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- Generation Greta interweaves the portraits of 9 young women from all around the world, aged 12 to 23, united in spite of cultural differences by one common cause: trying to finally achieve climate and social justice.
- The apocalyptic 2019-2020 Australian bush fires were a dire warning: respect the environment and listen to indigenous wisdom, or our world will become a living hell.
- Laurent Ballesta and his team of divers use tracking technology and sophisticated camera techniques to investigate a pack of 700 Grey Sharks, that hunt a Grouper spawning season in the Fakarava Atoll, near French Polynesia.
- Australia, California, Siberia, Sweden, Portugal, Greece, Amazonia...: for more than a decade, the litany of "megafires" has been in the news, so frequently now that one catastrophe chases the previous one in people's minds. Many have forgotten that in 2016, in the oil-rich city of Fort McMurray (Canada), uncontrollable forest fires reached the city, causing the evacuation of almost all of the 100,000 inhabitants and the destruction of thousands of homes. Each year, these fires destroy more than 350 million hectares of forest, six times the size of France, and are increasingly spreading to inhabited areas. In this global investigation, Cosima Dannoritzer meets firefighters, scientists and fire experts from Europe to Indonesia, including the United States and Canada.
- Since the most recent and historic flooding tragedies in Southeast Asia (in 2004 and 2011), researchers around the world are mobilized to study the complex mechanics of tsunamis.
- Marion Cotillard narrates the story of the 16 year old survivor of the super typhoon disaster in Philippines and her journey to spread awareness about the dangers of the climate change.
- The Giant Oarfish, the largest bony fish in the world, was known only by rare examples that died by stranding, as well as one sole fossil. Its extraordinary dimensions, as long as 15 meters, and shape in the form of a silver ribbon, inspired the myth of the sea serpent. For the past two years, scientific buoys, immersed at a depth of two thousand meters in the Mediterranean, off the French Riviera, have attracted countless species of pelagic fish; among them, the Giant Oarfish drifting vertically, alone or by pairs. With the help of the world expert in Giant Oarfish and logistic collaboration of enthusiasts, a scientific expedition reveals the biology of this enigmatic ambassador of the abyss. Entirely shot in Ultra High Definition, the film raises the veil on its paradoxical habits: why do all the adults self-mutilate and rid themselves of two-thirds of their bodies without being affected? How do they meet in the immensity of the ocean? Why does this fish not have any known predators?
- Two brothers, naturalist photographers Frédéric Larrey and Olivier Larrey, brave the extreme conditions of the Tibetan highlands to obtain the most beautiful pictures of the snow leopard, an endangered feline.
- It showcases the world and examines how stones, specifically granite, limestone, sandstone, basalt and clay, have not only shaped the planet but also inspired human civilizations.
- Today, space debris has become the nightmare of telecommunications operators and space agencies. Since the beginning of the conquest of space at the end of the 1950s, the number of spacecraft launches has multiplied. Many of them, now useless, wander above the Earth and sometimes collide. Satellites carrying nuclear charges, stages or tanks of launchers have already fallen back to Earth, without causing any casualties until now. Faced with the danger, space actors are now constantly monitoring the clouds of waste, ready to divert their satellites or installations in an emergency.
- During the darkest hours of the night, while the rest of the world is sleeping, outdoor photographer Paul Zizka ventures out into the wilderness in search of the world's starriest skies. His journey to photograph the celestial wonders takes him from his home amongst the peaks of the Canadian Rockies to the wild, desert dunes of Namibia and remote ice caps of Greenland. Ever the adventurer, he must balance his work and passion for photography with his equal devotion as a family man. In the Starlight is an intimate portrayal of Paul's quest to capture the night skies, and what his time spent under the stars has taught him about life, love, adventure, and our place in the universe.
