Wildlife Specials — Season 1, Episode 18: Trek: Spy on the Wildebeest part 2

Episode synopsis

"The Crossing" - A wildebeest calf makes spectacular year-long journey, an arduous 3,000km round trip across Tanzania's Serengeti and Kenya's Masai Mara. In part two, the migration reaches the Masai Mara where, for the calf, the river presents his greatest challenge yet.

About Wildlife Specials

The BBC Wildlife Specials are a series of nature documentary programmes commissioned by BBC Television. The Wildlife Specials began with a pilot episode in 1995. 20 programmes have been made to date, with three of the recent ones being in multi parts. The earlier programmes were produced in-house by the BBC's specialist Natural History Unit, but the more recent Spy in the... titles were made by the independent John Downer Productions. The first 18 programmes, up to 2008, were narrated by David Attenborough. The most recent two were narrated by David Tennant. "The world's leading natural history filmmakers meet the world's most charismatic animals" — BBC tagline

More episodes from Season 1

• E1Great White Shark: The True Story of Jaws
• E2Polar Bear: The Arctic Warrior
• E3Crocodile: The Smiling Predator
• E4Leopard: The Agent of Darkness
• E5Eagle: The Master of the Skies
• E6Humpback Whale: The Giant of the Oceans
• E7Wolf: The Legendary Outlaw
• E8Tiger: The Elusive Princess
• E9Lions: Spy in the Den
• E10Grizzly: Face to Face
• E11Gorillas: On the Trail of King Kong
• E12Serpent: Through the Eyes of the Snake