Barely known and never seen, elephant shrews baffle even the zoologists. With their stilt-like legs and long mobile trunk, joined to the body of a large shrew with a golden bottom, they certainly deserve their name - though they are related to neither elephant not shrew! This shy, endangered creature has become the mascot of Kenya’s beautiful Arabuko National Park. The income they attract via tourism pays for the education of local children. The elephant shrew has truly become the Spirit of the Forest.

Rainforest Pixies: The Mysterious Rhynchocyon Shrew of Arabuko

This documentary follows Miss Marple, a cat-sized hamster rat with a sense of smell better than a dog — and has a job sniffing out land mines.

Mozambique's Minesweeper Rats

A dramatic, energetic adaptation of Heinz Spoerli's ballet based on Grieg's Peer Gynt by the Zurich ballet. Marijn Rademaker is excellent as the title character, clearly telegraphing the emotional range required. Each of the characters and the dramatic scenes are supported by the orchestral passages and songs provided by Grieg; some spoken word passages extracted from the Ibsen play.

Peer Gynt

Ägypten: Geburt einer Großmacht

Ägypten: Sehnsucht nach Unsterblichkeit

As one of Germany’s beauties, the river was the gem of German landscape. But with industrialization it became the country’s hardest working river and like everything that has been overworked, it lost it magnificence and charm. Due to tender love and care, the river is now a reigning example of one of the most successful and outstanding renaturation projects in the country.

Die Wupper: Amazonas im Bergischen Land

Der Mann, der Udo Jürgens ist

Geheimnis Möhnetalsperre

Follow one mammoth expert as he traces the legendary giants from Africa to the Yukon.