Rivers and Flooding

Bostcastle floods | Spotlight

BBC Spotlight visits Boscastle ten years on from the infamous flood.

The River Leven through Time | Countryfile

Anita Rani and Joe Crowley explore the River Leven, which flows through Fife, uncovering how this once-hardworking industrial rive...

Sustainable Cities: cities on flood plains | Human Planet: Change and Sustainability

How urban areas develop resilient systems to withstand and manage seasonal flooding.

Water for Life | Place and People

A documentary details how Egyptians use water from the Nile to grow crops on floodplains.

Sustainable Waters: adapting to regular flooding | Human Planet: Change and Sustainability

How societies build and plan to live safely and productively in flood-prone areas.

Sustainable Waters: adapting to the environment | Human Planet: Change and Sustainability

Ways people shape their lifestyles to match the rhythms of rivers, coasts, and wetl...

04: Scotland's Water | Making Scotland's Landscape

Professor Iain Stewart reveals how Scotland's unique landscape was shaped. Here, the story of how Scotland's waters became...

S08E06: Flooding | Bang Goes the Theory

Did global warming play a part in the recent floods, or is it the extreme end of the natural cycle? Maggie Philbin investigates the t...

River Severn | Countryfile

Charlotte Smith and Tom Heap are on the River Severn to find out how living with the constant threat of floods is affecting rural communities and ...

10: Flood | Geography in Animation

Series exploring key processes in physical geography.

Storm Desmond 2015 | Victoria Derbyshire

Victoria and her team report live from areas impacted by flooding caused by Storm Desmond.

Morpeth Floods | Inside Out

Chris Jackson reports the worst floods in Morpeth's history and asks could the town have been better prepared.

River Landscape | The Geography Programme

This programme looks at the great variety of landscape and land use along the valley of the River Tees. Narrated by Bernard Clark.

Saving the Mighty Mekong River | Our World

Laura Bicker is in Cambodia to ask if the mighty Mekong River can be saved and meets a new generation trying to breathe life into ...

River pollution | The One Show

Rivers management; looking at issues within rivers, methods of management and the successes and challenges of this. Strongly supports KS3 curr...

01: Estuary: In Search of an Afterlife | The River

Patrick Wright takes a four-part voyage down the 210-mile course of the River Thames, looking at it through the eyes of pe...

Chris Packham: The Walk That Made Me

Chris Packham explores his past as he walks a familiar path in the Hampshire countryside. Chris cut his teeth as a naturalist in this be...

02: Machines in the Garden | The River

In a journeyfrom the source of the Thames in the Cotswolds to the Goring Gap in Oxfordshire, Patrick Wright explores the conflict betw...

04: Delivering the Kingdom | The River

On the last leg of his voyage down the Thames, Patrick Wright reflects upon its associations with political matters since Civil War da...

03: From Henley to Eel Pie Island | The River

The third leg of Patrick Wright 's journey down the Thames takes him through a stretch of the river transformed by the advent i...

Textile industry and water pollution | Stacey Dooley Investigates

Stacey Dooley visits the Citarum river in Indonesia, which has become the most polluted river in the world ...

Episode 1 | Paul Whitehouse: Our Troubled Rivers

Paul Whitehouse travels through the north of England, looking at the impact water companies have on its rivers.

The River That Came Clean | Horizon

A century ago Disraeli called the Thames "a Stygian pool reeking with intolerable horrors". Forty thousand Londoners died of cholera from...

The Water Pollution Cover-Up | Panorama

Water companies are dumping huge quantities of sewage in UK rivers every year. Why do some of the worst offenders have such good envi...

Episode 2 | Paul Whitehouse: Our Troubled Rivers

Paul continues his journey, travelling to Wales and the south of England. Visiting the River Wye, he sees how explosions of ...

Troubled Waters | Countryfile

Like so many of our waterways, the River Wye is being suffocated by pollution. Matt Baker and Anita Rani meet the volunteers trying to save thi...

Joe Lycett vs Sewage

Joe Lycett investigates the mind-boggling quantities of untreated sewage discharged into our waterways every day, and takes the fight to water companies...

River pollution and flea treatment | Springwatch

Vet and naturalist Sean McCormack reports on a worrying threat to the health of rivers – and it’s one that all pet owners sh...

S01E01: Amazon | Earth's Great Rivers

Documentary revealing the animals, landscapes and people of the greatest river on earth. From transparent lagoons to pink dolphins, the...

01: Rivers | World's Most Extreme

Exploring the world's most dangerous and inspirational waterways, from white-water rafters taking on undefeated rapids on the Congo River, ...

S01E02: Nile | Earth's Great Rivers

A look at the astonishing wildlife, landscapes and people of the Nile. From elephants and leopards to ancient wonders, its great length i...

S02E02: Danube | Earth's Great Rivers II

The extraordinary story of the Danube, the world's most international river. It reveals magical wonders, from crystal-clear waterfal...

03: The Yangtze | Sacred Rivers with Simon Reeve

Simon travels along the Yangtze, discovering a revival of religious faith in China. Starting his journey at the first bend i...

Episode 1 | The Mekong River with Sue Perkins

Sue Perkins embarks on a 3,000-mile journey up the Mekong, Southeast Asia's greatest river. She begins in Vietnam and continues...

Saving the Mighty Mekong River | Our World

Laura Bicker is in Cambodia to ask if the mighty Mekong River can be saved and meets a new generation trying to breathe life into ...

S02E01: Zambezi | Earth's Great Rivers II

From elephants and wildebeest to Victoria Falls, the largest curtain of water on earth. This is the story of the Zambezi, Africa's ...

S01E03: Mississippi | Earth's Great Rivers

The surprising story of the Mississippi, a river that unites the USA. From frozen waterfalls to time-travelling barges, the Missis...

01: Estuary: In Search of an Afterlife | The River

Patrick Wright takes a four-part voyage down the 210-mile course of the River Thames, looking at it through the eyes of pe...

01: The Nile | Sacred Rivers with Simon Reeve

Adventurer Simon Reeve travels from source to sea along the world's longest river, the Nile. His journey will take him from the...

Le Rhone Sauvage: Part 1 | The Geography Programme

Jonathan Raper journeys from the Camargue, the Rhone's delta, to it's source in the Swiss Alps.

Introduction to the Amazon river | Earth's Great Rivers

An introduction to the river Amazon, including it's source in Peruvian glaciers.

02: Machines in the Garden | The River

In a journeyfrom the source of the Thames in the Cotswolds to the Goring Gap in Oxfordshire, Patrick Wright explores the conflict betw...

Episode 3 | The Mekong River with Sue Perkins

Sue Perkins continues her journey up the Mekong, south east Asia's greatest river. She reaches Laos, one of the poorest and lea...

Mississippi floodplain | Earth's Great Rivers

In the last 1,000 miles of its journey, the Mississippi flows out into a vast natural floodplain.

When the Amazon reaches the sea | Earth's Great Rivers

The meeting of the Amazon and the Atlantic ocean produces an extraordinary ecosystem.

Flooded forest | Earth's Great Rivers

Wildlife thrives in the Amazon during the wet season.

The Amazon Basin | Earth's Great Rivers

In the Amazon Basin the tributaries meet and the grow larger and stronger. The water is mixed with a variety of different sediments a...

Underwater spring | Earth's Great Rivers

An underwater spring introduces crystal clear water into the Amazon.