• 2015
  • 2h 30m
Amur: Asia's Amazon

Summary The three episodes portray the unique characters of the Amur's lower, middle and upper reaches - separate worlds that could not be more different and diverse. View more details

  • 2015
  • 2h 30m

Amur: Asia's Amazon

Directed : Unknown

Written : Unknown

Stars : Franz Robert Wagner

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Genres : Documentary

Release date : Dec 31, 2014

Countries of origin : Germany

Official sites : interspot.at terramater.at

Language : English German

Production companies : ARTE NDR Naturfilm Interspot Film

Summary The three episodes portray the unique characters of the Amur's lower, middle and upper reaches - separate worlds that could not be more different and diverse. View more details

Details

Genres : Documentary

Release date : Dec 31, 2014

Countries of origin : Germany

Official sites : interspot.at terramater.at

Language : English German

Production companies : ARTE NDR Naturfilm Interspot Film

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Amur: Asia's Amazon (2015)

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Episode 1 • Dec 31, 2014
The Far East
The Amur's coastal delta is one of the richest ecosystems on earth. Nourished by the mighty river's enormous sediment load, the Sea of Okhotsk is a marine hotspot of biodiversity with arctic and subtropical species living side by side. Likewise, the land of Russia's Far East is a unique meeting place of northern and southern plants and animals, boasting the planet's most diverse woodlands. These wildwoods are still inhabited by Amur tigers, Asian black bears, brown bears, Siberian and Sika deer, sables and otters and countless species of wetland birds. And they are home to traditional forest and river cultures like the Udeghe and Nanai. The Pacific rim is both the end and the beginning of the Amur River system: It's the massive monsoon clouds the Pacific sends inland which keep the thousand tributaries of the Amur flowing.
Episode 2 • Dec 31, 2014
The Black Dragon
The middle course of the Amur which is called Heilong-jian or Black Dragon River in China, runs through ancient Manchuria and forms a natural border between China and Russia. Until recently, this was a restricted military zone - restricted for humans but a blessing to wildwoods, wetlands, and wildlife. Primeval forests and sprawling wetlands offer habitats to rare species like the Manchurian crane and several of its relatives, white-tailed eagles, soft-shelled Chinese turtles, giant sturgeon and Siberian taimen, Amur leopards and tigers. The border also marks the sharp contrast between Russia's raw wilderness and China's farmland with the continent's biggest and northernmost rice fields.
Episode 3 • Dec 31, 2014
The Secret Springs
Moving upstream into Mongolia, the itinerary of the series leaves behind the boreal woodland wilderness of China's extreme North and Siberia's South to follow the Amur's two westernmost tributaries across the planet's vastest wild grasslands. These twin rivers are the Amur's headwaters. Although they spring from the same mountain - the birthplace and burial ground of Genghis Khan - and then join to form the Amur River, they are an unequal pair, reacting differently to long-term climatic cycles - the rhythmic expansion and contraction of the Gobi desert. Episode 3 follows the massive herds of Mongolian gazelles on their seasonal migrations and the trails of nomadic herdsmen through wilderness regions that are home to steppe eagles, wolves, black vultures, Asian marmots and black-billed capercaillies. This episode shows how the rhythm of all life inhabiting one of the planet's greatest networks of waterways, lakes and wetlands is driven by climatic cycles. It shows the timeless flow of a mighty river in the sky flowing thousands of kilometres from the Pacific to the harsh, cold desert heart of the continent and of a thousand rivers uniting into a single giant one which drains this immense volume of water back to its true source, the ocean.
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