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 EGYPTIAN OASES
Traces of history and everyday life in six major oases in the western deserts of Egypt: Baharya, Farafra, Dakhla, Kharga, Fayyoum, Siwa
The Baharya Oasis lies in the Western (or Libyan) Desert, five hours’ drive from Cairo.
Version: Italian - Format: 4:3 | Length: 6 x 12' or 1 x 35' | Year of production: 2009
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 SIBERIA, HUNTERS OF THE DAWN
In one of the coldest and most inhospitable environments of our planet, a former miner, Chukchi, is trying to free himself from his dependency on alcohol by attempting to find his roots, that is to say his ancestors, whose way of life consisted in hunting whales and rearing reindeers.
Version: Italian | Length: 51' | Year of production: 2008
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 FRAGMENTS OF EGYPT
“The people of my land are as fierce as hawks… their song like the tremor of winter under heavy rain”…
Salah Abdel Sabur
Twelve portraits of common workers tell us about daily life in Cairo.
Version: Italian | Length: 12 x 12' | Year of production: 2006
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 SAMPLING AND TRAVELLING
“In an instant I understood perfectly how a race who ate such food must necessarily believe in another God and hold essentially different views of human life from our own.
Version: Italian English | Length: 32x4' | Year of production: 2005
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 MILAN DOWN UNDER
A journey into underground Milan (Italy).
This story is an original and peculiar portrayal of three friends: Gianluca, Claudia and Davide (an office worker, a student and a professional) who share a passion for speleology and who devote all their free time to exploring the underground areas of Milan, squeezing into narrow passages and manholes, scouring and mapping wells, reservoirs and mines.
Version: Italian | Length: 30' | Year of production: 2005
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 EVEREST 50 YEARS LATER
The year 2003 marks the 50th anniversary of the first conquest of Everest by Edmund Hillary and the Nepalese Sherpa Tenzing Norgay. For the first time, at 11.
Version: italian | Length: 28' | Year of production: 2003
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 THE STONE LAGOON STORIES FROM MONTE SAN GIORGIO
In July 2003, Monte San
Giorgio, a Swiss and Italian mountain located on the southern border of Switzerland, was included on the UNESCO list of World Heritage sites, for the importance of its palaeontology heritage.
Version: italian | Length: 54' | Year of production: 2003
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 EUROPE – JAPAN IN A CAMPER
A camper, a dog and a 40,000 km journey. Roman and Mirella set out from Southern Switzerland heading for Japan. On their adventurous enterprise they travelled through ten countries before reaching their final destination.
Version: Italian | Length: 53' | Year of production: 2003
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 The wolf is back
The wolf is back! This has become a recurring topic in the newspapers of several European countries. After nearly disappearing from the Alpine region over the last century, the wolf is once again roaming our mountains, attracted by the increase in woodland and the abundance of game.
Version: Italian | Length: 44' | Year of production: 2001
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 Melting alps
Last summer, as a result of the greenhouse effect, warmer temperatures were once again recorded throughout the Alps. This phenomenon started in the 80s, and its consequences are beginning to be clearly noticeable.
Version: Italian | Length: 36' | Year of production: 2001
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 Living with animals
THE LAMA AND THE SHEPHERDS OF THE ANDES
In the Andes, at 4000m a.s.l., the llama is king. For the shepherds of the highlands the lama represents everything: its fleece provides clothes, its meat and milk provide food, its dung can be burnt for heating, and its physical strength is used to carry loads up the mountains and down the valleys.
Version: Italian | Length: 10x27' | Year of production: 2001
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 The song of the sea - The whales of Cabo Verde
A mysterious chant resounds in the abyss of the sea, spreading through invisible channels and echoing over vast distances. It can be heard underwater from miles away, and seamen resting in ship holds may be surprised or distressed by it.
Version: Italian | Length: 44' | Year of production: 2001
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 A book of stone
Switzerland has, for centuries, been at the heart of the Alps, with its mountains and passes which were and still are, to some degree, an obstacle for journeying.
Version: Italian | Length: 51' | Year of production: 2001
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 The man from Concise
This documentary shows the extraordinary significance of the excavations that were carried out between 1995 and 2000 at Concise, on the west bank of Lake Neuchâtel, in Switzerland, when a new railway route was being built.
