Page 43 - Spanish & Portuguese Languge Catalogue 2022

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Castle Builders Badlands: Hard Rock - Tough Lives
From Carcassonne to Caerphilly, from the Rhine to the Blistering heat and ceaseless winds, punishing cold and
Thames, masterpieces in stone draw visitors by the million. nowhere to hide; some call it hell on Earth. Some call it
We unearth the history of those who laboured to build home. Welcome to the Badlands of South Dakota – a
these massive fortresses – and the visions of the royals and unique, impressive landscape. The story of this deeply
aristocrats who invested stupendous sums to buttress their complex ecosystem is told through the struggles of three
power and glorify their courts. This is the story of the blood, animals – the black-tailed prairie dog, the burrowing owl,
sweat and vision of the castle builders. and the bison. Their lives are closely connected. Their tales
of survival are amazing, captivating and inspiring.
genre: Nature & Wildlife genre: Nature & Wildlife
format: 3 x 60’ / HD format: 1 x 60’ / 4K
credits: Green Bay Media credits: Terra Mater Factual Studios/NGC/Smithsonian
Networks/Mike Birkhead Associates

The Best of Worlds: Life at its Alpine Limits Biomimicry

Humans have explored and settled in Europe for thousands Biomimicry is the science of borrowing nature’s evolutionary
of years. But at its very heart, in the highest Alpine peaks, a adaptations and applying them to the human world.
world exists in parallel. It is home to thousands of species of Natural blood thinners from bat saliva, anaesthetic from
plants and animals, all of whom owe their survival to their
remarkable capacity for evolution. They live in conditions mosquitos, antibiotics in bee honeycomb, and cryogenic
that for other species – humans included – would be barely secrets from the blood of amphibians – there’s a new world
tolerable. For them, this is everyday life. Forget skiing and to discover, if you know how to look.
chalets: this is life at the Alpine limits. genre: Nature & Wildlife
genre: Nature & Wildlife format: 2 x 60’ / HD
format: 1 x 60’ / HD credits: Genera Doc Wildlife S.L. aka Alvaro Mendoza
credits: Paolo Fioratti & Marco Andreini Productions