Great Migrations - "Born to Move"  Great Migrations - "Born to
Move"  Share Tweet Shop ▾  Great Migrations premieres tonight at
8 p.m. on the National Geographic Channel.  My favorite nature
documentary when I was a kid was the one where the anaconda
fought the crocodile. I was the kind of kid who watched a lot of
these sorts of documentaries on PBS, and I also had my fair
share of animal photography books. I never turned that love of
learning about animals into a career as a scientist or anything
of the sort (obviously), but there's still a part of me that
geeks out when I see interesting video or photos of the animal
kingdom.  The modern form of the nature documentary seems to be
based around those geek-out moments. The BBC's 2006 series
Planet Earth was the culmination of this trend, showing a broad
survey of beautiful or intense moments in the natural world,
with only a vague set of geographical features used to tie it
all together. I'd argue that this kind of nature documentary
really became popular due