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2020
Ruptly
Documentary
Collection
Nature and Travel
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Nature and Travel When an Elephant Smiles
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Year Length Tags Roxy Danckwerts founded a wildlife sanctuary on her family farm in the heart of Zimbabwe more than 20 years
2019 26:35 AFRICA ago. Called 'Wild is Life', she's made it a safe haven, mainly for injured and orphaned animals but also giraffes,
WILDLIFE lions, cheetahs, monkeys, a pangolin, and a warthog; it's now home to around 150 animals in total. Roxy, along
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with her sons and sanctuary staff, nurtures them all before they can be released back into the wild.
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Russian
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Nature and Travel Going with the Floe
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Year Length Tags There's not much life on the 80th parallel north, close to the northernmost point in the world. It's a vast icy
2019 27:30 ARCTIC desert with the occasional polar bear seen in the distance. Drifting polar stations were first set up in the 1930s,
GLOBAL WARMING but became too risky when rising temperatures started causing the ice caps to melt. Join the experimental
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Transarktika-2019 expedition on a month-long voyage to revive the drifting polar missions.
English, Spanish, SCIENCE
Arabic, Russian
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Nature and Travel Ivan and the Wolf
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Year Length Tags When Ivan visited a friend in the country, some hunters offered him a wolf cub. He agreed without hesitation
2019 27:17 ANIMALS RIGHTS because otherwise, the tiny animal would have been killed. Ivan took it home to live with his daughter, Sasha,
RUSSIA and two dogs. They named their pet wolf, Sery, which means ‘grey’ in Russian, and he soon became a part of
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Ivan’s family. RTD visits Ivan and his pet wolf in the Southern city of Volgograd to find out more about taming a
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predator. As we tag along with the ‘pack’, we ask whether you really can (or should) hand-rear a wild animal
Arabic, Russian and expect it to behave like a pet. While we were filming the Russian government passed a new law banning
all forms of animal cruelty, which includes keeping wild animals in residential homes.
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Nature and Travel Hot Race, Cold Dogs
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Year Length Tags The Beringia race lasts a whole month and winds 2,100 kilometres across Kamchatka’s vast, snowy
2018 65:57 ANIMALS wilderness. It’s an annual dog sled race that pushes humans and canines far beyond their limits in extreme
EXPEDITION temperatures and inhospitable, yet hauntingly beautiful landscapes. Fifteen sled drivers and their dogs
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will plough through an average of 100km per day, running along the edge of the Bering Sea and deep
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into the Kamchatka Peninsula. The Beringia’s trails can turn treacherous in the blink of an eye, as weather
Arabic, Russian conditions change from calm to severe.
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Nature and Travel It's A Pandaful Life!
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Year Length Tags The Giant Panda has long been famous as a symbol of conservation and wildlife protection. China is now
2017 24:44 ANIMAL RIGHTS the only country where pandas still live in the wild. The government has worked hard to prevent its
ASIA national pride, this adorable bamboo eating bear, from becoming extinct. It has put extensive resources
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into restoring the pandas’ forest habitat and reintroducing rescued animals to the wild. The panda
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breeding centre in Chengdu employs highly qualified Chinese and international specialists. The pandas
Arabic, Russian live safely here and are provided with conditions conducive to successful procreation and cubs are taken
care of to ensure they survive.
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Nature and Travel Beauties Save the World
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Year Length Tags An all-female team of researchers and environmentalists board a yacht and head for the Caribbean. The
2016 27:46 SHIPS 14 women come from all over the world and from a variety of backgrounds: there are marine scientists,
ECOLOGY biologists, geographers, filmmakers, artists, photographers, sailors, travellers and educators. United in their
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love of the ocean and the shared commitment to protect it from manmade pollution, these women are
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doing something about the problem. They set sail aboard the “Sea Dragon” to check the levels of
Arabic, Russian contamination in and around the Caribbean.
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Nature and Travel Baikal Blues
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Year Length Tags Lake Baikal in Russian Siberia is the oldest and deepest lake on the planet. It contains 20% of the world’s
2016 27:17 NATURE fresh water. Its incredibly clear and clean water is home to hundreds of unique animal and plant species.
