In Africa, the giant fig tree and the tiny fig wasp differ in size a billion times over, but neither could exist without the other. Their extraordinary relationship is a marvel of co-evolution, a marriage which has lasted for millennia. It forms the basis of a complex web of dependency that supports entire ecosystems, providing food for thousands of creatures, from elephants, giraffes, and fruit bats, to forest hornbills, monkeys, insects, and fish.

16-year-old Bella and Vipulan are part of a generation convinced its very future is in danger. Betwe...

At the start of the First World War, in the middle of Africa’s nowhere, a gin soaked riverboat capta...

Detective John Shaft travels incognito to Ethiopia, then France, to bust a human trafficking ring.

Filmed across three continents, this documentary shares the story of the founders of the Pan-African...

Scientists have discovered and investigate the reason behind the behavior of sharks swimming around ...

Tells the life story of Danish author Karen Blixen, who at the beginning of the 20th century moved t...

An epic tale spanning forty years in the life of Celie, an African-American woman living in the Sout...

A USSR animated short adapted from one of Jomo Kenyatta's fables.

An ex-mercenary turned smuggler. A Mende fisherman. Amid the explosive civil war overtaking 1999 Sie...

Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965), the mission doctor, theologian and philosopher who founded a hospital...

A documentary of insect life in meadows and ponds, using incredible close-ups, slow motion, and time...

The story of Dian Fossey, a scientist who came to Africa to study the vanishing mountain gorillas, a...

Drawing from never-before-seen footage that has been tucked away in the National Geographic archives...

Bejo, 12 years old, lives with his brother Mario, a sculptor. Having heard the news on the radio his...
Follow the shocking, yet humorous, journey of an aspiring environmentalist, as he daringly seeks to ...

A black and a white woman meets in Dar es Salam because of their men, and starts a friendship, despi...

On their wedding night, a couple rescue a baby from a garbage bin only to adopt it some years later.

Gugu is being thrown out by her husband Themba, who is apparently having an affair with an ex-girlfr...

An experience of a camera swinging in different gestures facing the optical distortion of the Sun. T...

This film follows the fortunes of an old Peugeot off loaded in Cotonou, Benin. As it changes hands w...