- From the far north of Canada to the southern tip of Chile, through the southern United States, central Mexico and the Brazilian Mato Grosso, new concordant but still controversial archaeological discoveries have brought a new paradigm to the archaeology of American prehistory: the appearance of the first humans on the continent could date back to nearly 30,000 years before our era, that is to say, about 15,000 years earlier than the commonly accepted and taught thesis. Although there were a few mavericks in the past who disputed the scenario according to which the first ancestors of Americans arrived on foot through the Bering Strait 16,000 years ago, they were long kept out of the scientific community.
- Deep down at the bottom of the ocean lies the mysterious world of the abyss. In the midst of boiling, toxic geysers, a rich ecosystem flourishes. This miracle is possible thanks to bacteria, micro-organisms crucial to all living beings. How can bacteria survive in such extreme conditions?.
- Boris Jollivet, an acoustic ecologist, with whom we travel through remote areas so as to know whether there are still silent zones in France, zones where the noise of men is not heard any longer.
- Discover the science behind the hit film, "Don't Look Up". Not only could large asteroids strike our planet, but they also hold incredible secrets. At first glance, it appears unlikely that we are under threat from extra-terrestrial objects. Yet, at any moment, the sky could fall on our heads. Our solar system contains millions of objects known as asteroids. The smallest measure just a few centimetres across but the largest can have a diameter of a thousand kilometres. Some circle the sun, like planets, while others cross paths with Earth's orbit. Now, technological marvels are under construction to avoid a cataclysmic collision. What seemed like science fiction, has now become reality. We are currently learning how to deflect asteroids from their celestial path. This episode, called "ASTEROID RUSH- PLANETARY DEFENSE" is the first of Asteroid Rush two-part mini-series which depicts the adventures and achievements of a number of unmanned missions, between 2000 and 2021, that have revolutionized our understanding of asteroids. Over an eight-year period, directors Jacques Bedel and Bertrand Loyer collaborated with major international space agencies to access pictures of asteroids and models of probes in order to create photo-realistic representations of the countless challenges that engineers have had to overcome. Making this subject appealing for the general public has been facilitated by: * The threat that asteroids could pose to humanity. We all have in mind representations of a giant asteroid bringing the reign of the giant reptiles to an end 65 million years ago. To make it even more relevant, we made sure to recreate two recent events depicting large asteroids hitting the surface of the Earth in Russia in 1908 and 2013. * The dramatic nature of the missions. Each asteroid sampling mission brought countless challenges to the engineers who were dealing with unexpected landing sites and technical failures; as for the "kinetic impact", needless to say that a kamikaze probe smashing into an asteroid to prove we can change its orbit is, essentially, science-fiction turned reality. This series was written in 2017, after two missions had already taken place, and in anticipation of a further three major missions. It was produced over a three-year period (2018-2021). It was delivered before the kinetic impact mission occurred, so a lot of guesswork had to be done by the production and VFX team. Instead of relying on low-quality mission footage provided by the space agencies as other documentary producers did, we immersed ourselves in a gigantic and challenging task: to recreate all events, probes and asteroids in such a photo-realistic way that the audience would feel it was real. Most of the agencies' pictures of asteroids were in low resolution and monochromatic; the sketches of the probes were incomplete; and last but not least, gravity on asteroids is extremely weak compared to that on Earth, so the unusual behaviour of matter on the asteroids had to be recreated. To overcome these challenges, and the race against the clock to deliver the shows before the last mission occurred, the artistic team relied on asteroid experts who shared not only their knowledge, but also their mathematical and physical equations: the VFX team used predictions, models and simulations to anticipate the consequences or results of experiments which, at the time of production, were not yet complete. However, their calculations and expectations turned out to be correct: several months after delivery of the show, our representation of the "kinetic impact" of the DART probe on Dimorphos depicted a giant crater and a loss of a quarter of the total mass of the asteroid...which is exactly what happened! In one sequence, amino acids were created to illustrate the possible existence of organic materials in asteroids...in reality, twelve months after delivery of the series, RNA compounds and even vitamin B3 were found in the samples returned from a near-Earth asteroid called Ryugu! The complex and detailed graphic recreations were both time and energy consuming: once all the various parameters of physics and light had been considered, each frame, rendered in Ultra High Definition 6K, took an average of eight hours per frame to be calculated. The core of the production has been a labour of love over a period of four years for a team comprised of six international artists, two directors and ten video technicians. Their all-consuming work meant they had to focus on the peculiarities of each asteroid and make sure to shed light on minute details, such as each individual rock protruding out of the regolith (the space dust found, for example, on our Moon): the results are simply mesmerizing!