ECOLOGY Biologists, however, are increasingly concerned about the region’s ecology. James Brown goes back to
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Baikal 7 years after his last visit to see how the lake has changed.
English, Spanish, SCIENCE
Arabic, Russian
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Nature and Travel Bear with Me
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Year Length Tags When human activity causes bear cubs to be separated from, or abandoned by their mothers, they have
2016 26:35 ANIMALS no chance of surviving unless people intervene. Russia's Orphan Bear Rescue Centre has been established
WILDLIFE to save and nurture orphaned bear cubs. The centre is a part of a larger organisation – the International
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Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) that rescues and protects animals worldwide. The OBRC was started as an
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experiment by a couple of biologists, Valentin and Svetlana Pazhetnov, in the mid-nineties and has
Russian developed into an internationally-recognised centre that is now run by three generations of the
Pazhetnov family.
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Nature and Travel Maasai: From Sand to Snow
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Year Length Tags From the sun scorched Kenyan savannah to the snow-covered concrete jungle of Moscow – Russian
2015 25:59 KENYA traveller and photographer, Olga Michi, takes members of the Maasai tribe on the adventure of a lifetime.
TRAVEL They have never even left their country before, let alone the continent. Braving an intercontinental flight
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and Russia’s sub-zero winter, the African adventurers never miss an opportunity to try something new and
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take every challenge they meet in their stride.
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Nature and Travel Back to Sleepy Hollow, Kazakhstan
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Finalist Certificate at
New York Festivals World’s
Best TV & Films 2016
Year Length Tags Deep in the countryside of Kazakhstan lies a sleepy, little rural village called, Kalachi. In this case though,
2015 24:50 CHILDREN the word, “sleepy” is much more than a quaint, idyllic description, it’s literal! The settlement made
SLEEPING SICKNESS international headlines because of an inexplicable “sleeping sickness” that has affected its residents for
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over three years and prompted RT Doc’s first visit, in December, 2014. The search for a cause revealed
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nothing, so several villagers seized the opportunity to relocate but others could not bring themselves to
Arabic, Russian leave their birthplace, despite the health risks. RT Doc pays a second visit to discover that medical
science may now be on the verge of unravelling the slumbering mystery.M E N U
Nature and Travel The permafrost mystery
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Year Length Tags Mysterious giant craters have started to appear in Siberia, some say they're a new phenomenon others
2015 26:24 CLIMATE CHANGE that they have existed since the dawn of time. This riddle of nature attracted RT Doc to the land of the
ECOLOGY nomadic Nenets. Our team met visiting scientists and locals, in search of answers either from research
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data or ancient legends. The natives dismiss scientific explanations for the sinkholes preferring to believe
English, Russian SIBERIA
the craters are a “connection to another world.” Anyone who lives there, including the nomads who roam
the tundra must hear the voice of the Earth. So they believe that something extraordinary happened, and
that the reason behind it is supernatural.M E N U
Nature and Travel Sleepy Hollow, Kazakhstan
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Finalist Certificate
New York Festivals World's
Best TV & Fims 2016
Year Length Tags For two years the villagers of Kalachi in Kazakhstan have been suffering from an inexplicable disorder,
2014 24:36 HEALTH where they fall asleep for no apparent reason. The indiscriminate illness has no cure. Episodes begin
SCIENCE without warning, and those affected never know if they will wake up again. Its causes and consequences
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remain unknown despite multiple attempts by medics and scientists to solve the riddle. Now the RTD
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team goes to Sleepy Hollow, as it has come to be known, to undertake its own investigation.
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Nature and Travel Kilimanjaro Challenge
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Year Length Tags Aleksandr D’Jamoos-Shulchev, Ivan Gorbatenko and Aleksandr Pokhilko are determined to conquer
2014 25:57 AFRICA Kilimanjaro and prove to themselves and the whole world that nowhere is off limits to them. Together with
DISABILITY their team of hikers, they set out on this exhausting five-day journey to raise funds to treat children with
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physical disabilities in Russia. They also hope that their example will inspire disabled children to follow their
English, Spanish, TRAVEL
dreams and to always believe in themselves.
