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- A man's story of leaving New York in 1967 to bring beer to his childhood buddies in the Army while they are fighting in Vietnam.
- When Duke Felmet murders King Verence and takes over the small country of Lancre on the Discworld, three witches are involuntarily tasked with protecting the king's baby son.
- San Francisco cab driver Pinsky finds himself in possession of a monkey that is carrying a formula for turning atomic waste into a plutonium bomb. He is framed for a murder and chased all over town by people trying to get the formula.
- Gods in Shackles is an expose revealing the dark side of the Indian state of Kerala's glamorous cultural festivities that exploit temple elephants for profit in the name of culture and religion.
- Short actuality film which documents the passage of a Ringling Brothers circus parade through a prosperous Black community in Indianapolis.
- In the beginning, there was sound. It has been used throughout history as a transformational tool in ceremonies, celebrations and even in times of war. It can soothe us in the form of a gentle rain or create anxiety invoked by blaring sirens passing by. Will sound, vibration and frequency be the medicine of the future? What if your words could literally change the world around you? Are we capable of healing through sound vibration? From plants to outer space, GOING OM explores the secrets and power of sound.
- The Pink Panther is a traveling Pied Piper who encounters an old English village home besieged by pesky rodents. For a fee, he uses a tune on his enchanted flute to induce one of the troublesome mice to follow him out of the village, but when his mouth dries and he become desperate for breath, the Pink Panther stops playing the flute, and the mouse scurries back to the house it was plaguing. The enraged home-owner refuses to allow the panther to try again and buys a house-cat to combat the rodent. Fearing for his reputation, the Pink Panther acts to circumvent the cat and lure the mouse and its entire large family out of the house, direct to his own humble abode, where the mooching mice eat all of his food. The panther decides to become a drummer instead and attracts a parade of elephants from a zoo, which follow him against his will, and the lead mouse helps the panther by scaring the elephants away.
- The Maasai Community from Laikipia, up North in Kenya were moved to the Eelenkay Area of the Amboseli Ecosystem by the colonial masters in the 1900s. This was to create space for the European Settlers to farm in the arable lands of Laikipia. In Eselenkay, the Maasai would have to fight for grazing space with Elephants, who were already part of this ecosystem. In the 1970s, human-wildlife conflict, poaching and hunting resulted in the entire Elephant population in the area being wiped out, the few remaining would migrate to the Amboseli National Park, a safe haven for Elephants. The entire habitat of Eselenkay would get dilapidated and destroyed. There would be mass overgrazing in the area and invasive weed species would take over the land. In 2004 Jake Grieves - Cook, through his company Gamewatchers Safaris, approached the Eselenkay community to set up a wildlife conservancy within their community land; a first of its kind. A conservancy that would be run by the community, and they would directly benefit from it; however, there were no Elephants in the area. Would this work? Waterholes were created, and road networks built. The community would collect Elephant dung and place it strategically from Amboseli National Park all the way to Selenkay Conservancy. In 2007, after over 20 years, the first Elephants retuned to Selenkay Conservancy. Today there are over 300 Elephants in the Conservancy; and the population is growing. We also discover the initiatives taken by the community and Gamewatchers to educate the youth in the area and how this model has created a win-win situation for both the community and Gamewatchers Safaris. Today, a habitat has been restored, and the Maasai Community in the Eselenkay has realized the value of Elephants and other wildlife. As a result of this, through tourism, they are benefitting from wildlife conservation, a form of alternative land use, by setting aside land for a conservancy and not grazing cattle here. The Elephants, an endangered species, now have open spaces to roam and graze, and live peacefully alongside the Maasai. The Amboseli Ecosystem and many other areas around Kenya is now facing land demarcation, and there is a lot of sub-division going around. It is vital that open spaces remain and no fencing be done, so that wildlife can also move around freely. This documentary showcases that it is possible to set up wildlife conservancies and alternative land use and communities can run these conservancies and also directly benefit from their existence. It also gives us hope, that mankind can reverse destruction brought to habitats and restore ecosystems and conserve our wildlife.