- In the Jordan Rift Valley, men have been at war for more than a half century. This human tragedy has led to an unprecedented ecological tragedy, causing the death of almost all migratory birds that used this crossing between Europe and Africa. Against all odds and despite the persistent turmoil in this region, Israelis have taken action to save biodiversity. Today, these men and women are fighting to protect the birds and are successfully restoring the flyway of the great migration in the valley, one of the most wonderful natural events in the world.
- The Amazon is the river of superlatives: the longest - 7,025 km, the most powerful, the most indomitable - no dam possible for hundreds of kilometres. Its waters cross the largest tropical forest in the world: the Amazon, "the lungs of the earth". Going against the current of this gigantism, this documentary is betting on approaching this extraordinary natural space through one of its tiniest productions: the cocoa bean. Scientists, chocolate makers, producers and farmers, many are those who, faced with the deforestation of this unique ecosystem, use this chocolate seed to recreate, on a small scale, human exploitation in harmony with nature. This film tells us about the fight of those who decided to make cocoa the spearhead of environmental defense in Brazil.
- A researcher is on the trail of a puma which may have found refuge in the forest of Gévaudan, in France.
- Mit der Klimaerwärmung steht die Zukunft der jahrtausendealten Gletscher auf der Kippe. Der französische Regisseur Vincent Amouroux macht sich zusammen mit internationalen Experten auf, den zunehmenden Wasserabfluss an der Oberfläche der riesigen Eisschichten zu erforschen. Dafür reist er mit seinem Team nach Südamerika zu den über 5000 Meter hohen Anden, die dort teils wie Gottheiten verehrt werden. In den tropischen Breitengraden spielt sich das Abschmelzen der Gletscher mit besonders dramatischer Geschwindigkeit ab.
- In the Southern Andes, a living being survives since 200 million years: the "Araucaria Araucana" with its incredible history, little known and forever linked to an Amerindian people of Chile: Pehuenches. This isolated community survived during centuries thanks to the Araucarias. A perfect harmony between man and nature, forever upset by the invasion of the Spanish colonists, the conflicts of territories and the increase of logging. Protected today, this sacred forests are the refuge of a unique and wild nature; but fires threaten this balance. What remain of these people and the link with this tree? What can they teach us about our environmental problems?
- We now know that bees are an endangered species all over the world. 'Une Terre Sans Abeilles?' goes on a journey around the world to find out the different actors and discover the possible solutions.
- It's through singing that Lorenza Garcia's life has changed. Twenty years ago, she met the Diné people who introduced her to the Navajo culture. With them, she discovered the concept of Hozho, which means Beauty, Harmony, Balance, Health.
- Following the path of the only white shaman initiated among the Yawanawa, this film sets out to uncover urban shamanic rituals using a sacred shamanistic beverage, as well as to bring to light scientific research on the subject.
- Portraits of 4 urban artists trying to live with their art in the difficult social and economical context in Madagascar.
- -This series explains North-South issues and the challenges of fair trade.
- It showcases how scientists are discovering the interconnections of natural disasters and how one is triggered by the other.
- 1947. The rush to the poles marked the beginning of an incredible human adventure to discover the last-remaining unknown lands. In France, Paul-E?mile Victor persuaded the government to finance expeditions to explore the Arctic and Antarctic. For the pioneers the conditions were Dantean, all in the name of science.