National Parks Exploration Series: The Everglades (2011)
ジャンル : ドキュメンタリー
上映時間 : 1時間 20分
演出 : Ron Meyer
シノプシス
There is no place on the planet like the Everglades. This installment of the National Parks Exploration Series takes you to where two great biomes of life meet: the tropical and the temperate mid-latitude, which makes up much of the continental US.
Two surfers end up as Yellowstone park rangers and have to stop a former ranger who is out for revenge.
In the shady campgrounds of Yosemite valley, climbers carved out a counterculture lifestyle of dumpster-diving and wild parties that clashed with the conservative values of the National Park Service. And up on the walls, generation after generation has pushed the limits of climbing, vying amongst each other for supremacy on Yosemite's cliffs. "Valley Uprising" is the riveting, unforgettable tale of this bold rock climbing tradition in Yosemite National Park: half a century of struggle against the laws of gravity -- and the laws of the land.
垂直に切り立った数百メートルもの岩壁を、命綱や安全装置なしで登るというクライミング・スタイル“フリーソロ”のドキュメンタリー。若きクライマーのオノルドに1年密着し、前人未到の世界を克明に記録していく。
世界一周レースで優勝したダスティは、世界で一番速いレーサーという肩書を捨てて、雄大な自然が広がる山々を火災から守り抜くレスキュー隊のメンバーとなる。ベテラン隊員たちの勇気にあふれた活躍に圧倒されながらも、困難な訓練を一つずつ乗り越えていくダスティ。厳しく接する隊員たちも、ひそかに彼の奮闘を温かく見守っていた。広範囲に及ぶ山火事の現場から炎で行き場を失った車たちを抜群の連携プレーで救ったのを機に、ダスティとほかの隊員たちの絆は一つに。そんな中、彼のレスキュー隊入りの真相が明らかになり……。
南部のアーカンソー州。ドラッグの密売を手伝うカイルは仕事を紹介されてある町へ。一帯の犯罪者たちはフロッグというボスから仕事をもらっていて、カイルは悪徳パークレンジャーのブライトのもと、スインとコンビを組むことに。やがてブライトがある犯罪者の孫の男性と殺し合いになり、2人とも死亡する事態が。カイルとスインはブライトが持っていた現金4万4千ドルを奪おうとたくらむが、フロッグに妨害されないかと恐れ……。
ジョン・ウー監督のハリウッド進出第2弾は、ジョン・トラボルタの悪役ぶりが見事なハード・アクション。盗まれた核弾頭をめぐる争奪戦をスピーディに、そしてスリリングに描いている。
Werner Herzog's documentary film about the "Grizzly Man" Timothy Treadwell and what the thirteen summers in a National Park in Alaska were like in one man's attempt to protect the grizzly bears. The film is full of unique images and a look into the spirit of a man who sacrificed himself for nature.
Two young wolves at opposite ends of their pack's social order are thrown together into a foreign land and need each other to return home, but love complicates everything.
In the middle of Yosemite National Park towers El Capitan, a huge block of granite whose smoothest side, the Dawn Wall, is said to be the most difficult rock climb in the world. Tommy Caldwell didn’t see inhospitable terrain, but rather a puzzle almost a kilometer tall. In The Dawn Wall, we follow him and Kevin Jorgeson in their historic ascent to the summit.
An eighteen-foot grizzly bear figures out that humans make for a tasty treat. As a park ranger tries rallying his men to bring about the bear's capture or destruction, his efforts are thwarted by the introduction of dozens of drunken hunters into the area.
Documentary about four friends on a 3,000 mile journey across the American West on horseback.
An American family on holiday in Africa becomes lost in a game reserve and stalked by vicious killer lions.
A couple hiking out in the woods, disturb a nest of vampires.
Narrated by Academy Award winner Robert Redford, National Parks Adventure takes audiences on the ultimate off-trail adventure into the nation’s awe-inspiring great outdoors and untamed wilderness. Immersive IMAX 3D cinematography takes viewers soaring over red rock canyons, hurtling up craggy mountain peaks and into other-worldly realms found within America’s most legendary outdoor playgrounds, including Yellowstone, Glacier National Park, Yosemite, and Arches. Celebrate the 100-year anniversary of the national parks with world-class mountaineer Conrad Anker, adventure photographer Max Lowe and artist Rachel Pohl as they hike, climb and explore their way across America’s majestic parks in an action-packed expedition that will inspire the adventurer in us all.
A group of strangers come across a man dying after a car crash who proceeds to tell them about the $350,000 he buried in California. What follows is the madcap adventures of those strangers as each attempts to claim the prize for himself.
Yellowstone is a park, but it's also the deadliest volcano on Earth. Beneath it, a sleeping 'dragon' is stirring. When an earthquake opens a crack for magma to seep through, other warning signs of an eruption start popping up, but they are ignored or dismissed as 'minor'. But when they learn an eruption will happen, panic breaks out through people of the USA and the world.
In 2009 three young men were killed in a remote part of Yellowstone National Park. Authorities never found the murderer. He found them! Hours after the trio were gunned down, Dwayne Nelson confessed to the crime. Despite this Nelson was allowed to go free because of an American Constitution loophole. Documentarian Julian T. Pinder travels to Yellowstone in a compelling chase for truth behind a crime that should have rocked the nation. How did a guilty man go free? In his hunt for answers Pinder risks his own life when he finds evidence that could re-open the case years later.
Questions about the identity of an amnesiac threaten his romance with the park ranger who rescued him.
Hunters have disappeared from wildlands without a trace for hundreds of years. David Paulides presents the haunting true stories of hunters experiencing the unexplainable in the woods of North America.
A policeman tries to protect a young woman against a hit man, when she flees New York after witnessing a mob killing.