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Mark | imdb: 6.9 |
Genre | family, documentary |
Country | USA |
Duration | 01:36 |
Arctic Tale is a 2007 documentary film from the National Geographic Society about the life cycle of a walrus and her calf, and a polar bear and her cubs, in a similar vein to the 2005 hit production March of the Penguins, also from National Geographic.
Mark | imdb: 7.3 |
Genre | drama, family, documentary |
Country | USA |
Duration | 01:17 |
A documentary that follows an Alaskan bear family as its young cubs are taught life's most important lessons.
Mark | imdb: 6.8 |
Genre | documentary |
Country | USA |
Duration | 01:30 |
Described as being a film about determination, danger and the ocean’s greatest depths, James Cameron's "Deepsea Challenge 3D" tells the story of Cameron’s journey to fulfill his boyhood dream of becoming an explorer. The movie offers a unique insight into Cameron's world as he makes that dream reality – and makes history – by becoming the first person to travel solo to the deepest point on the planet.
Mark | imdb: 6.4 |
Genre | adventure, family, documentary |
Country | France, Brazil |
Duration | 01:22 |
Amazonia is an adventure in 3D inside the largest rainforest on the planet: the Amazon rainforest. Chestnut is a Capuchin monkey domesticated who survives a plane crash and finds himself alone in the dense forest. The monkey needs to learn to live in freedom, in a new world where animals of all kinds: Jaguars, alligators, snakes, tapirs, hawks. Gradually, Brown learns to live in the forest, making new friends, especially the monkey Gaia, their fellow species.
Mark | imdb: 6.5 |
Genre | melodrama, drama, adventure, family |
Country | USA, United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:48 |
Thrown together under incredible circumstances, two strangers must discover courage and strength when they begin a journey across the treacherous African desert! Equipped only with their wits and the expertise of a native bushman who befriends them, they are determined to triumph over impossible odds and reach their destination. But along the way, the trio face a primitive desert wilderness.
Mark | imdb: 7.3 |
Genre | documentary, biography |
Country | USA |
Duration | 01:34 |
Uses astonishing visuals to tell the intersecting stories of George Mallory, the first man to attempt a summit of Mount Everest, and Conrad Anker, the mountaineer who finds Mallory's frozen remains 75 years later.
Mark | imdb: 6.2 |
Genre | fantastic, fantasy, adventure, family |
Country | USA |
Duration | 01:33 |
A Victorian gentleman hopes to find his long-lost son, who vanished whilst searching for a mysterious Viking community in a volcanic valley somewhere in uncharted Arctic regions. The gentleman puts together an expedition team to go on the search, but when they reach their destination they must escape from some Viking descendants who will kill to keep their existence a secret.
Mark | imdb: 8.2 |
Genre | family, documentary |
Country | USA, Botswana |
Duration | 01:28 |
In Botswana's Okavango Delta, an ostracized lioness and her two cubs must fight alone to survive - overcoming all manner of hazards. Their only defense is to escape to Duba Island -- and with that, an unknown future. The setting for this epic tale is one of the last regions where lions can live in the wild. Faced with dwindling land and increasing pressure from hunting, lions - like our lone lioness and her cubs - are approaching the brink of extinction.
Mark | imdb: 5.8 |
Genre | melodrama, drama, history |
Country | Canada, USA |
Duration | 02:53 |
Titanic is a made-for-TV dramatization that premiered as a 2-part miniseries on CBS in 1996. Titanic follows several characters on board the RMS Titanic when she sinks on her maiden voyage in 1912. The miniseries was directed by Robert Lieberman. The original music score was composed by Lennie Niehaus. This is the first Titanic movie to show the ship breaking in two.
Mark | imdb: 4.7 |
Genre | horror, fantastic, action, thriller, adventure, detective |
Country | Spain, USA |
Duration | 01:22 |
An experimental submarine, the "Siren II", with a very experienced crew is sent to find out what happened to the "Siren I" after it mysteriously dissapeared in a submarine rift. Things go awry when they begin to find things that shouldn't be there...
Mark | imdb: 7.1 |
Genre | documentary, short |
Country | USA |
Duration | 00:40 |
The Living Sea celebrates the beauty and power of the ocean as it explores our relationship with this complex and fragile environment. Using beautiful images of unspoiled healthy waters, The Living Sea offers hope for recovery engendered by productive scientific efforts. Oceanographers studying humpback whales, jellyfish, and deep-sea life show us that the more we understand the ocean and its inhabitants, the more we will know how to protect them. The film also highlights the Central Pacific islands of Palau, one of the most spectacular underwater habitats in the world, to show the beauty and potential of a healthy ocean.
