In Africa, poachers brutally maim and kill elephants for their ivory, much of which is exported to China or smuggled into the United States. The profits help fund terrorist organisations, and are used to buy guns and artillery. WILD DAZE takes an unflinching look at these problems from various perspectives, and shows how the slaughter has decimated the elephant population, left survivors traumatised, and seriously harmed the forests of Eastern and Southern Africa.

I 1960 blev en 26-årige kvinde uden officiel videnskabelig træning sendt til Tanzanias Gombe Stream Nationalpark for at studere chimpanser. Hendes navn var Jane Goodall. Denne dokumentar er bygget op omkring et nyt interview med Goodall. Derudover indeholder den unikke arkivoptagelser af hendes arbejde med dyrene, der ikke er blevet set i 50 år.

In 1960 Jane Goodall set out for Tanzania's remote Gombe Stream Game Reserve to study the behavior of man's closest living relative, the chimpanzee. With dedication and perseverance she earned the trust of a wild chimp community, and gradually they revealed their individual personalities and the rich tapestry of their daily life. This program looks at two landmark decades of Jane Goodall's work, including her dramatic discovery of chimpanzees making and using tools.

I en hær­get, frem­ti­dig ver­den, hvor gan­ske få men­ne­sker har over­le­vet en dø­de­lig virus, har en na­tion af ge­ne­tisk ud­vik­le­de aber vok­set sig stær­ke, stif­tet fa­mi­lie og lig­ner den do­mi­ne­ren­de race. Aber­ne le­ver i fred an­ført af den vise chim­pan­se Ca­es­ar, der var den før­ste af sin slags, og som for­står og respek­te­rer men­ne­skets na­tur. Men fre­den skal vise sig skrø­be­lig, da et op­rør ul­mer hos de des­pe­ra­te men­ne­sker. Snart er dyr og men­ne­sker på kan­ten af en krig, hvor beg­ge si­der kæm­per for in­tet min­dre end ar­tens over­le­vel­se.

Forskeren Will Rodman arbejder på en banebrydende kur mod Alzheimers sygdom, en farlig sygdom, hans far også lider under. Hans forsøgsdyr er chimpansen Caesar, der reagerer på behandlingen ved at blive ekstremt intelligent. Caesar ser, hvordan hans artsfæller bliver behandlet af menneskene, og det bryder han sig absolut ikke om. Han bryder nu ud af sit bur – og starter et oprør. Nu bliver det en kamp for overlevelse – aber mod mennesker!

Several generations in the future following Caesar's reign, apes are now the dominant species and live harmoniously while humans have been reduced to living in the shadows. As a new tyrannical ape leader builds his empire, one young ape undertakes a harrowing journey that will cause him to question all that he has known about the past and to make choices that will define a future for apes and humans alike.

Humanity’s ascent is often measured by the speed of progress. But what if progress is actually spiraling us downwards, towards collapse? Ronald Wright, whose best-seller, “A Short History Of Progress” inspired “Surviving Progress”, shows how past civilizations were destroyed by “progress traps”—alluring technologies and belief systems that serve immediate needs, but ransom the future. As pressure on the world’s resources accelerates and financial elites bankrupt nations, can our globally-entwined civilization escape a final, catastrophic progress trap? With potent images and illuminating insights from thinkers who have probed our genes, our brains, and our social behaviour, this requiem to progress-as-usual also poses a challenge: to prove that making apes smarter isn’t an evolutionary dead-end.

Filmed over 23 years, Rise of the Warrior Apes tells the epic story of an extraordinary troop of chimpanzees in Ngogo, Uganda – featuring four mighty warriors who rule through moral ambiguity, questionable politics, strategic alliances and destroyed trust.

Caesar og hans aber bliver tvunget ind i en dødbringende konflikt med en gruppe svært bevæbnede mennesker under ledelse af den nådesløse Oberst. Aberne lider store tab, og Caesar må kæmpe en indre kamp med sine instinkter for at kunne planlægge og starte jagten på retfærdighed for sine artsfæller. Rejsen bringer Caesar ansigt til ansigt med Obersten, og de står over for et slag, der vil afgøre skæbne for deres arter og fremtiden for planeten.

The story of one remarkable woman who became a global icon in animal welfare and conservation who not only hoped for a better world, she achieved it! This sweeping documentary celebrates the vast legacy of Dr. Goodall’s four decades of advocacy work for chimpanzees and depicts the next chapter for generations to come.

Celebrates 30 years of televised specials by The National Geographic Society.

I dokumentarfilmen 'Chimpanzee' bliver en 3-årig chimpanse separeret fra sin flok, hvorefter den adopteres af en fuldvoksen han

It would be hard to name anyone who has had more of an impact in the realm of animal research and wildlife conservation than Jane Goodall, whose 45 year study of wild chimpanzees in Africa is legendary. In Jane's Journey, we travel with her across several continents, from her childhood home in England, to the Gombe National Park in Tanzania where she began her groundbreaking research and where she still returns every year to enjoy the company of the chimpanzees that made her famous. Featuring a wide range of interviews and spectacular footage from her own private collection, Jane's Journey is an inspiring portrait of the private person behind the world-famous icon.

Indbyggerne i et isoleret område i Californien, blive vidner til en uhyggelig og skræmmende opdagelse, efter at tilfældige genstande falder ned fra himlen.

From the team behind Man on Wire comes the story of Nim, the chimpanzee who in the 1970s became the focus of a landmark experiment which aimed to show that an ape could learn to communicate with language if raised and nurtured like a human child. Following Nim's extraordinary journey through human society, and the enduring impact he makes on the people he meets along the way, the film is an unflinching and unsentimental biography of an animal we tried to make human. What we learn about his true nature - and indeed our own - is comic, revealing and profoundly unsettling.

Otte måneder efter at en ukendt morder skar hovedet af en turist, ankommer den unge Jennifer Corvino til Schweiz for at blive indlogeret på sin nye privatskole. Da Jennifer går i søvne og bliver vidne til et nyt mord, flygter hun ind i skoven. Hun farer vild og møder en entomolog, der opdager, at hun besidder en særlig evne. Hun kan kommunikere med insekter. Måske kan Jennifers unikke egenskaber hjælpe hende med at løse mordgåden.

Jægeren James Parker leder en ekspedition på jagt efter elefanternes sagnomspundne kirkegård i Afrikas jungle. Med sig har han sin dejlige datter Jane, der vækker abemennesket Tarzans opmærksomhed. Tarzan har levet hele sit liv i junglen, og selvom han hverken kan tale eller spise med kniv og gaffel, er han en god ven at have blandt Afrikas mange farer.

Knapt har Tarzan og Jane fundet sig til rette i junglen, før den grumme elfenbensjæger Martin Arlington træder ind på scenen. Med ham er Janes tidligere forlovede, Harry Holt, og de to vil gøre alt for at finde elefanternes kirkegård og lænse stedet for elfenben. Det må Tarzan selvfølgelig forsøge at sætte en stopper for, men den grådige Arlington skyer ingen midler for at nå målet.

Marilyn Jordan, an American, lives in Stockholm with her Swedish husband and family. Her behavior is bizarre, perhaps mad: she poisons the dog's milk and advises the dog not to drink it; she sets the sheets afire as her husband sleeps; she crawls under the dining table to sing. While detained at airport customs for carrying pruning shears, she meets a young Yugoslav woman and goes with her to a Gypsy enclave where she's fought over, takes a lover, helps with the sordid entertainment at a bar, and returns home more dangerous than before. The film also tells parallel stories of Marilyn's daughter becoming a junior homemaker as the young immigrant practices her striptease.