The Nature of Things est une série télévisée canadienne de programmes documentaires. Il a fait ses débuts à CBC Television le 6 novembre 1960. Bon nombre d'émissions documentent la nature et l'effet que les humains ont sur elle. Le programme a été l'un des premiers à explorer les problèmes environnementaux, tels que la coupe à blanc..
Another collection of adventures for Winnie the Pooh and his friends in the Hundred Acre Wood. In this instalment, Roo wonders why the snowman he has built keeps getting smaller, while Piglet is surprised that a cave is talking back to him..
Ils sont à l'origine d'un recul considérable de la mortalité au cours du XXème siècle. Sur le marché depuis près de soixante ans, les antibiotiques sont à 99 % issus de micro-organismes, principalement des bactéries. Problème : une majorité d'entre eux ont perdu leur efficacité du fait de leur utilisation abusive. Pire, la résistance aux antibiotiques s'intensifie partout dans le monde. Chaque année, elle cause ainsi le décès de 25 000 personnes en Europe et de 23 000 aux États-Unis. Un récent rapport évalue le nombre de morts qu'elle pourrait causer en 2050 à plus de dix millions ! Certaines souches sont multi-résistantes, c’est-à-dire résistantes à plusieurs substances. D’autres sont même devenues "toto-résistantes", soit résistantes à tous les antibiotiques disponibles..
An educational short film featuring Jiminy Cricket..
An educational short featuring Jiminy Cricket..
The central image of in the nature of things is the Forest- sometimes fearful, sometimes a refuge, always mysterious, and the multiple associations and myths embedded in it- myths within which we live and which live within us- our collective history. But, unexpected moments, intensified fragments, catch us unawares- the present confronts us..
In the film Short study on the nature of things a female narrator recorded to tape tells stories remembered from her childhood; how she shaped her personal understanding of the world, space and time. The narrative is interwoven with axioms from Heraclitus and accompanies a series of images of instruments of measurement and representation of light and time, and others including the melting of a glacier and the incorrupt body of St Bernadette of Lourdes. The title is a direct reference to Lucretius Latin poem De Rerum Natura: on the nature of things..
An emotional and philosophical plunge into that invaluable period of life, which is life's own end. Through a year of encounters and conversations, between the filmmaker and the main character; terminally ill with Lou Gehrig's disease. A road movie about love, pain and the need for freedom..
Documentary on the work of artist Carlos Nogueira by following up-close a series of his exhibitions. The movie follows the essential phases of the exhibitions' preparations: the concept, the definition and transformation os the materials and the installment os the sculptures..
Following the dissolution of her 20-year marriage to a land developer, a middle-aged woman returns to her law practice and, plotting revenge, accepts as a client a young ecologist who has accused her ex-husband's company of corruption..
A stupid insect, at the lowest level of the food chain, endures its position as prey in the forest. But suddenly, the established order is overthrown. The insect provokes a sequence of accidents of increasing importance..
A Dog's Life examines how our canine companions perceive the world - from the moment they take their first morning walk to the time they curl up at our feet to go to sleep. We accompany Daisy, a Jack Russell Terrier, through an average day and on the way discover that, while dogs are not miniature humans, they are amazingly well adapted to life with us. But how well do we know them?.
Dans le sillage des plongeurs en eau glacée Mario Cyr et Jill Heinerth, ce documentaire nous offre une vue imprenable sur les splendeurs de la banquise et de sa faune. Les deux explorateurs décryptent également les changements à l'œuvre, et la manière dont ils affectent non seulement l'environnement polaire, mais aussi l'ensemble de la planète..
