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- Feature length version of the documentary TV series Russia from Above. Russia as it has never been seen before filmed entirely from the sky with the worlds most sophisticated aerial cameras.
- Five explorers take us into one of the most challenging caves in the world. The mission is clear: find the exit of the cave (if there is one) in this magical world 20,000 meters below ground.
- Russia is by far the largest country in the world. Twice the size of the huge USA, almost 50 times larger than small Germany. From Kaliningrad on the Baltic Sea to the strait of the Bering Strait, within sight of Alaska, there are 11 time zones and 7,000 kilometers as the crow flies. But only if you take the shortcut across the North Pole. Within this country you will find a unique and diverse nature that is home to a varied wildlife, adapted to very different climates. The Russian metropolises, which tell stories with their buildings from older and also more recent history, are connected by almost endless railway lines across the country. One of them is the famous Trans-Siberian Railway. Only a bird's eye view reveals all of the country's splendor. The team of the multiple award-winning series "Germany from above" and the award-winning Arte series "Migrating Birds: Scouts of Distant Worlds" ventured a permanent flight over the giant empire between Europe and Asia in nine months and captured the breathtaking beauty of this incredible country in impressive pictures.
- A series of documentaries following the jet-set lifestyles of the rich and famous in cities all across the world.
- Billions of birds perish every year while migrating, dying of hunger, thirst, exhaustion and environmental poisons. Others fall victim to hunters, windmills and power lines. Predators attack them in the air and while they're sleeping. But why do birds then go through the hardships of migration year after year? How has bird migration changed over the generations? How do barnacle geese find their way from the River Ems in northern Germany to the Arctic Circle? How does a young stork know how to get to Africa, who was never there before? "Migrating Birds: Scouts Of Distant Worlds" accompanies with breathtaking aerial footage our white storks on their first trip over France and Spain, the huge waters of the Strait of Gibraltar and the dangerous Sahara in order to reach the elephants and giraffes in Kenia and Tanzania. It is a perilous journey for the young Borni and his traveling mates. The film flies with our starlings to Rome, and with our wild geese - with barnacle goose Frieda in particular - to the Barents Sea on the Russian polar circle, making us humans experiencience first hand the many hardships our feathered, familiar neighbors must endure. The film team is there when greylag geese hatch, when they train with their beloved human and finally discover the adventure of flying - in the service of science - and with tiny transmitters and data-loggers attached to their back. Despite all the groundbreaking discoveries of recent years, we still don't even understand completely how birds find their way. Through light and small transmitters scientists want to register every movement of their flight and relay their GPS coordinates and get a wealth of new data on altitude, air resistance and energy consumption, or changes in the environment. Their aim is not only to unravel the mysteries of bird flight but also to better understand and predict through these data everything on local wind conditions, catastrophic storms, incipient earthquakes and even locust plagues. When birds change their flight routes, there's always a reason - and future changes could be so radical to turn our migrating birds into permanent residents. Meanwhile a team of researchers is teaching h a group of Northern bald ibises to become migratory birds again. The cute birds were extinct in Europe over 300 years ago. It is an extraordinary flying experience between humans and animals to travel in an ultra-light over the Alps and glide over Venice, Florence and down to the South of Tuscany.
- "Germany from Above" invites the audience to fly over German cities, its countryside and waters, offering an unusual perspective: from above. A series in 4 seasons with each 3 episodes, plus an accompanying movie and a winter special.
- Natural history series focusing on the spectacular scenery and indigenous wildlife of Russia. The team undertakes a nine month venture to capture the length and breadth of the largest country on Earth from a birds eye view with the best aerial cameras in the world including locations granted film permits for the very first time in cinematic history.
- The beauty of the Arctic is breathtaking. For as long as we can remember, the Arctic has been associated with inhospitable cold. But the climate is changing, and with it the northern polar region, which begins beyond latitude 66.5 degrees north. Climate change is now happening four times faster north of the Arctic Circle than on the rest of the planet, making the future outlook dire. At the moment it is still possible for polar bears to raise their cubs, but hunting is becoming increasingly difficult on the drastically shrinking pack ice. The disappearance of the ice also affects the marine fauna. The wintry ice bridge between Canada and Greenland is threatened with collapse. The unstoppable melting of the permafrost, which has held the tundra together for thousands of years, is worrying. But the Arctic is still one of the wildest and loveliest regions on earth. A documentary visit to the Arctic - as long as it still exist.
