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The Best Episodes of Nature

Every episode of Nature ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Nature!

Best episode
S43E13 Hummingbirds of Hollywood
9.167 votes
Worst episode
S31E10 The Mystery of Eels
6.667 votes
Top season
Season 5
9.3avg
Binge time
25d 8h
695 episodes
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Episode Rankings

  1. #1 Fan Favorite
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    Nature Season 43 Episode 13 - Hummingbirds of Hollywood
    9.1/10(67 votes)

    S43:E13

    Amid the glamour of Hollywood, a woman finds herself on a transformative journey as she nurtures wounded hummingbirds, unraveling a visually captivating tale of love, fragility, healing, and the delicate beauty in profound acts of kindness.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. Nature Season 40 Episode 1 - My Garden of a Thousand Bees
    8.9/10(201 votes)

    S40:E1

    A story of surprise and revelation. A wildlife cameraman spends his time during the coronavirus pandemic lockdown filming the bees in his urban garden and discovers the many diverse species and personalities that exist in this insect family.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. Nature Season 24 Episode 11 - The Queen of Trees
    9.2/10(38 votes)

    S24:E11

    Patricia Clarkson narrates this look at the relationship between the sycamore fig tree and the tiny fig wasp, which is so small it could fly through the eye of a needle. The trees, which flourish in Kenya, produce fruit that provides nourishment to more wildlife than any other tree in Africa, but without the pollination the wasp provides, that might not occur. The documentary also examines other creatures that make the trees their homes, including gray hornbills (one of Africa's largest birds).

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. Nature Season 5 Episode 8 - Leopard: A Darkness in the Grass
    9.3/10(30 votes)

    S5:E8

    The activities of an elusive female leopard are traced over a two-day period on the hot plains of Africa.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. Nature Season 10 Episode 1 - From the Heart of the World: the Elder Brothers' Warning
    9.4/10(22 votes)

    S10:E1

    This program features the Kogi tribe who live in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta in Columbia. They are pre-Columbian peoples, and consider themselves as the elder brothers of humankind. They insist that it is the modern world, the younger brothers, who are destroying the harmony of life on earth.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Alan Ereira

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  6. Nature Season 24 Episode 13 - Crime Scene Creatures
    9.5/10(19 votes)

    S24:E13

    They are among the most reliable witnesses to a crime — expert in their testimony and bulletproof in their account. Yet they never utter a single word. They are the animals, plants, and insects that are being recruited by a special breed of forensic scientists to solve the most seemingly impenetrable of crimes.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. Nature Season 43 Episode 5 - Attenborough’s Life Journey
    8.9/10(64 votes)

    S43:E5

    An intimate portrait of Sir David Attenborough's life, from his boyhood days as a fossil hunter, through his early days as a BBC host, to his revered status as the foremost natural history presenter.

    Director:Oliver Twinch
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. Nature Season 22 Episode 1 - Hippo Beach
    9.2/10(26 votes)

    S22:E1

    A chronicle of hippopotamus life along the banks of Zambia's Luangwa River includes footage of males fighting over territory; females protecting their young; the hippo's importance to river ecology; and societal rituals involving the head male of the pod. Mark Hamill narrates.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. Nature Season 19 Episode 4 - The Urban Elephant
    9.4/10(17 votes)

    S19:E4

    The enigmatic subjects of NATURE: The Urban Elephant, Asian elephants are losing territory to the inevitable process of deforestation. Industrialization all over Asia has hurt the mahouts, or elephant drivers, so that the trained elephants and their riders are being driven into major cities such as Bangkok to earn a meager living receiving donations and food from curious tourists.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. Nature Season 19 Episode 16 - Australia's Little Assassins
    9.5/10(15 votes)

    S19:E16

    When animals are the subject, most people associate Australia with lovable koalas and leaping kangaroos. But an even more distinctive aspect of Australian wildlife is its abundance of animals -- from snakes and spiders to a host of marine life forms and at least one mammal -- that use venom to defend themselves, attack prey, and in some cases help digest food.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. Nature Season 19 Episode 7 - Triumph of Life: The Four Billion Year War
    9.2/10(23 votes)

    S19:E7

    THE FOUR BILLION YEAR WAR explains how both conflict and cooperation have helped shape the species that today populate our world. And it profiles the winners and losers in this epic evolutionary contest — from the massive dinosaurs who disappeared long ago to the humble bacteria that have survived for billions of years virtually unchanged.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. Nature Season 31 Episode 7 - Attenborough's Life Stories: Our Fragile Planet
    8.9/10(42 votes)

    S31:E7

    Attenborough reflects on the dramatic impact that we have had on the natural world during his lifetime.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. Nature Season 20 Episode 9 - Cloud: Wild Stallion of the Rockies
    9.0/10(29 votes)

    S20:E9

    Filmed in the mountains of Montana, this poignant, engrossing chronicle focuses on an extraordinary stallion, whose life has been recorded since his birth in the wild in 1995 by Emmy-winning filmmaker Ginger Kathrens.

