Nature and Environment

1,3 million gnus, 400,000 Thomson gazelles, 200,000 zebras, this is the biggest gathering of ungulates worldwide. In close vicinity, there are always the cats of prey, but the lions and the cheetahs cannot be any danger for the masses of hunted... more

Never before, has this mountain revealed itself as being so brutal. Never before, had nature demonstrated its superiority so obviously. When the filmmakers Anne and Erik Lapied decided to document the life of the wild animals in the national park... more

The Swiss national park in the canton Grisons is one of the largest wilderness areas in Switzerland, and with its foundation in the year 1914, it is the oldest national park in the Alps and in Central Europe. The founders had the intention to... more

An international team of scientists is on a mission to unlock the hidden secrets of Mt. Nyiragongo, an active volcano in the Democratic Republic of Congo. They want to collect a fresh sample from the deadly yet mesmerizing lava lake at the... more

Deeply incised river valleys and desert-like rock plateaus, - Germany’s “Grand Canyon” is located in the „Saxon Switzerland“. Wind and water, heat and frost have created the unique landscape of the Elbe Sandstone Mountains throughout millions of... more

The third biggest island on earth gives home to some particularly fascinating animals. However, the situation for the Borneo orang-utans, the Borneo pygmy elephants, proboscis monkeys and the hornbills is serious. On Borneo, huge surfaces of rain... more

Germany’s only Alpine national park hosts extreme living spaces, such as the karst landscapes of the so-called Steinernen Meer, the Watzmann mountain with the highest rock face of the Eastern Alps, the Eastern Alps, the Wimbachgries with its... more

With extensive expeditions, biologists are exploring the fauna of the Amazon rain forests and fight for their future. Rangers patrol the forest in their helicopters in order to detect illegal timber cuttings. The Amazon Area is endangered as it... more

Few have seen what is surely one of the world’s great acts of predation: a wedge-tailed eagle catching a kangaroo. No one has ever filmed it. This is the story of Simon Cherriman on his quest to shoot just such a shot. Since his childhood Simon... more

Fresh snow in summer – in the tundra of Norway and on its high planes this is quite normal. As if time had stood still for 10.000 years. This film follows a herd of musk oxes during one year and accompanies the animals when they are hiking, mating... more

The magic of the Sambesi is partly caused by its dimensions alone. On a length of 2.600 km, this by far most imposing river in southern Africa, meanders from west to east, across the Black Continent. As hardly any other river, the Sambesi owes its... more

Professor Volker Sommer is one of the most reputable and renown scientist of our days. As a regular guest in tv-talk shows he often causes a stir with his provoking thesis such as “there is no scientific reason to distinguish between men and... more

The film maker Zoltán Török gives us an affectionate insight into his homeland. He accompanies herdsmen, who, even today watch their cattle in their traditional costumes; he shows sea eagles raising their offspring, and he follows asps, a carp... more

Exactly 25 years after the biggest nuclear accident of history, wolves are reigning over the contaminated radioactive no man’s land, the exclusion zone of Chernobyl, in the border triangle of the Ukraine, Russia and White Russia. Before the... more

Nowhere else the consequences of the climate change are as concentrated as in the high alpine regions, and nowhere else one can feel their impact as strong as in the regions of the three or four thousand metre high areas which have been exploited... more

The PhD biologist David Bittner explores the life of bears in Alaska under adventurous conditions. He lives alone in a remote wilderness, mainly eating the fish he caught. With a lot of patience and profound knowledge he succeeds in an... more

Once again, Andreas Kieling travels to the most remote areas on our planet, in order to meet especially interesting, however endangered animal species. In Pantanal, the expanded wetlands in the west of Brazil, he witnesses a spectacular attack of... more

Three of four gorilla species are in imminent danger of extinction. The only living space for gorillas, the rain forests of Central Africa, is being destroyed by greed. There is a brutal war going on for the raw materials gold, copper and coltan,... more

The azure Indian Ocean of Durban is completely different from the raw sea cost of the Cape. Andreas Kieling starts an expedition to the warm waters in front of the coast, together with the Austrian shark scientist Dietmar Posch. However, one has... more

The Arlberg is a synonym for winter idyll and for being the cradle of alpine skiing. However, this famous ski resort which connects the Austrian Provinces Tyrol and Vorarlberg, has more to offer. For already 100 years, the Arlberg has been... more

Lamalera - a remote village of 2,500 people on the southern coast of Indonesia. In this hostile land where nothing grows, people have managed to survive only thanks to a spectacular age-old hunt: the traditional and sacred harpooning of sperm... more

This journey to the less known natural treasures and to the oldest villages in North America leads from the Rocky Mountains via the Great Plains to the Rio Grande, then to the Yosemite national park and finally to the Grand Canyon. In front of the... more

Andreas Kieling travels to the most remote areas on our planet, in order to meet especially interesting, however endangered animal species. In western China, in a giant mountain range, the animal film maker is searching for the great panda, the... more

Already from far away one has the feeling that this is something special. Despite a cloudless sky, there is a wall of clouds bound to the ground; these are the sprays of the Victoria Falls, rising up to 300 metres. On a length of almost two... more

No other volcano in the Pacific Fire Ring threatens humans more seriously than the Popocatepetl in sight distance from Mexico City. More than 25 million of people are endangered in case of an eruption. However, some of them do not fear the... more

The mountain massif of the Styrian Hochschwab extends from the Präbichl in the west, to the Seebergsattel in the east. The jagged and steep grey limestone faces with their numerous summits rise into the sky. In between there are wide high plateaus... more

We Central Europeans obviously have a strange relationship with wild animals. We shoot the brown bear Bruno for fear, and then we admire it in the museum. The game warden Mario Theus is committed to make the coexistence of men and brown bears... more

The northern latitude degree runs directly across the middle of Europe. An expedition travels along this latitude, across continents and oceans. We can watch nature and landscapes which couldn’t be more different. The expedition leave the European... more