Man vs. Wild
(2006)Streaming Episode Guide
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Season 7
Land of the Maori
Episode 5 - 8-18-2011
46m
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 waterfall.
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Red Rock Country
Episode 4 - 8-11-2011
44m
Bear Grylls -- lasso in hand -- crosses a raging river and descends rock pinnacles in Utah.
7.7/10Where to watch
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Iceland: Fire and Ice
Episode 3 - 7-24-2011
43m
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 between him and safety.
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New Zealand: South Island
Episode 2 - 7-17-2011
46m
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.
8.2/10Where to watch
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Men vs. Wild with Jake Gyllenhaal
Episode 1 - 7-10-2011
43m
Bear brings along a companion, actor Jake Gyllenhaal, to test how he measures up to unpredictable and unforgiving Mother Nature.
8.5/10Where to watch
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Season 6
Global Survival Guide
Episode 6 - 3-24-2011
44m
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 seen footage.
7/10Where to watch
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Malaysian Archipelago
Episode 5 - 3-17-2011
44m
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 traps a wild boar.
7.6/10Where to watch
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Borneo Jungle
Episode 4 - 3-10-2011
46m
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 floor, Bear tackles raging waters, big mudslides and deep caves as he fights his way through this impenetrable place.
7.2/10Where to watch
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Norway: Edge of Survival
Episode 3 - 3-03-2011
42m
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.
7.4/10Where to watch
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Cape Wrath, Scotland
Episode 2 - 2-24-2011
43m
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 crossing. Well into the trek, he is forced to turn back as an incoming estuary tide nearly cuts him off. After he makes it to dry land, Bear has a close call with the steep treacherous Scottish rock terrain
7/10Where to watch
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Arizona Sky Islands
Episode 1 - 2-17-2011
46m
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 aircraft and crosses heart-stopping rock drops.
7.6/10Where to watch
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Season 5
Extreme Desert
Episode 6 - 9-02-2009
44m
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 degrees.
7.1/10Where to watch
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Fan vs. Wild
Episode 5 - 6-05-2009
44m
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 Grylls fare.
7.2/10Where to watch
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Republic of Georgia
Episode 4 - 6-01-2009
44m
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.
7.4/10Where to watch
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Canadian Rockies
Episode 3 - 6-01-2009
44m
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.
7.1/10Where to watch
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Northern Australia
Episode 2 - 6-01-2009
44m
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.
7.6/10Where to watch
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Western Pacific
Episode 1 - 6-01-2009
44m
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.
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Season 4
North Africa
Episode 11 - 2-17-2010
43m
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.
7.9/10Where to watch
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Urban Survivor
Episode 10 - 2-03-2010
43m
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.
8.4/10Where to watch
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Big Sky Country
Episode 8 - 1-20-2010
45m
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.
8.7/10Where to watch
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China
Episode 7 - 1-13-2010
44m
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.
7.8/10Where to watch
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Pacific Island
Episode 6 - 1-06-2010
44m
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 open seas.
8.2/10Where to watch
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Alaska
Episode 5 - 9-09-2009
44m
Grylls returns to the wilderness of Alaska to survive the dangerous terrain of the Last Frontier.
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Texas
Episode 4 - 9-02-2009
44m
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.
8.1/10Where to watch
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Vietnam
Episode 3 - 8-26-2009
44m
Grylls demonstrates what it was like for soldiers who had to survive in the jungles of Vietnam, during the Vietnam War.
8.1/10Where to watch
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Alabama
Episode 2 - 8-19-2009
44m
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.
7.8/10Where to watch
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Arctic Circle
Episode 1 - 8-12-2009
44m
Grylls goes to the Arctic Circle, where he encounters a frozen waterfall, wild reindeer and some of the coldest conditions on the planet.
8/10Where to watch
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Season 3
Romania
Episode 10 - 2-15-2009
44m
Grylls heads to Romania where he takes on a bear and dangerous water channels.
