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COLLECTION · Series · 2006

Man vs. Wild

Bear strands himself in popular wilderness destinations where tourists often find themselves lost or in danger.

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* 7.0 (191)ActionAdventureDocumentaryUnited Kingdom · United States
Creators
Steve Rankin
Countries
United Kingdom · United States
Studios
Discovery · Diverse Productions
Runtime
40 min/ep
Age rating
TV-PG
Release
27/10/2006
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7.0 / 10 (191)
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14 episodes · 2007
Episode 1. Never Before Seen
2007-07-20 · 45 min

Bear gets up close and personal with sharks in the Pacific, where he also must deal with rip currents and pounding surf.

Episode 2. Bear's Mission Everest
2007-11-08 · 45 min

In this special, Bear attempts his most daring mission to date when he tries to fly a paramotor glider over the world's highest mountain.

Episode 3. Bear's Essentials
2008-09-16 · 45 min

A clip-show from previous Man vs Wild episodes highlighting important survival techniques.

Bear's Ultimate Survival Guide Special Part 1
Episode 4. Bear's Ultimate Survival Guide Special Part 1
2009-02-22 · 45 min

Grylls offers tips for surviving in some of the world's most unforgiving places.

Arctic Tundra
Episode 5. Arctic Tundra
2009-06-02 · 45 min

This episode features Will Ferrell in a special titled Men vs. Wild, where Ferrell tags along with Grylls as they journey through the frozen wilderness of Sweden. The episode is a tie-in to help promote Ferrell's new movie, Land of the…

Bear's Ultimate Survival Guide Special Part 2
Episode 6. Bear's Ultimate Survival Guide Special Part 2
2009-09-15 · 45 min

In his ultimate survival guide Grylls takes on dangerous snakes, fishes for catfish using his finger as bait and joins tribes who survive in the worlds toughest terrains, eats raw goats testicles in the Sahara, and hunts porcupines.

The Inside Story
Episode 7. The Inside Story
2009-09-18 · 45 min

The Man vs. Wild crew who follow Grylls on his travels across the globe, tell how it feels to follow in his footsteps and reveal just how they make Man vs. Wild.

Shooting Survival
Episode 8. Shooting Survival
2010-02-09 · 45 min

Meet Bear's stalwart crew and follow along as they go to extremes to fearlessly film Bear.

Top Man Moments
Episode 9. Top Man Moments
2010-06-19 · 45 min

Bear Grylls counts down his most memorable moments from Man vs. Wild.

Behind the Wild
Episode 10. Behind the Wild
2010-09-20 · 45 min

Meet the folks who film Bear Grylls and find out how they stay in one piece!

Working in the Wild
Episode 11. Working in the Wild
2011-08-25 · 45 min

Bear Grylls takes the viewer behind the scenes to meet the crew that follows his every step. Whether he's jumping from helicopters or eating the unimaginable, the camera is never far away from the action. Now the crew gets to tell their…

Episode 12. Global Survival Guide
2011-09-11 · 45 min

Bear Grylls takes the viewer behind the scenes to meet the crew that follows his every step. Whether he's jumping from helicopters or eating the unimaginable, the camera is never far away from the action. Now the crew gets to tell their…

Man Vs Wild with PM Narendra Modi
Episode 13. Man Vs Wild with PM Narendra Modi
2019-08-12 · 41 min

Embark on a journey with renowned adventurer, Bear Grylls as he uncovers the adventurous side of the leader of the world's largest democracy, Prime Minister Narendra Modi as they take on an epic adventure across India’s Wilderness. Watch…

Episode 14
Episode 14. Episode 14
2025-07-04 · 40 min

No synopsis

Season 1
Season 1
15 episodes · 2006
The Rockies
Episode 1. The Rockies
2006-10-27 · 41 min

Host Bear Grylls parachutes alone into a remote area of the Rocky Mountains equipped with only the clothes on his back.

