Born in Indonesia to Victor Raoul Baron von Lawick and Isabella Sophia Baroness van Ittersum, he developed an early love for animals. He determined that film would be his medium to capture the stunning images of the Serengeti for all animal lovers. Animal researcher Jane Goodall was his wife and collaborator for many years. They wrote and produced many films together. Hugo van Lawick lived and worked on the African plains for more than thirty years. Join van Lawick on his many small and large adventures through the Serengeti, where animals play the leading role. Van Lawick received eight Emmys and numerous other awards for his extraordinary films.
A documentary on Al Gore's campaign to make the issue of global warming a recognized problem worldwi...
The incredible true story of nature’s greatest explorers—lemurs. Through footage captured with IMAX ...
In 2009 a team of British cavers went on an expedition deep within the jungle of central Vietnam. To...
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David Attenborough narrates the charming and fascinating story of some real-life animal romantics. T...
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A short documentary on the River Ouse, following it downstream from Lewes to Newhaven, meditating on...
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After the insurrection erupted in Libya in the spring of 2012, more than a million people flocked to...
Brussels, Béguinage church. Migrants organize a hunger strike to obtain papers. A man dies. Tunisia...
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A conversation between an older, HIV positive woman and her niece. The women talk about what it mean...
Ndola, Northern Rhodesia (currently Zambia), September 18th, 1961. Swedish Dag Hammarskjöld, UN Secr...