Top Namibia Movies / TV

Will Smith discovers hidden worlds of fast and slow in the Earth's oldest desert.

The Namib Desert is one of the oldest deserts of all. It's also one of the most diverse. With 50-degree temperatures and half a millimetre of rainfall annually, we see how this is possible.

Grass lands cover vast plains, such as savanna, prairies and pampas. The many, almost indestructible grass species, for various types of soil and other conditions, feed huge herds, whose migrations are followed by many predators and (semi-)nomadic peoples, such as the Mongol master horsemen. Some still practice hunting-gathering, such as the Khoisan, or traditional 'natural' herd breeding, others as in Australia use technology to gain maximal control. Domesticating cereals and edible grazers was crucial in human history, leading to vast food surpluses and sedentary civilization.

With his mom away, seal pup Tabo fends for himself. Lion cub Kaya's spots help keep her hidden. Elephant calf Jasiri makes a dangerous crossing.

It follows filmmakers as they capture the epic journey of African elephants across the Kalahari desert for Disneynature's Elephant (2020).

To escape the outback, a young Afghan cameleer falls in with a mysterious bushman on the run with stolen Crown gold.

Six people meet in the Kalahari desert: a female NYC lawyer flying with a local zoologist/pilot in a mini-plane, a Cuban and an African soldier taking each other POW, a Boer elephant poacher, and a Bushman looking for his two children.

Filmed over nearly five years in twenty-five countries on five continents, and shot on seventy-millimetre film, Samsara transports us to the varied worlds of sacred grounds, disaster zones, industrial complexes, and natural wonders.

A comic allegory about a traveling Bushman who encounters modern civilization and its stranger aspects, including a clumsy scientist and a band of revolutionaries.

New science from world experts reveals that collaboration plays a major role in animal evolution.

A story of how Rhino Poaching triggers social change in rural Namibia, seen through the eyes of a 9 year old girl.

Sir David Attenborough explores the dangerous frontiers created by the world's coasts, where animals fight for survival amidst constant change. Cape fur seals, sea angels, lions, archer fish, flamingos and green turtles feature.

Ben tastes life in the Namibian desert with Dennis 'Boesman' (local term for the native Bushmen) who left the rat race after a business career in capital Windhoek to farm the hard way with his wife, Japanese agricultural engineer Yuri, and their daughter aged four. Ben stays in their broken caravan -nothing in ever thrown away- and struggles with the scorching heat, yet risks in barefoot despite thorns. Using abundant solar power, Dennis achieves virtual self-reliance, a constant struggle due to the extreme aridity, provided he shoots and guts two 'gemsbok' (the local giant antelope) a year, helped by Ben who gets mixed feelings.

Traveling from the deserts of Namibia to the forests of the Amazon, this documentary provides an up-close view of the snake world in all it scaly glory.

Mike Wozniak and Ola Labib head to one of the wildest places on Earth - the Namib desert - to meet for the first time and have each other for company on their journey.

The team uncover the hidden lives of three iconic animals. In the Kalahari Desert they put cameras on Meerkats. In Cameroon a camera is fitted to an orphaned chimp. In Argentina tiny cameras are fitted to penguins.

A conservationist in Namibia wants to see if three orphaned cheetahs she has raised can learn to hunt. Cameras show how fur seals hunt their prey and avoid great white sharks. The life of baboons in South Africa also feature.

A young couple is compelled to leave their Christian missionary station in the Kalahari Desert after being threatened with death by an extremist militant gang. After crashing their aircraft they must battle man and beast for their lives.

As baby animals take their first steps out of the nest, burrow, den or lair, the sounds that guide them could mean the difference between life and death.

The dark, a world of opportunity for mammals. More than two-thirds prefer the cover of the night, with some now returning to the safety of the shadows in order to avoid us.

Sir David Attenborough reveals how, by pushing themselves and their bodies to the absolute limit, mammals have found remarkable ways to beat the heat, surviving in some of the hottest places on our planet.