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In 2013, Mt. Fuji became a World Heritage Site. Japan's highest peak is riddled with great mysteries and the unknown. The key to unraveling these is a drop of water. Mt. Fuji has always been special to the Japanese. In our program, we'll look at the mystery surrounding it.

Thick forests, vast wetlands, deep chasms - this is a wild, inaccessible place which belongs as much to myth as to reality. Notorious for the wars that devastated so much of its land, the Balkans is virtually unknown for the unspoiled wilderness that thrives here. This is a journey to a world seemingly forgotten by time. This is the wild Balkans.

Motor mogul Afzal Kahn and his R&D department take on the challenge of converting an Aston Martin Vantage V8 into a supercharged, GT inspired racer.

'I call it the shooting, because, well… I was shot', Amy Hutchison, survivor. On 13 March 1996, a gunman walked into a primary school in the small Scottish town of Dunblane near Stirling, and shot dead 16 pupils and their teacher in a Primary 1 gym class. To date, it is one of the deadliest firearms atrocities in the UK. In a landmark film to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the tragedy, 'Dunblane: Our Story' interviews many people who have never before talked publicly about what happened on that day. It features, for the first time, testimony from a survivor who was shot as a five-year-old and who details her own terrifying experience that no child should endure.

According to research, pensioners have never had it so good. They’re said to be better off than ever before with their average incomes forecast to race further ahead of working households’ in the coming years. And, it seems many are having a great time - retirees are spending around £37 billion a year on leisure, including meals out and holiday travel.

This series reveals the secret life of the animals of Chester Zoo, Britain's most popular zoo, using new micro-rig technology to capture in incredible detail the remarkable behaviour of the animals and their close relationships with their keepers.

Chris and Xand van Tulleken - doctors, part-time aid workers and twin brothers - want to see for themselves what conditions are like for migrants fleeing through Europe at the height of winter. They travel to Lesbos in Greece, through the Balkans and on to Berlin and Calais to understand what's being done on a medical and humanitarian level in response to the refugee crisis. Spending time with medics, charities and volunteers in camps and clinics, at border crossings and transit points, they find out what the situation is like on the ground and, wherever possible, lend a hand in the biggest migration crisis of our times.

The car that was once the quintessential image of the American Dream is all but dead - at least for most people. There are some, however, who still cling to the station wagon and what it represents in American culture. Wagonmasters, a documentary film, offers glimpses into the lives of such wagon enthusiasts, and tells the story of the station wagon as it represents a changing America over the last one hundred years.

Scotland's farming and countryside programme focusing on the issues affecting the community Dougie Vipond and the team meet the homeowners, landowners and farmers who bore the brunt of this winter's extreme flooding - and ask what we can do to protect ourselves from such dramatic damage ever again.

Rural life has changed enormously since Country Calendar first went to air in black and white in March 1966. To celebrate Hyundai Country Calendar’s epic milestone of 50 Golden Years, Jim Hickey presents a special hour-long programme, revisiting farming families filmed in the past to see what has changed and what has stayed the same. 50 Golden Years shows people in New Zealand’s rural heartland continue to face challenges, but they have what it takes to overcome them and enjoy the journey along the way.

Panorama travels to Brazil to investigate the mystery of the Zika virus. The city of Recife is at the centre of an epidemic of cases of microcephaly - babies born with abnormally small heads who suffer from brain and limb deformities. Reporter Jane Corbin meets the families living with this tragedy and hears from doctors and scientists working to solve the riddle of the Zika virus and trying to eradicate the mosquito which carries it.

Observational documentary series following orphaned baby animals and the dedicated people that rescue, rehabilitate and release them back into the wild.

Dispatches investigates who the winners and losers are under right-to-buy.

Award-winning National Geographic writer Neil Shea goes to the frontlines of the fight with the Islamic State to explain how this cultural mix makes the Kurds the best unified front to end ISIS, one of the most powerful terrorist networks in history.

Tale of a Forest is a film for the whole family about the unique Finnish forest with its colouful and diverse life. This documentary is an extensive, stunning look at the prosperous animal and plant life that makes its habitat in the extravagant forests of Northern Finland, and the obstacles both must conquer as the seasons alter. The main characters of the film are the assortment of inhabitants of the forest: the bears and the elk, the snakes and the owls, the ants, the frogs and the flying squirrels, the ancient soul birds such as the Siberian Jay, the Lapland Owl and many, many others.

All over the world, animals are turning up in strange and unexpected places. Some are showing up thousands of miles from their natural homes - like African hippos now running riot in South America. Other native animals are turning up on our doorsteps - like black bears taking dips in swimming pools. These events are happening more and more across the world and biologist Lucy Cooke wants to find out what's going on, so she's turning detective. Animals Unexpected follows her investigation as she travels from the remote peaks of the Italian Alps to the heart of New York, in search of animals where they just shouldn't be! She discovers wolf-like creatures in the Big Apple, North American raccoons in Berlin and ancient sea creatures flocking around vast billowing power stations.

Tens of thousands of Mexicans have been killed in drug-related gang violence in the past ten years. Ruthless criminals control the illegal trade with the US, thought to be worth 13 billion dollars a year. One of Mexico's leading politicians, known as El Bronco, the governor of the State of Nuevo Leon claims he can beat the country's infamous cartels. Yalda Hakim speaks to him.

Follow astronaut Scott Kelly’s record-breaking 12-month mission on the International Space Station, from launch to landing, as NASA charts the effects of long-duration spaceflight.

This candid documentary has unprecedented access to the secretive world of gay saunas, meeting the men who go there for sexual pleasure, from teachers and plumbers to Tory councillors.

Most people thought that when the working traffic on canals faded away after the war, it would be the end of their story. But they were wrong. A few diehard enthusiasts and boat owners campaigned, lobbied and dug, sometimes with their bare hands, to keep the network of narrow canals open. Some of these enthusiasts filmed their campaigns and their home movies tell the story of how, in the teeth of much political opposition, they saved the inland waterways for the nation and, more than 200 years after they were first built, created a second golden age of the canals.