- The subject opens with some culinary trickery of an amusing sort, and a clash between a pet cat and the dog. Next comes the news that Hughie has been left a legacy of $100,000.00 conditional upon his maintaining the pets left by his dying Uncle. The family start out in their "Fierce-Arrow" to claim the pets and the legacy. To their horror the Express Agent delivers two full grown elephants as the pets. At once it is evident that the legacy is not an unmixed blessing. On the way home the elephants become somewhat obstreperous and clean out a fruit stand, etc. Exhausted with his efforts in getting the pets home, Hughie falls into an uneasy slumber in which he has a vivid nightmare of oriental splendor which the audience enjoys with him. While engaged in a terrific struggle with a leopard he awakens to find that he is shaking his wife, who is protesting in kind. Then come some perfectly hilarious scenes of the elephants entering and taking possession of a hotel, where they proceed to traverse the corridors, enter the sleeping and bath rooms and even crash through the walls, thus producing a series of extremely funny situations among the panic-stricken guests.
- So, the biggest danger to elephants - besides the existence of animal rightists - comes from the elephants themselves and they are wiping out all other species's chance on survival.
- Felix the Cat is flung to India by a blast of water, there he is chased by tigers, charms snakes, and rescues a elephant he takes home to the circus.
- A beautiful woman arrives at the depot of a circus train and begins a friendship with a big top roustabout.
- Apparitions, mystical presences and lost stories from São Paulo and Rangoon are discovered over the course of a summer, probably, in the future.
- The bomb squad, Pfish and Chip, face yet another clown bomber, Blammo. It isn't easy when they have to watch and protect the chief's teddy bear whilst trying to stop the clown.
- Project XX examines American life in the 1930s from the Depression and election of Franklin D. Roosevelt to the eve of World War II.
- Beginning of the journey in Bulawayo (Zimbabwe): Philippe goes to the railway station: at the ticket counter a very charming employee sells him his ticket: Philippe asks her why she is so friendly and she answers that all her life she has being smiling and friendly.Then Philippe takes the night train to Hwange (12 hours of travel): Philippe meets a lady who spoke about the different languages (Ndebele, Shona,etc) in Zimbabwe.Suddenly the train stops in the middle of the countryside and the lady and another passenger go out of train and will walk for 5 hours to their village.On the morning Philippe enjoys the landscape of the savanna and has a little talk with the train driver who enjoys every day to see wild animals.At Hwange Philippe goes to the Hwange National Park (the greatest park of Zimbabwe with 14.600 square kilometers) and enjoys the sight of wild animals.Later he meets Mposi, a 71 years old medicine man who prepares love potions from baboon urine.Then Philippe takes the train to the Victoria falls: a walk through a dense wet forest and then Philippe sees the famous Victoria Falls: a great moment.Then Philippe takes the train to Livingstone in Zambia.There a treasure: a steam locomotive (1924) goes twice a weak to the Victoria Falls on the Zambian side.A train with wooden wagons who stops on the bridge between both countries and again the sight over the the Victoria Falls.Later Philippe meets Tom, a country boy who knows well the Zambeze river, they go by boat near the falls and enjoy a moment in a swimming pool at the edge the falls.Later Philippe takes the Tanzara (Tanzania.Zambia-Railway) from Kapiri Mposhi to Serenje: in the train a Zambian man explains him that he is selling dried caterpillars (Philippe tries to eat one, but he is not convinced), later in the dining car men are explaining him that in Zambia they eat using their hands instead of forks, a better way to feel the food.At Serenje Philippe goes to the Kasanka National Park and meets there Frank who invites him to see the straw-colored fruit bats who have migrated to this parks from the Democratic Republic of Congo and Centralafrican Republic; about 1 million of these bats stay here for two months: a very great moment of the journey.
