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David Attenborough - narrated nature documentary series "Our Planet" examines Earth's natural beauty and how climate change impacts all living creatures.
Our Planet: With David Attenborough. Explores and unravels the mystery of how and why animals migrate, showing some of the most dramatic and compelling stories in the natural world through spectacular and innovative cinematography.
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Netflix By 2010, the bluff, affable documentary-maker Craig Foster had reached the end of his tether. He had been making documentaries for 20 years. Successfully, too: he co-directed The Great Dance: A Hunter’s Story(2000), a seminal and multi-award-winning study of the indigenous San people in the Kalahari desert. Yet his usual energy had started ...
Netflix Plimsoll Productions, the producers of documentary series Hostile Planet, recruited virtually everyone who is anyone in the wildlife film-making community to reveal, over six energetic episodes, what the wild world gets up to while we sleep. Short on detail and heavy on hyperbole – narrator Samira Wiley talks about the night as though viewe...
Hulu and Amazon Prime Video Director Matt Wolf draws on an impressive archive of never-before-seen footage to recount the oft-told (and oft-misrepresented) tale of Biosphere 2, the pride and joy of an ambitious experimental theatre troupe from San Francisco called the Theater of All Possibilities. The experiment, masterminded by ebullient writer an...
Microsoft Store, Apple Store and BBC iPlayer Arthur Jones’s surreal, funny and ultimately devastating filmis about his friend Matt Furie’s attempts to rein in his very own errant Pinocchio, Pepe the Frog. Pepe started life as a hand-drawn cartoon character, one of four stoner students in Boy’s Club,Furie’s MySpace comic. Because he was easy to draw...
Netflix Though it is unlikely to tell regular readers of New Scientist anything they didn’t know already, Jeff Orlowski’s docudrama is a superb piece of civic education, exploring the accidents, mistakes, good intentions and bad behaviours (both human and algorithmic) that have shaped our leading social media platforms. Orlowski, who has received E...
Netflix In 1977, film-maker Werner Herzog rushed to the evacuated Caribbean island of Guadeloupe to record the island’s looming volcanic eruption in a short film, La Soufrière. Thirty years later, while filming Encounters at the End of the World in Antarctica, he met and befriended Clive Oppenheimer, a volcanologist at the University of Cambridge. ...
Netflix According to Joe Egender, who co-created this genetic engineering series with Leeor Kaufman, Unnatural Selectionbegan life around 2015 as a science fiction script. Over dinner, the writers realised that the material Egender was amassing was too complex for fiction – and barely believable anyway. How, they wondered, did they not already know...
Netflix One thing’s for sure: film-maker and climate activist Josh Tickell knows how to cause a stir. In 1997, he drove a van powered by used cooking oil across the US, capturing the attention of the world. For the next 10 years, he promoted personal sustainability via the college lecture circuit, and his first film, the documentary Fuel, was nomin...
Netflix On 28 January 1986, NASA’s space shuttle Challenger left Cape Canaveral in Florida on a satellite deployment mission. It was also, quite openly, a public relations flight: on board were the first African-American astronaut, Ronald McNair; first Asian astronaut, Ellison Onizuka; and teacher Christa McAuliffe, who was going to be the first pr...
Netflix Writer-producers Nicole Newnham and James LeBrecht won the Audience Award at Sundance in 2020 for their story of Camp Jened, a free-spirited, Woodstock-like summer camp in the Catskill mountains of New York state that was designed for teens with disabilities. Many who attended the camp in the early 1970s felt that it was the first time they...
3 days ago · Among the highest-rated include Winged Migration and March of the Penguins (which gave flight to our documentary craze in the 2000s), the Disneynature series (Bears, Chimpanzee, Oceans), and...
Oct 22, 2023 · From old to new, here are 20 of the best environmental films of 2022, covering some of the biggest environmental problems of our lifetime, including climate change, food waste, water ecosystems, the animal industry, and sustainability. —.
These visually stunning, thought-provoking nature documentaries are nothing short of majestic. They don’t call it the animal kingdom for nothing.
