Name: Congo
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2001-01-30
Rating: 10

Seasons

All seasons

2001 - 4 eps

Season 1

About

Congo is a 2001 BBC nature documentary series for television on the natural history of the Congo River of Central Africa. In three episodes, the series explores the variety of animals and habitats that are to be found along the river’s 4,700 km reach. Congo was produced for the BBC Natural History Unit and the Discovery Channel by Scorer Associates. The series writer/producer was Brian Leith and the executive producer was Neil Nightingale. Series consultants were Michael Fay, Kate Abernethy, Jonathan Kingdon and Lee White. Little filming was possible in the Democratic Republic of the Congo which encompasses the vast majority of the river's watershed. The reason for this is that the Second Congo War was underway during filming. The series forms part of the Natural History Unit's Continents strand and was preceded by Andes to Amazon in 2000 and Wild Africa later that year in 2001.

First Aired

Jan 30, 2001

Last Aired

Feb 13, 2001

Seasons

Episodes

Network

BBC Two

Keywords

africa gorilla congo miniseries nature documentary democratic republic of the congo zambia