- Beginning of the journey in Cape Town: on a hill near Cape Town Ismaël meets Siviwe Mbinda, they look around and see the Table Mountain, the Robben Island and also the Cape Town Stadium at Green Point (built for the 2010 FIFA World Cup), then they cross the famous neighborhood of Bo-Kaap with the colorful houses: in the butchery Armand Viljoen proposes them the "bilton", dried meat of beef, kudu or springbok.Then Siviwe and Ismaël speak about the apartheid and they go to the township of Longa where Siviwe is born: They meet Isabella Nordenfjord, the companion of Siviwe and visit the township: in a container a family has installed a Beauty Hair Salon, then they go to the Happy Feet center where young boys and girls of the township learn traditional dances.In the other great township of Khayelitsha the violinist Maria Botha, who has lived in France and returned to South Africa, helps the young boys and girls to learn playing violin and the Ziz Zap Association is helping young boys and girls to become circus acrobats.Later Ismaël and Siviwe have a paragliding flight over Cape Town.Then Ismaël travels by airplane to Port Elizabeth and by car to Kirkwood where he meets Laurence Armand who manages the "Molo Lolo" guesthouse which is also a cooking school.At the butchery of Kirwood they buy Kudu meat and Laurence shows Ismaël the traditional Xhosa huts for the guests.On the next day Ismaël goes to the Addo National Park with Emmanuel Paradaza, a ranger and guide: they see in the savanna elephants, kudus, lions , buffaloes and zebras.Back to the guesthouse Ismaël and the young cook Cindy Madini harvest lettuce and coriander and prepare the supper, eland meat with millet paste, vegetables and sauces.Then Ismaël returns to Cape Town: in Boulders (Table Mountain National Park) he sees the African penguins at the seaside and then with Peter Van der Linde he visits the Penguin rescue center.Finally Ismaël travels to Stellenbosch and meets there Viviane Kleynhans, who manages with her sisters a vineyard and produces wine: the government helped African people to enter in the wine industry: Ismaël and Viviane taste a Chardonnay wine. Besides we see zooms about the former yacht of Jacqueline Onassis who has been transformed into a luxury hotel, about the "Pride of Africa" a luxury train traveling from Cape Town to Tanzania, about the Inverdoorn animal rescue center managed by Damien Vergnaud in which they protect the white rhinoceros and cheetahs (two endangered species of animal), about the sports in Cape Town (soon in the morning the people enjoy practicing yoga, aerobics, paddle board, surfing and kite surfing and about the great white shark (shark spotters are observing every day the sea near Muizenberg and publish advice for the swimmers and surfers) and the cage diving business.
- The cradle of humanity, Kenya is one of the emblems of Africa. Crossed by the Great Rift Valley and its rugged mountains, the country combines many of the essential elements of any imaginary journey: wildlife, endless savanna, tribes of nomadic herders - We discover some of the country's innumerable treasures.
- Turquoise waters, fabulous wildlife, luxuriant flora and a wealth of culture; it's hardly surprising that Thailand is one of the most sought-after tourist destinations. Tiga sets off to explore the "land of smiles" in a Thailand full of contrasts and contradictions.
- Humans are changing our planet so rapidly, it's affecting earth's life support systems: our weather, our oceans and the living world.
- Namibia: a country of 824.292 square kilometers and about 2,5 millions of inhabitants: also a country of great spaces: Pierre Lemaire, a glider pilot enjoys planing above the desert. Majiedt Boetie and Walter Krohne are conducing a freight train : a special team is observing the sand storms and takes off the sand from the railway tracks.There are also special places in the desert: "Solitaire", a gasoline station: its was a farm created by South Africans, then they began to offer rooms and gasoline for the travelers.Namibia has big national parks: in the north-west in the Damaraland, the park is managed by a conservancy association: Memory Ganuses, manager of the lodge explains how works the conservancy association (now there are 