Shark Week

Shark n’ awe!

7.6(17)|1988-07-17|38 seasons, 439 episodes

Documentary

Overview

The Discovery Channel's Shark Week, first broadcast on July 17, 1987, is a weeklong series of feature television programs dedicated to sharks. Held annually, normally in July or August, Shark Week was originally developed to raise awareness and respect for sharks. It is the longest-running cable television programming event in history. Now broadcast in over 72 countries, Shark Week is promoted heavily via social networks like Facebook and Twitter.

Episodes

S38E1 · 2025-07-20 · 45m

Dancing With Sharks

Hosted by Tom Bergeron, "Dancing with Sharks" features five divers partnered with sharks -- including hammerheads and tigers! Each routine is unique, with signature underwater moves; a winner will be crowned, but can all the competitors make it that far?

S38E2 · 2025-07-20 · 42m

Air Jaws: The Hunt for Colossus

A 20-foot great white breaches in New Zealand, launching a hunt for Colossus—the legendary high-flying shark that may lead to a hidden colony of great whites.

S38E3 · 2025-07-20 · 42m

Great White Assassins

Alison Towner and Dickie Chivell investigate how killer whales hunt great whites, with Dickie diving disguised as an orca in New Zealand.

S38E4 · 2025-07-21

Great White Sex Battle

Great white male and female sharks battle each other in a series of contests to prove which is the superior sex.

S38E5 · 2025-07-21

Jaws vs Mega Croc

Using data gathered in new experiments, Tristan Guttridge, Rosie Moore and Dr. Sora Kim construct a CGI fight to the death between two of the biggest and baddest apex predators in the water -- the great white shark and Nile crocodile.

S38E6 · 2025-07-21

In the Eye of the Storm: Shark Storm

In the summer of 2024, dozens of cameras captured a rare outbreak of shark attacks along America's Gulf Coast. Told exclusively through first-hand accounts of victims and eyewitnesses, nobody has seen all these perspectives unfold in real time until now.

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