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The Dumont d'Urville scientific station on Pétrels Island in Adélie Land — 4K and HD aerial footage. In the Géologie archipelago, navigation between glaciers, Adélie penguins and tabular icebergs. A unique Antarctic collection.
Unique aerial collection of Algeria produced for the film Algeria from Above (Yann Arthus-Bertrand). From the Sahara and its great ergs to the Mediterranean coast, through Kabylie, the Hoggar, the red Tadrart and the UNESCO-listed ksour of Ghardaïa. One of the richest collections in our African catalogue.
4K aerial footage of the Iberá nature reserve, a vast 700,000-hectare wetland in the province of Corrientes. Shot by HOPE Production with a DJI Inspire 2 drone, documenting the rewilding programme of Rewilding Argentina — including the reintroduction of the jaguar after 70 years of absence.
Aerial footage of the Western Australian coast, the Perth region and Shark Bay. Turquoise waters, crocodile farm, pink lake and helicopter cattle mustering — a collection illustrating the diversity of Western Australia's landscapes.
Over 700 islands scattered across the Caribbean Sea, an hour's flight from Miami. Crystal-clear turquoise waters, sandbars that appear and vanish with the tides, Nassau and Paradise Island, the Exumas and their famous swimming pigs. Shot on Arri Alexa Cineflex Elite — 7 hours of rushes available.
A land of water and rivers, filmed in partnership with Bangladeshi NGO Friendship for COP21. Ganges and Brahmaputra delta, Dhaka river traffic, Chittagong ship-breaking yards, farmers ploughing the sand of river banks. Cineflex camera on Bell 407 helicopter.
In the heart of the Maya forest, the temples of Caracol and Xunantunich near the Guatemalan border. 70 km off Belize City, the Great Blue Hole — a circular underwater sinkhole 300 metres in diameter in the middle of a coral atoll, one of the world's most famous dive sites.
From the Andes to the Amazon basin, an exceptional collection shot by Airbus B3 helicopter at high altitude with oxygen. Uyuni Salt Flat and its salt patterns, Licancabur volcanoes, Laguna Colorada and Laguna Verde, Potosí and its Cerro Rico, colonial Sucre, Santa Cruz rainforest.
The Okavango Delta, the world's second largest inland delta, UNESCO World Heritage Site. Elephants crossing waterways, giraffes, zebras, buffalo, Nile crocodiles and flamingos. Rare sequence of a herd attacking a baobab tree to extract its core. Long-focus Cineflex on helicopter.
Rio de Janeiro and Guanabara Bay, the Lençóis Maranhenses National Park with its white dunes dotted with turquoise lagoons, São José de Ribamar, tepuis and Amazon rainforest in the south, deforestation and wildfires in the Amazon. Arri Alexa Cineflex HD and DJI Inspire 2 4K drone.
The extraordinary landscape of the Bagan temples, one of the most important archaeological sites in Southeast Asia — over 2,000 pagodas and temples scattered across the Myanmar plain, filmed at sunrise and sunset in a unique golden light. UNESCO World Heritage Site.
The temples of Angkor in the heart of the tropical forest — the world's largest complex of Buddhist and Hindu temples, UNESCO listed. The Mekong and Lake Tonle Sap with its stilt villages. Gyro-stabilised Cineflex HD.
From Shanghai to Hong Kong, from the terraced rice fields of Yuanyang to the Zhangye Danxia geopark and its Rainbow Mountains, through the giant Xiaolangdi dam and the crowds of Chengdu's wave pool. A contrasted China between tradition and outsized modernity.
Aerial and ground-level footage of Concordia station, isolated on the Antarctic plateau at 3,233 metres altitude. Average temperature of -50°C, extended polar night. Jointly operated by France and Italy, it hosts year-round scientific teams for research in glaciology, astronomy and space medicine.
HD and 4K rushes along the Congo River and its tributaries in the Republic of Congo. The vast overloaded barges travelling upriver for weeks, Brazzaville facing Kinshasa, Lake Télé deep in the equatorial forest, Pointe-Noire and its oil installations. Cineflex HD helicopter and DJI Inspire 2 operated from local vessels.
The Copenhagen region, its palace and Kronborg Castle — Shakespeare's castle. The Øresund bridge-tunnel linking Denmark to Sweden, one of the most remarkable infrastructures in Northern Europe.
Dozens of hours of 4K rushes of Egypt travelling up the Nile Valley, from Abu Simbel on Lake Nasser to the Mediterranean. Pyramids of Giza, Luxor and Karnak, Suez Canal, Alexandria and the Nile Delta. Yann Arthus-Bertrand production — Egypt from Above.
