Favourite/Recommend movies and documentaries on Nature

[RangerMyles]

I need some movies and documentaries to watch . I got the idea to watch a movie or documentaries on nature. What are some of your favorite/recommendations on nature/animals movies and documentaries​:thinking:?

Edit: Thanks for all the recommendations! Seems like this topic is getting some new users to post so that’s good. I have a huge watchlist right now! Keep them coming!

[susanhewitt]

My Octopus Teacher.

[sam_e]

This is one of my favourite nature documentaries. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJMZ6reOB0E

[zdanko]

Welcome to the Forum!

[jurga_li]

Beautiful People (1974)

[beccn]

Not a nature documentary, but an animated film with strong themes of nature: “Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind” is one of my favorite films

[sam_e]

thank you

[jcook]

There are so many! Is there any particular category or genre you’re looking for? And what streaming services do you have (if any)? Netflix has quite a few good BBC nature documentaries, Disney+ has Disneynature and National Geographic, and CuriosityStream has a lot of good French- and German-produced nature shows that I haven’t seen elsewhere. Just a few favorites:

• David Attenborough’s Ant Mountain
• Secret Life Underground (especially the 2nd episode)
• Secret Life of Lakes
• Tales of Nature
• Chasing Coral
• Mission Blue
• BBC ‘Expedition’ series: I can’t find these streaming anywhere, and BBC doesn’t seem to market them very well so they tend to get lost in a pile of ‘just average’ TV specials, but these are some of my absolute favorites. See: Expedition Borneo, Lost Land Collection, and The Dark: Nature’s Nighttime World.

[pan_psax]

• L’ours (1988) (The Bear)
• Microcosmos: Le peuple de l’herbe (1996)

[RangerMyles]

Looked it up! Seems like a good one… will watch it soon!

[RangerMyles]

I can’t find that one on Google! What is it about?

[RangerMyles]

An anime film! Is it good?

[ahospers]

Which Language?
https://www.ardmediathek.de/
https://www.inaturalist.org/posts/47646-130-wildes-deutschland-die-rhon

[fluffyinca]

I haven’t seen the movie, but I read the books and thought it was pretty good.

[jurga_li]

Because it is often under a longer name: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071143/

[jurga_li]

Yes, as absolutely every anime movie by Hayao Miyazaki. Every single one made by him is a masterpiece and often tells about conflict of humans and nature. Sometimes indirectly.

[scharf]

March of the Penguins
Winged Migration (Watch only on a big screen. On a small screen it is not worthwhile).
Blue Planet

[RangerMyles]

Got it!

[RangerMyles]

Thanks for letting me know! Added to watch list.

[jasonhernandez74]

Interesting thread: you asked for movies, and a lot of people are suggesting documentaries. I can see why. I don’t know how it is in other countries’ movie industries, but Hollywood is so wrongheaded about nature, I sure wouldn’t recommend anything from there as “a movie on nature.” (After all, this is the industry that excreted “Sharknado” and “Snakes on a Plane.”) That’s why I am glad that @jurga_li mentioned Hayao Miyazaki – I will have to check those out.

It does bother me that people can still relate to the Batman trope of someone with Poison Ivy’s powers being a villain. (Or Reginald Bushroot, if you remember the Darkwing Duck cartoons.) It shows that attitudes toward nature have not changed as much as we would like.