Documentary
In six remote and beautiful places on our planet are queendoms run by the most powerful leaders in the animal world. These queens are sisters, single mothers, grandmothers. This documentary series tells their stories of resilience, strength, love and loss for the first time.


In the towering walls of Tanzania's Ngorongoro crater, the sisters of a lion pride clash with a hyena clan ruled by an all-powerful queen.

In the Congo Forest, a young bonobo must leave behind everything she knows to find her place in a world where friendship means survival.

Under the rainforest canopy two tiny insect queens build their empires. One through great sacrifice, the other betrayal.

A baby is born into the ultimate animal sisterhood; a family of elephants. She will need all their experience and protection if she is to survive.

A gelada monkey and an Ethiopian wolf fight for their families and their legacy in a world of ancient Ethiopian mountain peaks.

An orca family's success relies on the experience of their sixty-year-old matriarch; while a first-time bear mother must raise her three cubs alone.

A celebration of the extraordinary women filmmakers and game changing conservationists behind the Queens series.

Narrator (voice)

Biologist and naturalist Dan O'Neill embarks on a groundbreaking mission to protect one of the world's most elusive creatures—the snow leopard. Set against the stunning backdrop of Kyrgyzstan's rugged mountains, this two-part adventure follows Dan as he works to build a new research center dedicated to studying these majestic cats.

Continuing the compelling saga of the heartstring-tugging, dramatic tale of survival revolving around three families of meerkats who are descendants of the legendary meerkat matriarch, Flower. Neighbors and rivals who share a bloodline are forced to compete for food and resources in an environment that is undergoing a great deal of change: the Kalahari Desert in South Africa.

Ronan Donovan, our expert guide and National Geographic photographer, takes the audience on an intimate exploration of the Arctic during the endless day of the summer months, giving insight to the unexpected abundance of the 'Garden of the Arctic' in Wolf Valley as he attempts to embed with a wolf family pack.

Geologist Iain Stewart explain in three stages of natural history the crucial interaction of our very planet's physiology and its unique wildlife. Biological evolution is largely driven bu adaptation to conditions such as climate, soil and irrigation, but biotopes were also shaped by wildlife changing earth's surface and climate significantly, even disregarding human activity.