World-renowned wildlife photographer Vincent Munier and novelist Sylvain Tesson’s search, deep in the Tibetan highlands, for the Snow Leopard, notoriously one of the world’s rarest animals.
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World-renowned wildlife photographer Vincent Munier and novelist Sylvain Tesson’s search, deep in the Tibetan highlands, for the Snow Leopard, notoriously one of the world’s rarest animals.
“First We Eat” is a POV film from the eyes of Suzanne Crocker, a mother of three living in Dawson City, Yukon, inspired to pick up the camera after a road obstruction led to food shortages in the town, exposing the fragility of her family’s food chain. The family of five embark on a challenge to eat only locally sourced food for a whole year.
For our latest Top Docs we’ve teamed up with French wildlife photographer Matthieu Courdesses to bring you 10 of the best wildlife documentaries ever made.
‘2040’ is best described as an optimist’s guide to the future, starring director, narrator and presenter Damon Gameau as the science teacher every child dreams of, one that makes it fun! The result is a 90-minute blend of educational material and uplifting “fact-based dreaming”, in contrast with pretty much any other climate change documentary there is.
Matt Wolf is the director of the newly released 'Spaceship Earth', the crazy story of Biosphere 2, a wild 90s experiment where eight people tried to survive for two years within a glass structure that recreated the earth's atmosphere, along with its plant and animal life.
During lockdown, filmmaker Elliot Kennedy went back in time by delving into his catalogue of unused footage. With a smooth edit layered over the recording of a reminiscent phone conversation, he successfully brings back to life a tough two-week hike through Scotland.
Will Harris is a fourth generation cattle farmer from Bluffton, Georgia. Back in 1946, his father began using a miraculous new product on his pasture: ammonium nitrate fertiliser. By 1995, the pasture was failing, the soil was dry and the once busy Bluffton was a rust belt town that had all but disappeared.
National Geographic, The Nobel Prize and Oscar-winning filmmaker Orlando von Einsiedel have collaborated on a five-part short documentary series, celebrating the ongoing impact and influence of Nobel Peace Prize Laureates around the world.
Today’s What Are You Watching, Quarantine Edition comes from Güven in Ismir, Turkey.
At the ripe old age of 97 (95 in the film), Diana is still a force to be reckoned with. Be it on a brisk walk in the hills of Michoacan or speaking from the podium of a trendy LA food conference, her rock star charisma commands respect and interest in equal measure.
For episode 8 of What Are You Watching, Beatriz joined us from Brooklyn, New York in our latest Quarantine Edition.
In 2018 Latin America’s largest collection of natural and scientific history, the National Museum of Rio de Janeiro, burned to the ground in a what is now known to have been a wholly preventable fire. Director Marta Miskaryan became fascinated by this tragedy which has had a traumatic effect on the people of Rio, not only wiping the building from the map, but also taking with it generations of emotional attachment and fond memories.
Our next Free of the Week is best described as the most breathtaking 12 minutes you’ll witness this week. The film has now deservedly accrued over 11 million views on Youtube.
FREE OF THE WEEK
For our second edition of ‘Free of the Week’ we travel to the highlands of Northern Ethiopia to discover the uniquely symbiotic relationship between religion and the natural world. Watch it now.
Priyanka Desai is an award-winning documentary producer. Most recently, she worked with Black Rhino Creative on hit Canadian food and travel series Red Chef Revival. While on shoot, she learnt an important lesson in approaching potential film subjects.
The Kogi are the last surviving civilisation from the world of the Inca and Aztec. Their cities lie untouched, deep in the jungle of the world’s highest coastal mountains, an area nicknamed “hell” by local Colombian authorities and cocaine-farmers alike. They’re now communicating with the civilised world to deliver a dire ecological warning.
Not long ago, Jay Wilde was a walking talking paradox: a vegetarian cattle-farmer. While its true that most people resent the job they do, Jay’s was to deliver his friends to slaughter, over and over again.
Cancel your plans for tomorrow evening, there's a brand new David Attenborough nature doc series landing on Netflix that you're going to want to binge-watch instead.
The Queen’s little-known passion for trees has prompted her to launch a global campaign for the protection of forests. Join her and David Attenborough as they discuss the initiative in the Buckingham Palace gardens.
As our cities encroach on more and more natural environments, some surprising species have learnt to live alongside us - but not always harmoniously…
