he Kingdom

During the Crusades–the world shaping 200-year collision between Europe and the East–a blacksmith named Balian has lost his family and nearly his faith. The religious wars raging in the far-off Holy Land seem remote to him, yet he is pulled into that immense drama.

Юный оружейник Бэлиан вынужден бежать со своей родины. Он присоединяется к отряду крестоносцев, которым руководит его отец. Но, в одной из битв, отец получает тяжелую рану и перед смертью присваивает своему сыну сан рыцаря, и тот клянется в верности королю Иерусалима.

Using pioneering techniques in 3D macro and time-lapse photography, he traces them from their beginnings on land to their vital place in nature today, exposing new revelations along the way. He moves from our time scale to theirs, revealing the true nature of plants as creatures that are every bit as dynamic and aggressive as animals. And he does all this in one unique place, a microcosm of the whole plant world where some 90% of all known plant species are represented: The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. This spectacular adventure through the Kingdom of Plants is so immersive and compelling it has the capacity to amaze even the least green-fingered.

Johnny Kingdom takes the trip of a lifetime to Kodiak Island in Alaska in search of brown bears. As a lad, amateur wildlife filmmaker Johnny poached salmon from Exmoor rivers with his bare hands, but his lifelong ambition has been to see how the real experts - brown bears - do it, as they fish for sockeye salmon in the remote Alaskan rivers. It is also the biggest challenge he has faced as an amateur cameraman.