KNUT & FRIENDS

Documentary follows the first year of an orphaned polar bear's life

The world’s most famous animal orphan comes to public television, with this heartwarming documentary telling the emotional story of Knut the polar bear and his extraordinary young life.

Born in captivity, baby Knut was rejected by his mother, a retired circus bear, at his birth. Raised by zoo’s bear-keeper, he was the first polar bear cub to survive past infancy at the Berlin Zoo for more than 30 years.