WOMEN'S DAY SPECIAL

"Days after the slaughter of Dian Fossey's favourite gorilla, Digit, Sir David Attenborough arrives to find her coughing blood but insisting on taking him to film the gorillas in what becomes one of TV's most famous sequences. But she's outstayed her welcome in Rwanda and has to take a two year break in the USA. There, she writes ""Gorillas in the Mist"" and becomes a celebrity but can't wait to return to Rwanda. When she does, nothing is the way it was."

Alexandra Cousteau, National Geographic Emerging Explorer, filmmaker and globally recognized advocate on water issues, travels the world to present a picture of the cotton industry, with a focus on its history and the modern-day challenges and innovations. She will discover the threats and the solutions facing our fashion industry.

This National Geographic television companion to the National Geographic tentpole “Women of Impact” will showcase remarkable women from around the world, including National Geographic Explorers and a few of the notable women interviewed by Susan Goldberg for the National Geographic book and NG Magazine cover story.

Three islands off the coast of Tanzania are benefitting from huge efforts made by remarkable people. The three diverse projects focus on turtle hatching, coral protection and educating the next generation. Featuring the wisdom of one of the natural world's leading conservationist campaigners, Jane Goodall, Saving Paradise Islands shines an enlightening spotlight on practical marine conservation.

Alexandra Cousteau, National Geographic Emerging Explorer, filmmaker and globally recognized advocate on water issues, travels the world to present a picture of the cotton industry, with a focus on its history and the modern-day challenges and innovations. She will discover the threats and the solutions facing our fashion industry.

In 1991, inside London's Kensington Palace, Diana, Princess of Wales, participated in a series of secret interviews, recorded with her permission by a close friend on behalf of journalist Andrew Morton. Morton was writing a book about Diana's life to reveal what life was really like for the most photographed woman in world. The public was unaware that Diana, Princess of Wales’, marriage to HRH Prince of Wales was at crisis point. National Geographic Documentary Films reveals Diana's thoughts and feelings at a very specific point in her life, presenting one side of a very complicated story... her side. Told entirely in the Princess’ voice, with no interviews, most of these unique recordings have never been broadcast before.

Jane Goodall, a young and untrained woman, challenges the male dominated scientific consensus of her time with her chimpanzee research and revolutionizes people's understanding of the natural world.

"Days after the slaughter of Dian Fossey's favourite gorilla, Digit, Sir David Attenborough arrives to find her coughing blood but insisting on taking him to film the gorillas in what becomes one of TV's most famous sequences. But she's outstayed her welcome in Rwanda and has to take a two year break in the USA. There, she writes ""Gorillas in the Mist"" and becomes a celebrity but can't wait to return to Rwanda. When she does, nothing is the way it was."

The show follows the inspiring journey of 26 year old, 58 pound Lizzie from cyber-bullying victim to anti-bullying activist.

Dolores is the first Arab woman who summit Everest from the North side. The say, not only it is harder but it furthermore requires extraordinary adrenaline gland to summit Everest from China. Legendary explorer George Mallory died there in 1924, with his body lying buried and undiscovered for more than 70 years until 1999.

Jane Goodall has been called 'Mother Teresa for the environment'. When the realizing that her life's work could be lost forever, she leaves her life as a scientist behind and becomes the iconic activist we know today. The Hope follows her never-ending mission to spread a message of hope across the globe and inspire the next generation to next.

Wild woman Siouxsie Gillet is a true snake charmer. Together with boyfriend Simon Keys, she rescues snakes from sticky situations. With an ever-growing tattoo collection, sporting her signature pink hair; it's hard not to notice that Siouxsie rocks! This program features the drama and humour of the series while highlighting some of Siouxsie's most epic captures. We'll witness one of her first calls to catch a speeding forest cobra, experience her love of pythons, and feel the tension when she bags her first Black Mamba!

As the only all-species vet for hundreds of miles in the Yukon, Dr. Michelle Oakley has seen it all, but this season, she's back with some of the most unique and challenging cases of her career. From moving bears with tractors and horses with helicopters, to castrating angry boars and capturing wild bison, she'll have to use every trick she has to save these animals, or she might need a doctor of her own.