Moab Desert
Episode 2. Moab Desert
2006-11-08 · 42 min

Bear Grylls is dropped by a helicopter into the Moab Desert in Utah in almost 45 degree temperatures, with nothing but a knife, a canteen, and a flint. He battles dehydration by soaking his t-shirt in urine, and eats two raven eggs, one…

Costa Rican Rain Forest
Episode 3. Costa Rican Rain Forest
2006-11-17 · 42 min

Grylls parachutes into a Costa Rican rainforest in the Osa Peninsula, with only his knife and a canteen. He's careful about the water he drinks, but gets violently ill anyway. He climbs down a waterfall using a vine, and floats down a…

Alaskan Mountain Range
Episode 4. Alaskan Mountain Range
2006-11-24 · 43 min

Grylls is dropped in the Chugach Mountains in Alaska, with skis and his usual gear. He demonstrates Glissading as he traverses snow and glaciers, and climbs down a 200ft (61m) waterfall. He catches a salmon, which he eats raw, and finds a…

Hawaii – Mount Kilauea
Episode 5. Hawaii – Mount Kilauea
2006-11-30 · 42 min

Grylls is dropped by helicopter at the top of Mount Kilauea. Made up of an expanse of solidified lava which stretches for 33,000 acres, this environment is one of the world's most inhospitable. He first traverses lava fields, which catch…

Sierra Nevada
Episode 6. Sierra Nevada
2006-12-08 · 41 min

Grylls parachutes into the Sierra Nevadas, simulating the situation of the hundreds of hikers who become stranded there each year. Equipped with a knife and a canteen, Grylls travels through the alpine, woodland and chaparral areas of the…

African Savanna – Kenya
Episode 7. African Savanna – Kenya
2006-12-14 · 42 min

Grylls parachutes into the Sierra Nevadas, simulating the situation of the hundreds of hikers who become stranded there each year. Equipped with a knife and a canteen, Grylls travels through the alpine, woodland and chaparral areas of the…

European Alps
Episode 8. European Alps
2006-12-22 · 43 min

Grylls parachutes into the French Alps with a knife, a canteen, a cup and a flint, taking the parachute with him. He demonstrates how to survive falling into a frozen lake, how to build a snow shelter, and how to use a self arresting…

Deserted Island
Episode 9. Deserted Island
2006-12-29 · 42 min

Grylls is kicked out by helicopter into the water near a deserted island in the Pacific Ocean. He demonstrates long distance swimming, shelter building and coconut harvesting. Grylls builds a bamboo raft to look for ships, and is…

Everglades
Episode 10. Everglades
2007-06-15 · 45 min

Grylls drops into the swamps of Florida's Everglades, where at least 60 tourists need to be rescued each year. He trudges through the swamp and shows how to construct shelter, deal with razor-sharp sawgrass, get out of a muddy sinkhole…

Iceland
Episode 11. Iceland
2007-06-22 · 45 min

Grylls parachutes into the extreme landscape of Iceland, the site of vicious blizzard, 50 mph (80 km/h) winds, icy glacial waters, boiling hot mud and volcanic springs. He demonstrates how to make a snow cave, find water in volcanic…

Mexico
Episode 12. Mexico
2007-06-29 · 45 min

In Mexico, Grylls must find his way out of Copper Canyon, and his only supplies are a water bottle, a flint and a knife. He demonstrates how to build a simple compass and climb sheer cliffs safely. For shelter, he uses ancient caves and…

Kimberly, Australia
Episode 13. Kimberly, Australia
2007-07-06 · 45 min

In the Kimberley region of Australia, an area with a mixture of huge scrub deserts, dry riverbeds and red sandstone cliffs full of deep gorges, Grylls faces extreme heat, poisonous snakes and the ever present danger of dehydration.…

Ecuador
Episode 14. Ecuador
2007-07-13 · 45 min

Grylls paraglides onto the edge of the Andes and follows rivers into the Ecuadorian jungle, is attacked by huge colonies of spear-nosed bats[disambiguation needed], and observes giant weevil grubs and piranhas. He builds a bamboo bridge…

Scotland
Episode 15. Scotland
2007-07-20 · 45 min

Grylls shows how to navigate the Cairngorms region in extreme weather using ice formations and moss growth, and how to test snow slopes for avalanche potential. He uses moss to purify water and skins a red deer for shelter. For food, he…

Season 2
Season 2
13 episodes · 2007
Sahara
Episode 1. Sahara
2007-11-08 · 45 min

In the sun-scorched Sahara Desert, Grylls uses survival tactics of the indigenous people, including eating a scorpion and a sandfish. He also explains how to escape from quicksand.

