Je rok 1814. James Keziah Delaney, sa po dvanástich rokoch strávených v Afrike, vracia do Londýna, kde si jeho blízki mysleli, že už je dávno mŕtvy. Vrátil sa preto, aby znovu vybudoval lodné impérium svojho otca a pomstil jeho smrť.
Tarzanov idylický život sa zmení hneď v prvej epizóde, keď si biznismen Renard Dumont otvorí obchodné stredisko pri ústí rieky. Nové obchodné aktivity najskôr vypudia dobráckych nosorožcov z ich rodného územia a mohutné zvieratá potom napochodujú do výsostného teritória opíc. Tarzan musí rýchle vymyslieť spôsob, ako ochrániť svoju rodinu pred šíriacim sa neporiadkom a chaosom v džungli, ktorý spôsobila šíriaca sa civilizácia...
Videli ste Levieho Kráľa? Ak áno, tak si určite budete pamätať bláznivé zvieratá, ktorých všetci volajú Timon a Pumbaa. Vy, ktorí ste ich ešte nevideli, sa máte načo tešiť. Títo dvaja majú neskutočný talent dostať sa z problémov, alebo naopak, problémy si vyrábať. Záleží od toho, ako sa vyspia alebo je to jednoducho všetko dielo náhody.
Mladučký Kion, druhorodené levíča Simbu a Naly, sa má stať novým vodcom skupiny ochrancov Ríše levov. Od nepamäti sa Levia hliadka skladá len z tých najstatočnejších, najdivokejších, najrýchlejších, najsilnejších a najbystrejších levov, ktorí dokázali bezpečne ochrániť Ríšu levov pred akýmkoľvek nepriateľom. Kion namiesto toho, aby zvolal skupinu najmocnejších levov, poruší tradíciu a vyberie si za spoločníkov svojich priateľov, o ktorých je presvedčený, že práve oni sú tou najlepšou voľbou. A tak začnú levov ochraňovať odvážny medojed Bunga, sebavedomá gepardica Fuli, ľahkovážny ale srdečný hroch Beshte a volavka - intelektuálka Ono. V ich dobrodružstvách zohrajú úlohu aj starí známi hrdinovia filmovej série Leví kráľ - Mufasa, Timon, Pumbaa, Rafiki, Zazu a Kionova staršia sestra Kiara, budúca kráľovná Ríše levov.
In this anthology series, heroic scientists risk all to deal with deadly outbreaks.
Australian celebrities are dropped into the African jungle with little more than their wits, strength and willpower to survive the competition. How will they cope with African wildlife, a constant series of challenges and tests, basic rations and their fellow campmates? Who will survive the infamous Bush Tucker Trials? Who will win the hearts of viewers and be crowned King or Queen of the Jungle?
Africa is a land sculpted by time where animals have evolved complex weapons to arm them in the battle to live another day. An elephant's tusks can defend, or attack. An octopus uses camouflage to find food, or hide from an enemy. A Cape Fur Seal's speed and agility are valuable tools to catch a penguin, but ineffectual against a Great White Shark. A single hippopotamus holds a pride of twelve lions at bay with his sheer bulk, but backs down when faced with the piercing teeth of another hippo. With lethal weapons wielded by fearsome predators and prey, animals walk a precarious path, here among Africa's Deadliest.
A woman's search to uncover the mystery of the disappearance of her husband leads her to the Congo, where she's forced to seek the truth about what happened to the man she loved.
Jungle Jim is a 26-episode syndicated adventure television series which aired from 1955 till 1956, starring Johnny Weismuller, as Jim "Jungle Jim" Bradley, a hunter, guide, and explorer in, primarily, Africa. The program should not be confused with Ramar of the Jungle, but is based on the Jungle Jim comic strip created by Alex Raymond and Don Moore. Starring with Weismuller were Martin Huston as Jungle Jim's teenage son, Skipper; Dean Fredericks as Haseem, the Hindu manservant, and Neal, a chimpanzee from the World Jungle Compound, as Tamba. Paul Cavanagh played Commissioner Morrison in nine episodes.
