Movies like David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet
David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet (2020) is a documentary movie directed by Alastair Fothergill. The list below collects the movies that people who loved it enjoyed most, best known first.
1. An Inconvenient Truth (2006)
★ 6.9 · 1,009 votes · Documentary
A documentary on Al Gore's campaign to make the issue of global warming a recognized problem worldwide.
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2. Home (2009)
★ 7.8 · 577 votes · Documentary, Drama, Family
In 200,000 years of existence, man has upset the balance on which the Earth had lived for 4 billion years. Global warming, resource depletion, species extinction: man has endangered his own home. But it is too late to be pessimistic: humanity has barely ten years left to reverse the trend, become aware of its excessive exploitation of the Earth's riches, and change its consumption pattern.
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3. Before the Flood (2016)
★ 7.7 · 834 votes · Documentary
A look at how climate change affects our environment and what society can do to prevent the demise of endangered species, ecosystems, and native communities across the planet.
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4. Side by Side (2012)
★ 7.3 · 320 votes · Documentary
Since the invention of cinema, the standard format for recording moving images has been film. Over the past two decades, a new form of digital filmmaking has emerged, creating a groundbreaking evolution in the medium. Keanu Reeves explores the development of cinema and the impact of digital filmmaking via in-depth interviews with Hollywood masters, such as James Cameron, David Fincher, David Lynch, Christopher Nolan, Martin Scorsese, George Lucas, Steven Soderbergh, and many more.
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5. Koyaanisqatsi (1983)
★ 7.9 · 806 votes · Documentary, Music
Takes us to locations all around the US and shows us the heavy toll that modern technology is having on humans and the earth. The visual tone poem contains neither dialogue nor a vocalized narration: its tone is set by the juxtaposition of images and the exceptional music by Philip Glass.
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6. March of the Penguins (2005)
★ 7.1 · 1,253 votes · Documentary, Family
Every year, thousands of Antarctica's emperor penguins make an astonishing journey to breed their young. They walk, marching day and night in single file 70 miles into the darkest, driest and coldest continent on Earth. This amazing, true-life tale is touched with humour and alive with thrills. Breathtaking photography captures the transcendent beauty and staggering drama of devoted parent penguins who, in the fierce polar winter, take turns guarding their egg and trekking to the ocean in search of food. Predators hunt them, storms lash them. But the safety of their adorable chicks makes it all worthwhile. So follow the leader... to adventure!!
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7. Grizzly Man (2005)
★ 7.5 · 997 votes · Documentary
Follows the story of "Grizzly Man" Timothy Treadwell and what the thirteen summers in a National Park in Alaska were like in his attempt to protect the grizzly bears. The film is full of unique images and a look into the spirit of a man who sacrificed himself for nature.
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8. My Octopus Teacher (2020)
★ 7.9 · 1,099 votes · Documentary
After years of swimming every day in the freezing ocean at the tip of Africa, Craig Foster meets an unlikely teacher: a young octopus who displays remarkable curiosity. Visiting her den and tracking her movements for months on end he eventually wins the animal’s trust and they develop a never-before-seen bond between human and wild animal.
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9. Oceans (2010)
★ 7.5 · 348 votes · Documentary, Family, Drama
An ecological drama/documentary, filmed throughout the globe. Part thriller, part meditation on the vanishing wonders of the sub-aquatic world.
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