Danakil and Dallol — hydrothermal landscapes in acid colours from another planet, Erta Ale lava lake, Lake Assal salt caravans. Lalibela and its eleven rock-hewn churches. Gondar and the Epiphany ceremony. Lake Tana, source of the Blue Nile. Tigray, villages and cliff churches. Simien Mountains and their geladas.
The largest aerial rush collection of France in our catalogue — over 3,000 hours filmed across all regions. Paris and its monuments with exceptional DGAC authorisations (including Notre-Dame before the 2019 fire), Alps, coastline, châteaux, countryside, industries. On-demand shoots in 8K with our partner Papa Sierra.
The Acropolis of Athens, the Meteora and its Orthodox monasteries perched atop vertiginous rocky pinnacles, Delphi and the island of Mykonos. World Heritage Sites filmed from the air under exceptional authorisation conditions.
Port-au-Prince and its iconic market, Cité Soleil and its deprived neighbourhoods, the salt flats on the Haitian-Dominican border. Haiti from the air — a country of fragile beauty and striking contrasts between preserved nature and urban poverty.
Budapest, one of Europe's most beautiful capitals, with its Danube banks, Buda Castle and neo-Gothic Parliament — all UNESCO listed. Pannonhalma Abbey and Fertőd Castle, jewels of the Hungarian countryside.
HD and 4K aerial footage of Iceland — Vatnajökull glacier, Bárðarbunga eruption and its lava flows, waterfalls, canyons and Reykjavík. Many 4K images from our Iceland shoots not yet online — contact us for the complete catalogue.
The Allahabad Kumbh Mela, one of the world's largest human gatherings on the banks of the Ganges. The Holi colour festival filmed from the air — a unique chromatic explosion. Human and spiritual images of rare intensity.
The Raja Ampat archipelago and Pulau Wayag in Papua — among the world's most beautiful maritime landscapes. Seaweed farming in Bali. Night unloading of fishing boats in small coastal ports, filmed on the ground and by drone — images of rare atmosphere and visual intensity.
Venice and its lagoon, Tuscany and Siena, the Dolomites, the Aosta Valley, Turin, Liguria and its heroic vineyards, La Spezia, Lake Como, the Stromboli volcano filmed at night. A collection covering Italy's finest sites, Cineflex HD and 4K.
The Dadaab refugee camps — one of the world's largest camp complexes, seen from the air in their full scale. Mount Kenya, Lake Turkana the "Jade Sea", Lake Magadi and its abstract soda patterns, rivers in flood, farmers and villages. Cineflex GSS HD.
From Beirut to the Bekaa Valley, the Roman temples of Baalbek among the best-preserved in the ancient world, the Mediterranean coastline and the Lebanese Mountains with their ancient cedars.
The vast expanses of the Libyan Saharan desert — dunes, oasis and Lake Gaberoun near Sabha, a mirage made real in the heart of the western desert. Many more HD images of Libya not yet online — contact us.
The Tsingy de Bemaraha — forests of razor-sharp limestone unique in the world, UNESCO listed. Ilakaka sapphire mines, terraced rice fields, baobab forests and the city of Antsirabe. Madagascar captivates with the diversity of its landscapes and the exceptional endemism of its biodiversity.
From the Pacific to the Atlantic coast — Mexico City, the Agua Azul waterfalls, the Maya city of Palenque in the Chiapas forest, the traditional butterfly-net fishermen of Janitzio, the Paricutín volcano, sugar cane plantations.
The Orkhon Valley, cradle of Genghis Khan's Mongol Empire, UNESCO World Heritage Site — horsemen, wild horses and yurts in the immensity of the steppe. The traditional construction of a yurt near Ulaanbaatar.
4K aerial footage of Morocco from the Mediterranean to the Sahara — Rabat, Casablanca, Tangier, Marrakech, Ouarzazate, Essaouira, the dunes of Merzouga and the Erg Chebbi, the Draa Valley, the Atlas and its lost villages, the Ouarzazate solar plant. Yann Arthus-Bertrand production — Morocco from Above.
Nauru, the world's smallest republic — 21 km² in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Enriched then ruined by phosphate mining, the island is beginning to recover. 4K aerial footage of a unique island territory, both fascinating and emblematic of the excesses of extractive economics.
The Gadhimai festival near the Indo-Nepalese border — one of the world's largest religious gatherings. The Kingdom of Mustang and Lo-Mantang in the Himalayas at 4,000 metres — high-altitude landscapes of striking mineral beauty. Rice paddies and mountain villages.
