Archive for the ‘Nature’ Category

Wild Russia

Wild Russia can be a landmark Substantial Definition collection charting a journey across this huge land that stretches from Europe towards the Pacific Ocean.

Covering 11 time zones, this enormous country consists of a wealth of unspoilt natural wildernesses – past the huge cities of Moscow and St. Petersburg, a primal world with rough mountain summits, wild rivers and an unmatched flora and fauna reveals itself.

By way of unprecedented entry we showcase the wild spectacle which is the Russian continent. Across six dramatic episodes we explore this various and also exotic country.

Posted by Sara on January 16th, 2011 No Comments

Amazon

Explore the mysterious Amazon through the amazing IMAX (R) experience and celebrate the beauty, vitality and wonder of this magical rain forest, which is disappearing at an alarming rate.

Filmmakers overcame many difficulties to photograph this rarely seen tropical landscape and present it with all the visual power associated with IMAX.

Narrated by Academy Award-winning actress Linda Hunt, this unique collaboration between an American scientist and a tribal shaman on a mission to find rare medicinal plants will amaze and astound you.

Posted by Sara on January 16th, 2011 No Comments

The Monkey-Eating Eagle of the Orinoco

The harpy eagle is the most powerful bird of prey in the world, plucking monkeys from the branches of the jungle canopy.

Rare and elusive, they are seldom seen, but with the discovery of a harpy nest in the remote Orinoco rainforest of Venezuela, wildlife film-maker Fergus Beeley has a unique opportunity to follow the life of a chick from birth to adulthood.

Fergus ascends high into the canopy to reveal a stunning world of colour and sound, following the trials of the harpy eagle’s newly hatched chick as it grows up.

Posted by Sara on January 16th, 2011 No Comments

Asian Tsunami Disaster

The 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake was an undersea mega-thrust earthquake that occurred at 00:58:53 UTC on December 26, 2004, with an epicenter off the west coast of Sumatra, Indonesia.

The quake by itself is recognized by the scientific neighborhood as the Sumatra-Andaman earthquake. The resulting tsunami is given numerous names, which includes the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, Asian Tsunami, Indonesian Tsunami, and Boxing Day Tsunami.

Posted by Sara on January 16th, 2011 No Comments

Ganges

Ganges can be a nature documentary sequence for television on the normal historical past with the River Ganges in India and Bangladesh.

In addition to the selection of animals and habitats that are to be found along the river’s 2,510 km (one,557 mi) attain, the programmes also feature the cultures, traditions and religions of your extremely huge human population that it supports.

For Hindus, the Ganges can be a sacred river and a location of pilgrimage, a deep affect on their religion and culture as well as being their lifeblood.

Posted by Sara on January 16th, 2011 No Comments

In the Womb – Cats

Most of us have observed ultrasound images of humans, but not felines. Get prepared. Opening a window on the wonderful journeys of two quite distinct cats: the effective lion as well as the domestic cat.

From the makers with the critically acclaimed Within the Womb and Inside the Womb – Multiples, Rocket Rights presents Within the Womb – Cats. Produced for Channel four and National Geographic Channel, this film uncovers the amazing journey from conception to delivery from the lion as well as the domestic cat.

Posted by Sara on January 16th, 2011 No Comments

The Nature of Sex

All nature’s creatures, the British novelist Graham Swift as soon as wrote, join to express nature’s objective. And that objective is illustrated in delightful and occasionally dizzying detail inside the Nature of Intercourse.

Birds, bees, and also barnacles and bare mole rats are driven to join forces to reproduce and pass along their genes on the subsequent era.

Posted by Sara on November 22nd, 2010 No Comments

Incredible Human Machine

Incredible Human Machine will take viewers on a two hour journey via an ordinary, and extraordinary, day within the existence from the human machine.

With stunning higher definition footage, radical scientific advances and powerful firsthand accounts, Extraordinary Human Machine plunges deep into the program marvels from the human body.

Via 10,000 blinks of an eye, 20,000 breaths of air and one hundred,000 beats from the heart, see the incredible and surprising, even phenomenal inner workings of our bodies on a typical day.

Posted by Sara on November 22nd, 2010 No Comments

The Unknown World

Photographer Lennart Nilsson has built a profession out of taking photos of things most folks never see.

Utilizing special microscopic lens technology, Nilsson is able to magnify the smallest creatures until they take on the look of mammoth monsters, and this documentary provides him a opportunity to convey his images to existence.

The Unknown World is centered around film footage shot by Nilsson of insects, allowing viewers to determine the bugs in a whole new viewpoint as ladybugs chase aphids, larvae take on a piece of clothes, and silverfish make their way via a house.

Posted by Sara on November 22nd, 2010 No Comments

NatureTech

NatureTech, a multi award successful sequence, explores “biomimetics” – the science of searching to nature for solutions to contemporary difficulties.

Why are blossoms by no means dirty and may we also make our vehicles that way? Why can geckos stroll around the ceiling and may we use their methods to produce much better adhesives? Why will be the spider’s internet harder than metal?

Thrilling new developments in pc technologies, chemistry and physics are now enabling us to comprehend Nature’s styles much better than ever before prior to.

Posted by Sara on November 22nd, 2010 No Comments