8.9/10Where to watch
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Turkey
Episode 9 - 2-08-2009
44m
Grylls heads to Turkey where he deals with dangerous animals and he also takes to the water.
8.4/10Where to watch
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Dominican Republic
Episode 8 - 2-01-2009
44m
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.
8/10Where to watch
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Oregon
Episode 7 - 1-25-2009
44m
Grylls takes on the deepest river based canyon, Hell's Canyon and the dangerous Snake River.
7.9/10Where to watch
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Yukon
Episode 6 - 1-18-2009
44m
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.
7.6/10Where to watch
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Belize
Episode 5 - 12-11-2008
43m
Grylls heads to the jungle where he tackles a boa constrictor, he gets stuck over raging waters, and then he takes to the trees.
7.6/10Where to watch
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South Dakota
Episode 4 - 9-10-2008
44m
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.
7.6/10Where to watch
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Ireland
Episode 3 - 9-03-2008
44m
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 waterproof sack, and a flotation device.
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The Deep South
Episode 2 - 8-27-2008
44m
Grylls enters the swamps of Louisiana where he kills an alligator with a knife, and catches a catfish with his bare hands
7.9/10Where to watch
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Baja Desert
Episode 1 - 8-06-2008
44m
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.
8.1/10Where to watch
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Season 2
Land of Ice (2)
Episode 13 - 6-05-2008
44m
Grylls is in Siberia, learning survival techniques from the Tuvans and, eating raw yak liver as well as drinking its blood for food.
7.9/10Where to watch
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Siberia (1)
Episode 12 - 5-29-2008
44m
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 without drowning and/or before hypothermia sets in.
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Castaway (2)
Episode 11 - 5-22-2008
44m
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.
8.1/10Where to watch
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Jungle Swamp (1)
Episode 10 - 5-15-2008
44m
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.
8.2/10Where to watch
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Namibia
Episode 9 - 5-09-2008
44m
Grylls parachutes into the heart of the Namib desert. He eats a puff adder and encounters the indigenous bushmen.
7.9/10Where to watch
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Zambia
Episode 8 - 5-01-2008
44m
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.
7.9/10Where to watch
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Bear Eats
Episode 7 - 12-20-2007
44m
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.
7.6/10Where to watch
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Andes Adventure
Episode 6 - 12-13-2007
44m
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.
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Patagonia
Episode 5 - 12-06-2007
44m
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.
7.8/10Where to watch
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Jungle (2)
Episode 4 - 11-29-2007
44m
Survival techniques for Panama's mangrove swamps and jungle.
7.8/10Where to watch
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Panama (1)
Episode 3 - 11-22-2007
44m
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.
8.1/10Where to watch
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Desert Survivor
Episode 2 - 11-15-2007
44m
In the desert, Grylls offers tips on skinning and disemboweling a dead camel for water.
7.9/10Where to watch
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Sahara
Episode 1 - 11-08-2007
44m
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.
8.2/10Where to watch
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Season 1
Scotland
Episode 15 - 7-20-2007
41m
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 traps a rabbit and cooks it to demonstrate how to prepare it. Grylls also crosses deep marshes and uses fallen trees to cross ravines.
8.1/10Where to watch
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Ecuador
Episode 14 - 7-13-2007
42m
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 and a bow and arrow to successfully catch fish, but it doesn't always go his way and he's forced to ride the rapids of the Amazon on a single tree trunk.
8.1/10Where to watch
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Kimberly, Australia
Episode 13 - 7-06-2007
42m
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. Survival tips include how to forage for food (bush tucker), build a shelter and how to prevent sunstroke. He explains why he believes drinking ones own urine can prevent death from dehydration. During his journey, Grylls observes saltwater crocodiles and endures a lightning storm.
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Mexico
Episode 12 - 6-29-2007
44m
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 makes fire with a traditional "fire saw." Grylls also demonstrates techniques for finding scorpions or grubs and fishing without a rod or line.