Mark | imdb: 6.1 |
Genre | family, documentary |
Country | Belgium, USA |
Duration | 01:30 |
A documentary that leads the audience from Namibia to Kilimanjaro to explore the African wildlife.
Mark | imdb: 5.5 |
Genre | horror |
Country | USA, Australia |
Duration | 01:31 |
After discovering a passenger ship missing since 1962 floating adrift on the Bering Sea, salvagers claim the vessel as their own. Once they begin towing the ghost ship towards harbor, a series of bizarre occurrences happen and the group becomes trapped inside the ship, which they soon learn is inhabited by a demonic creature.
Mark | imdb: 5.9 |
Genre | drama, adventure |
Country | USA |
Duration | 01:31 |
Robinson Crusoe flees Britain on a ship after killing his friend over the love of Mary. A fierce ocean storm wrecks his ship and leaves him stranded by himself on an uncharted island. Left to fend for himself, Crusoe seeks out a tentative survival on the island, until he meets Friday, a tribesman whom he saves from being sacrificed. Initially, Crusoe is thrilled to finally have a friend, but he has to defend himself against the tribe who uses the island to sacrifice tribesman to their gods. During time their relationship changes from master-slave to a mutual respected friendship despite their difference in culture and religion.
Mark | imdb: 6.3 |
Genre | fantasy, family, documentary |
Country | France |
Duration | 01:21 |
A man remembers holidays at his uncle in a little village in the French countryside when he was something like 10. He feels so bored until he finds a pond and starts discovering the life in it.
Mark | imdb: 7.4 |
Genre | documentary |
Country | United Kingdom, Germany |
Duration | 01:23 |
Deep Blue is a major documentary feature film shot by the BBC Natural History Unit. An epic cinematic rollercoaster ride for all ages, Deep Blue uses amazing footage to tell us the story of our oceans and the life they support.
Mark | imdb: 7.4 |
Genre | horror, fantastic, action, thriller, fantasy, drama, adventure, family |
Country | USA, United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:45 |
A man-cub named Mowgli fostered by wolves. After a threat from the tiger Shere Khan, Mowgli is forced to flee the jungle, by which he embarks on a journey of self discovery with the help of the panther, Bagheera and the free-spirited bear, Baloo.
Mark | imdb: 6.3 |
Genre | drama, adventure |
Country | United Kingdom, USA |
Dramatic retelling of the fateful last voyage of the Nantucket whaleship Essex. When the Essex is attacked and sunk by a sperm whale in November 1820, her crew take to three fragile whalers. Alone in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, the men must decide whether to head for the nearest islands - a thousand miles downwind to the west - or set out on an epic journey of almost three thousand miles to reach the South American mainland. Fear of cannibals forces them to choose South America. Almost three months later, the first whaler is rescued by another whaleship. Only three men are still alive. A week later the captain's whaler is also rescued, with just two men aboard. The third whaler is never found. This is a story of human endurance and what men in extremis will do to survive.
Mark | imdb: 7.6 |
Genre | documentary |
Country | USA |
Duration | 02:00 |
James Cameron brings together some the world's leading Titanic experts, including engineers, naval architects, artists and historians, to solve the lingering mysteries of why and how the 'unsinkable' ship sank.
Mark | imdb: 6.4 |
Genre | thriller, drama, adventure |
Country | United Kingdom, Russia, USA |
Duration | 01:50 |
A rogue submarine captain pulls together a misfit crew to go after a sunken treasure rumored to be lost in the depths of the Black Sea. As greed and desperation take control on-board their claustrophobic vessel, the increasing uncertainty of the mission causes the men to turn on each other to fight for their own survival.
Mark | imdb: 7.8 |
Genre | family, documentary |
Country | United Kingdom, Germany, USA |
Duration | 01:56 |
An astonishing journey revealing the awesome power of the natural world. Over the course of one single day, we track the sun from the highest mountains to the remotest islands to exotic jungles.
Mark | imdb: 6.3 |
Genre | fantasy, adventure, family |
Country | United Kingdom, USA |
Duration | 01:52 |
This time around Edmund and Lucy Pevensie, along with their pesky cousin Eustace Scrubb find themselves swallowed into a painting and on to a fantastic Narnian ship headed for the very edges of the world.