Version: Italian, French | Length: 46' | Year of production: 2000
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 The ice Eldorado
On the high mountains of Peru, at the foot of the imposing Ananea glacier lies the Rinconada gold mine, at an altitude of 5400 m. In order to extract the precious metal, men, women and children live and work night and day in this dreadful glacier under the harshest conditions.
Version: Italian | Length: 26' | Year of production: 2000
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 Finis Terrae - Freedom to explore
The programme visits Patagonia and the Tierra del Fuego in the footsteps of its greatest explorer, Alberto Maria De Agostini, with the co-operation of Walter Bonatti, mountain climber, explorer and world-famous photographer.
Version: Italian | Length: 50' | Year of production: 2000
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 Sailing under pandanus tree casting bamboo harpoons
In eastern Indonesia there is an island where fishing is still practiced as it was ages ago. Every day, the fishermen of the village of Lembata go out in their boats, fitted with square sails, similar to those used a thousand years ago.
Version: Italian | Length: 27' | Year of production: 2000
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 Fragile paradise
For the past 50 years, much of our natural environment has been eroded as a direct result of the wide-spread use of automobiles and by increases in industrial development and demographic growth.
Version: Italian | Length: 50' | Year of production: 2000
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 Amber - the mysterious fossil
What do 4th century B.C. Switzerland, northern Poland and the Mediterranean sea have in common? This question is explored along the “amber route”, in a journey which reveals curious scientific facts and archaeological finds about this mysterious and fascinating fossil resin.
Version: Italian | Length: 49' | Year of production: 2000
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 Los Cueveros - Cuban speleology
Speleology has never been considered as noteworthy in the countries whose underground territory it explores and enhances. This shallow approach is common to both rich and poor countries, with one important exception: Cuba.
Version: Italian | Length: 53' | Year of production: 2000
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 A dream across water
From Locarno to Venice gliding along the water’s surface a journey takes place that commences in the west and stretches 550 kilometres eastward. From Switzerland to the Serenissima, descending the great Naviglio, the most ancient and multi functional canal in Europe, up to Milan’s historical centre.
Version: Italian | Length: 25' | Year of production: 1999
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 Asinara Island
For 120 years, Asinara, an island off the Sardinian coast, was a prison. Among its inmates were Austro-Hungarian soldiers (decimated by the flu), relatives of the Negus of Abyssinia, Antifascists, members of the Red Brigades, mobsters and other dangerous criminals.
Version: Italian | Length: 26' | Year of production: 1999
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 The Breggia park
In 1965 Pio Fontana wrote: “The gorge of the Breggia, between Balerna and Morbio Inferiore (in South Switzerland) graces the countryside with a touch of Leonardo as horror is dissolved in a fairytale of landslides, ravines, woods, and a mill… horizons suddenly become mythical”.
Version: Italian | Length: 26' | Year of production: 1999
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 An underwater voyage through a river
The documentary presents a poetic-naturalistic encounter with the underwater world of the Verzasca River. Its spectacular images will fascinate the viewers as the secret charm of the Verzasca River is safeguarded.
Version: Italian | Length: 21' | Year of production: 1999
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 Market-places echoes of life
Travelling the world one realises that markets are a universal place of exchange intrinsic and necessary to all the cultures throughout the globe. The market place is a universal reality without which humanity cannot exist.
Version: Italian | Length: 46' | Year of production: 1999
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Across the world
The integrity of style and cohesion of narrative make Across the World a "package" of 23 different stories that all conform to specific criteria, such as truly spectacular pictures, accurate, well-documented and clear commentary and fitting, original music.
Version: Italian | Length: 23x25' | Year of production: 1999
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The Afar, the nomads of the desert of fire
The documentary was filmed just before the conflict between Ethiopia and Eritrea sealed off the area. It takes the viewer through the Dancala lowlands, a wild desert region along the Rift Valley in Ethiopia.
Version: Italian | Length: 25' | Year of production: 1999
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Mongolia: the nomads of the steppe
Mongolia is three times as large as France and is inhabited by less than two million people. Seven hundred years ago the empire of Gengis Khan was the largest empire in the history of the world.
