Natural World: Bear Man of Kamchatka

Series 25, episode 4

Documentary about Canadian naturalist Charlie Russell, who believes that grizzly bears aren't actually very dangerous and that our unneccessary fear of them is driving them to extinction. His beliefs have taken him to Russia where he has been raising orphaned grizzly cubs for the past ten years in the wilderness of the Kamchatka peninsula. Becoming their surrogate mother he struggles to keep his cubs alive and teach them everything they need to survive a life in the wild.