S01E02: Arnhem Land | Ray Mears’ World of Survival

02: Deserts - Life in the Furnace | Human Planet

A look at how the eternal quest for water brings huge challenges - and ingenious solutions - for millions of people in the d...

Desertification | Newsnight

Featuring the wall of green land preventing desertification in sub-Saharan Africa.

Episode 1 | Hottest Place on Earth

A team of experts venture into the Danakil desert in Ethiopia. Kate Humble looks at how tough life is for an Afar woman, and Steve Leonard...

S04E05: Qasr Al Sarab Desert Resort | Amazing Hotels: Life Beyond the Lobby

Giles Coren and Monica Galetti visit an extraordinary hotel built where people usually struggle t...

04: Desert Worlds | The Green Planet

Desert plants spend decades in suspended animation waiting for rain, or they travel to find it. They survive using weapons, camouflage a...

S02E01: Morocco/Sahara | Ray Mears' Extreme Survival

In the Sahara Desert of Morocco, Ray investigates the keys to desert survival and tells stories of wartime endurance aga...

03: Mongolia | Kate Humble: Living with Nomads

In her final journey of the series, Kate Humble travels deep into the Gobi Desert to live with an extended family of cashmere ...

04: Beyond the Great Wall | Wild China

From tribes hunting with eagles to the baking deserts of central Asia, the extreme landscapes in northern China mean life is always on...

My Epic Camel Adventure with Gordon Buchanan

Gordon Buchanan takes an epic camel ride across the Gobi Desert to discover how these most iconic, yet least understood, animals...

S02E05: Christmas - The Sahara | The Misadventures of Romesh Ranganathan

Rom visits the Sahara Desert. Guided by Bobo, a local of Berber descent, Rom discovers a place that ...

04: Kalahari | Wilderness with Simon Reeve

Simon Reeve crosses the parched desert of southern Africa, tracking wildebeest with the famous hunter-gatherers of the Kalahari, b...

05: Sahara | Africa

David Attenborough's breathtaking journey through Africa. In the Sahara Desert, huge zebras battle for resources, camels seek water, and tiny swallows se...

Life in Death Valley | Planet Earth

A single shower can transform Death Valley.

S02E06: The Red Centre: Australia | Ray Mears' World of Survival

Ray Mears visits the Aboriginal people of the central Australian desert. He goes to Amata, where 500 Anangu ...

01: Kalahari | Africa

David Attenborough explores two deserts in Africa's south west, where he encounters meerkats, black rhinos, giant insects and the greatest giraffe batt...

02: Namib: Skeleton Coast and Beyond | Eden: Untamed Planet

The Namib Desert is one of the oldest deserts in the world, flourishing with life where none seems possible. This...

02: The Mucubal | Tribe with Bruce Parry

Bruce Parry visits the Mucubal, a community surviving in Angola's harsh Namib Desert, and experiences an extraordinary way of life p...

09: Namib Desert | Nature's Microworlds

Steve Backshall visits the Namib in Africa, where animals use clever tactics to combat the heat. He reveals the unique secret that al...

Moisture in the Atacama | Planet Earth

Life exists in a strip of the Atacama Desert due to fog that blows in from the sea.

S01E02: Lion People of the Kalahari | Tribes, Predators & Me

Gordon Buchanan joins a group of Bushmen in Botswana's Kalahari Desert to learn how to survive on foot among wil...