Bee researcher Torben Schiffer is looking for the reasons for the susceptibility of honey bees in Germany. His aim is to preserve the bee colonies for the future. His findings: It is the beekeepers,...

Gibbons live in small families, each with their own patch of forest. They sing each morning to declare their territory and family. The song is operatic, loud and full of meaning.

Lions, Leopards and Hyenas are the perfect hunters of Africa and at night their skills allow for an overwhelming drama like nowhere else. Extremely light sensitive lenses and thermal-cameras reveal a...

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...

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.

Checker Tobi’s greatest adventure begins on a pirate ship. That’s where he finds a message in a bottle which contains a riddle. If he’s able to solve the riddle he will reveal our planet’s greatest...

Students from the Malschwitzer Oberschule documented the biodiversity of species and structure in the Oberlausitzer heathland. The focus was on sand habitats, immigrated or special species, such as...

Bonobos are our closest relatives. Although they look very similar to chimpanzees, they are all the more different in their social behaviour: While chimpanzees war against foreign conspecifics,...

There is a lot more to the forest than just the trees that meet the eye. Between these trees everything is full of life that has to be discovered and protected.

Wilde Natur - aber auch Eisenlasten, die das Wasser braun färben, der romantische Spreewald mit seinen tausend Fließen - und an der Mündung die Metropole Berlin: Die Spree ist ein Fluss voller...

Our seasons dramatically shape the cycle of life. Whether spring, summer, autumn or winter - every season presents nature with new challenges. The constant change in living conditions demands maximum...

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More beautiful than butterflies, more spectacular fliers than hummingbirds, and with intriguing behaviour as complex as mammals or birds, dragonflies and damselflies are the ultimate insects. ...

Ever Slow Green tells the story of a 50-years-young tropical forest that evolved in Auroville, South India, through some of the diverse people who dedicate their lives to bringing it to fruition. ...

In nature, the most exciting stories take place right before our eyes - and yet we do not notice them. The Universum documentary &quot;Feathered Neighbours - The Colourful World of Garden Birds&quot;...

Madagascar. Nowhere else do so many bizarre animals live as here: the elegant fossa, which specialises in hunting Madagascar's semi-monkeys, the world-famous lemurs; chameleons that only live for a...

Using the very latest camera technology - drones, high-speed cameras and underwater cameras -, the scientists will explore and explain the wealth of tricks and tactics used by marine wildlife as never...

In the remote mountainous region of Tushetia in the north-east of Georgia, life only takes place in the summer. Only when the snow has melted the pass road becomes passable. Parallel to the ascent of...

‘Grasslands: North America’s Hidden Wilderness’ is a journey through one of the planet’s least known, most beautiful and most endangered ecosystems ­– the Northern Great Plains.

On its last 500 kilometres, the Volga flows through an old sea basin, which has been repeatedly reshaped by the river valleys of the primeval Volga. The Volga Delta is the largest inland delta on...

In the snow-covered north of Finland lives Juha Virkkunen with his wife and dog. His family has been herding reindeer since the 1850s, but even though he has two sons, he might be the last. The...

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Während der Mensch noch debattiert, ist die Natur mittendrin im Wandel durch den Klimawandel. Und die Folgen sieht man nicht nur in der Arktis, sondern auch direkt vor der Haustür. Der Faktor Klima...

The story of an American crocodile washed up on Cuba’s shores reveals the challenges of life. Survival here requires adaptation: Over time, it has produced new species and preserved others including...

A perfect hole in a hazelnut is the beginning of a fascinating story. A curious bug looking like an elephant cuts a hole in a green hazelnut during summer to feed and to place an egg into it. The...

A journey through Tanzania, on the tracks of my grandfather Harry. In 1988 he climbed the highest mountain in Africa - Kilimanjaro and left my father a tape cassette after his death. 10 years later...

Volcanoes are temperamental, dangerous and deadly. Not the ideal place for wildlife. But Mt. Suswa in Kenya is a volcano like no other: it hosts a multitude of life both above and below its surface....