Desert Survivor
Episode 2. Desert Survivor
2007-11-15 · 45 min

In the desert, Grylls offers tips on skinning and disemboweling a dead camel for water.

Panama (1)
Episode 3. Panama (1)
2007-11-22 · 45 min

Grylls travels to Panama, where he travels in the equatorial heat through mangrove swamps and rain forest, and endures more than 100 mosquito bites and one painful snake bite.

Jungle (2)
Episode 4. Jungle (2)
2007-11-29 · 45 min

Survival techniques for Panama's mangrove swamps and jungle.

Patagonia
Episode 5. Patagonia
2007-12-06 · 45 min

Grylls parachutes into Patagonia, the southernmost tip of South America, where he first encounters a vast ice field, then forages in a beech forest, wades through a frozen bog and swims through icy water.

Andes Adventure
Episode 6. Andes Adventure
2007-12-13 · 45 min

In Patagonia, Grylls skins a hare, scales a cliff, tracks a puma, drinks dirty water, and crosses the Perito Moreno glacier, a vast frozen labyrinth of ice caves and crevasses.

Bear Eats
Episode 7. Bear Eats
2007-12-20 · 45 min

In this special film Bear Grylls takes us to nature's kitchen. It seems nothing--except maybe the fat of on a camel's hump--is beyond Bear Grylls.

Zambia
Episode 8. Zambia
2008-05-01 · 45 min

Bear Grylls ventures into the landlocked country of Zambia in Southern Africa. Before heading into the bush, he shows you how to survive some of the world's biggest rapids.

Namibia
Episode 9. Namibia
2008-05-09 · 45 min

Grylls parachutes into the heart of the Namib desert. He eats a puff adder and encounters the indigenous bushmen.

Jungle Swamp (1)
Episode 10. Jungle Swamp (1)
2008-05-15 · 45 min

Grylls battles the fierce swamps in Sumatra, Indonesia. As he struggles to keep dry and avoid trench foot, he runs into several types of wildlife, including lizards and the deadly mangrove snake.

Castaway (2)
Episode 11. Castaway (2)
2008-05-22 · 45 min

Bear Grylls spends a week showing how to survive the challenges of the Pacific Ring of Fire. He is dropped into petrified swamps devastated by the 2004 Tsunami and has to navigate his way out.

Siberia (1)
Episode 12. Siberia (1)
2008-05-29 · 45 min

With temperatures dipping to -50°C, Grylls has to keep warm before hypothermia sets in. He uses snares to catch his food, and a fire to keep warm. He puts up a scenario for the great dangers to walk over a frozen lake, and how to survive…

Land of Ice (2)
Episode 13. Land of Ice (2)
2008-06-05 · 45 min

Grylls is in Siberia, learning survival techniques from the Tuvans and, eating raw yak liver as well as drinking its blood for food.

Season 3
Season 3
10 episodes · 2008
Baja Desert
Episode 1. Baja Desert
2008-08-06 · 45 min

Grylls must cross blistering desert and barren salt plains in Mexico's Baja peninsula. While collecting honey Grylls is stung by a bee and his face becomes severely swollen, nearly blinding him.

The Deep South
Episode 2. The Deep South
2008-08-27 · 45 min

Grylls enters the swamps of Louisiana where he kills an alligator with a knife, and catches a catfish with his bare hands

Ireland
Episode 3. Ireland
2008-09-03 · 45 min

Grylls jumps from a boat a kilometre off the west coast of Ireland. He travels down the coast before turning inland to cross the bogs. Here he retrieves a sheep carcass from a bog whose skin he uses as a sleeping bag (sheeping bag), a…

South Dakota
Episode 4. South Dakota
2008-09-10 · 45 min

Grylls is dropped on a granite peak in the Black Hills where he is caught in a thunder storm with inadequate shelter. Down in the plains Grylls encounters a herd of Bison before entering the desolate area known as the Badlands.

Belize
Episode 5. Belize
2008-12-11 · 45 min

Grylls heads to the jungle where he tackles a boa constrictor, he gets stuck over raging waters, and then he takes to the trees.

