Wildlife cameraman Gordon Buchanan follows a wild polar bear family over three seasons, something no one has done before. Gordon and arctic survival experts travel by boat to far flung Svalbard. They manage to find a polar bear birth den and meet mother Lyra and her cubs Miki and Luca as they emerge from their den. Little is known about the family life of polar bears because no one has been able to follow them this closely before. Gordon helps scientists fit Lyra with a tracking collar and takes on the mission of living with this remarkable bear family.

Originally released by BBC, 2013. Streaming video file encoded with permission for digital streaming by Infobase on May 22, 2019.

Challenging Journey (4:39); --Locating a Family: Diversion (2:31); -- Locating a Family: Success (5:36); -- Anticipating Appearance (3:21); -- Miki and Luca and Lyra (4:20); -- Anticipating Challenges (2:40); -- Taking Risks (7:05); -- Preparing to Move On (3:01); -- Climate Change Impacts (4:02); -- Utilizing Technology (8:49); -- Successful First Phase (3:04); -- Credits: The Polar Bear Family And Me: Episode One (0:33); .