Language: English
44 Min | 1280 x 720 | XviD - 7300Kbps | 23.976fps | ACC - 48.0KHz | 3.22 GiB Genre: Documentary
Alvin, a deep-sea mechanized probe, makes a voyage some 12,000 feet underwater to explore the Azores, a constantly-erupting volcanic rift between Europe and North America.
Language: English
41 Min | 1280 x 720 | XviD - 6967Kbps | 23.976fps | ACC - 48.0KHz | 2.65 GiB Genre: Documentary
Offers audiences an up-close encounter with the Lions and Tigers of the Ocean. Come face-to-face with a multitude of shark species, including the Great White, Hammerhead, and Whale Shark. Witness them as they really are: not wicked man-eating creatures, but wild, fascinating and endangered animals that have been in existence a million years before dinosaurs roamed the Earth. Join a team of ocean explorers on a round-the-globe expedition documenting the life of the ultimate predator.
Language: English
108 Min | 1280 x 548 | XviD - 5121Kbps | 23.976fps | ACC - 48.0KHz | 4.86 GiB Genre: Documentary
'Inside Job' provides a comprehensive analysis of the global financial crisis of 2008, which at a cost over $20 trillion, caused millions of people to lose their jobs and homes in the worst recession since the Great Depression, and nearly resulted in a global financial collapse. Through exhaustive research and extensive interviews with key financial insiders, politicians, journalists, and academics, the film traces the rise of a rogue industry which has corrupted politics, regulation, and academia. It was made on location in the United States, Iceland, England, France, Singapore, and China.
Language: English
86 Min | 1280 x 720 | XviD - 10.1Mbps | 25.000fps | ACC - 48.0KHz | 7.29 GiB Genre: Documentary
Deep Blue is an epic cinematic roller coaster ride whose images will mesmerise viewers with their beauty and stun them with their grandeur. Intensifying the film's impact is a new, full orchestral score composed specifically for Deep Blue by five-time Oscar nominee George Fenton (Gandhi, Cry Freedom) and recorded by the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra - their first ever recording of a film score. The film is narrated by acclaimed film and stage actor Michael Gambon.
Language: English
46 Min | 1280 x 720 | XviD - 7191Kbps | 23.976fps | ACC - 1510Kbps | 2.87 GiB Genre: Documentary
Take a once in a lifetime journey across the South Pacific for a spectacular IMAX adventure. Joy; ecstasy; a spiritual high: these words describe the exhilaration of diving a pristine coral reef, and ocean explorers Howard and Michele Hall bring their love of the ocean into action. With Jean-Michael Cousteau, deep reef scientist Richard Pyle and Fijian diver Rusi Vulakoro, they explore and capture on film the dazzling underwater world of coral reefs, magical places here on Earth. This tropical excursion through the South Pacific will surprise and delight you as you fall in love with the reefs, and your heart will ache at the tragic, irretrievable loss of these fragile worlds.
Recognized as a UNESCO World Heritage famous African Serengeti National Park is a very unique natural ecosystem, so far almost no influence of the affected person.
Wild Asia Between Two Worlds (2010) BluRay 1080i AVC DTS-HD 5.1-HDClub
English | 00:57:56 | .M2TS/H264 | 1920x1080 | 10.42fps 33528 Kbps | DTS-HD MA 5.1 2996 Kbps 48.0khz | 12.69 GiB Genre: Documentary
n many Asian cities, wild animals have been a part of people's everyday lives for centuries. In the Northern Indian city of Bharatpur, tribes of rhesus macaques have, for generations, had their lives and diets dictated by the city's human inhabitants. But most truly wild animals have stay behind the city limits and, as more and more wilderness is cultivated to feed expanding populations, life has become much harder for these wild animals living on the margins of the human world. On this DVD, you will meet golden jackals, toque macaques, elephants and more.
Wild Asia: A Forest for All Seasons (2010) BluRay 1080i AVC DTS-HD 5.1-HDClub
English | 50min | .M2TS/H264 | 1920x1080 | 29.97fps 33828 Kbps | DTS-HD 5.1 448 Kbps 48.0khz | 13.11 GiB Genre: Documentary
The award winning series featured on Discovery HD and Animal Planet! The far northern regions of Asia are dominated by long, bitter winters. To the south, in contrast, tropical Asia is dominated by continual heat and humidity. And between these two extremes lies a different world. Stretching from the foothills of the Himalaya in the west to the islands of Japan in the east, Asia's temperate forests are home to plants and creatures that have to find a way of living with both extremes--heat and cold--adapting their lives to the four seasons.