86 areas under this conservancy system).Namibia is also a place for new opportunities: Bernarhard Walther and his wife Marita Walther are managing Ebikes4Africa: a factory of electric bikes and also solar panels (for the batteries of the bikes).On the countryside Henzel Feris manages a farm of 420 hectares breeding goats and sheep ; Morten and Billy Dunn are growing strawberries (before the strawberries were imported from South Africa).Now some words about the journey of Sophie: flight over the Namib desert in a hot air balloon (piloted by Laurent Rommelaere).Then Sophie meets her guide Mose Gereseb: they go to the National Park of Namib-Naukluft, near the road they can see the oryx gazella (also called gemsbok) and later they visit a 30 meters deep canyon.Then they go to Sossusvlei in the Namib Desert where they climb a dune and look at the Dead Vlei (Dead lake) with its dried tree trunks.Arriving at Windhoek Moses explains the story of Namibia, the German period and later the South African period (apartheid).Then Moses and Sophie travel to the Etosha National park (22.000 square kilometers): the see the kory bustard (a big bird), zebras, gnus, giraffes, elephants and the huge nest of the sociable weavers.Later Sophie meets Stéphanie Periquet, a French scientist who is observing the fauna of the Ongava Reserve with camera-traps.Then Sophie meets Paul Tangeni Ndjamburla (a bike tour promoter) at Sandwich Harbour where the dunes of the Namib desert end into the sea, the Atlantic Coast is a good place for surfing. They go to Swapkomund: riding their bicycle the visit the historical center of the town, the township ( where Paul was born) and they eat oysters on the pier.In the dunes near the town Ernst Areseb is a guide who shows to the tourists the life of the small animals in the sand (the famous Namib sand gecko).Later Sophie meets Herman Ariseb of the Topnaar community and discovers a desert melon called nara, a plant with deep roots which produces a fruit with yellow-orange pulp: the seeds are also edible and can be transformed into oil.Finallly Sophie meets Stanley Mareka, a dancer and choreographer who manages its own dance company and often helps the children of a school and their neighbors with food donations.
- Beginning of the journey in Colombo: some explanations about the country: in 1972 the country formerly called Ceylon , adopted the name of Sri Lanka.In the neighborhood of Pettah Sophie meets her guide Wimal.They visit an craftsmen village: batik workshop, jewelry (silver bracelet), wood carver (masks used as amulet to protect the house against bad spirits).Then we go to the Sigiriya fortress: there the King Kashyapa build a fortress on a great rock (AD 477-495); after his death the fortress and the beautiful gardens were abandoned and the place was used as Buddfist monastery until the 14 the century, now it's an Unesco world heritage site.Sophie goes a cricket, Tylke a cricket player ex'plains the cricket is a very popular sport in Sri Lanka.Then Sophie travels to Nuwara Eliya, a place of tea plantations: the women who harvest the young tea leaves and other workers are Tamils, they have their own temple and speak Tamil language, but a little outside the plantations there is a school for all the children of the workers of the plantations: a hope to get education and to get later a better job.Then Sophie takes the train to Kandy, a very crowded train: Sophie speaks with Lakeesha who recommends her to visit the Temple of the Tooth in Kandy.There Sophie meets a Buddhist monk who explains her the story of the relic and the important of the great feast every year (singers, dancers, decorated elephants).Finally Sophie goes to the Pinnawala Elephant orphanage where she sees how people are taking care for these elephants. Besides I enjoyed two reporting: the first one about the gemstones, the mines near Ratnapura, the cutting and the trade of these gemstones.The second one about the 2004 tsunami: there a French surfer Yannick has lived this moment and later has helped the people of the village to build again their house and also to build a primary school for the children.Besides there is a center of tortoises protection where they collect tortoise eggs and help the young tortoise to reach the sea.
