Category: Nature & Wildlife

Searching for the Coast Wolves

This is a story of one woman’s passion for wolves. Gudrun Pflueger is an ex-world champion cross-country skier and long distance runner. For the last six years, she has been studying wolves in the wild of Canada collecting field data, hair, droppings, and other evidence for use in scientific projects on wolves. In this film,…


Christmas Winter Wonderland: How Animals Survive the Winter

Winter casts a very special, magical spell. It’s a time for traditions and customs: snowmen come to life, and Santas wander through brightly lit Christmas markets, much to the delight of the children. But indigenous animal life pays no heed to this human idyll. For them, winter is a time of austerity. Squirrels, boars, and…


The US East Coast: Surf and Turf

New Hampshire has only 19 kilometers of coastline and short summers, all the more reason Shauna Fraser takes every opportunity to be by the sea. In the sheltered harbor of Rye, Shauna also targets inner attitude with yoga on a paddleboard. In southern Maine, Mike LaVecchia produces surfboards entirely from wood. To achieve good handling…


Deadly Game: From Cute to Killer

To go from cute to killer is no mean feat, but mini monsters are born in all shapes and sizes. From the day of their birth, predatory animals embark on a long, tough path of training; they must master their mother’s skills until they too are equipped to go in for the kill. Despite their…


Detecting Danger: Africa’s Giant Rats

Miss Marple has a remarkable nose for danger. She is a rat, and she detects landmines by smelling them. She was born in the training lab of the Belgian company Apopo in Tanzania. Here, African giant rats—the size of a cat—are taught to sniff out explosives hidden in the ground. After a year’s training, she…


Raccoons–Curse or blessing?

Once raccoons were brought to Germany because they were needed. Today many people wish them gone. Plenty of horror stories circulate. This film explains what can be believed. Allegedly raccoons feed on anything and anyone. In a way that is true. They are omnivores. But most of the stories about their gluttony belong in the…


Spectacular Underwater World in the Northwest of France

Some have called the coast of Brittany the Riviera of the North. The many coves with white sandy beaches appear to be idyllic, but the Atlantic here in the northwest of France is rarely calm. The tidal range can be up to six meters; that is up to three times as high as on the…


The Return of the Predators

They’re back: the wolf, lynx, and bear. In the heart of Europe, from the Arctic Circle to the Mediterranean—and they are spreading fast. They know no borders and animal filmmaker Holger Vogt was aware that he was tackling quite a controversial subject. Wherever the large predators appear, society is divided into pros and contras. On…


Hunting and Being Hunted in Kenya’s Masai Mara

The Mara River, nature’s best-laid trap for migratory animals, is the stage for a grandiose spectacle. When food supply in the Serengeti dwindles, the Masai Mara is a paradise for predators. As the black wildebeests, gazelles, zebras, and antelopes make their yearly trip from the south of the Serengeti to the north, nature’s best-laid trap,…


The Land of Majestic Volcanoes, Seething Geysers, Powerful Waterfalls, & Threatening Fjords

This documentary is a scenic expedition through Iceland’s majestic volcanoes, seething geysers, powerful waterfalls, threatening fjords, and almighty glaciers. Hardly any other country offers such a variety of spectacular forces of nature! But not only that, this island offers its people a bout of freedom and equality that puts it on the list as the…