Terra X: Wild Planet
Television broadcast | |
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Original title | Terra X : Wild Planet |
Country of production | Germany |
Year (s) | 2006-2014 |
length | 45 minutes |
Episodes | 15th |
genre | documentation |
production | ZDF |
First broadcast | April 2, 2006 on ZDF |
Wilder Planet is a Terra-X documentary series about natural phenomena and natural disasters .
Content and production
The Wilder Planet documentary series is an international co-production, including broadcasters from Great Britain, the United States and France. The series deals with natural phenomena, natural disasters and weather extremes, such as earthquakes , storms and volcanic eruptions , and the influence of these events on people's everyday lives.
In addition to elaborate recordings, computer animations are also used and experts are interviewed on the subject. Both historical and current events and future scenarios are analyzed. Furthermore, their causes, triggers and consequences are examined and current scientific findings are presented.
The first episode dealt with the earthquake in San Francisco in 1906 and was broadcast for the first time in German on ZDF on April 2, 2006 . Was it initially for National Geographic Television productions in which u. a. ZDF was involved and which were broadcast in Germany under the title Wilder Planet , ZDF later took over the production of its own Wilder Planet episodes.
In 2013 three new episodes were produced. Participated France Television .
On June 21, 2013, the three new episodes were released on DVD.
Episodes
episode | Episode title | First broadcast |
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1 | The San Francisco quake | April 2, 2006 |
2 | Krakatau - A volcano changes the world | July 23, 2006 |
3 | The Flood - Myth or Truth | April 22, 2007 |
4th | Mega volcanoes - fire from the belly of the earth | April 29, 2007 |
5 | The great quake ( alternative: quake in Europe) | October 21, 2007 |
6th | Storm warning | October 28, 2007 |
7th | Powder keg Vesuvius | August 17, 2008 |
8th | Earthquake alarm in Tokyo | August 24, 2008 |
9 | Extreme weather over Europe | February 5, 2009 |
10 | With fire and flood | July 5, 2009 |
11 | Danger to Lisbon | July 12, 2009 |
12 | Volcanoes | April 27, 2013 (ZDFneo) |
13 | earthquake | April 27, 2013 (ZDFneo) |
14th | Storms | April 27, 2013 (ZDFneo) |
15th | When the earth goes crazy | July 6, 2014 |
Web links
- Official website of Terra X from ZDF
- Press portal: Flood and mega-volcanoes: Two new documentaries from the "Wilder Planet" series
- Press portal: Wilder Planet: With Fire and Flame - Terra X documentary on Sunday evening on ZDF about the elemental force of the weather
Individual evidence
- ↑ Press portal: The Quake of San Francisco - ZDF documentary reminds of the devastating earthquake 100 years ago
- ↑ Group 5 Productions: Terra X: Wilder Planet - Catastrophes ( Memento of the original from May 6, 2013 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.
- ↑ Terra X: Wilder Planet on DVD at Amazon