Africa's Hidden Kingdoms Season 1: Episode Guide & Ratings

This documentary looks at the wildlife of The Drakensberg Mountain range. We take a look at how creatures survive in the hostile landscape, from the highest peaks to the rolling grasslands below.

The ancient plants and animals of the Cloud Mountains of South Africa have long captured people's imagination. It's a landscape defined by weather and threatened by invaders.

This wildlife documentary explores this western border with the sea, an area known as the Sandveld. The documentary ventures underwater, through dense land vegetation and across harsh open spaces.

Lying in the north-western corner of South Africa it is a desert like no other. The landscape's polarized existence is a testament to nature's ability to transform and adapt to this land of famine.

At the southern tip of Africa, a tiny refuge making a huge impact. It's a story of beating the odds, of species fighting extinction to reclaim their place in the wild.

On the southwestern tip of Africa lies a botanical wonderland, a mountainous world covered in plants and animals. Nowhere else on the planet, contains more unique species in such a small area.