    Director:Ginger Kathrens
    Writer:Ginger Kathrens

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  14. Nature Season 17 Episode 14 - Extraordinary Cats
    9.2/10(19 votes)

    S17:E14

    Cats command our attention and our devotion. These fascinating creatures have been perplexing people for thousands of years.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. Nature Season 30 Episode 4 - My Life as a Turkey
    8.6/10(340 votes)

    S30:E4

    After a local farmer left a bowl of eggs on Joe Hutto’s front porch, his life was forever changed. Based on his true story, My Life as a Turkey chronicles Hutto’s remarkable and moving experience of raising a group of wild turkey hatchlings to adulthood.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. Nature Season 31 Episode 5 - Attenborough's Life Stories: Life on Camera
    8.8/10(48 votes)

    S31:E5

    Attenborough revisits key places and events in his career and shows how a succession of technical innovations in filmmaking led to remarkable revelations about our planet and the creatures that inhabit it.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. Nature Season 3 Episode 5 - The Face of the Deep
    9.4/10(13 votes)

    S3:E5

    Examines the variety of plants and animals living in the Sargasso Sea, a gigantic floating bed of seaweed near Bermuda.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. Nature Season 20 Episode 2 - Africa: Desert Odyssey
    9.1/10(19 votes)

    S20:E2

    For centuries, the Tuareg people have braved the brutal Sahara to trade in salt, a precious cargo once worth its weight in gold. In this episode of AFRICA, Adam Ilius,salt production a young boy of nine, crosses hundreds of miles of desolate and dangerous desert on his first trans-Saharan salt caravan. After months of traveling, will Adam make it to Bilma, Niger to sell the caravan's salt for necessary food and clothing? Or will the shifting sands of the desert spell disaster for this tenacious group?

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. Nature Season 37 Episode 3 - Super Cats: Science and Secrets
    8.8/10(40 votes)

    S37:E3

    Scientists are studying cats in greater detail than ever before. New approaches and technologies help uncover some of the cats’ most intimate secrets, including the cheetah’s remarkable gymnastic abilities and why lions are able to hunt so cooperatively.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. Nature Season 17 Episode 16 - A Conversation with Koko
    8.7/10(64 votes)

    S17:E16

    Profiling the 28-year-old lowland gorilla Koko, who communicates by sign language with her mentor, Francine Patterson. Koko, who understands English, has “a good sense of humor,” says Patterson, and “a strong sense of self.” She's also seen painting and watching TV, and playing with male gorillas Michael and Ndume at Patterson's Gorilla Foundation in Northern California.

    Director:Unknown
    Writers:Bonnie Brennan, Robert Visty, David Malakoff

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  21. Nature Season 25 Episode 5 - Rhinoceros
    8.9/10(24 votes)

    S25:E5

    With NATURE’S Rhinoceros, wildlife filmmaker Nigel Marven brings you face-to-face with the world’s five species of rhino, each struggling, with varying degrees of success, for their continued survival. For some rhinos, the future may rely on breeding programs, such as at the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Gardens, where Sumatran rhinoceros Emi is now nearing the end of her third successful pregnancy, having already given birth to Andalas and Suci, the only two Sumatran rhinos ever to be born in captivity.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. Nature Season 25 Episode 8 - Raptor Force
    8.8/10(31 votes)

    S25:E8

    Take flight on an exhilarating ride with elite winged predators. Humans have had a unique relationship with raptors, nature’s aerial killing machines, for more than four thousand years, first through the ancient sport of falconry, and, more recently, as scientists and engineers have turned to these mighty birds for inspiration for the latest in aircraft design.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  23. Nature Season 26 Episode 3 - The Cheetah Orphans
    8.9/10(23 votes)

    S26:E3

    Documentarian Simon King raises two orphaned cheetah cubs in Kenya's Lewa Wildlife Conservancy. He's seen bottle-feeding them and---to prepare them for the wild--- teaching the pair to hunt. King narrates.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  24. Nature Season 12 Episode 6 - The Nature of Sex: The Sex Contract
    9.2/10(13 votes)

    S12:E6

    Explores the selection process among different species for choosing a mate, whether it’s for life or just for the day.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  25. Nature Season 31 Episode 6 - Attenborough's Life Stories: Understanding the Natural World
    8.7/10(41 votes)

    S31:E6

    Attenborough shares his memories of the scientists and the breakthroughs that helped shape his own career in translating these discoveries into film.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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Best Episodes Summary

"Hummingbirds of Hollywood" is the best rated episode of Nature. It scored 9.1/10 from 67 votes. Written and directed by Unknown, it aired on May 7, 2025. This episode scored 0.2 points higher than the second highest rated, "My Garden of a Thousand Bees".

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