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- The fascinating relationship between predators and their prey, and the strategies predators use to catch their food and prey use to escape death.
- Engineers attempt daring journey above Guyanese rainforest canopy with airship prototype. Adventure fraught with risks, as previous expedition ended tragically. This is a unique story of exploring uncharted jungle from the air.
- An in-depth look at Russia's most natural wonders including Siberia, Kamchatka, the Artic, Caucasus, Primorye, and the Urals.
- Meeri Ehrlich, 13 years old has three problems. First: She is in love - with the wrong person - and has butterflies in her tummy. Second: Her mother passed away and she misses her a lot. Third: her father - owner of a funeral home - is looking for a new partner. But Meeri has something that is only hers, something very special - she can fly.
- An immersive expedition into the remarkable biodiversity, captivating landscapes, and fascinating human stories along the Amazon, Mississippi, and Nile rivers.
- The first episode shows audiences the American Serengeti that was once North America, and the unearthing of a Clovis child who came from some of the earliest settlers of Montana. The people hunt Caribou and Mammoths as they hide from the Smilodon and run from Arctodus simus - the dreaded Short-Faced Bear. The second episode is set 65,000 years ago, Australia was a forested land of many green plants and megafauna such as Diprotodon. The continent also housed territorial large birds like genyornis and the menacing giant monitor lizard Magalania. The ancient Aborigine found their way to the shores of this strange land of giant Marsupials and Reptiles. The third and final episode is set in the 1200s, and we catch a glimpse of the Maori traveling to New Zealand after their hero Kupe first discovered this magnificent world of birds and flightless bats. They develop a taste for Giant Moa just as the amazing Haast's Eagle had a new taste for man. However, the fastest extinction process wiped the Moa out, and the Haast's Eagle would follow the bird. The episode continues to show how Hawaii and (to an even more horrifying extent) Easter Island suffered the same fate in the end of the episode.
- Join an expedition across the 30,000 square kilometres of African savannah that makes up The Serengeti. Observe cheetahs on the hunt, stampeding wildebeest and crocodile attacks with slow-motion cameras that capture every breathtaking moment at 2,000 frames a second.
- Sam Neill narates an in-depth exploration of New Zealand and its amazing and obscure wildlife.
- Experience the wildlife of the Okavango Delta, an oasis and lush paradise in Botswana, Southern Africa that connects a wide variety of creatures.
- A documentary crew follows a group of naturalists and other scientists around the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone where they are studying the effects of the accidental radioactive contamination on the flora and fauna which thrive in the zone.
- It covers thirty percent of the Earth's land mass and yet, most of us barely scratch the surface. Now, discover what few people have seen, as The Green Planet follows the stories of forest inhabitants, from graceful red deer to cunning foxes and impressive wild boar. With cutting edge technology, we also explore some of the more bizarre and wonderful forest dwellers: the purple emperor, liverworts, stag beetles and corydalis. See flowers bloom and blades of grass cut through the snow. Spend time in a foxes den with her new born cubs and follow tiny insects and creatures with microscopic detail. Be a part of a journey that takes you through the seasons and be prepared to be amazed by the natural wonder of creation, destruction and rebirth in this incomparable landscape.
- The Alps, the so called "Roof of Europe", stand for wild mountains, extreme lives, but also a magical world. This majestic mountain range connects eight countries and reaches heights of up to 4,000 metres above sea level. At a length of 1,200 kilometres, the Alps form both a connecting bridge between western and eastern Europe and a high barrier between southern and central Europe. The mountains act as a mighty water reservoir and continental watershed, feeding innumerable rivers that flow into three different big seas. Many peaks steeped in legend and history, such as the Matterhorn, the Grossglockner or the highest of them all, the Mount Blanc, tower above a sea of snow and ice-covered heights. Vast river valleys and huge forests cover giant areas, and craggy summits and rugged canyons dot the landscape. Despite extreme local weather conditions and the rapidly changing climatic circumstances at different times of the year, a diverse animal world was able to develop, which has adapted perfectly to its habitat. Eurasian lynx, griffon vulture, ibex and marmot are exposed to extreme seasonal fluctuations, from fleeting thunderstorms and landslides in summer to avalanches and frozen winter temperatures. The 2-part nature documentary provides insights into their lives in impressive images and shows the unbelievable variety of landscapes, flora and fauna that make the Alps a unique natural treasure in the heart of Europe.