- Germans love their forests which are deeply linked to German identity. One third of the country is covered with woods. Our Magic Forests takes the viewer along into the evolution and the stories of the realm of trees.
- "Germany From Above - A Winter's Tale" tells from the privileged bird's eyes perspective how the cold season adorns and transforms Germany.
- Reconstructing the tragic game between the forced labourers of Ukrainian team 'FC Start' and the team of the German Air Force 'Flakelf', 'The Fatal Eleven' tells the story about soccer and Nazism, about courage and power, about red jerseys and the fatal consequences of a 5-3 victory. It was much more than just a soccer match, when on the 9th of August 1942 the 'FC Start', the Ukrainian workers of the '3rd bakery unit', entered the pitch of the Zenit stadium in Kiev to play against 'Flakelf', the team of the German Air Force, everybody in the Zenit Stadium knew what they were playing for. The spectator stands were packed with people. A year before, on the 19th of September 1941 the German Wehrmacht marched into Kiev. Within two days Nazi regime murdered nearly 34.000 Jews. 630.000 Soviet soldiers became prisoners of war. The deportation of Jews and Ukrainian forced labourers to Germany was running at full steam. The citizens of Kiev were starving. No one could think about playing soccer under such appalling conditions. Yet, no one forgot this sport. What the Nazis could not know: hidden behind the bakery forced labourer's team were some of the best soccer players of Dynamo Kiev, the leading Soviet soccer club, and of his local rival club Lokomotive. Both clubs were officially banned from the soccer all league in the Nazi occupied territories. But the 'FC Start' was allowed to compete with some garrison and soldier teams. The soccer matches were meant to pretend business as usual in wartime. Soccer was supposed to cover Nazi disposal with sportive humanity. The 'FC Start' club with his Dynamo Kiev champions was determined to play to win. No one on the pitch could imagine what a victory of the suppressed ones would lead to. 'The Fatal Eleven' tells the story of a very special match.
- Over 90 percent of our daily actions are done unconsciously, an "autopilot" in our head. Automatic Brain takes a look at how unconscious processes steer the lives of two ordinary people, from everyday routines to life choices such as finding a partner.
- As soon as the 26-year-old Berit from Bochum was placed his newborn son Finn on her belly, she felt that something was wrong. "I felt no mother feelings. He did not feel like my son." When a few days later Berit went back home, she felt on the edge of a total breakdown. " As soon as I was alone, I immediately thought: my husband will have to educate Finn by himself. I get in the car and crash against a tree. I do not come back any more." Psychiatrists have a name for the desperate situation that Berit and an endless number of women experience after the birth of their children: " postpartum depression". This can affect out of the blue each new mother and, in worst case, can have lethal consequences: the suicide of the mother or the murdering of the baby. But even if the disease does not have such a dramatic end, postpartum depression feels like hell to the new mothers. They do not only suffer because they cannot feel any love for their newborn baby, they also feel guilty for not being "a good mother". "No Feelings For The Newborn Baby" accompanies 26-year-old Berit, her 3-month young son Finn, 25-year-old Lena and her little Emilia while overcoming the depression - and learning how to love their own child. Both women are in the "mother-child" department of the Westphälisches Zentrum für Psychiatrie in Hern where Dr. Luc Turmes and his team are taking care of them. Lena tried to kill herself. Her partner Marc found her just on time. She was ashamed that she had once forgotten to feed her little daughter Emilia. Lena and Berit admit very bravely their disease. It is stigmatised with many tabus and therefore painfully repressed. Experts believe that 15 percent of German mothers suffer from some mild or severe form of postpartum depression: that makes between 80, and 120,000 women per year. Everybody can be a "bad mother". Susanne is 40 years old and gynaecologist. She has been helping hundreds of women during the pregnancy and the delivery. Until she got her first baby - and got depression. When her husband left the house, she started to panic because she could not stand being alone with her newborn daughter Clara. Susanne has overcome the nightmare. Berit and Lena are still fighting to make this horror trip of shame and guilty stop. "No Feelings For The Newborn Baby" shows that life is not an adverting spot and that the concept of "Motherly love" needs to be redefined. When health insurance companies do only cover the costs for the treatment the mothers, Dr. Luc Turmes's association "Bei Aller Liebe" pays for the costs of the care of the the babies.
- Episode one shows for the first time the cities of Saint Petersburg and Moscow from the air and roams the 200 km wide Volga Delta, in which ten million birds spend the winter over the year. The camera team climbs the 5,000-meter peak of Elbrus in the Caucasus Mountains and watches the herds of antelopes in the steppes of Kalmykia in search of water points.