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Nature and Travel (Atlantic) Ocean's Eighteen
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Ocean
Film Festival 2016
First place
Year Length Tags The Shtandart is a replica of Peter the Great's flagship and has seven working cannons on board.
2014 26:10 RUSSIAN NAVY Its crew is made up of people from different countries, professions and backgrounds. What they all have in
TALL SHIP common is a passion for adventure and a desire to challenge themselves. They have all, at some point in
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their lives, decided to take a risk and fulfil their dream of a maritime journey. Now they share their
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impressions from this extraordinary voyage and explain what life is like on board an 18th-century
Arabic, Russian tall ship in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean.M E N U
Nature and Travel Sahara: A Desert Winter
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Year Length Tags Although most people think of the Sahara as a vast, sandy open expanse, it offers many surprises to those
2014 26:22 TRAVEL intrepid enough to visit. The Sahara has its own winter season: the parched lands and cisterns of local
TUNISIA residents are nourished when it rains, and it even occasionally snows. The event of the season for many is
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Tunisia's annual desert festival, which attracts leading camel racers from Algeria, Libya, Oman, and Saudi
English, Russian NOMADS
Arabia. Witness people who live in fully modernized cave dwellings, in remote oases, and in tents as desert
nomads.M E N U
Nature and Travel Seven Seas of Ice
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Year Length Tags From the big red ships that seamen call their "knights" to the smaller white ships that can enter frozen river
2014 26:19 RUSSIA estuaries, Russia's icebreakers pave the way through the frozen arctic for commercial vessels and military
ICEBREAKER convoys, allowing passage between Russia's European ports and the Pacific. They are a reliable
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and indispensable addition to any trans-Arctic ocean voyage. Join RT as we team up with the crew of
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one of these amazing nuclear-powered vessels as it traverses the top of the world.
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Nature and Travel Lost: Russian style
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Year Length Tags Ice fishing is supposed to be one of the most relaxing Russian winter pastimes- peace, solitude and a
2014 26:12 TRAVEL chance to commune with nature. But what if you had no way to get home? What if you had to get far
RUSSIA closer to that nature than you'd ever thought possible? Join James Brown for
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a weekend he'll never forget, stranded in the forests of the frozen North.
English, Spanish, ICE FISHING
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Nature and Travel The Cabin Boy Diaries
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Year Length Tags Even on the verge of his own wedding, James Brown can’t help embarking on another exciting adventure.
2014 26:20 BARENTS SEA This time, he goes on board the Aquamarine–a Russian fishing trawler–and travels to the shores of the
FISHING Spitsbergen Archipelago in the Barents Sea to catch some cod. During his 21-day shift, he learns to catch,
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sort and package the fish, and to do all the chores expected of a sailor. He also speaks to professional
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fishermen about how they balance their work at sea and their family lives. His main goal, however, is to
Arabic, Russian make sure he returns home in time for his wedding. To do that, he has to work hard. That hold won’t fill
itself with fish!M E N U
Nature and Travel Spitsbergen: The long dark night
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Year Length Tags The icy island of Spitsbergen in the Arctic ocean is not well suited to daily life: polar bears, unrelenting
2014 26:18 ARCTIC wind, and the long cold night; when the sun doesn’t rise for months. Even so, people do choose to live
NATURAL RESOURCES there. Outnumbered by polar bears, around 2,500 people live on Spitsbergen: Norwegians who maintain
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nominal control of the island and their Russian neighbours from the mining settlement of Barentsburg. No
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visa or customs controls are needed if you want to go to the island, but you have to be self-sufficient and
Russian fit enough to work.M E N U
Nature and Travel Antarctica: Ready for winter
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Year Length Tags The diesel-electric research vessel Akademik Fyodorov is on a mission to visit two year-round Antarctic
2013 52:02 SCIENCE stations, Progress and Novolazarevskaya. The Akademik Fyodorov services several Russian research
EXPEDITION stations in Antarctica, braving the threat of icebergs as it traverses hundreds of miles of open sea.
