Returned to the wildThe Arabian Oryx
Extinct in the wild, then brought back. The story of the first animal pulled from the edge of oblivion and returned.
Documentaries
Not clips, but documentaries that bring back to light what is about to fade: a creature barely left, a plant that grows only here, and a land that changed across millions of years.
Built on published sourcesEvery documentary is built on research and references we name in its origin card.
Reviewed by a specialistA specialist reviews every scientific or historical work before release.
AI-made, and labelledWe rebuild what no camera can reach, without animating any real person’s face.
On the Edge of Absence
A series on the Kingdom’s creatures and plants standing at the edge of disappearance — or barely back from it. We document what no one may see after us.
In productionThe Arabian Leopard
Fewer than a hundred remain in the wild. We rebuild its lost range in the Hijaz and Sarawat mountains, and its planned return.
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ProposedThe Nubian Ibex
Wild goats scaling the Sarawat cliffs — carved by the ancestors on the rock thousands of years ago, and walking it still.
ProposedThe Houbara
A bird falconers followed for generations, now a symbol of the Kingdom’s breeding-and-release programmes.
ProposedThe Arabian Wolf
Among the world’s smallest and most desert-adapted wolves, living at the edge of our world and rarely seen.
Found only in Saudi ArabiaThe Soudah Flower
A flower that grows nowhere on Earth but the heights of Al-Soudah in Asir, and barely seen in decades.
First record in the KingdomThe Wadi Disah Plant
Recorded for the first time in the Kingdom’s history near Wadi Disah, clinging to sandstone crevices where water seeps.
From Deep Time to the Memory of Place
From the rise of the mountains and ancient seas that drowned Arabia, to vanished lakes, caravan routes and carved cities. Documentaries that walk the timeline itself. Explore them on the time map
ProposedWhen the Mountains Rose
Millions of years ago the Red Sea tore open and the western mountains rose. The story of the land before anyone stood on it.
On the time map
ProducedBefore the Sands
Dinosaurs that lived on the Tabuk coast some 75 million years ago — among the first classifiable remains in Arabia.
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ProposedThe Sharks of Khurais
When the Tethys sea covered central Arabia, sharks left their teeth in the rock of the Dammam Formation.
On the time map
ProposedThe Whale of Al-Jouf
A basilosaurus some twenty metres long that swam above what is now the Al-Jouf desert.
On the time map
ProposedWhen Jubbah Was a Lake
Carvings on Jabal Umm Sinman overlooking a vanished lake — witness to an Arabia that was once green.
On the time map
ProposedThe Wells of Himà
On the old caravan route, wells and inscriptions thousands of years old — a World Heritage site.
On the time map
ProposedHegra: City of the Nabataeans
The largest Nabataean city south of Petra, and the first Saudi site inscribed as World Heritage in 2008.
On the time map
ProposedAl-Qatt Al-Asiri
Bright geometric murals painted by the women of Asir on their walls — a living art inscribed by UNESCO.
On the time map
ProposedDammam Well No. 7
The well that changed the face of the Kingdom when oil flowed from it in commercial quantities in 1938.
On the time map
ProposedThe Tapline
A pipeline across the Kingdom’s north, around whose stations towns such as Rafha and Turaif grew.
On the time mapYour land holds a story
Every place in the Kingdom has a past worth a film. Tell us about it in two lines.