Human planet
| Television series | |
|---|---|
| German title | Human planet |
| Original title | Human planet |
| Country of production |
United Kingdom , France |
| original language | English |
| year | 2010 |
| length | 50 minutes |
| Episodes | 8 in 1 season |
| genre | documentation |
| production | Brian Leith, Dale Templar |
| music | Nitin Sawhney |
| First broadcast | Jan 13, 2011 (UK) on BBC |
| German-language first broadcast |
April 6, 2011 on ServusTV |
Human Planet is an eight-part British - French documentary series . It was created in collaboration between Discovery Channel and France Télévisions . Human Planet describes the relationship between man and nature and shows the effects of human development on its environment.
The series ran on Servus TV under the Germanized title Planet der Menschen , but BBC Germany used the original English title.
In August / September 2012, the ZDF series Terra X broadcast highlights in three episodes under the titles Life on the Water , Life in the Jungle and Life in the Desert , which had previously been shown on ZDFneo .
Episodes
1. "Oceans - departure into the blue"
The oceans cover 70 percent of the earth's surface. The majority of living things exist underwater, but for us the sea is fraught with danger. Spanish barnacle collectors risk their lives in the surf zone every day. On the Indonesian island of Lembata, people take on the largest predator of all time - the sperm whale. And the residents of Laguna in Brazil have a fishing community with dolphins.
2. "Deserts - The Great Embers"
Deserts cover a third of the mainland on earth. Anyone who wants to survive in these vast expanses of merciless drought has to develop incredible creativity.
3. "Arctic - life below zero"
Despite climate change, many people in the polar region have to master similar challenges as they have for thousands of years. In Greenland they catch sharks with their bare hands and pull the animals, which weigh tons, through small ice holes. In Norway, shepherds bring thousands of reindeer to plunge into an icy fjord. And in northeast Canada, shell collectors use the ebb tide of the equinox to collect seafood from under the ice sheet.
4. "Jungle - The Green Wilderness"
The jungles of the earth are landscapes with the greatest abundance of life, but also with the greatest competitive pressure. People have always tried to overcome the limitations of the dark forest floor - with rituals or mind-altering substances, with chemical long-range weapons and dizzying structures: The Korowai in the jungle of New Guinea build huge tree houses 35 meters high, only with muscle power and Stone Age technology.
5. "Mountains - life in thin air"
Mountains are among the most ruthless habitats on earth: lack of oxygen, extreme weather fluctuations, high UV exposure. Living in these adverse conditions requires exceptional working methods. In the Mongolian Altai Mountains, people hunt together with eagles. Huge traps for fruit bats are being built in the mountain forests of New Guinea. And in Indonesia miners are digging into an open volcano to mine sulfur.
6. "Grasslands - The roots of our success"
Man could develop his abilities to the full in wide grasslands: breed animals, experiment with useful plants and form large communities. In many grasslands around the world, people still live under the conditions of our ancestors: In Kenya, men steal prey from a pride of lions without using any weapons. And in Cambodia even children show themselves to be intrepid snake hunters.
7. "Rivers - Sources of Life"
To this day people all over the world live in close contact with the forces of nature. This new, groundbreaking documentary series shows the incredible creativity we developed. Whether ice deserts, tropical islands or inaccessible valleys - every living space has shaped a special form of human civilization, one more vital and fascinating than the other.
8. "Cities - jungle from one hand"
Even in their most technologically advanced form, large cities are always natural spaces - albeit often in unexpected forms. Falconers hunt pigeons in Dubai. In Colorado, traffic is routed around the Wapitis. And in Jaipur, India, thieving rhesus monkeys are driving market traders to despair. The relationship to nature of the Bishnoi women is completely different: They raise orphaned young animals with their own mother's milk.
Web links
- Human Planet in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Official website of the BBC
- Photos from the series
Individual evidence
- ↑ BBC Germany
- ↑ Episode page at Terra X ( Memento of the original from December 3, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Video Planet der Menschen - Leben am Wasser in the ZDFmediathek , accessed on January 29, 2014. (offline)