- We follow a pack of wolves on Ellesmere Island, in Canada's far north, as they struggle to raise their pups in the brief arctic summer. Hidden in her den, the alpha female of the pack gives birth to a new generation. Time is of the essence: her pups need to grow quickly and they have much to learn if they are to survive the merciless winter ahead.
- The Cheetah: the fastest land animal on the earth and a feared predator. Every fiber of its body is designed to win the race for survival. But before the cubs can dominate the African Savannah, a mother cheetah must transform her offspring from adorable kittens into bold, powerful hunters. We follow the destinies of a young cheetah mother and her first cubs, as she struggles to teach her offspring how to survive in one of the most cutthroat environments on the planet. An epic true story set against the backdrop of one of the wildest places of our planet. High-speed cameras capture the real-life of the sprinters of the African Savannah, and reveals every stunning detail of one of the most important lessons: how to hunt for prey. Although they will one day be feared, the cubs are under constant threat from surrounding lions, leopards and hyenas.
- Footage of two tiger families living in the mangrove swamps of the Bay of Bengal.
- Wildes Skandinavien.
- Explore how Australia's geographic isolation has resulted in the creation of some of the planets strangest and most unique creatures.
- The Volga is a myth, a unique river of superlatives and the natural lifeline of Russia. With a length of more than 3,500 kilometers, it is the most powerful and water-rich river in Europe. Their catchment area is larger than France, Spain and Portugal combined. While all the other great rivers on earth flow into an ocean, the Volga fills its own sea, the largest inland lake on earth, the Caspian Sea. On the way there it flows through rustic forest areas, through wide steppes and dry semi-deserts, each of which is home to a unique wildlife. In three years of filming and on countless expeditions, the Altayfilm team and their Russian colleagues managed to capture the fascinating stream in grandiose pictures and to fully portray it for the first time. Opulent pictures and breathtaking aerial photographs alternate with animal behavior that has rarely been documented before, told with fine humor and a special lightness.
- A team of scientists search for new species of insects and animals to a island just north of Australia. This is a place where no one has been to known as the lost land, while on the their searches they enter a cave and witness a live volcanic eruption. A must see documentary.
- Angry birds are very popular- especially among game-playing kids, but are there real angry birds out there? Birds battle to survive, find food, and shelter, avoid danger, and raise their young. Life's hard, but will they get in a flap?
- For many, winter is a time for fun and festivities, but for our wild neighbors it's a challenging period where they will need all of their adaptions to survive. Some rely on thick fur, big feet and varied diets; others huddle together for warmth or sleep away the cold. Dive into the wild winter's tale of hardship, but also remarkable endurance and beauty.
- Growing to enormous size and living upwards of 100 years, the robber crab faces unique challenges on Christmas Island.
- The Baltics are rich in superlatives: a fifth of the world's spotted eagle stocks breed here. One of the largest courtship arenas for snipes is located here in the floodplains of Latvia. More than 1000 wolves go on the hunt in Latvia's forests. Lithuania is the land of storks - with over 13.000 pairs, no other region in the Baltic States has more white storks.
- BBC biologist and military veteran Steve Backshall joins a team of scientists in Bhutan to determine whether the secluded Buddhist Himalaya kingdom harbors a sufficiently large tiger population to form the center part of a conservation corridor, which may be the highly endangered Bengal tiger's only long-term chance of survival. The dense, excellently preserved plant-life is most promising for wildlife, but almost impenetrable and extremely hard to search. The results however are better then hoped.
- A look at the wild life of the honey bees in European forests and the important role they have in nature through the numerous connections they have with other living organisms.
