The Hunt

2015 • BBC
4.8
51 reviews
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Season 1 episodes (7)

1 The Hardest Challenge
15/11/01
Season-only
The Hardest Challenge reveals the extraordinary range of techniques predators use to catch their prey - from a leopard using all its powers of stealth to stalk impala in broad daylight to wild dogs, whose tactic is to wear down their prey over long distances; from Nile crocodiles, the Planet’s most patient predators, to killer whales who use teamwork and intelligence to take on humpback whales.
2 In the Grip of the Seasons
15/11/08
Season-only
The only option for the Arctic’s top predators, the wolf, the Arctic fox and the polar bear, is to continually adapt to their changing world, exploiting the good times and enduring the bad.
3 Hide and Seek
15/11/15
Season-only
Hide and Seek follows tigers, harpy eagles, chimpanzees, army ants and other predators as they rise to the challenge of hunting within the forest - a dense, confusing, three-dimensional world, one in which even finding prey is a maddening task. The prize for succeeding at nature's great game of hide-and-seek is one worth winning. Forests cover one third of the land surface, and concealed within are over half of the species on Earth.
4 Hunger at Sea
15/11/22
Season-only
Hunger at Sea follows blue whales, sharks, sea lions, frigatebirds, dolphins and albatrosses to reveal the strategies they use to hunt for prey in the big blue. The open ocean is an immense wilderness that covers more than half the surface of our planet, yet for the most part it's a watery desert, largely devoid of life. Predators face an endless search to find and catch food, yet these great tracts of ocean are home to some of the most remarkable hunters on the planet.
5 Nowhere to Hide
15/11/29
Season-only
Exploring how predators must make their own opportunities when hunting in wide expanses of land like the desert or grassland.
6 Race Against Time
15/12/06
Season-only
The coast can be a rich hunting ground, but opportunities never last long so hunters are always in a race against time.
7 Living with Predators
15/12/13
Season-only
It’s hard to imagine a world without lions, tigers and polar bears. But the earth’s wildest places are shrinking, and people are coming into deadly conflict with these ancient carnivores.

About this show

This series looks at the relationship between predators and their prey, including the amazing strategies predators use to catch their food - and the cunnning techniques that prey use to escape death.

Ratings and reviews

4.8
51 reviews
Charlie Friend
23 November 2015
The absolute best. Great music, unbelievable filming and the as ever brilliant David Attenborough. Beautiful programme with inspiring footage. Each episode brings new insight into the extraordinary struggles for life and death in nature and the adaptations of hunters and the hunted. "Story of the Hunt" at the end of each episode just goes to show how much effort goes into capturing such awesome scenes.
9 people found this review helpful
Robbie Webb
07 November 2015
Natural history film making and story telling at it's finest.
Ryan Bidewell
07 May 2016
It is good but. Colour isn't