A modern fable in which the social community of ants holds up a mirror to mankind.

The film asks a simple question: What happens to my trash? It sets out to explore the global waste trade, it connects the dots and shows the audience the astonishing ways of their waste - and as such...

At noon of March equinox, the rays of the sun hit the ground vertically along the equator, an event that is celebrated in many places along the 32,000 kms of its course. But many seaside places are...

We only have one earth and it must be looked after.

The sloths in the zoo are sleeping a lot. Are they really slothfully? When eating, they move very slowly. This saves energy. In the tropical rainforest a sloth climbs down its tree only once a week....

1.6 degrees within 10 years is the scary result of checks in the northernmost European village. Here, a local French-German research station monitors temperatures that rise about 15 times faster than...

Asbestos has been banned in Germany for over a decade. Hundreds of millions of Euros are spent on sanitation measures every year. The carcenogenic fibres lead to a specific form of lung cancer in...

Join David Attenborough as he unravels the secrets of a Swiss ant super-colony. Is there something we humans can learn from these minute insects?

There is a drought in Europe. With drastic consequences for agriculture, forests and our lives. One cause is climate change - but to a large extent this catastrophe is also homemade. The film shows...

<p><b>Dieser Film wird als Deutschland-Premiere am Freitag, 18.09.2020 hier online präsentiert.</b></p><p>With bare hammers they break chunks of rock. Every year, 727 tons of mercury are released...

In Germany, the total number of insects has fallen dramatically triggering a chain reaction: birds are threatened because of lack of food. Counts in one region show that the bio mass of insects has...

Most of the poisonous animals of the world live in Australia. They are all over the north of the continent. Irrelevant of whether they are snakes, poisonous fishes or spiders, many of these animals...

Trakehner horses are considered the oldest breed of German riding horses dating back to 17th century Eastern Prussia. Initially bred for King Frederick William I and his cavalry the Trakehner horse is...

Biodiversity has never before been more threatened, not least by noise and light pollution. From London to Montreal, Paris to Chicago, global Covid 19 restrictions gave nature an unprecedented chance...

Blistering heat, ceaseless winds, punishing cold and nowhere to hide: Welcome to the Badlands of South Dakota in the heart of North America’s Great Plains. In a land, where the only constant is...

´Nyango´, a Cross River gorilla, lives in Limbe Wildlife Centre of Cameroon. Follow us and his keeper Bama on a special mission - to find Nyango's family to save these rare great apes before it's too...

A scientific adventure to encounter the baobabs of Madagascar and the Vezo, a nomadic tribe of the sea.

The coasts of the Northern Asian Pacific are home to the largest number of bears on earth: brown bears, polar bears, Asian black bears. Kings of the wilderness. They are surrounded and ruled by...

<p>The film tells how the Bayer company used questionable methods to prevent an early ban on particularly toxic pesticides. The neonicotinoids have been on the market in the EU since 1992. They are...

The new prodigies in the world of animals sport feathers and beaks. And they are highly talented. The documentary investigates two of the most clever creatures in animal kingdom. ...

The overlapping habitats of bears and humans in Turkey are creating more and more conflict between the two species. Bears harm people's orchards, farms and beehives, all of which are of great...

Europe’s bears are on the rise: Rumanian “garbage bears” are relocated back into the woods. In the Alps, people have started to protect their garbage against roaming bears.

Immerse yourself in the wild and wonderful world of the southern Pacific Ocean. Travel from the Cook Islands to the Antarctic seas and encounter amazing creatures along the way, from tiny argonauts to...

It must have happened one quit night. Some of Saxony - Anhalts beavers started on a journey up the river to move to Thuringia. Much to the excitement of biologist Dr. Siegfried Klaus. ...

To a languorous beat as lilting as a summer´s day, this music video riffs about the importance of bees to our lives and to life itself on earth.

The film documents how indigenous people scientists and conservationists join in the fight against the logging of Canada's last unprotected virgin forests. The conflicts in the forests show the open...