Wild landscapes of the South Island and the New Zealand Alps. The wreck of the container ship Rena grounded off Tauranga — one of the most publicised maritime disasters in New Zealand's recent history, filmed from the air in the days following the accident.
Svalbard and its Arctic glaciers, the ghost village of Pyramiden, polar wildlife. In the Ålesund region, fishing and fish farming in the fjords. A collection between extreme nature and human activity at the edge of the world.
Exceptional collection covering the entire country — Karachi, Islamabad, Lahore and its Mughal monuments, tribal regions of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Gilgit-Baltistan and the Karakoram, Indus Valley Civilisation archaeological sites, Gadani ship-breaking yards. Filmed by French helicopter with military and civil authorisations.
The Pacific and Atlantic islands, the Panama Canal and its locks filmed from the air — one of the world's greatest engineering works, UNESCO listed. Lake Gatun, the Las Perlas archipelago and the tropical forest.
The Maras salt pans, set in the Sacred Valley of the Incas at 3,000 metres altitude — hundreds of terraced evaporation pools of striking geometric beauty, fed by salt water springs since Inca times.
The destruction of Typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda) in Tacloban and the Leyte region — filmed 15 days after the passage of the most violent typhoon ever recorded. Aerial footage revealing the true scale of the disaster, impossible to grasp from the ground.
Norilsk, closed city in Arctic Siberia and one of the world's most polluted cities — nickel, palladium and copper mines, smelters whose fumes blacken the snow. Icebreaker on the Yenisei in spring, Nenets nomads in the tundra. Footage obtained through exceptional authorisations in this city normally inaccessible to foreigners.
Helicopter rhinoceros translocation in the Johannesburg region — a rare document on wildlife conservation efforts in South Africa. Aerial footage of the townships on the outskirts of Johannesburg.
Gyeongsangnam-do shipbuilding yards, one of the world's largest concentrations of the naval industry. In the Busan region, coastal villages and offshore fish farming.
Between the traditional village of Burghilo, the remains of the Jonglei Canal and the Nile marshes in the Bor and Juba region — South Sudan from the air, a young country with landscapes still preserved despite decades of conflict.
From Catalonia to the shores of Andalusia, a collection shot for a Catalan tourism film directed by Yann Arthus-Bertrand. Barcelona and the Sagrada Família, the Vilafranca castells filmed with an aerial crane, Córdoba and its Mezquita, Seville Cathedral, and the remarkable Alhucemas Islands — Spanish territory just 50 metres from the Moroccan coast.
Aerial footage of all Swiss regions for the film Switzerland from Above (Yann Arthus-Bertrand) — mountains, lakes, cities, countryside, dams and climbing sites. Many HD images not yet online — contact us for the complete catalogue.
The major floods of Bangkok and Ayutthaya — the ancient capital of the Siamese kingdom and its UNESCO-listed Buddhist temple complex, submerged during the catastrophic 2011 floods. Aerial footage of rare documentary value.
The Tunis and Carthage region, the Roman ruins of Dougga and the Saharan south of Tataouine. Many more HD images of Tunisia not yet online — contact us for the complete catalogue.
Istanbul at sunset — the unique skyline of minarets and domes, the Bosphorus and its intense maritime traffic linking Europe to Asia. A world city filmed from the air in exceptional Mediterranean light.
The Chernobyl nuclear plant and the ghost city of Pripyat — deserted tower blocks, stopped Ferris wheel, empty swimming pool. One of the most evocative sites in recent history, filmed from the air twenty-five years after the disaster.
London, Oxford, the Isle of Wight, Stonehenge and the great manor houses of the southeast. Stonehenge, the world's most famous megalithic monument, seen from the air in its open plain setting — an overflight subject to strict authorisations.
New York and Manhattan at night, Los Angeles and its ocean of lights, Miami and the Florida Keys, industrial almond orchards in California. A collection being continuously enriched — many images not yet online, contact us for the complete catalogue.
4K aerial footage of the Venezuelan tepuis — those immense flat-topped rock formations with sheer vertical walls rising above the Amazon rainforest. Mount Roraima, Canaima National Park, primary forest filmed on the ground with RED camera and cablecam. Arri Alexa Cineflex. Exceptional footage from a region now very difficult to access.
Near the New Zealand and American bases, the landscapes of the McMurdo Dry Valleys — the only ice-free areas of Antarctica year-round. The Onyx River, Antarctica's only river, and the Airdevronsix glacial waterfalls. A lunar landscape of austere beauty.