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Animal Homes:
Age Of The Big Cats Natural Born Engineers
3 x 60’, 4K 3 x 60’, HD
We think we know big cats pretty well, but actually, we don’t. In this series, we Animals build homes for very similar reasons to our own, but they have been
take a look at the extraordinary prehistory of big cats and their ascent to world doing it for much longer. Built with great complexity, usually with found materials,
domination. How did these giant carnivores survive the ice age? Why did their and sometimes with materials made from their own bodies. In this series,
territories change – with the jaguar once found in the UK, and the lion once a together with ecologist Chris Morgan we investigate how skillful and diverse
true worldwide phenomenon? Brand-new night vision systems and super slow- animal engineering and architecture can be, and explore the intriguing behaviours
mo cameras take us on a tantalising trail of evidence to answer these questions. and social interactions that take place in and around animal homes.
Terra Mater Factual Studios/CuriosityStream/Ammonite Terra Mater Factual Studios/Coneflower Productions/
Thirteen Productions

Attenboroughs’
Ant Mountain The Bit Player
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As the snow melts away in the Swiss Alps, one of the largest animal societies Claude Shannon is the unknown genius who laid the foundation for the
on Earth explodes into life. From a unique super-colony of a thousand mounds, information age. He also constructed a mathematical theory of juggling, rode a
millions of tiny wood ants appear. These ants don’t fight their own kind. But close unicycle, wrote the first paper on computer chess and built a flaming trumpet!
by live warring breeds of their fellow species; wood ants from single mounds, The Bit Player tells the inspiring story of a man who revolutionized the world, but
aggressive creatures which survive by pillaging their neighbours. This drama of never lost his child-like curiosity.
unlikely relationships is told through spectacular 4K footage.
Terra Mater Factual Studios/BBC/ABC Australia/Ammonite An IEEE Information Theory Society Production

Bitcoin Big Bang Costa Rica: The Rise Of Nature
1 x 104’, 4K 3 x 60’, 4K
Content Available in Italian / Contenuti disponibili in Italiano
August 1, 2015, Mark Karpelès exits his home in Tokyo under police escort. Costa Rica is a unique treasure on our planet. With so many abundant
Hiding his face under a cap he wears a carefully chosen t-shirt: “Effortless French”. ecosystems, rich in extraordinary fauna and flora, which currently offers a real
Indicted and imprisoned for forgery of computer data and embezzlement after sanctuary to more than 5% of the world’s biodiversity. Join us on a journey to the
the disappearance of 850,000 Bitcoins, the equivalent of a half Million Dollars. heart of this unique country, discovering several fabulous Eden-like biotopes, and
With exclusive access to Mark, we reveal who was the Effortless French man and recording the unprecedented efforts that are made every day to preserve, and in
where did all those bitcoins disappear to? some cases restore, this exceptional natural heritage.
@Brainworks 2018 BambooDoc