“Travel from Alaska’s Brook Range to Wyoming’s Yellowstone National Park for a fascinating portrait of this powerful and intelligent bear”

The magnificent grizzly bear, a beast most often portrayed as a deadly and dangerous monster, is profiled in detail in this documentary produced by National Geographic.

As the narration of this film notes, the grizzly is the undisputed ‘monarch of the forest’ and its only rival is man.

The tension between humans and the great bears is well documented in this video, which shows how the bears were killed off in most of the western United States, but are thankfully now protected in Yellowstone National Park. In Alaska, the bears are less threatened by humans and are studied in their natural habitat.

As one would expect from National Geographic, the photography in this documentary is magnificent, and the footage of the grizzlies in the wild is awesome.

Scientists who have studied the bears, and a man who has trained a grizzly that has appeared in movies, provide considerable information about the intelligence and habits of grizzlies.

Footage of scientists who venture into the Alaskan wilderness to a cave used by grizzlies to hibernate through the long winter, is fascinating.

This is an excellent documentary, being both educational and entertaining.