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Cheetahs United Critical Kingdoms: Stories of Hope (Nature, 3x50 min.) Travels to Australia, Africa and Indonesia to discover stories of hope of how we can revitalize the natural environments of these critical kingdoms. Planet California (Nature, 2x50 min.) It’s the home of Hollywood, Disneyland and the Golden Gate Bridge— and a place of refuge for wildlife: cougars, coyotes, twoton elephant seals and great white sharks. The Great Lakes (Nature, 3x50 min.) A spectacular visual exploration of the natural history of the largest freshwater ecosystem on Earth—North America’s Great Lakes and its many astounding inhabitants. Horse Power—American Legacies (Nature, 1x50 min.) American horses are icons that shaped a nation—a nation whose demands shaped them. And each breed has a unique story to tell. Hippo King (Nature, 1x50 min.) For the first time ever, we reveal the true character of one of the planet’s largest land mammals as we follow the life story of the “Hippo King.” New Forest—The Crown’s Hunting Ground (Nature, 1x50 min.) A wild and magical forest, once the Crown’s hunting grounds, is the scene for a remarkable year, featuring nesting goshawks, red deer stags, newly born foals and many more. Alien Contact (Nature, 1x50 min.) Are manta rays trying to make contact with us? Marine biologist Rick Rosenthal and sci-fi writer Chris Carter team up to find out. Rooted: America’s Trees of Life (Nature, 3x50 min.) Each tree is a vast life-giving ecosystem; we crack the hard nuts of the Brazil nut tree, wander through Mangrove City and explore a living fossil: the monkey puzzle tree.

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Contact: Adam Pajot Gendron, CEO & exec. producer. PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS Fear of Dancing (Fact-ent./culture doc., 1x52 min./1x78 min.) A lighthearted and humorous POV documentary about the paralyzing fear of dance through the eyes of those that just can’t “get over it.” The Fence (History, 1x52 min./1x78 min.) Reveals the little known and carefully guarded history of the darkest atrocities from WW2 committed by the Japanese Imperial Army in Hong Kong. Coasters (Social/culture doc., 1x52 min./1x85 min.) Immerses viewers in the lives of three distinctly different cultural communities that have learned how to coexist for centuries in isolated remote territories no roads can access.

Fear of Dancing