Outside our concrete jungles, beyond the strip malls, and just minutes from our own backyard is another world that is thriving, fighting, and surviving. Brawny mountains, burning deserts, tangled forests, and curvaceous coasts. A grizzly bear takedown of helpless elk calves in Yellowstone. Bighorn sheep going head-to-head in battle. Giant Humboldt squid cannibalizing their kin. Mountain lion cubs hunting solo for the first time. The landscapes and wildlife of the Americas are savage, shrewd, and stunning. These are the great outdoors, our wildest frontiers—our Untamed Americas.

Untamed Americas reveals the grit and glory in the wild of North America, Central America, and South America. Each hour explores some of the greatest wildlife spectacles, delicate dances, unbelievable endurance, and against-the-odds survival in episodes dedicated to the continent’s mountains, deserts, coasts, and forests.

Not available for shipment outside the U.S. and Canada.

• 2 discs; 180 minutes
• Widescreen
• © 2012

Mountains
See a fascinating bat that, until recently, no one knew existed, and that boasts the largest tongue-to-body ratio of any mammal in the world.

Deserts
Meet penguins raising a family in the driest desert on the planet.

Coasts
Witness exclusive, never-before-seen footage of a lemon shark birth, right in the middle of hurricane alley.

Forests
Hunt alongside an elusive jaguar before it makes a meal of a caiman crocodile along the banks of the Amazon forests.

"It's an emotional roller coaster...The cinematography is breathtaking...but it's the engaging storytelling that will pull at your heart."—TV Guide

"[Untamed Americas'] elegant rawness comes through in everything...Untamed Americas gives an up-close and personal view of this hemisphere’s natural extremities..."—USA Today