Yukon
Episode 6. Yukon
2009-01-18 · 45 min

Grylls wraps up warm as he heads to the frozen wastelands of North Canada. He goes underground to search an abandoned mine, and he takes to some fast moving water.

Oregon
Episode 7. Oregon
2009-01-25 · 45 min

Grylls takes on the deepest river based canyon, Hell's Canyon and the dangerous Snake River.

Dominican Republic
Episode 8. Dominican Republic
2009-02-01 · 45 min

Grylls has some tips on how to survive the hurricane season and he also eats a cooked tarantula to survive. He tells us about the hairs on the tarantula's back legs and how they defend themselves using the hairs.

Turkey
Episode 9. Turkey
2009-02-08 · 45 min

Grylls heads to Turkey where he deals with dangerous animals and he also takes to the water.

Romania
Episode 10. Romania
2009-02-15 · 45 min

Grylls heads to Romania where he takes on a bear and dangerous water channels.

Season 4
Season 4
11 episodes · 2009
Arctic Circle
Episode 1. Arctic Circle
2009-08-12 · 45 min

Grylls goes to the Arctic Circle, where he encounters a frozen waterfall, wild reindeer and some of the coldest conditions on the planet.

Alabama
Episode 2. Alabama
2009-08-19 · 45 min

Grylls wrestles a pig, squeezes through some tight spots, and survives a forest fire in the swamps of Alabama. It is revealed that Grylls broke his shoulder while in Antarctica two months previously.

Vietnam
Episode 3. Vietnam
2009-08-26 · 45 min

Grylls demonstrates what it was like for soldiers who had to survive in the jungles of Vietnam, during the Vietnam War.

Texas
Episode 4. Texas
2009-09-02 · 45 min

In Western Texas, Grylls falls to earth from an upturned biplane into the parched Chihuahuan Desert; he traverses deep gorges, locates an oasis and takes on a diamond back rattlesnake.

Alaska
Episode 5. Alaska
2009-09-09 · 45 min

Grylls returns to the wilderness of Alaska to survive the dangerous terrain of the Last Frontier.

Pacific Island
Episode 6. Pacific Island
2010-01-06 · 45 min

Grylls is on a deserted Panamanian island; he creates fresh water and chooses to use tribal fishing techniques before battling the sea on a makeshift raft. Later in the episode he gives himself an enema in order to stay hydrated on the…

China
Episode 7. China
2010-01-13 · 45 min

Bear does all his usual acrobatics while suffering through Typhon Parma in China including swinging on a vine, monkey climbing over a gorge and cliff diving.

Big Sky Country
Episode 8. Big Sky Country
2010-01-20 · 45 min

Grylls takes on Big Sky Country. He paraglides above the Rockies, traverses vast gullies, and makes the most of abandoned debris before making his great escape on a moving train.

Guatemala
Episode 9. Guatemala
2010-01-26 · 45 min

No synopsis

Urban Survivor
Episode 10. Urban Survivor
2010-02-03 · 45 min

Grylls is in a post-disaster urban city scenario and he must survive. His thirst to live and survival techniques modified for a city environment keep him alive in a concrete wasteland in Gdynia, Poland.

North Africa
Episode 11. North Africa
2010-02-17 · 45 min

Grylls crosses the Sahara desert to the North Africa coast, where he catches an octopus, fashions a shelter out of acacia trees and dines on moths and locusts.

Season 5
Season 5
6 episodes · 2009
Western Pacific
Episode 1. Western Pacific
2009-06-01 · 45 min

Grylls is on a desert island, south of Papua New Guinea. He wades across a shark-infested tidal channel, climbs crumbling volcanic cliffs, leaps over a 100-foot death drop, and constructs a bamboo windsurfer to make his escape.

Northern Australia
Episode 2. Northern Australia
2009-06-01 · 45 min

In Australia's Northern Territory, Grylls must rely on many of the skills honed by the Aboriginal people to survive in this sweltering landscape dominated by crocodiles.

Canadian Rockies
Episode 3. Canadian Rockies
2009-06-01 · 45 min

While in the Canadian Rockies, Grylls is buried alive in an avalanche, swims long distance beneath an ice-covered lake, and is airvac-ed to the hospital when an icy glissade goes horribly wrong.

