Nature Shock
Director(s)Luke Wiles
Production year2008
Genre(s)Documentary
Approx. running minutes50m
Nature Shock
NATURE SHOCK is a natural history documentary series; in this episode, a legal hunt for polar bear in the Arctic circle ...
NATURE SHOCK is a natural history documentary series; in this episode, a legal hunt for polar bear in the Arctic circle above Canada results in the discovery of the rarest bear on earth.
moderate injury detail, disturbing scenes
Classified Date:
11/03/2025
Use:
VOD/Streaming
injury detail
There are moderately gory close-up images of Tasmanian devils with large bloody tumours and open sores on their faces and necks, in addition to verbal descriptions of similar injuries. Other sequences show dead Tasmanian devils being autopsied, with close-ups of bloody bodily tissue and internal organs. There is also occasional use of footage of animals biting one another or feeding on prey, with brief bloody detail.
theme
Potentially distressing footage and photographs of animals with severe facial injuries run throughout the episode. Despite efforts to save the species, it is repeatedly emphasised that this fatal disease may lead to the extinction of Tasmanian devils in the coming years.
flashing/flickering lights
This work contains flashing images which may affect viewers who are susceptible to photosensitive epilepsy.
additional issues
There is brief footage of animals mating, as well as verbal references to animal inbreeding, and a reference to ‘sex and food’ as the ‘fundamentals of life’. Very mild bad language includes ‘Christ’ and ‘hell’.
moderate injury detail
Classified Date:
11/03/2025
Use:
VOD/Streaming
injury detail
There are dramatised scenes of an animal being shot, without detail, in the course of a legal hunt and images of its bloody carcass being skinned. The creature's remains are subsequently seen being examined by scientists.
Classified date11/03/2025
LanguageEnglish
injury detail
There are dramatised scenes of an animal being shot, without detail, in the course of a legal hunt and images of its bloody carcass being skinned. The creature's remains are subsequently seen being examined by scientists.
moderate injury detail, disturbing scenes
Classified Date:
11/03/2025
Use:
VOD/Streaming
injury detail
There are moderately gory close-up images of Tasmanian devils with large bloody tumours and open sores on their faces and necks, in addition to verbal descriptions of similar injuries. Other sequences show dead Tasmanian devils being autopsied, with close-ups of bloody bodily tissue and internal organs. There is also occasional use of footage of animals biting one another or feeding on prey, with brief bloody detail.
theme
Potentially distressing footage and photographs of animals with severe facial injuries run throughout the episode. Despite efforts to save the species, it is repeatedly emphasised that this fatal disease may lead to the extinction of Tasmanian devils in the coming years.
flashing/flickering lights
This work contains flashing images which may affect viewers who are susceptible to photosensitive epilepsy.
additional issues
There is brief footage of animals mating, as well as verbal references to animal inbreeding, and a reference to ‘sex and food’ as the ‘fundamentals of life’. Very mild bad language includes ‘Christ’ and ‘hell’.
moderate injury detail
Classified Date:
11/03/2025
Use:
VOD/Streaming
injury detail
There are dramatised scenes of an animal being shot, without detail, in the course of a legal hunt and images of its bloody carcass being skinned. The creature's remains are subsequently seen being examined by scientists.
Director(s)Luke Wiles
Production year2008
Genre(s)Documentary
Approx. running minutes50m
Classified date11/03/2025
LanguageEnglish