&quot;Being Alien&quot; soll zuallererst in die Welt der kleinen Wesen eintauchen. Er soll die Grusel-Klischees aufgreifen und dann aber hoffentlich in eine Art Faszination verwandeln. Sobald man...

Finnish wildlife photographer Benjamin Pöntinen discovers the hidden world of bats with the help of experts across Finland and Estonia. These enthusiastic, but sometimes eccentric “bat-hunters” allow...

Germans enjoy cheap meat - rarely have they spent less money on food. To understand the conditions under which beef is produced in South America, the team travels to Brazil - one of the largest meat...

Director Kyoko Miyake wants to find out the fate of her family's home-town Namie, that having been completely destroyed by the tsunami and, because of the threat of radiation from the nearby power...

Over 30 years ago Dereck and Beverly Joubert went out on a quest to understand big cats and what makes them unique in their environment.

The Komodo dragon is the largest living lizard of our time. The current population is estimated at only about 2,400 animals. The filmmakers made surprising shots of the Komodo dragons - never seen...

Near the river Kinabatangan in Borneo elephant`s life is only a few kilometers further a dangerous adventure, for the animals and for the people living there. Because the gray giants have to pass much...

The Green Anaconda – people-eating monster, mother of the rivers, ancient creature. Biologist Dr. Lutz Dirksen leads his expedition along wild rivers and through unexplored forest paradises in search...

The filmteam heads to Manú National Park, to find the giant otters, that live in this paradise. But the current gold rush and its consequences are destroying even this remote habitat. ...

Gewaltige atomare Explosionen erschüttern 1946 das Bikini Atoll im Pazifik. Die amerikanischen Streitkräfte hatten sich diesen abgelegenen Platz ausgesucht, um die ersten Atombomben nach Hiroshima zu...

Óðinn, the mightiest of the Norse gods, understood the language of ravens. Huginn and Muninn (Mind and Memory) his two ravens flew far and wide to bring him news from around the world, every day....

Some people believe that the souls of the departed are carried up to heaven on the back of a crane - in Bhutan they are considered “birds of fortune”. The boy Karma knows all the myths and tales, and...

An extra-silly reinterpretation of Red Riding Hood - in glorious black and white!

More than 6,300 sunken ships from WWII are rusting away on the seafloor, containing up to 15 million tons of oil. Recovering it is possible but would cost billions. The film investigates the issue in...

The Environmental Investigation Agency heads to Kenya, Hong Kong and China to investigate the illicit world of elephant poaching and the ivory trade. Following claims of an upsurge in poaching of the...

They look like abysmal quietly eyes, but they are the coldest and most extreme waters: lakes of the high mountains, mysterious jewels of the Alps. Scarcely anybody supposes life in these waters. ...

There where a mosaic of lakes and ponds slenders through thick woods and meadows, south of the Golden City of Prague - along the Vltava - there is a unique natural paradise. What at first sight looks...

Borneo is one of the most biodiverse places on Earth. lts unparalleled profusion of life is the result of millions of years spent in the tropics – longer than anywhere else.

Bornholm had big problems: Outmigration, rising unemployment and a lack of economic growth plagued the Danish island in the Baltic Sea. But since 2007, Bornholm has been developing into a showcase...

The three-part series &quot;Brahmaputra - Sky River of the Himalayas&quot; tells the story of the turbulent relationship between one of the world's largest rivers and earth's greatest mountain range,...

There is far more to Brazil’s coast than Copacabana Beach. Whales and dolphins, walking octopus and ultra-poisonous snakes make Brazil’s 7,500 kilometre stretch of coast one of the most diverse in the...

Brazil has a secret – the wide open spaces at its heart. The grassland that covers the central region of Brazil is the country’s least known habitat, depending on dramatic summer thunderstorms and...

Wie fühlt es sich an in Budapest zu leben? Eine Schwierige Frage und sie darf nicht nur den Menschen gestellt werden. Sie sind eine Minderheit in der Budapester Bevölkerung, wenn man alle Lebewesen...