Republic of Georgia
Episode 4. Republic of Georgia
2009-06-01 · 45 min

Grylls lands in the snow-capped Caucasus Mountains of the Georgian Republic by driving a snowmobile out the back of a hovering helicopter. He ziplines across a river, camps among wolves and trudges through swampy wetlands.

Fan vs. Wild
Episode 5. Fan vs. Wild
2009-06-05 · 45 min

Grylls takes two fans into the Canadian wilderness for their ultimate survival challenge. They face their fears head on, trek down dangerous glaciers and across a frigid glacial river, build a rustic shelter, and try to swallow typical…

Extreme Desert
Episode 6. Extreme Desert
2009-09-02 · 45 min

In the Mojave Desert Grylls puts himself in the path of a man-made sandstorm, takes on the full force of a man-made flash flood and HALO jump from 30,000 feet. His body is pushed to the limit as the temperature soars from minus 40 to 110…

Season 6
Season 6
6 episodes · 2011
Arizona Sky Islands
Episode 1. Arizona Sky Islands
2011-02-17 · 45 min

In Arizona, Bear transforms into a one man high speed glider with a cutting edge wingsuit and flies into the Arizona Sky Islands. Bear shows viewers how to find water in the parched desert landscape, builds a sand-buggy from a wrecked…

Cape Wrath, Scotland
Episode 2. Cape Wrath, Scotland
2011-02-24 · 45 min

In Scotland off the rugged coast of Cape Wrath, Bear is dropped into open ocean. After getting ashore, he realises he's on an island and must swim to the mainland. Bear fashions a wetsuit from a seal's hide to withstand the frigid…

Norway: Edge of Survival
Episode 3. Norway: Edge of Survival
2011-03-03 · 45 min

Bear and his team are in Norway. Armed with the latest technology they'll be creating the harshest conditions possible while sensors monitor how Bear copes trying to survive in one of the world's most beautiful but wettest countries.

Borneo Jungle
Episode 4. Borneo Jungle
2011-03-10 · 45 min

In Borneo, Bear heads directly into the wild jungles. Without a place to land his helicopter, he is forced to rappel into the treetops. As the heli peels away, Bear is 100 feet up in the canopy. After finding his way down to the jungle…

Malaysian Archipelago
Episode 5. Malaysian Archipelago
2011-03-17 · 45 min

Bear Grylls is dropped in an archipelago of islands off the coast of Borneo. Fighting dense jungle and scaling towering escarpments, Bear struggles to find freshwater. In his search for food, he tries to spear fish at depths of 20ft and…

Global Survival Guide
Episode 6. Global Survival Guide
2011-03-24 · 45 min

Bear Grylls travels the world to give you the best tips and techniques so you can survive wherever you're stranded. From skin diving without a mask in the tropics, to finding water in the desert, this is the best of Bear's never before…

Season 7
Season 7
5 episodes · 2011
Men vs. Wild with Jake Gyllenhaal
Episode 1. Men vs. Wild with Jake Gyllenhaal
2011-07-10 · 45 min

Bear brings along a companion, actor Jake Gyllenhaal, to test how he measures up to unpredictable and unforgiving Mother Nature.

New Zealand: South Island
Episode 2. New Zealand: South Island
2011-07-17 · 45 min

This week Bear braves the remote wilderness of New Zealand's South Island, crossing the country's tallest mountains and attempting to start a fire with wood that is soaking wet.

Iceland: Fire and Ice
Episode 3. Iceland: Fire and Ice
2011-07-24 · 45 min

Bear returns to Iceland to demonstrate the challenge of surviving its many pitfalls. His trek begins on an ice cap covering an active volcano, where food sources are scarce and travels down towards a civilization with swollen rivers…

Red Rock Country
Episode 4. Red Rock Country
2011-08-11 · 45 min

Bear Grylls -- lasso in hand -- crosses a raging river and descends rock pinnacles in Utah.

Land of the Maori
Episode 5. Land of the Maori
2011-08-18 · 45 min

Over 100 people drown each year in New Zealand, and Bear must cross a raging river on a tree trunk to head toward civilization. On his journey to safety he runs out of water, is forced to climb up active volcanic ranges and scale down a…

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