Lencois, located in northeastern Brazil, is known as the whitest dunes on earth. However, when the rain comes every half year, this scenery of pure white sand stretching over 150 thousand hectares completely changes. Countless lagoons are formed, creating a startling contrast between the white sand and blue water. Even fish suddenly appear in these lagoons. Where do they come from? Through a year-long coverage of Lencois, this episode reveals the truth about this surreal nature's beauty.

 Nature Documentary published by NHK broadcasted as part of NHK Nature Wonder Land series in 2008

Storm is an extraordinary wolf - the head of a pack in Canada's frozen north that hunts the giant buffalo herds. This pack came to fame in Frozen Planet and now cameraman Jeff Turner spends a year with Storm and his wolf family, learning how they survive in this harsh wilderness and whether Storm can pass his hunting skills on to the new generation of wolf cubs.

While Asiatic black bears hang from the trees and chipmunks search for food, the spotted sika deer travels to the coast to supplement its diet with kelp. The presence of deer on this open ground attracts the region's big predator, the Amur tiger. But the largest cat in the world has dangerous enemies itself: poaching and habitat destruction are an ever-present threat to tigers in the Ussuriland region of Russia.

It is an uneasy talk about the destiny of the rare cat that lives together with us, Russians, on the same land. The severe plot of the film reminds a western, but the action takes place not in the Wild West but in the Russian Far East. And the shots and cuts here are of the same despair. The killed tigers and cut down cedars fall on the ground and will never rise again. The last scene of the film is the famous picture of Vladimir Putin kissing the Amur tiger. This symbolic gesture shows the hope of thousands of people that a tiger has a chance to survive.

After camping out in one of the world’s most hostile places for over six weeks, presenter Liz Bonnin and the canny ­conversationalists finally spotted the beautiful big cats.
The filming first was part of a BBC2 wildlife documentary, Operation Snow Tiger, to be shown tonight.
Despite their light orange coats and black stripes the animals are incredibly difficult to spot, even against a white, snowy backdrop.
But they are rarely seen in the wild because, tragically, fewer than 350 Siberian tigers exist today after being targeted by poachers who can flog them on the black market for £30,000.
Once killed, a Siberian tiger’s bones are sold for Chinese medicines. Its skin will be callously hung in homes as a ­symbol of status.
Having once roamed vast tracks of northern Asia, the tigers are now ­confined to a remote part of far-eastern Russia, north of Vladivostok.

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Blue Planet is a space film about Earth. From the orbit of the U.S. space shuttle, where the curvature of the globe and the shape of its continents stand out sharply, Earth is revealed as a place of constant, even violent change. It is also delicate and fragile, unique in the solar system and possibly the entire universe. How did Earth begin? How is it changing, and what is mankind's role in these changes? Blue Planet investigates these questions with footage taken on the ocean floor, on the ground and in space, state-of-the-art computer animation and new data from satellites in geosynchronous orbit. We gain new insight into Earth, our one and only home.

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Wild Australia - The Edge, filmed on the doorstep of Australia's largest city, is about an ancient wilderness ... a labyrinth of lost worlds and magical places - beautiful and treacherous waterfalls, canyons and underground rivers, carved by streams that lead back into a world as it was ninety million years ago. In a remote ravine, 40 ancient trees survive unchanged from the age of the dinosaurs. Rappel into this world of exotic creatures and unique plant life with our modern bushwhackers.

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Alaska: Spirit of the Wild is a 70mm Academy Award-nominated American documentary film featuring the landscape and wildlife of Alaska. It is narrated by Charlton Heston and released to IMAX theaters in 1997.
Alaskan wildlife featured in the film include moose, bears, seals, wolves, caribou, and whales, while narrator Heston provides background information. The film was produced by the same IMAX filmmaking team that created Africa: The Serengeti. Similar shots of vast landscapes, which are particularly well suited for IMAX's large screen theaters, and entertaining wildlife footage is featured. Aerial photography and underwater photography techniques are utilized throughout the production.
It has been well received by critics and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Subject in 1998.

 

The Alps is a 2007 American documentary film about the climbing of the north face of the Eiger in the Bernese Alps by John Harlin III, son of John Harlin who died on the same ascent 40 years earlier. It was shot in 70mm IMAX.

 In the air above Switzerland, on the sheer rock-and-ice wall known as the Eiger, an American climber is about to embark on the most perilous and meaningful ascent he has ever undertaken: an attempt to scale the legendary mountain that took his renowned fathers life. Against a backdrop of overwhelming natural beauty, The Alps is a true-life story of extrodinary courage. It's the intensely personal journey of a man who has every reason not to climb the deadly Eiger North Face, yet climb it he must.
Featuring some of the most spectacular giantscreen imagery yet seen, the film celebrates the unsurpassed beauty of the Alps and the indomitable spirit of the people who live there.