The Nature of Things

Season 51, Episode 18

Episode Title: Polar Bears: A Summer Odyssey

Air Date: 2012-04-08

Overview:

Shot over twelve months, this blue chip wildlife documentary tells the story a young polar bear's epic migration through the icy waters of Hudson Bay and his subsequent adventures on land, where he must spend the ice-free season. It is his first summer alone without his mother to guide and feed him. His struggle to survive is set against the biggest environmental story of our time: climate change.