The Nature of Things (1960)
The Nature of Things is a Canadian television series of documentary programs. It debuted on CBC Television on November 6, 1960. Many of the programs document nature and the effect that humans have on it. The program was one of the first to explore environmental issues, such as clear-cut logging. The series is named after an epic poem by Roman philosopher Lucretius: "Dē Rērum Nātūrā" — On the Nature of Things.
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Episode 1 - Nuclear Dynamite
Release Date: 2000-10-05 -
Episode 2 - Breath of Life
Release Date: 2000-10-12 -
Episode 3 - Spare Parts
Release Date: 2000-10-19 -
Episode 4 - Lost Worlds: Wild South America
Release Date: 2000-10-23 -
Episode 5 - Lost Worlds: Wild South America: Monkey Jungles
Release Date: 2000-10-30 -
Episode 6 - Lost Worlds: Wild South America: Amazon Jungle
Release Date: 2000-12-07 -
Episode 7 - Lost Worlds: Wild South America: The Mighty Amazon
Release Date: 2000-12-14South America is a land of extremes. It boasts the world's longest mountain chain, the Andes; the mightiest river, the Amazon; the largest rainforest, the driest desert and the richest sea.
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Episode 8 - Lost Worlds: Wild South America: The Andes
Release Date: 2001-01-03 -
Episode 9 - Amanda's Choice
Release Date: 2001-01-10Amanda is an insightful 19-year-old from Timmins, Ontario. She has a three-year-old son and a dilemma: whether or not to be tested for the faulty gene that will bring on Alzheimer's Disease by her mid-30s, as happened with her mother and other generations in her family. It is a disease that always leads to early death.
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Episode 10 - The Secret Life of the Crash Test Dummy
Release Date: 2001-01-17 -
Episode 11 - Lost Worlds: Wild South America: Penguin Shores
Release Date: 2001-01-24PENGUIN SHORES is part five of the magnificent six-part BBC series Lost Worlds, covering the amazingly diverse topography of South America, and its remarkable denizens. The world's longest mountain chain stretches from the tropics to the massive Patagonian Ice Sheet of sub-Antarctica. Its icy power dominates the lives of the hardy animals that dare to call it home, making living there one of nature's greatest challenges.
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Episode 12 - Lost Worlds: Wild South America: Great Plains
Release Date: 2001-01-31Lost Worlds - A six-part series on the breath-taking natural world of South America takes viewers on a cross-continent grand tour - from the mighty Amazon to the spectacular Andean peaks and the world's driest desert - stopping to view the strange and wonderful array of animals, birds and other wildlife along the way. Produced by the BBC. Narrated by David Suzuki.
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Episode 13 - Coastal Forest/Salmon Forest
Release Date: 2001-02-07 -
Episode 14 - The Price of Salmon
Release Date: 2001-02-14Salmon are considered an excellent source of nutrition. And farmed salmon provide it inexpensively. But at what cost? The Price of Salmon explores the complex issues involved with aquaculture.
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Episode 15 - Surgeons of the Future
Release Date: 2001-02-21 -
Episode 16 - Maisin People In Papua New Guinea
Release Date: 2001-02-28 -
Episode 17 - Toxic Legacies
Release Date: 2001-03-14 -
Episode 18 - Hospital at the End of the Earth
Release Date: 2001-03-21 -
Episode 19 - Worst Case Scenario
Release Date: 2001-04-04Albertans have traditionally been proud of their mighty petroleum industry. But lately, they have begun to question how that industry works. Nowhere is this shift more apparent than along the Clearwater River in Central Alberta, near Rocky Mountain House. There, residents are opposing Shell Canada's plans to drill a sour gas well in their area. The sour gas from the well could generate $10,000 a day in gross revenue, to meet today's high energy demands.