The ninth Elbe depression is in full swing. A rare plant almost stopped the Hamburg project: the strictly protected &quot;hemlock water fennel&quot;. It is the only one of its kind in the world and...

This film presents the amazing landscape and wildlife of the Lower Okavango river in Southern Africa – and how these are intertwined and interacting.

Patchwork Penguin has a problem: he wants to run fast, but he doesn´t know how! Will the Patchwork Pals find a way to help him?

Climate change threatens their existence. With a lawsuit, 10 families and a youth organisation now want to force the European Union to act. Maurice Feschet's lavender crop in France is increasingly...

The film takes us into the wonderful world of the polar day in northern Scandinavia. North of the polar circle the sun hardly sets in summer. There is food in abundance, but animals and plants face...

The Senne is the largest heath landscape in North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) - an important refuge for animal and plant species. It provides a home for rare insects and birds, endangered amphibians and...

&quot;Mission Earth&quot; ALWAYS starts with a photo. A photo that tells the story of a focal point in nature, an animal at the brink of extinction or an endangered ecosystem. The photo is shot by...

Seahorses are very unusual fishes. Especially the birth of the babies is unique in nature. In slow motion we see the birth of little seahorses coming out of the stomach of the male seahorse. ...

Sharkwater: Extinction (2018) is a thrilling and inspiring action packed journey that follows filmmaker Rob Stewart as he exposes the massive illegal shark fin industry and the political corruption...

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Snakes. One of the most universally feared animals on the planet. Sly, dangerous, and slimy, the human race seems determined to perpetuate the idea that they’re nature’s villains out to get us… but...

The forest is on fire. Not just any forest, but the Amazon rainforest, our so-called &quot;green lung of the world&quot;. In the search of culprits and explantions for the current fires the film SOS...

Scientists in Germany and around the world are trying to get a grip on the problem of space debris, which is threatening everyday life as we know it today.

&quot;Spy in the Wild&quot; kehrt zurück, um Zeuge der größten Dramen und emotionalen Begegnungen der Natur aus dem Inneren der Tierwelt zu werden. Unsere ultra-realistischen Spy Creatures mit...

Antarctica - the coldest, windiest, most hostile continent. Penguin chicks run the gauntlet of orca and leopard seals, colourful starfish and gigantic worms carpet the seabed whilst on the surface –...

North America – a continent of change. In winter, lynx prowl the Yukon for snowshoe hares and manatees seek hot springs to escape the freeze. In summer, Tennessee fish build spectacular underwater...

The Baltic sea - a beautiful, fragile inland sea binding northern Europe and Russia. For ten years, we have been documenting frightening developments in these waters. Now we return for the last time....

Neither animal, nor plant, the blob is a giant single cell whose amazing capacities are leading pioneer scientists to the very new world of brainless intelligence. Blending science fiction, the...

The Meadow: A sea of colours, bright and variform almost like the tropical rainforest. How come this habitat only exists, if it is destroyed regularely? This film talks about the drastic decline in...

Our ocean environment is at risk. Narrated by my two daughters, we invite kids to discover and understand the ocean by following an iconic, charismatic marine animal, the humpback whale. We provide a...

The Whale and the Raven illuminates the many issues that have drawn whale researchers, the Gitga’at First Nation, and the Government of British Columbia into a complex conflict. A film about whales,...

Galloping Przewalski horses, bizarre bald ibis and the rare European mink are the stars of a new nature film. In this fascinating documentary, filmmaker Herbert Ostwald and Cologne zoo director Theo...

As the seasons change, we follow a woodcutter and his horse in the depths of the Ardennes forest and see how he lives out his passion through the eyes of a strange young girl...

Ewan McGregor narrates a captivating portrait of wild Shetland - the remote islands at the northerly limits of Britain - and traces the course of a breeding season from the depths of winter to high...

The film leads along an often indefinable border between two worlds and describes the inevitable encounter between man and animal in the mountains around Innsbruck. We encounter chamois, ibex, ermines...