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Rental > Documentary > Science Fact: 159 Films to Rent
- Manapouri - The Toughest Tunnel (2002)
- New Zealand's specialist documentarians 'Natural History NZ' tell the heroic story of how a team of a thousand men laboured in the 1960s to complete…
- Spy in the... Collection, The (TV Series) (2002-2004)
- Feat. David Attenborough
- Overtly sneaky wildlife doco series where cameras are hidden in the environments of a den of lions, a herd of elephants, a clan of bears and a pride…
- Travelling Birds (Winged Migration) (2002)
- Dir. Jacques Perrin, Michel Debats, Jacques Cluzaud
- Anyone with an appreciation of natural beauty will be transfixed, and possibly transported, by this superlative documentary from the makers of…
- Walking with Beasts (2002)
- Further CGI–enhanced recreations of the prehistoric era, here the post–dinosaur age of sabre–toothed tigers, mastadons and woolly…
- Blue Planet, The (TV Series) (2001)
- Dir. Alastair Fothergill
- Breathtaking footage of our planet’s largest feature – the ocean – reveals wondrous worlds within this still almost completely unexplored…
- Evolution (TV Series) (2001)
- Thorough and rigorous seven–part PBS series extols – and not without wading into the science vs. religion debate – the virtues of Charles…
- Savage Planet (2001)
- Dir. Chris Malone, Emma Hawley, Tony Coldwell
- Various extreme ‘acts of God’ are showcased in this visually compelling nature odyssey. Stray asteroids, storms, volcanos, avalanches, baking…
- Natural History of the Chicken (2000)
- Dir. Mark Lewis
- The dir. of CANE TOADS here uses the odd behaviour of the humble chook as a wryly comic springboard for examining the equally odd behaviour of their…
- Space (TV Series) (2000)
- Feat. Sam Neill
- Sam Neill conducts a tour of Outer Space and some of the phenomenon of this vast (indeed possibly infinite) region.
Broadly examines galactic and…
- State of the Planet (TV Mini Series) (2000)
- A three–part series in which BBC documentarian David Attenborough investigates the various environmental crises besetting Earth at the present…