Produced by Harold Greene, the series was filmed by Screen Gems, a subsidiary of Columbia Pictures. The program aired in 158 American media markets and in thirty-eight other nations.Earl Bellamy directed the first four episodes of the new series. The series capitalized on the popularity of Weismuller, who had just completed his last film of Tarzan, the jungle character created by Edgar Rice Burroughs. Jungle Jim was a low-budget offering that relied heavily on stock footage and was not renewed beyond its original episodes.
Sheena's parents were archaeologists who died in the jungle when she was about six years old, leaving their daughter Shirley Hamilton. She was taken in by Kali, a local Shamaness of a tribe who brought her up, and five years ago she was taught how to morph into animals and birds, acquiring their abilities, even flight. Further, she became a mythical creature called "The Darachna" who relies on people' fear of the unknown. For this she covers herself in a dark liquid mud which allows her to be largely unseen in the low light of the jungle, and with more than normal strength, agility and speed, and armed with a pair of gloves with bone claws, she is a formidable one woman fighting force. She does kill sometimes.
The epic tale of celebrated Pulitzer-prize winning author Alex Haley's ancestors as portrayed in the acclaimed twelve hour mini-series Roots, was first told in his 1976 bestseller Roots: The Saga of an American Family. The docu-drama covers a period of history that begins in mid-1700s Gambia, West Africa and concludes during post-Civil War United States, over 100 years later. This 1977 miniseries eventually won 9 Emmy awards, a Golden Globe award, and a Peabody award, and still stands as the most watched miniseries in U.S. history.
Tarzan is a series that aired on NBC from 1966 – 1968. The series portrayed Tarzan as a well-educated character, one who, tired of civilization, had returned to the jungle where he had been raised. The show retained many of the trappings of the classic movie series, including Cheeta, while excluding other elements, such as Jane, as part of the "new look" for the fabled apeman that producer Sy Weintraub had introduced in previous motion pictures starring Gordon Scott, Jock Mahoney, and Mike Henry. CBS aired repeat episodes the program during the summer of 1969.
A BBC/Animal Planet co-production, the three-part series focuses on the landscape and wildlife of the Great Rift Valley in East Africa.
Daktari is an American children's drama series that aired on CBS between 1966 and 1969. The series, an Ivan Tors Films Production in association with MGM Television, stars Marshall Thompson as Dr. Marsh Tracy, a veterinarian at the fictional Wameru Study Centre for Animal Behaviour in East Africa.
South Africa, 1823. The Zulu Empire, headed by King Shaka, a brilliant but ruthless military strategist, begin to encroach on the British colony of Cape Town. A volunteer cadre of explorers, mercenaries and professional soldiers are sent to Zululand to try to make contact with Shaka and assess the real threat of his army.
In this four-part BBC documentary, former Monty Python funnyman and renowned globe-trotter Michael Palin sets off from Gibraltar to travel across the Sahara, his witty humor downplaying the hardships he faces along the arduous journey. He travels to Morocco, Mauritania, Mali and beyond, across some of the harshest terrain on the planet.
The Earth’s continents are instantly recognizable. These iconic landmasses seem permanent and unchanging, yet they are merely the wreckage of a much larger long-lost supercontinent – Pangaea. In this stunning four part series Professor Iain Stewart uncovers the evidence for this ancient past. He reveals how the world around us is full of clues – in the rocks, the landscapes and even the animals. All of which tell us how the land we live on was created.
France, 1915. Young and radiantly beautiful Centaine de Thiry is the happiest woman in the world: in a few more hours she will be married to pilot Michael Courteney, the love of her life. But fate has it otherwise: Michael is shot down in a reconnaissance plane shortly before his wedding. Life has lost its meaning for Centaine. When the young woman realizes soon afterwards that she is expecting a baby, her zest for live is revived. She decides to give birth to the child in South Africa, the home country of her deceased fiancé.
Scout's Safari is a children's television series that aired on the Discovery Kids Channel and Saturday mornings on NBC. The series was created by Thomas W. Lynch.