Operation Arctic

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Operation Arctic

Gordon Buchanan visits Churchill, Manitoba, a Canadian town that for two months of every year is inundated by polar bears making their journey north.

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Series 1
Kate Humble meets Inuit artists inspired by the changing world around them and Gordon Buchanan follows the eviction of a bear from the town of Churchill.
Gordon Buchanan learns how a Canadian town stays safe from polar bears, and Simon Reeve meets scientists monitoring the melting of glaciers.
Every Autumn, polar bears gather on the shores of Hudson Bay in Canada to wait for the sea ice to form so they can begin their winter hunt.
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