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Molodyozhnaya Station only operates during the continent’s brief summer, and the researchers there will
English, Spanish, ICEBREAKER
board the Fyodorov for the long trip home. However, the adventure has only begun for the skeleton crews
Arabic, Russian at the Progress and Novolazerevskaya Stations, which will be responsibe for maintaining everything during
the long, dark winter without additional supplies.M E N U
Nature and Travel Mistress of the cave
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Year Length Tags What's lurking inside the mysterious Orda Cave? Legend has it, a spirit of the legendary Orda Mistress is
2013 25:57 DIVING on guard so no living soul can disturb the peace of its deep frozen waters. But we've got a volunteer,
RUSSIAN COSTUME who accepted the challenge to go through almost 5 kilometers underwater to find the Ice Palace grotto
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and the Ice lake inside the cave.
English, Russian ORDA CAVEM E N U
Nature and Travel Murmansk
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Year Length Tags Welcome to Murmansk – the gem of Russia’s North! This place is famous for its harsh climate and naval
2013 25:51 NUCLEAR fleet, which includes nuclear icebreakers. But there are also lots of other interesting things to do and
NAVY places to visit, including a snow village and reindeer.
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English, Russian NORTHERN RUSSIAM E N U
Nature and Travel All roads lead to Khatystyr
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Year Length Tags The Evenks are a small people, who live in a few villages scattered across Yakutia's endless snowy plains
2012 25:47 HEALTH and whose existence largely depends on reindeer breeding. Their community is based on mutual aid: if
REINDEER they see a car stuck in the snow they help pull it out, if a sick reindeer needs medicine, they go hundreds
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of miles through the impassable virgin land to save them and the beautiful creatures pay the people
English, Russian SHAMANISM
back with their vital services.M E N U
Nature and Travel Mysterious Sands of Russia
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Year Length Tags Shoina is a village drowned up to the waist in sand. Its denizens are quite fatalistic about it, and their
2012 26:03 MYSTERY only means of protection is leaving their door open for the night, as they can never be sure if they can
RUSSIA open it in the morning. The village of Shoina is situated beyond the Arctic Circle, 1,400 kilometers north
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of Moscow. This tiny settlement is known for its sands, which appeared here over 50 years ago and have
English, Russian ARCTIC
been waging a relentless offensive against humans ever since, depriving them of living space. How did
they appear, and where else in Russia can you find unusual places like this?M E N U
Nature and Travel Peculiar winter sports
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Year Length Tags This time James Brown is exploring Russian winter in different parts of the country. He wanted to know
2012 25:51 EXTREME HOBBIES what people do outdoors when the temperatures are really freezing. Are skating and skiing the only
RUSSIAN SPORTS Russian sports, or is there is something else that is potentially far more peculiar and extreme?
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English, Russian SNOWM E N U
Nature and Travel Adygea
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Year Length Tags Adygea, like many of the North Caucasus is a land defined by its people. Their brand of hospitality, the
2012 23:48 SOUTHERN RUSSIA passion for dancing and their traditions are unique, inspiring and a constant amazement even to a
RUSSIAN FOOD seasoned traveller like James Brown! It's not his first time in the Caucasus, but James Brown can't get
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enough of it. He always enjoys the fantastic hospitality, ardor for music and dance and amazing cuisine.
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In Adygea, James looks at the process of a local specialty - Adygean cheese, visits a tea plantation and
takes some lessons in local arts and crafts.M E N U
Nature and Travel Perm region
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Year Length Tags James Brown visits a thriving city that's making an artistic statement and just a few highlights of his
2012 26:17 HISTORY eventful journey are a legendary ice cave, an industrial center steeped in history and a local Bermuda
NORTHERN RUSSIA triangle.
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English, Russian ICE CAVEM E N U
Nature and Travel Russia's holy wood
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Year Length Tags Richard Davies is an architectural photographer from London who takes a fascinating and thought-
2012 26:14 HISTORY provoking journey to the shores of the White Sea to explore the region’s famous wooden churches.
RELIGION Against the backdrop of Russia’s spectacular landscapes, nature and villages, Richard explains why
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he is convinced that the architecture in this far-flung region is so distinctive and unique. Trekking through
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challenging terrain, the photographer explores this rural backwater and discovers that the architecture
is filled with a keen sense of life and faith in God.Thank you! +49 30 3198 72 300 cd@ruptly.tv ruptly.tv
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