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- THE LAST STAND for Trees is about saving the world's last remaining ancient forests. Using the flash-point of British Columbia's "Battle for the Trees" at FAIRY CREEK- the documentary examines the importance of keeping intact forest ecosystems: here in North America, the Amazon and around the world. Experts like Wade Davis and Leila Salazar-Lopez speak about the impact trees/plants have on our atmosphere, including Carbon sequestration and providing Oxygen for us to breathe. Incorporating unique-access footage at the front-lines of Fairy Creek protests, to block Logging of the last 3% of BC's old growth, the film does not pull punches. We hear the impassioned words of front-line forest defenders, as well as global forestry experts. The film reveals the complexity of issues facing the world: the need to protect habitat, while balancing economies and jobs, while also recognizing the rights of First Nations' people controlling resources in their territories. Finally, The Last Stand for Trees looks at solutions...both from cutting edge Silicon Valley companies building carbon-retaining technology, to things average citizens can do, to help save jungles/forests and the Planet.
- A modern team of explorers venture to the legendary "Lost World"- the remote jungle plateau of Roraima in Venezuela. Cut off from time and the jungle below, feared by natives because of "evil spirits", flying reptiles and other beasts, Roraima has sparked human imagination since the time of the 19th century explorers. Sherlock Holmes author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle based his book "The Lost World" (1912) about men and dinosaurs on the tales from early explorers to this plateau. This was the inspiration for Jurassic Park. The modern expedition team encounters the animals, people and extreme habitat on its route across the Gran Sabana and up the 9000 ft. mountain. Once there they explore a new cave system, that may well contain new forms of life.
- Biologist Niall McCann travels around the world investigating how climate change, deforestation, over-population and more are increasing human animal conflict.
- Legendary explorer Col. Percy Fawcett takes his son and friend to the Brazilian Amazon to find an ancient civilization: The Lost City of Z. In 1925, he disappears forever. Modern explorer Niall McCann travels to Brazil to solve the mystery.
- The Gulf Coast Bigfoot Research Organization is determined to hunt and kill a Bigfoot to prove to Science and the world- that the creatures are real.
- Produced for Sony Pictures/Columbia/Tri-Star's feature Film Monster House- this documentary is an investigation of "super-haunted houses" and the families that live in them. Two homes in Hartlepool England and Sublimity, Oregon are investigated and some remarkable activities filmed within these "living houses'. Features Exorcist- investigators Ralph Keeton and Nikki Austwicke in England and Martina and Todd Baker in Oregon. Filmmakers could not explain some of the bizarre events which happened during the filming of this show- which aired on Starz Television, a few nights before the premiere of Sony Pictures/Columbia-Tristar release of "Monster House"- a Spielberg-Zemeckis production.
- Biologist Mark Bowler travels to Lago Preto, Peru to study and protect the rare Red Uakari monkey. We follow Mark through dry and wet seasons in this pristine Amazon jungle preserve. Here the Red Uakari monkeys feed on the Aguaje Palm, known by locals as the "Tree of Life". As they eat, they drop the fruit and feed many other animals in the forest. The film has a simple but strong message: Save the monkey and you save the forest. Cut down it's trees and you destroy the ecosystem.
- Follows the story of Patti Henley and Brenda Lee Eager beginning as teenagers in Chicago working for Martin Luther King/Jesse Jackson's Operation Breadbasket, singing as the Piperettes.
- Plant Explorer Richard Evans Schultes was a real life Indiana Jones whose discoveries of hallucinogenic plants laid the foundation for the psychedelic sixties. Now in this two hour History Channel TV Special, his former student Wade Davis, follows in his footsteps to experience the discoveries that Schultes brought to the western world. Shot around the planet, from Canada to the Amazon, we experience rarely seen native hallucinogenic ceremonies and find out the true events leading up to the Psychedelic Sixties. Featuring author/adventurer Wade Davis ("Serpent and the Rainbow"), Dr. Andrew Weil, the Grateful Dead's Bob Weir and many others, this program tells the story of the discovery of peyote, magic mushrooms and beyond: one man's little known quest to classify the Plants of the Gods. Richard Evans Schultes revolutionized science and spawned another revolution he never imagined.
- Biologist Niall McCann travels the world to encounter some of the world's most charismatic, formidable and dangerous animals- and in so doing uncovers the background story of human-animal conflict. In Season Two, Niall helps the Gorilla Doctors heal sick or injured Mountain Gorillas in Uganda, investigates tales of giant prehistoric fish in Louisiana's bayous, collars and tracks rare tree-climbing Lions in Uganda, joins a group of gov't sanctioned snake wranglers- dealing with Florida's Python Invasion; in Africa, he visits communities terrorized by giant crocodile attacks and works with local wildlife authorities to re-locate the crocodiles far from human settlement and Niall explores Venezuela's venomous creatures and the communities that must live with them each day.
- Beyond Invention is a series about the scientists, inventors and researchers who search for truth beyond normal boundaries and shatter our illusions of reality.
- This documentary gives a rare view into the powerful, unusual masks of the Pacific Northwest coast native peoples. Host Wade Davis (author- "The Serpent and the Rainbow") takes us on an unusual journey into the mystical world of demons and dragons which are embodied in these masks.
- New Guinea, second largest island on earth, is home to over 100,000 species found nowhere else on earth, and to ancient human cultures, including the Moi people. The future of the Moi's homeland is now threatened by the Indonesian government, who are bent on the logging and development of this last frontier in New Guinea's wild east. Filmed at great personal risk, this award-winning documentary is a moving, inside look at the destruction of one of the world's fragile indigenous cultures- clinging to the last vestige of their traditional ways.
- The film follow the expansion of a wolf-rescue center that also works with at-risk and foster care youth.
- Founders of Wildlife SOS, Kartick Satayanarayan and Geeta Seshamani set out in 1999, to stop the cruel 400 year-old practice of using Sloth Bears as Dancing Bears for tourists in India. Torn from the wild as cubs, after their mothers' were killed- these bears were mutilated and trained with a rope through their muzzles to jump and dance to earn money for their handlers- the Indian Kalandar peoples. In order to stop the practice- Kartick and his team had to do more than just rescue the bears- they had to change a whole way of life for the poor people who earned a living with these animals. Now Wildlife SOS is the largest Sloth Bear rescue center in the world- a place where bears are cared for medically, physically and mentally...a tribute to the amazing legacy of Kartick and Geeta.