Extinction Movies

Celebrates 30 years of televised specials by The National Geographic Society.

In the 1980s, a swine flu crossed the Haitian-Dominican border and started to affect the Creole pig, an important commodity in Haiti. The flu also threa...

An examination of the extinction threat faced by frogs, which have hopped on Earth for some 250 million years and are a crucial cog in the ecosystem....

We call them o-rang-u-tans, which literally means "forest persons" in the Malay and Indonesian languages. They are the only great apes native to Asia...

Mockumentary history lesson for alien viewers in the future, this follows the evolution of humans from Modern Man (Homo Sapiens) to Muffin Man (Homo T...

The discovery of a giant crater in the floor of the Gulf of Mexico is a step closer to solving the question if an asteroid ended the age of dinosaurs.

David Attenborough discovers that the descendants of the dinosaur age still thrive today. But how did they survive the cataclysmic events that wiped o...

A documentary crew interviews the man responsible for taking care of the last surviving goldfish in the world.

The passenger pigeon, the most abundant bird species in North America for thousands of years, became extinct by human hands in a geologic heartbeat. I...

A pair of clumsy birds try their best to protect their eggs from a volcanic eruption.

Investigate how an asteroid vanquished the dinosaurs 66 million years ago. Join scientists as they drill into the impact crater and, for the first tim...

Best-selling author Sir Terry Pratchett, diagnosed with Alzheimer's in 2007, has one last adventure he wants to go on. Eighteen years ago Terry had a...

Based on late field biologist John Sincock's experiences in Kauai.

Dave is the last of his kind: a naive, relentlessly optimistic dodo, who faces extinction in the dangerous streets of 1628 London. With the help of th...

With only one male grey panda left in the entire world, Ron the Zookeeper is sent in to get a sperm sample, no matter what.

The Tasmanian Tiger twists and turns depending on how it's seen. Sheep-killing beast or tragic victim of human induced extinction. Ancient painting on...

This experimental nature documentary by Minna Rainio and Mark Roberts depicts climate change and the wave of extinction from the point of view of our...

In the Netherlands, 200,000 young people are concerned about the end of the world and the major climate disasters they may experience. They learn from...