Version: Italian, French | Length: 47' | Year of production: 1999
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The treasury of the Dahlak
In Eritrea the Dahlak islands guard a very special treasury. Around seventy wrecked ships represent a real, still unexplored paradise. The warships that had been sunken by the enemy or by themselves are a testimonial of the Italian invasion during the last world-war.
Version: Italian | Length: 26' | Year of production: 1998
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The Red Sea
Underwater images, biblical landscapes, places of prayer, shipwrecks, true stories, natural history and geology midst mythology, history and current affairs, the program in 6 episodes of 50 minutes each, entitled red sea, directed by Gianfranco Bernabei and introduced by Enzo Maiorca, presents that stretch of water between Africa and Asia that throughout thousands of years witnessed the birth of religions, the rise of nations and the battles of war.
Version: Italian | Length: 6x50' | Year of production: 1998
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Unwrapping Urkesh: the discovery of a buried city
A family of archaeologists - father mother and son – share their surprising discovery: the ancient city of Urkesh. They tell their story unaffectedly, speaking from the heart, with total openness.
Version: Italian, French, English | Length: 44' | Year of production: 1998
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Chiaraque: under the sign of Tupac Amaru
In 1780, in the Southern Cordillera of the Peruvian Andes, José Gabriel Condorcanqui, Tupac Amaru, descendant of the last Inca king of Vilcabamba, rebelled against the Spaniards on behalf of the indigenous population.
Version: Italian | Length: 44' | Year of production: 1998
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Kallawaya: the healers of the andes
In one of the most remote and isolated regions of the Bolivian Andes, at altitudes that vary from 3,500 to over 4,000 metres, the traditional villages of the Kallawaya healers can be found.
Version: Italian | Length: 49' | Year of production: 1997
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Bees on your mind
Bees do not recognise their master, it is the apiarist who must know his bees. And he does, accepting unflinchingly the many stings (fifty or more a day), and admiring unconditionally what he considers the most useful, the most elegant and the most symbol-laden insect in the world.
Version: Italian, French | Length: 48' | Year of production: 1996
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Laos: the people of the mountains
An adventurous journey through the most mysterious and inaccessible regions of Laos bordering with China and Burma; the “golden triangle”, the land of opium.
Version: Italian, French, German, English | Length: 48' | Year of production: 1996
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The ultimate Burma
Former British colony, independent since 1948, Burma is still today one of the least well-known countries in South East Asia. An extraordinarily interesting ethnic mosaic and cradle of Buddhism, it is one of those lands that has known better than others how to preserve its own traditions, due partly to the isolation which it was forced to maintain for decades by the authorities of Rangoon.
Version: Italian | Length: 42' | Year of production: 1996
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The roads of the Rhine
Navigating on the rivers and canals from Basle to Rotterdam or from Antwerp to the Black Sea, from Paris to Moscow or from the North Sea to the Mediterranean is now a very real, although not well-known possibility.
Version: Italian, French | Length: 50' | Year of production: 1995
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The road for Olmo Lunring
Traversing Tibet on the trail of its oldest religion, the Immortal Bön, is like discovering the Middle Ages, extracting from the highland stones some fragments of higher knowledge, or glimpsing in the eyes of the nomads a vision of landscape seen from so far undiscovered viewpoints.
Version: Italian, French | Length: 50' | Year of production: 1995
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Mediterranean
Castellorizo: a lost dot in the Mediterranean, a few minutes by boat from the Turkish coast. Since Greece became part of the European community, this tiny island represents the extreme eastern frontier of political Europe.
Version: Italian | Length: 41' | Year of production: 1994
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And the ship sails on...
Crushed by the competition from the air, large passenger ships, ambassadors and propagandists of national pride, have been abandoned to the realms of history, as the remains of times gone-by.
Version: Italian | Length: 39' | Year of production: 1994
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 The pearls of Sicily
A stunning series of portraits of Sicily, protagonist of centuries of Mediterranean history. From the hidden untouched vistas of natural beauty to the famous monuments and landmarks; our journey follows the traces left by all the various civilizations that have shaped the island and its people.
