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- Anthony Smith and Douglas Botting recreate the fictitious journey of Jules Verne. Traveling by balloon from Zanzibar across the sea channel to the mainland of Africa. The balloonists are forced to land in the African bush.
- When the Dalai Lama came of age he made a great tour to the three most important monasteries of his country to demonstrate his wisdom to thousands of assembled lamas. Compiled from his own film.
- The Punjab is the granary of India. In the land of the five rivers live the Sikhs, the fiercest warriors of Asia. But they were originally a pacifist sect. Why do they wear steel bangles and turbans? And why must they never cut their hair?
- 1961–19657.9 (7)TV EpisodeDavid Attenborough continues his journey through Australia's Northern Australia. He looks at the hunting of wildlife such as geese and water buffalo.
- 1961–19658.0 (7)TV EpisodeDavid Attenborough looks at the aboriginal artists of Arnhem Land in Australia's Northern Territory. He discovers why they paint and in doing so, gets some insight into the very origins of art.
- David Attenborough reports on the search for wild animals in the Northern Territory of Australia.
- 1961–19657.6 (8)TV EpisodeThe Aboriginal people are the subject of this report by David Attenborough from the Northern Territory of Australia.
- Commemorates the 50th anniversary of the death of Captain Robert Falcon Scott. One of the most heroic stories of exploration is retold with the aid of photographs and films taken in Antarctica 50 years ago by photographer Herbert Ponting.
- A film by Vitold de Golish highlighting the former splendours of the Indian ruling princes, unchanged since the days of the Nabobs, of Clive and Warren Hastings, but now unlikely ever to be seen again.
- 1961–19658.0 (9)TV EpisodeDavid Attenborough reaches the middle of the Northern Territory of Australia and visits three people in the otherwise deserted area of Borroloola who have chosen to cut themselves off from the civilised world.
- Step by step Adrian Cowell follows the route taken by Colonel Fawcett through the Brazilian interior in his search for Atlantis.
- C. J. P. Ionides is a big-game hunter turned naturalist now famous as a collector of venomous snakes. Margaret Lane spent six weeks in Tanganyika, watching him handling dangerous snakes and learning to assist him in catching them.
- Tony Beamish's journey through jungles of Central Malaya in search of the famous Rajah Brooke's birdwing butterfly and the flying kubong, one of the most mysterious animals in the world.
- Arnaud Desjardins travels north from Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, across the Hindu Kush mountains to meet the nomad horsemen of central Asia and watch Buz-kashi, their ancient and violent sport played on horseback.
- A journey from Bodh Gaya, the holy Buddhist town of India, to the tiny Himalayan states of Sikkim and Bhutan.
- June Toulmin explores a tunnel through a mountain on the tiny island of Samos which was constructed 2,500 years ago on the orders of Polycrates, a pirate chief, to bring fresh water to his fortress by the harbour.
- A film of the life of a gentle, naked, uncivilised people who have no time to fight with each other since their short lives are spent competing with Nature.
- Remarkable ceremonies recently filmed on the island of Haiti. Industrial society has turned the Voodoo loa, originally the strange gods of an African tribe, into contemporary deities who take possession of their worshippers.
- Robert Dick Read rode through the mountains of Ethiopia in search of its ancient churches hidden in caves and perched on the top of rock pinnacles.
- The Makuna Indians, living on one of the remote headwaters of the Amazon, have the reputation of being drug addicts. Brian Moser and Donald Tayler travel upstream to try to record the life of this tribe.
- Fifteen years of terrorism have virtually cut off the Temiar tribes from civilisation. Tony Beamish and Ivan Polunin recently journeyed into the remote jungle to see what had become of these most primitive of Malaya's people.
- Harald Schultz, travelling through the Brazilian jungle, met the plate-lipped people of the Suja - of whom only sixty-five survive-and took this unique film of them.
- Two men, Aldo Sillanoli and Jean Cadoux, make an expedition to the sources of the Germe-'the river without stars': a remarkable film made in the limestone caves of eastern France by members of the Caving Group of the French Alpine Club.
- The list of wrecks along the coast of Ceylon stretches back into the past. Down among the treacherous currents that swirl through the canyons of the Great Basses Reef the remains of a mysterious treasure galleon are found.
- David Attenborough journeys through the Northern Territory of Australia, meeting the mainly Aboriginal people, exploring the landscape and observing the wildlife.
- David Attenborough follows the River Zambezi from its source in the centre of Africa, 2,000 miles to the Indian Ocean.
- David Attenborough comes across a stone fortress in an African village, believed to have been built 400 years ago by Portuguese explorers.
- David Attenborough retraces the steps of the famous Scottish explorer Dr David Livingstone in the final part of his African adventure.