The Nature of Things is a Canadian television series of documentary programs. It debuted on CBC Television on November 6, 1960. Many of the programs document nature and the effect that humans have on it. The program was one of the first to explore environmental issues, such as clear-cut logging. The series is named after an epic poem by Roman philosopher Lucretius: "Dē Rērum Nātūrā" — On the Nature of Things.
The brain that changes itself
Visions of the future - the suzuki diaries
Visions of the future - supercar: building the car of the future
Visions of the future - living city: a critical guide
Visions of the future - build green
Visions of the future - earth energy
A murder of crows
The mendi
Why is it so?
The roar of the crowd
The future of science
Schizophrenia
Engineering
Man as an environment
Science fiction
A special christmas edition
The aurora-borealis
Man as an environment – human body
Kept alive
Physics and games – laws of probability
The face of the moon
Hibernation
Man and his environment
Eclipse
Animal communication
The speed of light
Monotony
The chemical senses
The mohole: earth's crust
Laws of conservation
Photosynthesis
Physics of clouds
The sources of science
Looking ahead
Photography in science
To educate a scientist
The situation is fluid
Gallstones
The upper mantle project
The physics of music
Survival
Man and the moon
Hibernating molecules
Monkey curiosity
Spermatozoa
Animals with feathers
Getting the upper hand
Thinking about math
The plague
Instant heat
A science newsreel
Learning
A bang-up job
Out of africa
Count on me
Blood in the balance
Episode 24
Episode 1
Brainwashing
Tubes to transistors
From water to land
Chemistry of salt
Ear operation
The way the ball bounces
Lie detectors
Smoking and lung cancer
Science museum
Tornadoes
The descent of man
Isaac newton
New atoms for old
Car crashes
Bird migration
Fact & fiction
Code of life
The chemistry of bread
The infra-red
Human overpopulation
Mars
Spiders
Hypnosis
Einstein, man & mathematician
About the size of it
Standards for comparison
Excursion into hell
Surgery for parkinson's disease
Science in sports
Lasers
Blood, sea and tears
Cartography
The world of water
Immunology
"good and evil"
"viruses"
"survival"
Eureka
Flight
"the quaking earth"
Pain
"lies, damn lies and statistics"
Photography
"bird strikes on aircraft"
"the pacemakers"
Animals and man
Animals on land
Animals in the water
Animal adaptation
Animal adaptation
Animals and food
Animals as engineers
Animals as engineers
Animal hands and tools
Animal vision and smell
Animal territory and aggression
Animal social behavior
Episode 13
Animal learning
Episode 15
Episode 16
Man and animals
The sun
Natural history of the niagara gorge
Air and water pollution
The battle against biting insects
Air conditioning - natural and man-made
The physics of sailing
Epidemics
Summer storms
Fishing and the splake
The value of our parks
Forest and fires
Water on the level
Galapagos: darwin
Galapagos: the islands
Galapagos: new beings
Galapagos: ways of survival
Galapagos: living laboratory
Canadian wildlife: retreat to the rockies
Canadian wildlife: a celebration of swans
Canadian wildlife: arctic summer
Canadian wildlife: wild alberta
Thomas edison
Human engineering
Materials
Structure
Communications
Canals and tunnels
Central power
Man and machines
Land and water
Man aloft
Portable power
Machines and man: transportation
Machine and man: systems engineering
Audubon
Danger: man at work - in the balance
Danger: man at work - the urban crisis
Danger: man at work - water
Danger: man at work - air pollution
Danger: man at work - pesticides
Danger: man at work - the global crisis
The ages of man: a day in the life of a g.p.
The ages of man: a breath of life
The ages of man: the attack on cancer
The ages of man: drugs
The ages of man: the cell
The ages of man: arthritis
The ages of man: decade science review
The ages of man: heart disease
The ages of man: transplants
The ages of man: a definition of death
Wild africa: as it was
A sense of time
Wild africa: something new
A sense of time
A sense of time
Oceanography
Continental drift
Sense substitution
Physical sciences: stellar evolution
Physical sciences: making waves
Physical sciences: energy conversion
Physical sciences: laser
"the last stand: western mountain parks"
"the last stand: the everglades of florida"
The last stand: point pelee
The last stand: the southwestern desert
A sense of time: the age of the universe
A sense of time: the age of the earth
A sense of time: the age of man
The great lakes
The great lakes
Population problems: everybody's baby
Population problems: tomorrow's child
Who help themselves
Psychiatry: heavy night
Psychiatry: street fighting mad
Psychiatry: human potential
Banting, best and insulin
Cancer in canada
Parkinsonism
The fur trade
The harp seal
Grouse country
The polar bear
Lobsters and the sea
Vanishing peoples: yanomami
The blue holes of andros
Vanishing peoples: lacandons, the mayas of mexico
The sexes, part 1 of 2
The sexes, part 2 of 2
Acupuncture
Think before you eat
Stockholm '72: politics for survival
Cities for people
Migration: animals in cycle
Old enough
Recycling: the garbage ouroboros
Puffins, predators and pirates
The club of rome
Ellesmere island
Anybody's child
A comet's tale
The first inch
The serious business of play
Out of the mouths of babes
The joy of effort
The cree of paint hills
And god created great whales
Children's hospital
The heimaey eruption: iceland 1973
Traveller from an antique land
Mind and hand
Frogs, snakes and turtles
Discovery on charlton island
The first inch
Up close and personal: the ecology of david suzuki
Reefer madness 2
Grasslands
Good wood
Look who's talking...how animals communicate
Phallacies
How to live to 100
The hidden killer: portrait of an epidemic
Parkinson's: lynda's story
Lost
Designing for dignity: engineering body parts
Race for the future
Race for the future, part 2
The sleep famine
Do parents matter?
