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- DirectorOrlando von EinsiedelStarsAndré BaumaEmmanuel de MerodeMélanie GoubyA team of brave individuals risk their lives to protect the last mountain gorillas.
- DirectorElias DannerStarsAshley AdlerObadia JacksonGudluk Mariki JumaAfrica - a sparkling jewel, a continent full of life between the Indian and Atlantic Ocean. Over a length of more than 3,500 kilometers stretches one of the most fascinating geological formations through the second-largest continent of our planet - the East African Rift. Bubbling volcanos develop while in their direct vicinity zebras, gnus, lions, elephants and buffaloes go through the seemingly infinite circle of life and death. It is one of the few places where nature is still untouched. Accompany a 12-strong expedition team on the journey to the origins of our planet: Through the lively vastness of Tanzania, to the volcanicity of the Ol Doinyo Lengai, up to the crest of the highest free-standing mountain of the earth - the 5,895 meter high Kilimanjaro. A film that lets you immerse into the breathtaking nature of East Africa to show you: The earth is alive.
- DirectorJuliano Ribeiro SalgadoWim WendersStarsSebastião SalgadoWim WendersLélia Wanick SalgadoThe life and work of photographer Sebastião Salgado, who has spent forty years documenting societies in hidden corners of the world.
- DirectorDereck JoubertStarsJeremy IronsFifty years ago there were close to half-a-million lions in Africa. Today there are around 20,000. To make matters worse, lions, unlike elephants, which are far more numerous, have virtually no protection under government mandate or through international accords. This is the jumping-off point for a disturbing, well-researched and beautifully made cri de coeur from husband and wife team Dereck and Beverly Joubert, award-winning filmmakers from Botswana who have been Explorers-in-Residence at National Geographic for more than four years. Pointing to poaching as a primary threat while noting the lion's pride of place on the list for eco-tourists-an industry that brings in 200 billion dollars per year worldwide-the Jouberts build a solid case for both the moral duty we have to protect lions (as well as other threatened "big cats," tigers among them) and the economic sense such protection would make. And when one takes into account the fact that big cats are at the very top of the food chain-and that their elimination would wreak havoc on all species below them, causing a complete ecosystem collapse-the need takes on a supreme urgency.
- DirectorJamie UysStarsPaddy O'ByrneHilarious documentary on the wildlife of the Namib Desert.
- DirectorBrook Silva-BragaStarsBrahimBridgeteHowaIn Kenyan offices and Malian farms, in Moroccan tea houses and Nigerian huts normal people of various backgrounds go about their day. For them, life in the developing world isn't about desperate squalor or improbable triumph; it's a complex, imperfect existence at odds with the stunning pictures beamed out from African safaris or the sad stories written to spur donations to Western aid groups. On a single day at the messy juncture of tradition and modernity, six people from different geographic and cultural backgrounds describe six versions of the African story.
- Africa and its waters are the scene of major migrations. Seagulls are among the birds who oversee and profit from the arrival of seals and other species on breeding grounds, as in the Cape province. Storks are among the European birds who find warmer refuge in winter. Vultures and many other species find most food along the great savanna trek of wildebeest and other mammals, hunted by the great cats, hyenas, crocodiles. Flamingos are an example of internal African migratory birds.
- DirectorGreg BarkerStarsMadeleine AlbrightGromo AlexKofi AnnanStory of Rwandian genocide in 1994, 800.000 people were slaughtered by their own goverment.
- DirectorBrent E. HuffmanXiaoli ZhouThe Colony examines China's aggressive colonization of Africa. The film shows how Chinese are changing the economic landscape of the continent.
- DirectorTrisha PasrichaStarsJulio FrenkQuentin EichbaumPhilip OdonkerAccording to the WHO, Sub-Saharan Africa carries 24% of the world's burden of disease, but 3% of the health-care workforce. Within the next decade, 100 medical schools will open across Sub-Saharan Africa. But will they succeed? 'A Doctor of My Own' tells the story of the newly-opened University of Namibia School of Medicine. Fresh out of organic chemistry, students trek to the countryside, training with patients who have never met a doctor from their own country. The challenges are enormous as is the pressure. Some will leave in the brain-drain, never to return. Yet buried in the sea of endless patients and faced with unexpected responsibilities, a few may rise to find their calling. And if they do, medical education will revolutionize health-care in Africa.
- DirectorMark N. HopkinsStarsDavinder GillChiara LeporaChris BrasherIn the war-zones of Liberia and Congo, four volunteers with Doctors Without Borders struggle to provide emergency medical care under extreme conditions.
- DirectorChristopher Dillon QuinnTommy WalkerStarsPanther BiorJohn Bul DauNicole KidmanThree young men from Sudan embark on a journey to America after years of wandering Sub-Saharan Africa in search of safety.
- DirectorBarbet SchroederStarsIdi AminFidel CastroGolda MeirA documentary on the military dictator of Africa's Uganda.
- DirectorHubert SauperStarsElizabeth 'Eliza' Maganga NseseRaphael Tukiko WagaraDimond RemtuliaA documentary on the effect of fishing the Nile perch in Tanzania's Lake Victoria. The predatory fish, which has wiped out the native species, is sold in European supermarkets, while starving Tanzanian families have to make do with the leftovers.
- DirectorSean FineAndrea NixStarsDominicNancyRoseThree children living in a displacement camp in northern Uganda compete in their country's national music and dance festival.
- DirectorSuemay OramJackie Osei-TutuStarsBarbara FlynnGeorge AdamsonAnthony BourkeThis documentary tells the heart warming story of Christian, a lion cub purchased from a London department store in the late 60's and successfully released into the African wild three years later. Featuring original archive footage and photographs of Christian's life in London and Kenya, the story is told by all the key players in interviews filmed in 2009.
- StarsBobby BaileyLaren PooleJason RussellInvisible Children is an American documentary which shows the human rights abuses by the LRA (Lord's Resistance Army) in Uganda.
- DirectorKen KirbyStarsRobert BeckfordRobert Beckford visits Ghana in order to see the poverty of its people and find its causes.