100 YEARS OF WILDLIFE

Ever since 1907, when a flickering film about birds enthralled a cinemaaudience, we've been fascinated by watching the natural world on film. For100 years wildlife films have taken us to places and shown us things wewould never be able to see - the excitement, the strangeness, the dangerof the wild. Today, our interest in the wonders of the natural world isstronger than ever. Accompanying the lavish BBC two-hour special, "Top 100Wildlife Moments" dives into the archives to find the 100 wildlife momentsthat best celebrate the glories and the eccentricities of thisastonishingly popular and enduring culture. You can discover the historyof the wildlife moving image: the first heady days when an ant juggling amatchbox was big box office; the charismatic and sometimes controversialcelebrity presenters; the astonishing behaviour of animals and plants; theboggling oddities of nature; the animals now extinct that poignantly onlyexist on film. You can explore 100 years of revelation - from theblack-and-white silent footage that started it all to the almost magicalphotography techniques seen today in programmes like "Planet Earth". Fromfamous faces of wildlife TV to extraordinary animal (and plant) behaviour,natural history filming has changed the way we look at and think about ourworld. It's all here - so weird, you couldn't make it up; so wonderful,you wouldn't want to miss it.