The majesty of the natural world and the incomprehensible vastness of space are almost infinitely rearrangeable variables for documentarians. We are lucky to have a long (and still-growing!) library ...

Ten years on from the original Frozen Planet, this documentary series takes audiences back to the wildernesses of the Arctic and Antarctica and tells the complete story of the entire frozen quarter of ...

"The best stories on our planet are natural ones," says Alastair Fothergill. But you'd expect him to say that. For two decades with the BBC, Fothergill has produced wildlife documentary series ...

Alexander Abad-Santos is a former writer for The Wire.