Version: Italian, English | Length: 13x26' | Year of production: 1994
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 Oceanopolis
WHITE DEATH
Corals are both admired and treasured. They are wonders of nature. Yet even corals are an endangered species. They are fading and dying.
Version: Italian, German | Length: 5x25' | Year of production: 1994
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 Snake lady
Scientists say of Nicole Viloteau: “We don’t understand. Her relationship with snakes is totally unreal; it is as if they recognize her”. We follow this bigger-than-life adventurer into the Indonesian jungle.
Version: Italian | Length: 30' | Year of production: 1991
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Albatros
The series has been prepared and hosted by Alberto Angela, and looks at different corners of our planet with the curious eye of the naturalist. Each episode takes place in a different setting: from the desert to the poles, from islands to forests.
Version: Italian | Length: 12x25' | Year of production: 1991
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 7000 km of wilderness
In this three part series the viewer is taken through Kenya, visiting it from north to south, following little known and unbeaten paths. This itinerary leads us to meet several native tribes, such as the El Molos, now on the verge of extinction; the Turkanas, nomad shepherds of the north; the Boranas, the owners of the famous but rarely visited Singing Wells; as well as the now well-known Masais and Samburus.
Version: Italian | Length: 3x25' | Year of production: 1991
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Pacific
With the aid of journalist Paolo Orsina, the director Gianfranco Bernabei tells events and secrets of Pacific, as seen with the same wonder of first explorers.
Version: Italian, French | Length: 5x50' | Year of production: 1991
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 Australia: fifth continent
A series in six parts that describes Australia, a booming continent where progress takes giant steps following the Western model of freedom and well-being.
Version: Italian | Length: 6x55' | Year of production: 1990
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The fabulous sea world
A true life documentary series which describes the history of mankind as seen through those marine animals that have played a vital role in the development of past and present civilizations.
Version: Italian, French, German | Length: 5x50' | Year of production: 1989
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Frederick, Maryland, a bit of America
If you take away Manhattan’s skyscrapers, the Statue of Liberty, the intricate multi-storied intersections of Los Angeles’ highways, the beaches of Miami and the casinos of Las Vegas, what is left? The heartland of America.
Version: Italian | Length: 60' | Year of production: 1988
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In the wake of James Cook
A contemporary film maker, Gianfranco Bernabei, in coproduction with RAI and Swiss Television, has decided to revive the fabulous voyage that the adventurous explorer James Cook made two centuries ago.
Version: Italian, French, German, English | Length: 6x55' | Year of production: 1984
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In the sixth continent
This series of 11 films aims, as its author put it, at “shooting in a very particular setting (i.e. underwater) in an original way”. In fact, this series should not be classified as a documentary, for it has no didactic intentions: it has been designed to show to the viewers (young and old) the extraordinary beauty of tropical underwater life, with its marvellous colours, its beautiful or hideous but nonetheless fascinating creatures in a most natural way, without any tricks.
Version: Italian | Length: 11x25' | Year of production: 1982
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The wonderful circus of the sea
A new way to make films underwater: this television series is not a documentary in the usual meaning, nor is its purpose educational. It’s aiming to introduce the public, whether old or young , to the extraordinary underwater world of the Tropical Sea, to its splendid colours, its beautiful and extraordinary creatures.
Version: Italiano | Length: 14x28' | Year of production: 1981
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On the roads of the salt
This adventurous alpine expedition has lasted one month. Guided by Carlo Mauri, ten men have covered a distance of 700 kilometers on horseback with total altitude variations of 20’000 meters.
Version: Italian | Length: 5x50' | Year of production: 1981
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Life of a diver
It is an educational documentary to which, however, the fascinating underwater world lends its usual spectacular richness: from breathtaking scenes like the apnoea dive at 80 metres of Enzo Maiorca, or the speleological dives into caves at 500, to the stages of work in the recovery of remains of a Palaeolithic village; from a solemn underwater wedding with the statue of "Christ of the Depths” as an altar, to the recording of a real rescue operation of a member of the crew.
Version: Italian | Length: 10x30' | Year of production: 1975
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Europe's most beautiful regions
The complete series is offered in eleven blocks of 6 thematically related episodes. The editor is free to shorten each episode, if necessary, to suit specific scheduling times.
Version: German | Length: 66x45' | Year of production:
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