Mark | imdb: 6.9 |
Genre | documentary |
Country | United Kingdom, Austria, Germany |
Duration | 01:21 |
The story of a little loggerhead turtle, as she follows in the path of her ancestors on one of the most extraordinary journeys in the natural world. Born on a beach in Florida, she rides the Gulf Stream up towards the Arctic and ultimately swims around the entire North Atlantic across to Africa and back to the beach where she was born. But the odds are stacked against her; just one in ten thousand turtles survive the journey.
Mark | imdb: 7.1 |
Genre | family, documentary |
Country | Tanzania, United Kingdom, USA, Uganda |
Duration | 01:17 |
A nature documentary centered on a family of chimps living in the Ivory Coast and Ugandan rain forests.
Mark | imdb: 7.5 |
Genre | drama, adventure, family, detective |
Country | United Kingdom, USA, France |
Duration | 02:06 |
Orphaned and alone except for an uncle, Hugo Cabret lives in the walls of a train station in 1930s Paris. Hugo's job is to oil and maintain the station's clocks, but to him, his more important task is to protect a broken automaton and notebook left to him by his late father. Accompanied by the goddaughter of an embittered toy merchant, Hugo embarks on a quest to solve the mystery of the automaton and find a place he can call home.
Mark | imdb: 7 |
Genre | drama, adventure, family |
Country | France, United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:49 |
Two tigers are separated as cubs and taken into captivity, only to be reunited years later as enemies by an explorer (Pearce) who inadvertently forces them to fight each other.
Mark | imdb: 8 |
Genre | documentary |
Country | France, Germany, Luxembourg, Spain, Italy |
Duration | 01:38 |
The cameras of Jacques Perrin fly with migratory birds: geese, storks, cranes. The film begins with spring in North America and the migration to the Arctic; the flight is a community event for each species. Once in the Arctic, it's family time: courtship, nests, eggs, fledglings, and first flight. Chicks must soon fly south. Bad weather, hunters, and pollution take their toll. Then, the cameras go
Mark | imdb: 7.9 |
Genre | fantasy, drama, adventure |
Country | USA, Taiwan, United Kingdom, Canada, Mexico, France, India |
Duration | 02:07 |
The story of an Indian boy named Pi, a zookeeper's son who finds himself in the company of a hyena, zebra, orangutan, and a Bengal tiger after a shipwreck sets them adrift in the Pacific Ocean.
Mark | imdb: 7.7 |
Genre | documentary, biography |
Country | USA |
Duration | 01:15 |
When National Geographic photographer James Balog asked, “How can one take a picture of climate change?” his attention was immediately drawn to ice. Soon he was asked to do a cover story on glaciers that became the most popular and well-read piece in the magazine during the last five years. But for Balog, that story marked the beginning of a much larger and longer-term project that would reach epic proportions.
Mark | imdb: 7.5 |
Genre | adventure, documentary |
Country | USA |
Duration | 01:29 |
African Cats captures the real-life love, humor and determination of the majestic kings of the savanna. The story features Mara, an endearing lion cub who strives to grow up with her mother’s strength, spirit and wisdom; Sita, a fearless cheetah and single mother of five mischievous newborns; and Fang, a proud leader of the pride who must defend his family from a once banished lion.
Mark | imdb: 6.6 |
Genre | documentary, short |
Country | United Kingdom, France |
Duration | 00:41 |
Through the power of IMAX 3D, experience a wondrous adventure from the dinosaur age. Join Julie, an imaginative young woman, in a unique voyage through time and space. Explore an amazing underwater universe inhabited by larger-than-life creatures which were ruling the seas before dinosaurs conquered the earth. See science come alive in an entertaining manner and get ready for a face-to-face encounter with the T-Rex of the seas!
Mark | imdb: 7.3 |
Genre | documentary, history |
Country | Canada, USA, France, Germany, United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:30 |
Werner Herzog gains exclusive access to film inside the Chauvet caves of Southern France, capturing the oldest known pictorial creations of humankind in their astonishing natural setting.
Mark | imdb: 6.4 |
Genre | fantastic, adventure, family |
Country | USA, Spain, France, Canada, United Kingdom |
Duration | 02:22 |
Bound by a shared destiny, a bright, optimistic teen bursting with scientific curiosity and a former boy-genius inventor jaded by disillusionment embark on a danger-filled mission to unearth the secrets of an enigmatic place somewhere in time and space that exists in their collective memory as "Tomorrowland."
Mark | imdb: 7.2 |
Genre | documentary |
Country | USA |
Duration | 01:14 |
A newborn monkey and its mother struggle to survive within the competitive social hierarchy of the Temple Troop, a dynamic group of monkeys who live in ancient ruins found deep in the storied jungles of South Asia.