Silent sentinels
Wild goose chase
Humans: who are we, part 1 – the birth of the human mind
Humans: who are we?, part 2 – the human invasion
Weather: dragons of chaos
Nuclear dynamite
Breath of life
Spare parts
Lost worlds: wild south america
Lost worlds: wild south america: monkey jungles
Lost worlds: wild south america: amazon jungle
Lost worlds: wild south america: the mighty amazon
Lost worlds: wild south america: the andes
Amanda's choice
The secret life of the crash test dummy
Lost worlds: wild south america: penguin shores
Lost worlds: wild south america: great plains
Coastal forest/salmon forest
The price of salmon
Surgeons of the future
Maisin people in papua new guinea
Toxic legacies
Hospital at the end of the earth
Worst case scenario
Me, my brain and i unmasking the mystery of the conscious mind
Warnings from the wild
Touch: the forgotten sense
Psychopaths
Drug deals: the brave new world of prescription drugs
Bioterror
Race against time
Return of the peregrine
Living forever
Genetically modified foods
Self-experimenters
Morphine on trial
Cyberman: canada's original cyborg
Wired for life
Intuition
Beluga speaking across time
Hot flash on menopause
Up close and toxic
The ghosts of lomako
Sex, lies and secrecy: dissecting hysterectomy
Terrible lizards of oz
Selling sickness
Arktika: the russian dream that failed
Shipbreakers
Clot busters
Killed by care: making medicine safe
Tale of a tiny bird
Apocalypse cow: the mad cow story (part 1)
Apocalypse cow: the mad cow story (part 2)
Bhopal: the search for justice
Forbidden forest
Passion & fury: the emotional brain: anger
Passion & fury: the emotional brain: love
Passion & fury: the emotional brain: fear
Passion & fury: the emotional brain: happiness
Fighting fire with fire
Being caribou: part 1
Being caribou: part 2
Whale mission: the last giants
Whale mission: keepers of memory
Origins of human aggression: the other story
Five seasons
Tarantula: australia's king of spiders
Nature bites back: the case of the sea otter
Earth energy
Change of heart
The secret life of babies
Tsepong: a clinic called hope
Port hope: a question of power
Everyday einstein
Homo sapiens: the rise of our species (pt.1)
Homo sapiens: the rise of our species (pt. 2)
Ghosts of futures past: tom berger in the north
Blue buddha: lost secrets of tibetan medicine
Beetalker: the secret world of bees
Cuba: the accidental revolution (pt. 1)
Cuba: the accidental revolution (pt. 2)
When less is more
Stephen lewis: the man who couldn't sleep
Wild caribbean: hurricane hell
Build green
Wild caribbean: reefs and wrecks
Wild caribbean: treasure island
Wild caribbean: secret shores
Cuttlefish – the brainy bunch
Mystery of the giant sloths cave
Geologic journey: the great lakes
Geologic journey: the rockies
Geologic journey: the canadian shield
Geologic journey: the appalachians
Geologic journey: the atlantic coast
The bear man of kamchatka
Living forever: the longevity revolution
Weather report
Game over: conservation in kenya
The man with the golden cells
The nature of things magazine
Climate change i: an uncertain future
Climate change ii: hot times in the city
The nature of things magazine
The edge of eden – living with grizzlies
The science of the senses: hearing
The science of the senses: touch
The science of the senses: smell/taste
The science of the senses: sight
Wild china: heart of the dragon
Wild china: shangi-la
Wild china: the tibetan plateau
Wild china: land of the panda
Wild china: beyond the great wall
Wild china: tides of change
Antarctic mission: islands at the edge
Antarctic mission: window on a changing climate
Antarctic mission: the great ocean of ice
Antarctic mission: the last continent
The hobbit enigma
Rodney's robot revolution
The adventurers: the last nomads
The adventurers: the everlasting oasis
The adventurers: a story told in stone
The suzuki diaries: europe
The adventurers: the lost people of baja
The brain that changes itself
Gone sideways
Black wave: the legacy of the exxon valdez
Supercar: building the car of the future
Living city: a critical guide
Inuit odyssey
American savannah
Arctic meltdown: a changing world
Arctic meltdown: the arctic passages
Arctic meltdown: adapting to change
A murder of crows
Mini monsters of amazonia
Broken tail's last journey
Darwin's brave new world: origins
Darwin's brave new world: evolutions
Darwin's brave new world: publish and be damned
Suzuki diaries: coastal canada
To bee or not to bee
Bugs, bones & botany: the science of crime
The downside of high
Bat & man
My nuclear neighbour
Uakari: secrets of the red monkey
One ocean: birth of an ocean
One ocean: footprints in the sand
One ocean: mysteries of the deep
One ocean: the changing sea
Masters of space
Aliens of the deep sea
Changing your mind
For the love of elephants
Geologic journey 2: tectonic europe (july 8 1997)
Geologic journey 2: along the african rift (september 2, 1997)
Geologic journey 2: the western pacific rim (november 4, 1997)
Geologic journey 2: the pacific rim: americas (january 13, 1998)
Geologic journey 2: the collision zone: asia (march 17, 1998)
When north goes south
Code breakers
Tipping point: the age of the oil sands
The last grizzly
Return of the prairie bandit
Raccoon nation
The real avatar
Force of nature: the david suzuki movie
Save my lake
50 years of the nature of things
The nano revolution: welcome to nano city
The nano revolution: more than human
The nano revolution: will nano save the planet?