- Beginning of the journey near Chiawa Camp: Sophie and Grant Cummings, the manager of Chiawa Camp take a canoe trip on the Zambezi River and they see elephants and hippopotamus: on the morning Sophie sees an elephant very near of the lodge (the elephant was looking for fruits).The Zambezi River is very important for the farmers and the fishermen: in a village we see how the farmers grow tomatoes.In the lake Kariba the fishermen fish the "kapenta" (Tanganyika sardine) by night and on the morning they bring the fishes at the shores where traders buy the fishes.Then Sophie is in Lusaka, the capital of Zambia: she meets Patrick Chifwambwa, her guide who speaks French because he has lived in Abidjan for some years: she cross a market and then visit the Chikumbuso project founded by Julien and Linda Wilkinson: support to women and children victims of aids (sida); there is a school for the children and a workshop for women where they learn to make bags and get an income.Then Sophie pays a visit to the Choice FM radio station, The animator, Kaliwa Lubasi presents her to the audience, Zambia is living a new time, the victory of the Patriotic Front, many hopes for the youth.Kaliwa speaks about all the themes: rock, politic, health or the hopes of the youth to find a job.Later Patrick and Sophie drink a Mosi Lager , a typical Zambian beer in a bar and they enjoy Zambian music in a discotheque: music is everywhere in Zambia, in the traditional ceremonies , in the weddings or on the radios.Then they travel to Simonga, to meet the Princess Elizabeth Enonge, who is village chief: she was living in Lusaka and the old men of the village called her and and told her that she was the new village chief; ad so she began her duty walking through the village and speaking with villagers about their problems.Then Sophie and Patrick walk through the village and meet Bevin Muwaya, the chief village deputy who explains that sometimes the elephants want to enter into the village and so the villagers make music with drums and put hot pepper on the canvas which protect their food.In a village they women are preparing the "nshima" , food prepared from pounded white maize (also called ugali in Tanzania) and other women and girls are dancing.Then Sophie takes a touristic train to Livingstone: she see of the preparation of the ceremony of the Indepndence Day and goes to the Victoria falls.Some others tourists make rafting on the Zambezi River and other make bungee jumps from the bridge between Zambia and Zimbabwe. I forgot the zoom on the Mosi-Oa-Tunya National park: where the tourist can see buffaloes, zebras, impala: recently the white rhinoceros has been reintroduced : the park rangers must protect them against the poachers and the zoom about the Maala ceremonies with traditional music and a huge parade of the cattle through the village.
- Beginning of the journey in Durban (Kwazulu Natal): young African boys and girls are singing on a place and Jérôme meets Vishen, an Indian South African: the walk through the town and see the Dutch and English architecture of the buildings.Then they arrive at the Moises Mabhida Stadium (built in 2010 for the FIFA World Cup): they take the Skycar which climbs the 105 meters high arch and have a nice sight over Durban, its beaches, its port and also the sugar cane plantations near the the town.Then they go to the beach where they have a moment of meditation (very important for finding the interior peace).Then they go to Phoenix (at 25 kilometers northwest of Durban central, 176.989 inhabitants).In a market Jérôme tastes a mixture of vegetables, herbs and candies; they see how a Indian South African woman prepares Indian donuts and speak about the Indian South African community (the greatest Indian community abroad India), they visit a Hinduist temple and then meet the father, the aunt and the mother of Vishen and have a supper with them.Later Jérôme travels to the Drakensberg area (from 1.200 to 3.500 meters above sea level) where he meets Carl, a Belgian who is farmer (maize,soybeans), manages a guesthouse and is also guide.They begin a horseback riding through the hills and grasslands and they make a bivouac in a cave.On the morning they ride for a while and then Carl shows Jérôme cave paintings (Bushmen).On a meadow they listen to the Boys Choir of the the Drakensberg Boys' Choir School, a famous private school.Then Jérôme travels by bus to Buchanana, a Zulu village: he meets Mabona Nthintkhula, a guide who speaks about the life in the village: the go to the school (where Mabona studied), meet the pupils;Jérôme says a sentence in Zulu language and then the pupil say a sentence in French language. Then Jérôme goes to the game reserve of Thula Thula where he is received by Françoise Malby Anthony : the place is famous because of the book "The Elephant Whisperer" of Lawrence Anthony: there is tented camp and Jérôme will sleep in a huge tent with all the comfort.In the night traditional Zulu dances and songs.On the morning Promise and Victor are his guides : they see rhinoceros, then giraffes and zebras (a example of symbiosis the giraffe are watching around and so the zebras know if there is any predator) and finally they see the elephants.They speak about South Africa, the rainbow nation and sing together "Asimbonanga" the famous song of Johnny Clegg. Besides we see zooms about the Zulu lifeguards in the beaches of Durban, about the Umthombo Street Child program (food, education and surfing training), about the township of Inanda and the Ohlange High School founded by John Dube (also the first president of the ANC), about the excursion to Lesotho with Chris Pin Holt), about the prince Eugène Louis Jean Joseph Napoléon when he was fighting against the Zulues, about the Augustinian Convent and the sister Madeleine in charge of the dispensary, about Shakaland, a former cinema location transformed into a traditional Zulu village and bout the Tsonga fishermen and their traditional labyrinth fishing technique.