7.8/10Where to watch
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Iceland
Episode 11 - 6-22-2007
43m
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 underground tunnels and avoid frostbite. To find food in this subarctic environment, Grylls scavenges a sheep for its eyeballs and mutton fat, and catches a ptarmigan. He demonstrates with his shoelaces the boiling of the eyeballs and mutton in the geysers, to save digestion energy and disinfect the scavenged food.
8.2/10Where to watch
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Everglades
Episode 10 - 6-15-2007
43m
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 and avoid alligators and rattlesnakes. He eats frogs and cooks a turtle Seminole-style.
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Deserted Island
Episode 9 - 12-29-2006
45m
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 surrounded by tiger sharks. He fishes off his raft using a fish bone hook, and shows how to signal a ship using the reflection produced by his polished knife.
8.5/10Where to watch
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European Alps
Episode 8 - 12-22-2006
42m
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 device to stop from plummeting into a crevasse. He also eats maggots and uses them to catch a trout. He performs a Tyrolean traverse and makes himself a pair of snow shoes out of young trees and parachute lines.
7.9/10Where to watch
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African Savanna – Kenya
Episode 7 - 12-14-2006
44m
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 mountains. He unsuccessfully tries to tame a wild horse, and eats a live snake. Using techniques gleaned from the Mono Indians, he brushes his teeth with a manzanita leaf. Most of the ground he covers is traversed by river, using a raft held together by grape vine.
8.1/10Where to watch
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Sierra Nevada
Episode 6 - 12-08-2006
43m
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 mountains. He unsuccessfully tries to tame a wild horse, and eats a live snake. Using techniques gleaned from the Mono Indians, he brushes his teeth with a manzanita leaf. Most of the ground he covers is traversed by river, using a raft held together by grape vine.
7.7/10Where to watch
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Hawaii – Mount Kilauea
Episode 5 - 11-30-2006
44m
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 his boots on fire, then heads into the jungles of Hawaii. Grylls uses a kukui nut torch to explore a lava tube and finds water, then uses smoke to placate a bee hive to get honey. Ultimately, he finds the sea (and people) by following seabirds.
7.7/10Where to watch
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Alaskan Mountain Range
Episode 4 - 11-24-2006
42m
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 skiff from an abandoned lodge. The skiff sinks, but he reaches the shore and is spotted by a ship.
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Costa Rican Rain Forest
Episode 3 - 11-17-2006
45m
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 river to the ocean on a raft he crafts out of balsawood to demonstrate how someone lost in the jungle can make it to civilization. He encounters snakes, mosquitoes and dangerous river currents.ve swamps.
7.9/10Where to watch
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Moab Desert
Episode 2 - 11-08-2006
45m
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 raw. Lastly, he demonstrates how to escape from quicksand before swimming across the Colorado River. He also explains how to use the flow of rivers as tools to find civilization.
7.8/10Where to watch
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The Rockies
Episode 1 - 10-27-2006
45m
Host Bear Grylls parachutes alone into a remote area of the Rocky Mountains equipped with only the clothes on his back.
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Romania
Episode 10 - 2-15-2009
44m
Grylls heads to Romania where he takes on a bear and dangerous water channels.
8.9/10Where to watch
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Big Sky Country
Episode 8 - 1-20-2010
45m
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.
8.7/10Where to watch
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Deserted Island
Episode 9 - 12-29-2006
45m
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 surrounded by tiger sharks. He fishes off his raft using a fish bone hook, and shows how to signal a ship using the reflection produced by his polished knife.
8.5/10Where to watch
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Men vs. Wild with Jake Gyllenhaal
Episode 1 - 7-10-2011
43m
Bear brings along a companion, actor Jake Gyllenhaal, to test how he measures up to unpredictable and unforgiving Mother Nature.
8.5/10Where to watch
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Turkey
Episode 9 - 2-08-2009
44m
Grylls heads to Turkey where he deals with dangerous animals and he also takes to the water.
8.4/10Where to watch
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