Jungle prescription
Emperor's lost harbour
Myth or science
Waking the green tiger
Autism enigma
Programmed to be fat?
Surviving :) the teenage brain
Mysteries of the animal mind
The american tiger
Ms wars: hope, science and the internet
Suzuki diaries: future city
Journey to the disaster zone
The perfect runner
Smarty plants
Polar bears: a summer odyssey
The buffalo wolves
Babies: born to be good?
Nuts about squirrels
The norse: an arctic mystery
Lights out!
David suzuki's andean adventure
Zapped: the buzz about mosquitoes
Shattered ground
Meet the coywolf
The fruit hunters: evolution of desire (part 1 of 2)
The fruit hunters: evolution of desire (part 2 of 2)
Billion dollar caribou
The beaver whisperers
The beetles are coming
The man who tweeted earth
Carpe diem: a fishy tale
Ticked off: the mystery of lyme disease
Myth or science 2: the quest for perfection
Brain magic: the power of placebo
Invasion of the brain snatchers
Untangling alzheimer's
A dog's life
Survival of the fabulous
Where am i?
The great butterfly hunt
How to be a wild elephant
Secrets in the bones - the hunt for the black death killer
Trek of the titans
The allergy fix
Wild canada: the eternal frontier
Wild canada: the wild west
Wild canada: the heartland
Wild canada: ice edge
Making wild canada
Stonehenge uncovered
Gorilla doctors
Dreams of the future
The cholesterol question
Decoding desire
Chasing snowflakes
Moose: a year in the life of a twig eater
The equalizer
Pompeii's people
Destination: mars
The wild canadian year: spring
The wild canadian year: summer
The wild canadian year: fall
The wild canadian year: winter
Making the wild canadian year
Lost secrets of the pyramid
Equus: the story of the horse - origins
Equus: the story of the horse - first riders
Equus: the story of the horse - chasing the wind
A day in the life of earth
The real t.rex
The memory mirage
Spying on animals
The genetic revolution
Stay-at-home animal dads
Food for thought
The wonder of the northern lights
She walks with apes
Episode 2
Episode 3
Episode 4
First animals
Be afraid: the science of fear
Episode 7
Episode 8
Dinosaur cold case
Pass the salt
Episode 11
Episode 12
Episode 13
Episode 14
Episode 15
Episode 16
Episode 17
Rebellion
Kids vs. screens
Wild australia: after the fires
The covid cruise
Searching for cleopatra
Wild canadian weather: cold
Wild canadian weather - rain
Wild canadian weather - wind
Wild canadian weather - sun
Making wild canadian weather
The real neanderthal
Kingdom of the polar bears: episode 1
Kingdom of the polar bears: episode 2
The last walrus
Inside the great vaccine race
Nature's big year
The machine that feels
The new human
Chef secrets: the science of cooking
Curb your carbon
In your face
Ice and fire: tracking canada's climate crisis
Why we dance
Carbon: the unauthorized biography
How the wild things sleep
The teenager and the lost maya city
The musical animal
The science of success
Last of the right whales
Rat city
Science & cannabis
Secret agents of the underground railroad
Walking with ancients
Apocalypse plan b
True survivors
Grizzly rewild
Bug sex
War for the woods
The secrets of friendship
Woodpeckers: the hole story
Suzuki signs off
A user's guide to the voice
The mystery of the walking whale
Butt seriously
Jawsome: canada’s great white sharks
I am the magpie river
Love hurts: the science of heartbreak
Hairy tales
Little sapiens
Fluid: life beyond the binary
Secrets of the jurassic dinosaurs
Lost world of the hanging gardens
Secret world of sound: hunters and hunted
Secret world of sound: love and rivals
Secret world of sound: finding a voice
Teenager
Sweat!
Foodspiracy
Shared planet: cities
Shared planet: open spaces
Shared planet: waters
Shared planet: forests
The secret knowledge of animals
Singing back the buffalo
Dances with cranes
Plastic people
Animal pride
Dad bods
Implosion: the titanic sub disaster
Empire of bats
Beavers from above
Wild wild weather
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