Personal and social capability

11-12

Classification: Mature

From a snowy small town in Northern Michigan to the mountains of Afghanistan and back, Where Soldiers Come From follows the four-year journey of childhood friends, forever changed by a faraway war. This is a film about growing up, an intimate look at the young men who fight our wars and the families and town they come from.

Geography

Intercultural understanding

9-10

11-12

Classification: General

Adventurer Ben Fogle travels the planet meeting people who have turned their backs on the trappings of Western society and set up home in some of the most isolated locations on Earth.

Geography

Intercultural understanding

9-10

11-12

Classification: Mature

Adventurer Ben Fogle journeys to the swamplands of Georgia in the South East of the USA, to live with Colbert, a former city fat cat earning big bucks in the world of finance, who turned jungle Tarzan. Ben joins Colbert in his hand-built wooden cabin, totally off the grid and with no toilet - a far cry from his million dollar luxury pad he used to own in the nearest town.

Geography

Intercultural understanding

9-10

11-12

Classification: Parental Guidance

Ben Fogle travels the planet meeting people who have turned their backs on the trappings of Western society and set up home in some of the most isolated locations on Earth.

Geography

Intercultural understanding

9-10

11-12

Classification: Parental Guidance

Ben travels out to Southeast Asia to meet 31-year-old Jon Watkinson, who quit a career in finance for life in a handmade bamboo hut on a remote island on the Mekong River in Laos.

Geography

Intercultural understanding

9-10

11-12

Classification: General

Thirty-something couple Bretwood Higman and wife Erin McKittrick hiked 4,000 miles to one of the remotest parts of Alaska 4 years ago. They live half the year in a self-built Mongolian-style yurt - and the other half trekking in the wilderness - accompanied by their infant children. Ben learns vital survival skills to live in the wild - grizzly bear protection, storm navigation and paddling tiny rafts through freezing waters to reach a stunning glacier.

Geography

Intercultural understanding

9-10

11-12

Classification: General

Thirty-something couple Bretwood Higman and wife Erin McKittrick hiked 4,000 miles to one of the remotest parts of Alaska 4 years ago. They live half the year in a self-built Mongolian-style yurt - and the other half trekking in the wilderness - accompanied by their infant children. Ben learns vital survival skills to live in the wild - grizzly bear protection, storm navigation and paddling tiny rafts through freezing waters to reach a stunning glacier.

Geography

Intercultural understanding

9-10

11-12

Classification: Mature

Adventurer Ben Fogle journeys to the foothills of the Indian Himalayas to live with former fighter pilot, Steve Lall. Steve turned his back on Indian high society for a simple farmer's life in the mountains. He's fought for decades to protect his tiny private wilderness in one of the world's most burgeoning countries.

Geography

Intercultural understanding

9-10

11-12

Classification: Parental Guidance

Ben Fogle joins married couple Mike and Fran Turner, who welcome him into their simple, self-built log cabin in Alaska. He discovers how they have created a self-sufficient lifestyle by working the land and trapping the animals around them.

Geography

Intercultural understanding

9-10

11-12

Classification: Mature

Ben meets 61-year-old Barbara Walker out in Australia, a widow who has lived alone in isolation for eight years. He finds out why this former photographer from Switzerland decided to settle in one of the world's most challenging environments, fighting to keep her husband's legacy alive by caring for the native flora and fauna.

Geography

Intercultural understanding

9-10

11-12

Classification: Parental Guidance

Deep in the New Zealand wilderness lives the Long family, hunter-gatherers who survive off the land and call a ramshackle wooden hut their home. Robert Long discovered the untamed area after dropping out of medical school 32 years ago. He and his wife Catherine have raised two teenagers in complete isolation and educating them at home.

Geography

Intercultural understanding

9-10

11-12

Classification: Mature

Adventurer Ben Fogle journeys to one of the 7000 remote tropical islands in the Philippines to live with American 'Jungle Neil' Hoag, a former cabbie from Florida who struggled to make a living before finding the love of his life on the other side of the world.

Geography

Intercultural understanding

9-10

11-12

Classification: Parental Guidance

Ben Fogle joins 72-year-old twins Bill and Bob Stone, canyon-dwelling renegades living in a remote, isolated home, deep in the heart of America's Wild West. There he joins the boys cattle-wrangling, rock climbing and sleeping in a cave. One of the twins even persuades Ben to do a skydive. Ben also discovers more about the Stone brothers and why they decided to cut themselves off from civilisation. Once parachute instructors, police informants and bounty hunters, they are now organic farmers and hopeful doomsday survivors.

Geography

Intercultural understanding

9-10

11-12

Classification: Parental Guidance

Ben ventures deep into the Appalachian Mountains in eastern America to meet 25-year-old Justin Burke, who rejected his privileged upbringing to live in the wilderness.

Geography

Intercultural understanding

9-10

11-12

Classification: Parental Guidance

In the season final, Ben Fogle meets former New York fashion photographer John Wells, who quit the Big Apple four years ago for a life off the grid in one of the most inhospitable terrains on earth.

Geography

Intercultural understanding

9-10

11-12

Classification: Parental Guidance

Adventurer Ben Fogle journeys to an island off the coast of Panama, Central America to live with the first Brit of the series, Ian Usher - a former dump-truck driver who sold 'his life' on Ebay and bought his own, tiny island for $64,000.

Geography

Intercultural understanding

9-10

11-12

Classification: General

Ben Fogle journeys to the frozen north to live with 40-year-old Gaynor Leeper, a former high-flying London communications manager who gave up her old life to become an Arctic dog musher. Ben joins Gaynor and her new husband Milos in their hand-built cabin, which has neither electricity nor running water. The trio embark on a tough trek driving their pack of dogs through the icy wilderness. Ben learns how to sled and how to manage both himself and the animals in temperatures as low as minus 30 degrees. Sleeping in tents during snowstorms and ice-fishing in order to have something to eat, Ben embraces life in one of the world's harshest environments.

Geography

Intercultural understanding

9-10

11-12

Classification: Parental Guidance

This week Ben heads to French Polynesia in the South Pacific to spend time with British expat Rick and his girlfriend Jasna, who live a nomadic life on their yacht, sailing around the waters of the archipelago they have made their home.