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45) Avalanches
Publisher
Green Planet Films
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
Anywhere on the planet where there is snow, no mountain is spared. Depending on the type of snow, the weather and the slope, an avalanche can reach incredible speeds: more than 300km per hour. A small avalanche can exert the same amount of pressure as a cyclone. Researchers and security experts have set up techniques to detect dangerous areas and limit their impact.
Publisher
The Orchard
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
For the past 35 years, Jeff Voth has led his sons and other groups of men on an annual backpacking trip into the Colorado Rocky Mountains. This trip has become a legendary, masculine benchmark. Learning life-skills, trout fishing, extreme physical fatigue and the sharing of deep heart-felt secrets in sometimes beautiful, sometimes terrifying alpine backdrop has etched this event indelibly into these men's lives. They would each tell you that they...
Publisher
Green Planet Films
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
Iceland, Indonesia, South America, the Reunion Island… The threat of volcanic eruptions never ceases to hound those who have chosen to live at the feet of volcanos on continents the world over. This documentary series focuses on the science behind natural catastrophes and helps audiences to understand these spectacular moments of Earth’s anger.
Publisher
Green Planet Films
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
Raging mega fires that burn for months. Super eruptions with the potential of a Hiroshima bomb exploding every two or three minutes. Asteroid strikes so violent they wiped out entire species. Devastating tsunamis, tornadoes and earthquakes... This six-part series explores the science behind natural disasters in search of a deeper understanding. Through animated graphics, interviews with scientists and eyewitnesses, and stunning images, it brings these...
Publisher
Films We Like
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
What does it take to carve out a career as a poet? Why on earth would anyone attempt it? AL PURDY WAS HERE is the portrait of an artist driven to become a great Canadian poet at a time when the category barely existed. Al Purdy is a charismatic tower of contradictions: a "sensitive man" who whips out a poem in a bar fight; a factory worker who finds grace in an Arctic flower; a mentor to young writers who remained a stranger to sons. Purdy has been...
52) Tornadoes
Publisher
Green Planet Films
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
The U.S. is affected by 1,200 tornadoes every year and this phenomenon is growing all over the world. With wind speeds inside their vortex reaching up to 500 km per hour and traveling at the speed of a high-speed train, tornadoes are capable of destroying everything in their path. But how do they start? How can we predict them and minimize their destruction? Is global warming responsible for their increasing frequency?
53) Earthquakes
Publisher
Green Planet Films
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
With teams of experts tracking them all over the world, earthquakes are one of the most heavily-monitored natural phenomenons. Despite this, in places such as Haiti, Nepal and Italy, they continue to be devastating and deadly. But what causes this destructive force of nature and can we minimize destruction? This documentary series focuses on the science behind natural catastrophes and helps audiences to understand these spectacular moments of Earth’s...
54) Mega Fires
Publisher
Green Planet Films
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
Devastating forest fires rage across California, and enormous fires reach the doors of major European cities… But these gargantuan fires are often impossible to stop without rainfall. With every new dry season, these fires devour the world’s forests and increasingly threaten human lives and homes. This documentary series focuses on the science behind natural catastrophes and helps audiences to understand these spectacular moments of Earth’s...
55) Lightning
Publisher
Green Planet Films
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
With new scientific knowledge, we know how electrical charges inside clouds are created, and new technology can monitor lightning moving through the sky. However, it can hit anything, anywhere, at any time…and it cannot be stopped. Nowhere is unaffected by this devastating and frightening natural.
56) Wild Metropolis
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
Examine the world’s most extraordinary wildlife living in the fastest changing habitat on the planet – cities. This 3-part series features a diverse cast of animals that are adjusting to this new world better than we could have predicted.
Author
Description
"No stranger to wildlife, Nick Jans had lived in Alaska for nearly thirty years. But when one evening at twilight a lone black wolf ambled into view not far from his doorstep, Nick would finally come to know this mystical species--up close as never before. [This book tells the] story of a wolf who returned again and again to interact with the people and dogs of Juneau, living on the edges of their community, engaging in an improbable, awe-inspiring...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
A collection of training video about naturalistic outdoor learning within nature kindergartens, forest schools and woodland camps, the Outdoor learning: a year at Auchlone collection (presented and narrated by Claire Warden) was filmed on location at Auchlone Nature Kindergarten in Perthshire, Scotland. Claire Warden presents and shares her practice, philosophy and expertise that underpins the award winning Auchlone Nature Kindergarten in Scotland....
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