A journey into the land of sharks. The old myth of swimming killing machines is put against the true nature of those rather peaceful hunters, whose evolution ended in biological perfection millions of years ago. We accompany expeditions of Dr. Eugenie Clark and Rodney Fox, who have studied sharks since the 1950's.
If the British can claim such stellar documentaries as Planet Earth as among their country's finest television exports, it probably shouldn't come as much surprise that the French are also making their own forays into nature series, as evidenced by the appealing set of Earth from Above documentaries which have been licensed by American distributor Questar. Based on the best-selling book by hot air balloonist, photographer and ecologist Yann Arthus-Bertrand, this series evidently migrated to British television itself, as this episode features lovely English accented voice work substituting for the original French of Arthus-Bertrand and supposedly an original French narrator. But the series' French origins are unmistakable, as several French references are scattered throughout this episode. While the Questar packaging labels this episode variously as Life and Biodiversity, the closing credits on the episode itself feature the rather lengthy title Earth From Above: Everything is Living and Everything is Linked. The episode may seem a bit haphazard as one moves through it, especially on the first go-round, but Arthus-Bertrand attempts at least to tie everything together in the final moments, thanking the many people with whom he comes into contact throughout the episode for their efforts in helping to educate the public about the dangers our planet currently faces from any number of ecological threats. If Earth from Above, the picture book, presented our planet in all its glory from a distance, as it were, this series gets down and dirty (so to speak) with a ground level look at several threats we're all facing, whether or not we know about them.
Writer: Melanie Finn
Directors: Matthew Aeberhard, Leander Ward
Stars: Zabou Breitman and Mariella Frostrup
Release Date: 17 December 2008 Genre: Documentary
The Crimson Wing: Mystery of the Flamingos (French: Les Ailes pourpres : le mystère des flamants) is a 2008 British-French-American nature documentary from the Walt Disney Company's wildlife film label Disneynature. It was premiered in France on 26 October 2008 and was released in the UK in September 2009.
The Greatest Places begins by noting that Earth is "the most diverse planet in the solar system," and impressive computer-generated graphics depict the very early history of the planet, showing vividly how geological events formed the continents. Particular sites around the world (the "greatest places" of the title) are then visited, and some dazzling cinematography displays the exotic locations spectacularly. A trip into the jungles of Madagascar demonstrates how the island, isolated as it was for 40 million years, developed unique wildlife, including many species of lemurs. High atop the Tibetan plateau, nomads are seen herding yaks and Buddhist pilgrims are filmed against the stunning peaks of the Himalayas. A "holy lake" in Tibet dissolves into a shot of the mighty Amazon River, and the ecosystem of the South American jungle is explored. And the world's largest island, Greenland, is scanned by cameras that linger on the sheer enormity of glaciers as well as on the native peoples who manage to live at extreme low temperatures. Near the end of the film the narrator notes that "life is a reflection of the landscape." And the breathtaking film shot in these remote but magnificent locales does demonstrate beautifully the awesome diversity of both landscape and life on Earth.
Legends of Flight 3D is a film that will not only delight and entertain the aviation enthusiast but also educate and inspired renewed interest in aviation by the traveling public, the media and young people who may ultimately aspire to a career in aviation. It dramatized the design challenged, the financial risks and the many lessons learned from a century of aviation trial and error, bringing us to the dawn of a new era of revolutionary aircraft, the 787 Dreamliner and the A380. The film will focus on the 787 to facilitate audience understanding of the dynamic design differences between the two latest aircraft technologies. Search aviation history for the ultimate flying experience with some of today's greatest pilots. See how the airplanes of the 20th century helped influence the radical new design of 21st century aircraft. See how high tech manufacturers around the world use modern technology to coordinate the design and construction of new aircraft. Fly in the cockpit with chief test pilot, Mike Carriker, as he takes the new 787 Dreamliner on its first test flight.
