Spiders have been spinning silk for hunting purposes for millions of years, and this Emmy Award-winning program surveys just how many ways they have found to do it. More than 30,000 species show up in the record, and the film picks out the specialists: the giant Nephila spider, whose web is strong enough to snare small birds, and the ogre-faced spider, which skips the orb web entirely and ambushes prey with a silken net it stretches between its own legs like a hand-held trap. The Dolomedes spider gets its own sequence, plunging underwater to fish out a meal, a hunting method that looks nothing like the classic web-and-wait approach. Courtship gets equal screen time, with a male St. Andrews cross spider risking his life approaching a mate who may simply eat him instead of accepting him. Close camera work throughout stays on the mechanics of silk, legs, and prey capture rather than narration alone, treating each species as a different solution to the same problem of catching food without moving very far.