where new land is formed - to the Alps, where old land is destroyed.
- S50E5
Geologic Journey 2: Along the African Rift (September 2, 1997)
Oct 28, 2010For millions of years the East African Rift has been widening at the seams, tearing the African plate in two.
- S50E6
Geologic Journey 2: The Western Pacific Rim (November 4, 1997)
Nov 4, 2010Focusing on the Asia-Pacific side of The Pacific Rim of Fire, which stands as a living testament to the beauty and danger that powerful geologic forces can deliver. The Pacific Rim is home to half of the world's active volcanoes and ninety percent of the world's earthquakes, yet nearly 800 million people continue to live within its violent edge.
- S50E7
Geologic Journey 2: The Pacific Rim: Americas (January 13, 1998)
Nov 18, 2010Nick Eyles continues to explore the Pacific Rim, this time looking at the west coast of North America.
- S50E8
Geologic Journey 2: The Collision Zone: Asia (March 17, 1998)
Nov 25, 2010The fiery unpredictability of Indonesia’s volcanoes at one end, the massive Himalayas at the other and millions of years of tectonic tension in between. The collision zone of the old world is about to be the hub of the new. India, the Himalayas and the island arc of Indonesia - these lands will form the centre of the world’s next supercontinent.
- S50E9
When North Goes South
Dec 2, 2010Learning and discussing the consequences of magnetic pole inversion.
- S50E10
Code Breakers
Jan 13, 2011Who were the first peoples of North America? Anthropologist Niobe Thompson embarks on a voyage of scientific discovery, using the latest in DNA analysis techniques to unlock the secrets behind humanity's earliest appearance in the Americas.
- S50E11
Tipping Point: The Age of the Oil Sands
Jan 27, 2011Tipping Point: The Age of the Oil Sands is a two-hour visual tour de force, taking viewers inside the David and Goliath struggle playing out within one of the most compelling environmental issues of our time
- S50E12
The Last Grizzly
Feb 3, 2011Filmmaker Jeff Turner documents grizzly bears in the Northern Cascades of British Columbia.
- S50E13
Return of the Prairie Bandit
Feb 10, 2011Revisiting the 2009 release of nearly extinct black-footed ferrets in Saskatchewan to see what happened.
- S50E14
Raccoon Nation
Feb 24, 2011Is your garbage can making raccoons smarter? Stunning footage shot in the deep, dark of night combines with groundbreaking research in this fascinating documentary to explore the remarkable ways that city life is changing raccoons.
- S50E15
The Real Avatar
Mar 3, 2011In James Cameron's film, Avatar, an alien tribe on the distant planet of Pandora fights the human invaders bent on mining their forest home. Instead of Pandora, think Peru.
- S50E16
Force of Nature: The David Suzuki Movie
Mar 13, 2011David Suzuki, scientist, educator, broadcaster and activist, delivers what he describes as 'a last lecture' interwoven with scenes from his life and lifetime – the major social, scientific, cultural and political events of the past 70 years.
- S50E18
50 Years of the Nature of Things
Mar 24, 2011A celebration of half a century of a landmark science and natural history series, and an unrivaled Canadian institution.