World-renowned orca biologist Dr Ingrid Visser visits Lolita, an orca that has been captive in Florida for the past 43 years. This short documents Dr Visser's visit as well as her scientific...

<p> PREMIERE LESUNG UND MULTIMEDIAVORTRAG </p><p>Ist faire Partnerschaft mehr als eine Vision? „Homo homini lupus“ – nach dem berühmten Satz von Thomas Hobbes ist der Mensch gegenüber seinem...

This film examines the big question of how enough food can be produced when the world’s population reaches 10 billion. How can we prevent the lethal exploitation of oour natural resources. ...

Yakutia has a harsh climate and permafrost. The temperature keeps below zero most of the time. There is no mobile coverage, no electricity, no roads. In such extreme conditions life becomes an...

There's no other space that populated as Bird Island - at least by penguins, seabirds and seals. Only very few people are allowed to set foot on this subantarctic animal kingdom to stay 1 1/2 years in...

Very little is known about the pangolin, the scaly anteater. It is said to be the most heavily poached mammal in the world. Over the past decade more than a million have been killed for their scales...

Three people in lower Saxony are fighting the ‘plant breeder’s rights’ and selling of plants laws to save old and tasty vegetables in Germany. The author portrays the struggle against uniform taste...

5 years ago fur was an absolute no-no. Now it is back in fashion. The film follows the global fur trade. This is not only a matter of animal welfare but also of consumer and worker protection,. ...

Today, corals reefs are threatened worldwide, sometimes even with extinction. Coral reefs need our help to regenerate and reproduce by themselves.

Introduced predators are destroying the balance of New Zealand’s Southern Beech Forests. Rattus, rattus, is forced to understand a new way of life and shows you how he sees the forest he calls home....

The tree was lonely, but one day he found a flower growing on his shoulder.

The amazing true story of a lonely female African wild dog that is helping to raise jackal pups in the Okavango. She is not only friends with hyenas and jackals but hunts with them and provides food ....

The Kirchsee is located in a protected unspoiled bog area in upper Bavaria. Local nature film maker Thomas Dammer was allowed to explore the nature reserve for a year. His film aims to make the area...

Thera is a region in Germany, where apples, geese and Reed Warblers meet. Around Lake Constance near Überlingen we find Germany's most intensely used areas for fruit-growing. Among them, renaturalised...

German researcher Katharina Fabricius studies the acidification of the oceans. She discovered CO2 vents of volcanic origin. For the researcher a natural lab where she can study how tropical reefs...

Wild dolphins in the Red Sea tolerate a group of scientists and filmmakers as if they were dolphins and allow to film behaviour which has never been watched before.

The northsea – capricious, unpredictable and full of secrets. At first sight it seems well known but under the waves there is a strange world. Primeval giant sharks are swimming through the English...

Manta rays or blanket fish are actually too big to be hunted. However just offshore from Mosambiks the animals gather in huge numbers – all of them with big bite marks. Where are these lesions coming...

The Adventures of the American Pika is a wildlife film about the American Pikas (Ochotona princeps). This film takes us on a journey that explores the lives and adventures of three pikas. Our...

In 1918 German and South African war-horses, no longer needed, were released into the burning Namibian desert.How could they survive, in one of the world‘s most beautiful, parched and rugged...

Aging in the Wild features species that illustrate all spheres of aging: longevity, reproductive health, social status and wisdom. The strong leadership and experience of older animals help with the...

For the first time ever, this riveting documentary shows a wonderland in Ilam where rare reptiles are living. The film shows these exotic species trying to survive on the planet for more time. ...

Alfred Brehm (1829-1884) was the most famous natural scientist of the 19th century. He was the first scientist who accorded feelings and characteristics to the animals The insistent Docu-Drama shows...

Once they are uttered, words have an effect, no matter if fact or fake. Not even a cool little buzz-buzz like a bumblebee is immune to the results of spin as it flies by and happens to hear that – in...

The film untangles the network of complex interrelations, symbioses and dependencies in the Amazon rainforest. The largest rainforest on earth is more than an accumulation of myriads of different...

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Out of the vast expanse of the Pacific Ocean rises the Olympic peninsula. Its rugged coastline, rain drenched forests and high summits are teaming with wildlife.

Few places are as special and unique as Yellowstone National Park – the US‘ first national park. A wilderness jewel of vast forests and wide-open valleys, home to large bison herds, wolf packs and...

Alaska “The last Frontier” - snow-covered mountain ranges, giant grizzly bears fishing salmon and mighty moose roaming through an endless wilderness. Places like the Denali National Park are world...

North America´s most frequented National Park, with over 9 million visitors each year has a lot more to offer than flower pilgrimages in spring and the colorful trees in autumn.

The Amur is not just a river -- it's a sprawling network of thousands of tributaries, wetlands and lakes, a river system of continental scale. This documentary explores the natural world along...

Where river and sea join, a constant battle rages over new land. The delta seems to be shrinking, with dramatic consequences for man and animals. Is Italy in the process of losing one of its most...

An enormous snake leaves a ditch in Guyana - it’s on the hunt: 6 metres of pure muscle power. It could easily crush a human being to death. This film reveals the truth about the biggest snake on...

At up to 7 metres long, manta rays are one of the largest and most intelligent fish in the ocean. Yet despite their size and curious nature, almost nothing is known about their lives. ANDREA: QUEEN OF...

Kieling - Expeditionen zu den Letzten ihrer Art From Hof to the Baltic Sea, Andreas Kieling, one of the best known Germany wildlife filmmakers, hikes along the former border between East and West...

In the red Sea you can discover a very unusual animal friendship between extremely different animals: sea anemone and fish. They help each other to survive in the coral reef.

For Animal Homes - Episode 3, host Chris Morgan is visiting some of nature's biggest communities - from colonies of Puffins, social spiders and Great Desert Skinks to a special neighborhood of...

Follow the story of a tiny, just 2mm-in-size invader on it's rise to power - the Argentine Ants in southern Europe. Undiscovered from most eyes this species has formed the biggest predator on earth. ...

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

These spectacular mountains in Tuscany were born millions of years ago by a coral reef lifting out of the primitive ocean. Still today, they maintain inseparable relations to the element of water: in...

In the Southern Andes,a thousand year old tree, the Araucaria Araucana survives for 200 million years. It’s story is little known and forever linked to an Amerindian people of Chile: the Pehuenches....

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...

The film reveals the hidden agenda of the nuclear industry in Africa and the alarming consequences for people and the environment.

David Attenborough ist begeistert von Vogeleiern. Ihre Schalen schützen die Jungen vor der Außenwelt, erlauben es ihnen aber zu atmen. Dabei müssen die Schalen stabil genug sein, das volle Gewicht der...

Aurora : a phenomenon looked at from a scientific and folkloristic point of view.

A journey along Austrian‘s boarders where people and animals are both separated and united. Once the iron curtain was Austria‘s eastern boarder; now animals that were once lost to Austria can return...

With the help of the unique „monkey police“ Kapstadt tries to controll plundering herds of baboons around the Table Mountain

With the help of their mother, Ronja and Benno bring up orphaned squirrels at their home in Kiel. When they are fully grown, at three months, the young animals are set free. Squirrel Max came injured...