- Episode three flies over Siberia with Lake Baikal, which despite its size is frozen six months a year, and follows the Trans-Siberian Railway on its way to the Far East. Accompany a nomad group on their way to the spring camp through the unique Altay Mountains, stop in Novosibirsk and show the deserted taiga from a bird's eye view.
- Russia's south is the focus of the second episode, which provides breathtaking insights into the Republic of Dagestan and grazes the city of Rostov at the mouth of the Don, which is also known as the "Gateway to the Caucasus". In the south is the largest river delta in Europe - the Volga Delta. The seemingly endless expanse is fed by the largest lake on earth - the Caspian Sea.
- In episode four it gets so cold that it takes the help of an atomic icebreaker to find a way through the ice in the Arctic Ocean. On the Lena Delta, the frozen ground draws unique patterns into the country that are particularly easy to see from the air. The camera team flies over Cape Schmidt, where polar bear families and walruses are at home, and over the Yamal peninsula.
- Episode five begins with a flight to the Kamchatka Peninsula with its 29 active volcanoes, observes intrepid surfers at the eastern end of Russia and watches brown bears catch salmon. The camera team accompanies fur seals and their offspring on Tyulenyi Island and travels to the most eastern city in the country, Vladivostok, also known as "the San Francisco of Russia".
- Francisco de Orellana was representing Gonzalo Pizarro, the youngest Pizarro brother when in 1541 he led the Spanish expedition army from its outpost in Guio over the Andes in a mission into the unknown, into terra incognita. The objective of the expedition was to discover the "Eldorado", the land full of gold as the Incas said, and the "Cinammon land" full of spices: somewhere on the other side of the Andes.
- Mission Southland: How Bougainville Found Out About The Globe When in 1766 Louis-Antoine de Bougainville left Nantes in France on the expedition vessel "La Boudeuse", the mathematician and diplomat intended to be one of the first man to circumnavigate the earth. The fact that the earth was a sphere was not accepted everywhere yet. When Bougainville discovered Tahiti on the 5th of April 1768, he escaped death. And this changed his thinking radically.
- Among Cannibals: How Wallace Was Darwin's Brain. When Alfred Russel Wallace set foot on a ship in 1854 to explore Papua New Guinea, he could not imagine that would spend 8 years abroad. He collected 125,000 animals exhibits and survived by selling butterfly collections and stuffed orangutans to European museums. Wallace had not the support of a university or had generous research budgets, that could finance the adventurous expedition of the self-made scientist.
- 2003–TV EpisodeIn 1799 young Berlin aristocrat Alexander von Humboldt embarks for a journey into the complete unknown. Accompanied by his French friend and soul mate Aimé Bonpland he travels the almost completely unexplored rain-forest regions of South America. The objective of Humboldt's mission: To prove there is a hidden inter-connection between the two big river systems of the sub-continet, between the Amazon and the Orinoco.
- In 1787 Her Majesty's Ship "Bounty" ventured into a journey which happened to be remembered as probably the most infamous in the history of seafaring. The voyage culminated in the mutiny. When the Captain Bligh's original logbooks were given to restoration in 2006, a big blow happened for historians and the archivars at Mitchell Library in Sydney: Bligh had apparently altered and therefore falsified the original Logbook, before the document was given to the judges of the court case on the most famous mutiny of all times.
- In 1895 the so far well protected Victorian lady Mary Kingsley came to a grave decision. Her father, a doctor and pastime ethnologist, had just dies, and her mother passed away only a few weeks later. Mary Kingsley at 32 years felt all on her own. Too old already, in those days, to have great chances on the marriage market. So grieving Mary came to the serious point: She wanted to conclude her father's ethnological studies. And travel the wildest parts of Africa.
- Beautiful Minds' approaches the vast scientific field of brain research through the most fascinating 'research projects', the Savants.
- Beautiful Minds' approaches the vast scientific field of brain research through the most fascinating 'research projects', the Savants.
- Beautiful Minds' approaches the vast scientific field of brain research through the most fascinating 'research projects', the Savants.
