Calling All Aliens

Length: 2 x 50'

It is one of the biggest mysteries of our time: Are we alone in the universe? Hollywood has already given its own answer. After close encounters of the third kind such as "E.T", scientists have now taken up the hunt for real aliens.

Egypt's Sunken Treasures

Length: 50'

In the spring of 2006, fantastic treasures from the realm of the Pharaohs are shown for the first time in Europe. Berlin hosts the exhibition "Egypt’s Sunken Treasures” with the priceless artefacts brought to the surface by the world-famous underwater archaeologist Franck Goddio during his expeditions off the Mediterranean coast of Egypt.

How to Build a Rainforest

Length: 54'

One man fighting against the destruction of the rainforest and the extinction of the orangutan. The rainforest used to cover 20 percent of the Earth. Today, two thirds of this fascinating and - in parts - unexplored region have disappeared. Man needed oil, coal, wood and space and recklessly took what he could. Man’s exploitation of nature has had consequences - drought, infertile grass wastelands and groundwater polluted by pesticides.

China's Legacy

Trade War on the High Seas

Length: 52'

Globalization and world trade are not modern comforts. Already in the Middle Ages, the Chinese crossed the sea in search for new markets. Later they were followed by the Spaniards, Portuguese, Dutch and English, who often violently tried to get a hold of the gold, spices, silk and treasuries.

Grissoms Gold

Length: 50'

GRISSOMS GOLD is a record of a voyage to the depths of the Bermuda Triangle in search of treasure. The prize is Spanish silver and Portuguese gold. But the wreck lies five kilometres below the surface – at the outer limits of what today’s manned submersibles can achieve.

Locusts

Science of the Plague

Length: 50'

They travel with the wind in enormous swarms and attack every green plant in their sight, eating everything bare within minutes. Locusts are a plague and highly damaging to agriculture – particularly in Africa, as most people tend to believe. Very few know that locusts can also be useful and that many ecosystems would not be able to function properly without them.

Lost off Mozambique

Discovery of Francisco Da Gama’s Ship

Length: 50'

It has been lost for nearly four hundred years, but since early May 2005, it has returned to daylight: The legendary silver treasure of Philip III, King of Spain and Portugal, that once perished with the São José in a furious battle off the Mozambique coast in 1622.More than 18,000 silver coins so far – that is the number Count Nikolaus Sandizell has never even dreamt of achieving.

The Retreat of the Ice Giants

Alpine Glaciers and their Secrets

Length: 54'

In the summer of 2003, the Vernagtferner glacier lost as much meltwater daily as the entire metropolitan area of Munich consumes in one day, namely 350 million litres. In recent years, the speed of glacial flow has decreased substantially, which can also be seen in the declining number of crevasses. Mighty ice caves forming at the edges of glacier snouts are a further indicator.