Videos: 'Kakadu' Documentary Series (ABC)

KAKADU is a world television first: a unique innovation in nature documentary. Driven by the passion and dedication of traditional owners and park rangers, you embark on a first time journey behind the scenes of a natural universe. Through the eyes of the rangers, the scientists and traditional owners who give their lives to KAKADU comes a new understanding of living things, but also a deep insight into the elemental power of nature at dramatic extremes.

Filmed over 12 intense months KAKADU is powerful, primal action in a world beyond time. It's where man meets wild and nature calls the shots.

Series 1 Episode 1

It's the start of another wild year in Kakadu: danger and death wait in the primal paradise and tourists are on their way.


Series 1 Episode 2

Each year around 200,000 tourists visit Kakadu at the same time as traditional owners, rangers and emergency staff battle bushfires, remote accidents and poisonous foreign invaders.


Series 1 Episode 3

It's the monsoon buildup in Kakadu: Almost 100 percent humidity, with temperatures between 40 and 50 degrees. It's 'mango madness' for people and animals too.


Series 1 Episode 4

Monsoon torrents wash away the heat and cause chaos during the season the Aboriginal people of Kakadu call Gudjewg.