Kilimanjaro - To the Roof of Africa (2002)

Harry es un escritor que resulta herido en un accidente durante un safari cerca del Kilimanjaro. Mientras espera la llegada del equipo de rescate, hace un repaso de los momentos más importantes de su vida.

Durante la Primera Guerra Mundial, un capitán de barco con tendencia a la bebida y una estirada misionera huyen de las tropas alemanas en una ruinosa embarcación y se ven obligados a remontar un peligroso río. Son, a primera vista, dos seres antagónicos, incompatibles, pero la convivencia y, sobre todo, las penalidades que tendrán que afrontar juntos para sobrevivir harán cambiar radicalmente su relación.

Acompañaremos al flamenco africano por su ciclo vital, muy ligado a los proceso naturales ocurridos en el lago Natron, Tanzania. Su alta concentración en carbonato sódico, provocado por fenómenos eruptivos del volcán Lengai, convierten la zona en un lugar inhóspito excepto para los flamencos. Éstos encuentra en las formaciones salinas un lugar ideal para resurgir de las cenizas como el ave Fénix. Un magistral documental, lleno de imágenes inolvidables acompañadas por una banda sonora exquisita. De una sensibilidad extrema, directa al corazón.

Este documental nos cuenta la historia de las primeras exploraciones e investigaciones de Jane Goodall en Tanzania, con especial hincapié en su trabajo de campo innovador, en su relación con su cámara y marido, Hugo van Lawick, y en los chimpancés que estudiaba, todo con el apoyo de nuevas imágenes que nunca habían visto la luz.

Five Kiwis take on a paragliding adventure in Tanzania, with the ultimate aim to fly from the summit of Mt Kilimanjaro.

Dos niños y su perro deben utilizar todas sus habilidades para sobrevivir en la selva africana después de un accidente de aviación.

For years, Doug Collins has been wading through a routine unsatisfying job and an increasingly miserable relationship. After his girlfriend moves out, Doug pushes himself to live a more fulfilling life starting with a trek to the summit of Mt. Kilimanjaro.

Exploring some of the most remote and spectacular places on Earth, five pioneering scientists make surprising discoveries that flip our understanding of nature on its head, and offer new hope for restoring our world.

Serengeti Symphony is a breathtaking look at the astounding landscape and exotic animals that make up the Serengeti National Park in Tanzania. The film accounts the daily lives and intricacies of animals such as giraffe, flamingos, leopards and cheetahs, each vivid scene flawlessly paired with a musical score written by Laurens van Rooyen. Serengeti Symphony brings the beauty of Africa to life like never before, with close up colourful images of the terrain and unimaginable glimpses of the wildlife, allowing the true character of the landscape, and the grace and spirit of every animal, to shine through.

Any unlucky carcass is dispatched in a matter of minutes by a feeding frenzy that attracts jackals and hyenas along with vultures. Scavenging insects swarm over the remaining bones and horns. While this film focuses primarily on the griffin vulture (“nature’s undertaker”), it considers the role of all scavengers in this harsh ecosystem. Generally despised as harbingers of death, they actually help maintain the health of the savannah by disposing of waste and returning nutrients to the soil.

"Serengeti Stories: The Work of Hugo van Lawick" follows the famed wildlife filmmaker and includes clips of his masterpiece, "People of the Forest," about chimpanzees and their social relationships. Also: clips of "Wild Dogs of Africa" (1972), a heroic story of survival.

Las orillas del mayor lago tropical del mundo, también considerado como la cuna de la humanidad, se han convertido en el escenario de la peor pesadilla de la globalización. En los años sesenta, en Tanzania, la perca del Nilo, un voraz depredador, fue introducida en el lago Victoria con fines científicos. Desde entonces, casi todas las poblaciones autóctonas de peces han sido diezmadas. Pero esta catástrofe ecológica dio a luz a una fructuosa industria ya que la carne blanca de la enorme perca se exporta a todo el hemisferio norte. Pescadores, políticos, pilotos rusos, prostitutas y comisarios europeos son los actores de un drama que va más allá de las fronteras de Tanzania. En el cielo, enormes aviones de carga procedentes de la ex Unión Soviética pasan por encima del lago, abriendo las puertas a un nuevo comercio: el de las armas.

Viaje hacia el Este de Africa, con más de dos millones de bestias salvajes, cebras y antílopes que viajan a más de 800 km a través de las llanuras del serengeti.

Main subject of Serengeti is the mass migration of wildebeest , which in search of nutritious grass hundreds of kilometers annually by the savannah draw. At the end of the rainy season, they break into a huge herd of over a million animals on the north. The wildebeest and other animals are joining the migration, as zebras and gazelles , continuously exposed to hazards, particularly by predators such as lions and cheetahs . A highlight of the great migration, the crossing of the Mara is: There, the wildebeest have to overcome not only meter high cliffs, they are also crocodiles delivered. With the onset of the rainy season, however, leave the wildebeest north again what had long been a mystery. The reason for this is that the grass in the north a phosphorus deficiency , and said thus wildebeest forces to retreat to the south.

Every year, on the steppes of the Serengeti, the most spectacular migration of animals on our planet: Around two million wildebeest, Burchell's zebra and Thomson's gazelles begin their tour of nearly 2,000 miles across the almost treeless savannah. For the first time, a documentary captures stunning footage in the midst of this demanding journey. The documentary starts at the beginning of the year, when more than two million animals gather in the shadow of the volcanoes on the southern edge of the Serengeti in order to birth their offspring. In just two weeks, the animal herd's population has increased by one third, and after only two days, the calves can already run as fast as the adults The young wildebeest in this phase of their life are the most vulnerable to attacks by lions, cheetahs, leopards or hyenas. The film then follows the survivors of these attacks through the next three months on their incredible journey, a trip so long that 200,000 wildebeest will not reach the end.

The film tells of the beginnings of the Serengeti National Park in Tanzania. At the end of the 1950s, the Tanzanian National Park Administration wanted to fence in the protected area around the Ngorongoro Crater. Bernhard and Michael Grzimek were invited by the national park administration in 1957 to get a precise picture of the animal migrations and to provide the national park administration with the values ​​they needed for their project. Using a new counting method with two airplanes, the Grzimeks found out that the migration of the herds was different than assumed.

Birdmen of Kilimanjaro is a documentary about the enormous feat of Bill and Steve Moyes climbing to the top of Mt Kilimanjaro in Africa and flying off in hang gliders.

Follow a group of novice hikers, including director Holly Stadtler, as they scale the slopes of Mount Kilimanjaro, Africa's highest mountain, in an effort to raise money for sick children, including Hope, a baby born 12 weeks premature. As the climbers ascend the treacherous peak, they contend with altitude sickness and injuries, finding that not all have the strength to reach the summit in this breathtaking documentary.

On a train crossing Tanzania, a rolling microcosm of East African society, we follow three main characters, reflecting on the strength to survive.

The secret life of hippos is revealed in this award-winning documentary, which follows divers into the waters of Tanzania's National Reserve. For the first time, cameras capture on film the astonishing underwater habits of these surprising creatures. A rare look at an essential part of hippo life, filmmakers Craig Huxley and Jean-Christophe Jeauffre's captivating documentary earned the Jules Verne Adventure Film Festival Audience Award.