Wild Russia

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.

Russia can be a location of superlatives proving that size does issue. Couple of countries are residence to this kind of extraordinary mammals: the Amur Tiger may be the world’s biggest cat; the Polar Bear could be the world’s biggest land predator; enormous brown bears scour the rivers in search of salmon.

The Russian skies are home towards the world’s largest owl and majestic sea eagles. In the freezing northern waters, walruses and Beluga whales hunt for fish.

It also gives a refuge for some for some extremely rare species – including the lovely and elusive Amur Leopard.

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.

This is one of the very best IMAX films ever produced, and one of the best documentaries- in ANY format- on the Amazon ecosystem in all its glory. It is simply unsurpassed in its depiction of the awe-inspiring variety and scale of these legendary forests; all that’s missing is the heat & humidity.

Rather than the usual stupefying one-note narratives of conventional IMAX films, this one has real stories about fascinating people. The photography is stunning, the music is excellent, and the price is unbelievably fair. You can’t miss with this one.

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.

Fergus becomes just another member of the dazzling community of birds and animals surrounding the harpy nest and develops an unexpectedly close bond with the chick.

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.

The earthquake was brought on by subduction and triggered a sequence of devastating tsunamis along the coasts of most landmasses bordering the Indian Ocean, killing around 230,000 men and women in fourteen nations, and inundating coastal communities with waves as much as 30 meters (100 ft) large.

It was 1 from the deadliest natural disasters in recorded background. Indonesia was the hardest hit, followed by Sri Lanka, India, and Thailand.

Having a magnitude of between 9.one and 9.three, it really is the 3rd largest earthquake ever recorded on a seismograph. This earthquake had the longest duration of faulting ever observed, in between eight.three and 10 minutes.

It caused the whole planet to vibrate as much as 1 cm (0.four inches) and triggered other earthquakes as significantly away as Alaska. Its hypo-center was between Simeulue and mainland Indonesia.

The plight with the a lot of affected folks and nations prompted a throughout the world humanitarian response. In all, the around the world community donated much more than $14 billion (2004 U.S. dollars) in humanitarian help.

Ganges

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.

Over the program of 3 episodes, the series is offered as a journey through the supply of your river within the large Himalaya to its delta on the Bay of Bengal.

Daughter of your Mountains. The 1st episode begins in the Gangotri Glacier in the Indian Himalaya, regarded as the accurate supply of your Ganges, and follows the river a hundred and fifty miles downstream via the mountain valleys towards the edge with the north Indian floodplain and also the holy metropolis of Haridwar.

River of Life. Beyond the mountains, the fast-flowing river slows and spreads out over the plains, forming a marshy grassland known as the Terai. Animals featured include the uncommon Indian rhinoceros and Ganges river dolphin, but in these polluted and crowded waters their long term is uncertain.

Waterland. The Ganges eventually flows in to the Brahmaputra and drains into the Bay of Bengal by way of a large delta. Within the coastal mangroves of your Sundarbans the locals share an uneasy existence with tigers.

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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.

Their time inside the womb has uniquely formed both animals. From your extraordinary shock-absorption system that protects lion fetuses in the course of the hunt towards the canals inside a cat’s inner ear that allow them to land on their ft -protecting them from practically any fall.

The cat family joined by predation, separated by dimension and expertise. One built for the complexity of man’s property; the other for your difficulties with the open savannah.

Each whisker, every feature, each joint and limb sculpted by the planet we call its womb.

In a very television very first making use of remarkable animation and images, plus scientifically correct models and extraordinary 4D ultrasound, we show a lion embryo for the first time, and cats operating and stretching just before beginning.

From teeth strong adequate to crack a brick to the internal ear that gives a cat these kinds of extraordinary stability. This could be the story of how two very different animals emerge from lifestyle inside the womb.

The disc they found combines an advanced understanding of the stars with some of the most sophisticated religious imagery of the age.

In intellectual achievement and also age, it surpasses anything yet found in Egypt or Greece. It seems that civilization had already dawned in North Central Europe.

The Nebra Sky Disc is a bronze disc inlaid with gold symbols, associatively dated to c. 1600 BCE. The symbols are interpreted generally as a sun or full moon, a lunar crescent, and stars (including a cluster interpreted as the Pleiades).

Two golden arcs along the sides, marking the angle between the solstices, were added later. A final addition was another arc at the bottom surrounded with multiple strokes (of uncertain meaning, variously interpreted as a Solar ship with numerous oars or as the Milky Way).

The disc is unlike any known artistic style from the period, and had initially been suspected of being a forgery, but is now widely accepted as authentic.

The creators of the disc have been associated with the Bronze Age Unetice culture. Their physical type, which matches that of the preceding Corded Ware people, is still commonly found in North Central Europe today.

Hydrodynamic patterns in the culture area suggest that these people were speakers of Indo-European, with pre-Germanic dialects in the area to the north of the Ore Mountains, including the site of discovery.

She presents a series of geological, archaeological and historical clues to show that the legend of Atlantis was inspired by a real historical event – the greatest natural disaster of the ancient world.

She is tracing the origins of the Atlantis myth and presenting evidence that the Thera eruption inspired Plato’s account of the mystical land.

2,400 years ago Greek philosopher Plato wrote of an ancient island civilization of unparalleled wealth and splendor, which was struck by earthquakes and floods and was swallowed up by the sea in one grievous day and night.

“But afterwards there occurred violent earthquakes and floods; and in a single day and night of misfortune all your warlike men in a body sank into the earth, and the island of Atlantis in like manner disappeared in the depths of the sea. For which reason the sea in those parts is impassable and impenetrable, because there is a shoal of mud in the way; and this was caused by the subsidence of the island.” (Plato, as translated by Benjamin Jowett).

In a feature-length special, hosted by renowned magician Lance Burton, we explore the life and magic of the great escape artist through his most prized possessions.

The Chinese Water Torture Cell, the Milkcan, his straitjackets and handcuffs, and lock-picks that were key to his handcuff escapes, revealed to the public for the first time.

We also unlock secrets of the man – brash showman, fierce competitor, loyal son and husband. With expert commentary, including a great-nephew and the last surviving member of his magic troop.

Around midnight between January 19-20 NORAD (North American Air Defense Command) contacts their Brazilian alike CINDACTA (Integrated Center on Air Defense and Air Traffic Control) and warns them of a UFO coming down over southern parts of Minas Gerais state.

This is witnessed and leaked by both a Brazilian Air Force man and an employee at the radar facility at Air Force Base VI Comar, who received the information, all this according to John Carpenter and Ricardo Varela Correa.

The farmworkers couple Augusta and Eurico Rodrigues were wakened by the roams of the farm cows and sheep. As they looked out the window to see what was up they saw the animals running from one side to the other. As they looked up the sky they saw a silent UFO without lights. John Carpenter gives us an image of the UFO:

“It was a submarine-shaped “mini-bus” that was trembling like a curtain and emitting smoke or fog as it descended to at least 5 meters above the ground. A military witness now admits that it crashed and he was part of the debris retrieval. Material was twisted and lightweight.”

The Rodrigues couple’s farm is placed in a coffee district located 10 kilometers (6 miles) northwest from the town of Varginha, midway between Varginha and Tres Coracoes. The house sits at the edge of the road. And the UFO is believed to have crashed between 1:30 AM and 5:00 AM that night.