- As measured by its huge mass of water the Congo is the second largest river in the world, surrounded by tropical rain forest and fed by countless tributaries in an enormous watershed area in the heart of Africa. The locals call it the river that swallows rivers. As a small trickle in the north of Zambia begins its journey to the west over rapids and waterfalls until it finally pours as 40 km wide estuary into the Atlantic Ocean. Evolution and extreme conditions have created unique beings here. Fishes with lungs, wings or those that go hunting on land. The strange shoebill lurks in the vastness of the papyrus marsh, swarms of fruit bats darken the sky, meter-long pythons hunt in trees, chimpanzees populate the forests and hippopotamus bulls fight for power in the water. Exceptional shots provide insights into one of the most mysterious and dangerous regions of our planet.
- Madagascar is an ultimate island: Nowhere else on Earth exist so many weird animals in one place. For millions of years, this island lay isolated in the Indian Ocean. Far from the main continents a unique flora and fauna could evolve here. Like the lemurs, a group of prosimians that only live on Madagascar. There are about 100 known species of them - the largest is the Indri. Its home is the rainforest on Madagascar's eastern side. The most adaptable is the ring-tailed lemur, who even can survive in the driest places. But the human population in Madagascar is rising rapidly. To produce charcoal, great parts of the rainforest are being chopped down. Only 10% of the natural rainforest still exists. In his two-part series, wildlife filmmaker Thomas Behrend presents a still - in some areas - mythical world that is on the brink of extinction.
- Eastern Poland is one of Europe's last wild regions; the Biebrza lowlands make up the biggest national park in Poland and are of the utmost value for beavers, otters and countless aquatic birds.
- Lions, cheetahs and leopards: each cat has its own special hunting strategies, family upbringing and survival techniques. We focus on their behavior and competitive interaction in our quest to find out who the ultimate predator is in the daunting wilderness of Africa. We follow their lives as they play out like a game of chance.
- Die Nordsee: Unser Meer is a feature-length nature documentary directed by Klaus Müller, which looks as the fauna and flora that resides in the water and along the coastlines of the North Sea in northern Europe; from gray seals swimming in the waters off Heligoland in Germany or basking on the chalk cliffs of Dover in England, to large squid in the Dutch Oosterschelde, the film uses helicopters and underwater cameras to observe these lovely creatures from all possible perspectives.
- An opulent cinematic journey through one of the world's most beautiful countries. From the icy, snowy world of the high mountains with their mighty glaciers, thunderous waterfalls, and raging mountain streams; through the last primeval forests to the warm steppe lake, this documentary follows the trail of water--the element that has shaped this country's diverse nature like no other. Water is not only the basis of all life, it has also given Austria some of Europe's most spectacular natural wonders. In deep forests, ducklings jump from tall trees to learn how to swim; in inaccessible gorges a prototype of trout has survived; and in raging wild rivers, the world's oldest vertebrate has survived for millions of years. All this is captured in intoxicating images that bring the audience at home up close to the experience of nature and wildlife.
- From desert heat to freezing cold, conditions in South Africa afford a varied life for flora and fauna alike.
- Angelique Todd has spent a decade earning the trust of the silverback gorillas. Her mission is to infiltrate the home and hearts of the troop to decode the mysteries surrounding this most private and secretive species.
- Leopards are considered to be extremely shy big cats. Only a few animals can match the elegance of these feline predators. The cautious hunters are rarely seen in the wild for more than a few seconds. The cats can be observed more extensively when they rest asleep in a tree and recover from the mostly nocturnal hunt. But a leopardess has switched to hunting in broad daylight. Its home along the brook bed of the Olare Orok offers everything a mother needs to protect and nourish its offspring: picturesque rocks and dense bush, a landscape in which the big cat can disappear in seconds to sneak up on potential prey, which includes warthogs and antelopes. But hyenas and lions are always ready to dispute the territory and its nourishment. The renowned wildlife filmmaker Reinhard Radke managed to capture astonishing insights into the social life and hunting tactics of the ambush hunters in the Maasai Mara.