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- The life and work of photographer Sebastião Salgado, who has spent forty years documenting societies in hidden corners of the world.
- Document of a 2014 Bering Sea journey following the paths of previous explorers such as Adelbert Von Chamisso. Landscape, flora and fauna are observed, local residents who subsist off the land and sea are encountered along the way.
- Wrangel Island, located in the Arctic Ocean straddling the International Date Line and belonging to the Republic of Chukotka, is considered as one of the most remote islands of the Russian Federation. The last wooly mammoths are said to have roamed through the tundra here, while their conspecifics on the continental mainland had long since died out. Today the island is considered as the famous home of the polar bears, which gather in large numbers on the island in summer when the pack ice has become too fragile. In addition, the rough landscape of the rugged island surprises with a diverse ecosystem in which arctic foxes, seals, walruses, little herds of musk oxen, lemmings and many species of birds feel at home. The German cameraman Uwe Anders spent four months capturing impressive images of the island's nature and came very close to the largest land predators on the planet, which sometimes ended in very dangerous moments.
- Filmmaker Arne Naevra and zoologist Nikita Ovsyanikov observe polar bears on Wrangel Island, located in the Arctic Ocean off the northeast coast of Russia, focusing on an orphaned cub struggling to survive in the harsh environment.
- They're as beautiful as the snowy landscape they inhabit, but life is tough in the Arctic, and these bears have to be strong to survive. Winter means months of darkness, blizzards and ice, while summer brings continuous blinding sunshine. The polar bears roam thousands of miles searching for food, while pregnant females fast for months raising their cubs in remote snowy hills. This film follows the bears over a year and captures remarkable scenes of birth, cubs playing and underwater footage that reveals the unexpected grace of the bears swimming.
- This edition looks at the Arctic Ocean, as after 4 months of winter darkness the sun returns. Mother polar bears emerge from their dens, a pod of beluga whales confined to an ice hole wait for release, harp seal mothers teach their pups.
- These frozen worlds have reached a tipping point--their future hangs in the balance and with it, so does ours.
- 1995–TV EpisodeHidden behind year-round blizzards and a month-long polar night, Wrangel Island lies just a few nautical miles from the Arctic pack ice limit. It is the last untouched natural paradise northwest of the Bering Strait. At winter temperatures as low as - 40 °C, more than 1000 polar bears, musk oxen and reindeer live alongside walrus colonies, seal families, arctic foxes, wolves and countless smaller endemic animal and plant species on a 7,608 km² Noah's Ark from the last ice age. Fossil finds prove that on Wrangel Island the mammoth grazed in the Arctic tundra until almost 3500 years ago. More recently, Russians, Britons, Canadians and Americans took turns occupying the island. Finally, on August 8, 1926, Soviet troops established the settlement "Ushakovskoe" on the south coast of the island, where almost 100 fishermen, seals and whalers lived until the end of the Soviet Union. Today the island serves as a base for a handful of gamekeepers of the "Wrangel Biosphere Reserve". It was not until the "Iron Curtain" lifted at the eastern end of the world that a few polar explorers, biologists and zoologists accompanied by Russians were allowed to visit the almost untouched paradise in the Chukshen Sea 600 km beyond the Arctic Circle. In 2004, UNESCO declared the area around Wrangel Island a World Heritage Site. Today the island is considered the last completely untouched biotope for polar bears, here they get their young and have no natural enemies. But the times in which the polar bar was only confronted with the challenges of its ecosystem are long gone. Global warming is making life difficult for the most powerful predator in the North and seriously threatening its habitat.