- 1982– 43mTV EpisodeThe icy beauty of the Arctic is breathtaking. The "Terra X" three-part series "The Arctic - 66.5 degrees North" paints a portrait of the polar regions that makes you wonder, hope and despair. The films document the uniqueness of the Arctic world: its magic, its wealth and the international hunt for mineral resources. And help to understand their end due to the great melting and complex global effects of the Arctic climate. Polar bear Misha hikes hundreds of kilometers through snow and ice on Spitsbergen with her daughter Flocke. The hunt for prey is becoming increasingly difficult on the shrinking ice. Misha has been equipped by researchers with GPS trackers that help document the polar bear's long journey in search of food. There are only major cities with Murmansk and Norilsk in Russia. In total, only two million people live in the vast Arctic, about half as many as in Berlin. More and more scientists are drawn to the Arctic regions, especially to the glaciers of Greenland. The new research by a Danish team is alarming: it shows that large amounts of melt-water do not come from the surface of the Greenland ice sheet, but from particularly old ice layers from the bottom of the ice sheet. This deep melt-water carries with it a particularly large amount of climate-damaging methane. To the west of Greenland are Disko Bay and the town of Ilulissat. The icebergs around the bay offer a natural theatre with an ever-changing schedule. And make Ilulissat probably the most visited place in the Arctic. Visitors want to see the beauty of the ice masses that pile up in the fjord behind Ilulissat. The Icefjord has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site for years. Whales and other marine animals also benefit from the nutrients that the melt-water of the ancient glacier carries with it. In the east of Greenland, at the exit of Scoresbysund, the largest fjord system on earth, lies Ittoqqortoormiit. Probably the most remote settlement in Greenland has about 900 inhabitants. Dog sleds are used to hunt and catch seals. Sometimes a cruise ship breaks through the dwindling sea ice to Scoresbysund. This is a special event for the inhabitants of Ittoqqortoormiit, as well as for the tourists, who are given the opportunity to go sledding over the stable ice. Two of the small villages that existed in the area have been abandoned in recent years. The long winters are almost unbearable. Two and a half months without daylight. The opposite of a cruise brochure for educational travelers.
- 1982– 43mTV EpisodeThe icy beauty of the Arctic is breathtaking. The "Terra X" three-part series "The Arctic - 66.5 degrees North" paints a portrait of the polar regions that makes you wonder, hope and despair. The films document the uniqueness of the Arctic world: its magic, its wealth and the international hunt for mineral resources. And help to understand their end due to the great melting and complex global effects of the Arctic climate. Huge quantities of sought-after raw materials are stored under the ice of the Arctic, and there are always new reports of fabulous treasures under the ice: ore, oil, natural gas, rare soils, precious metals and elements such as nickel. They are being searched for everywhere in the Arctic, despite the cold and storms. The melting of the ice could make mining easier in the future. At the same time, the exploitation of resources is linked to the over-exploitation of nature. There is hardly any other place where this is as evident as in Norilsk. The nickel mines in northern Russia are among the world's biggest destroyers of the environment. The city of Norilsk, with its 170,000 inhabitants, is still a restricted area and a target of protests because of the environmental pollution caused by the nickel and copper mines and metal smelting. "The Arctic - 66.5 degrees North" accompanies a small search party of raw material geologists from Australia. In doing so, it becomes clear what pioneering work such expeditions into hostile and lonely regions still are today. Back-breaking jobs that no one can say will ever really pay off. Or what a mining operation would do with the icy beauty of the landscapes.
- "Germany From Below" takes the audience to mysterious parallel world under the earth: a look into an underworld that is inaccessible to most of us.
- "Germany From Below" takes the audience to mysterious parallel world under the earth: a look into an underworld that is inaccessible to most of us.
- The Virus Empire uncovers how viruses, these invisible enemies, are spread and the science behind them.
- The Virus Empire uncovers how viruses, these invisible enemies, are spread and the science behind them.
- "Migrating Birds " uses both extensive CGI animation sequences and breathtaking aerial footage to illustrate birds' migration and presents recent research in ornithology.
- 201643mTV Episode"Migrating Birds - Scouts Of Distant Worlds" uses both extensive CGI animation sequences and breathtaking aerial footage to illustrate different birds' migration over Germany, from Russia to Africa.
- "California Dreamin'" is a colorful portrait of the Wild West in five episodes.
- "California Dreamin'" is a colorful portrait of the Wild West in five episodes.
- "California Dreamin'" is a colorful portrait of the Wild West in five episodes.
- A portrait of Michelle and Barack Obama, uncovering the secrets of love in power.
- "Blood and Circus" analyses the landmarks of doping and unmasks the common thesis of single abusers.
- "Blood and Circus" analyses the landmarks of doping and unmasks the common thesis of single abusers.
- "California Dreamin'" is a colorful portrait of the Wild West in five episodes.