Nature Documentary Movies

Witness the story of an extraordinary ecosystem—larger than the state of Texas, and more precious than oil. The heartbeat of this remarkable...

A Finnish equivalent of Werner Herzog’s Grizzly Man, Hannu has a love and connection to nature that surpasses most. It is the rare lynx in...

40 years after inventing armored suits that protect divers from attacks by smaller shark species of sharks, marine biologist, Jeremiah Sullivan,...

A journey above and below the sea, portraying the charm and diversity of the waters of northwest Mexico. A team of urban documentary filmmakers and...

Arne Sucksdorff’s short documentary observes gulls raiding nests and stealing eggs with ruthless persistence. Though presented as pure nature...

In the northern reaches of Manitoba, resting on the edge of Canada’s Hudson Bay, sits the small town of Churchill. Home to fewer than 1000...

Filmmaker Evan W. Gerdes challenged himself to shoot and edit a short film in less than ten minutes, and chose to document the movements of a small...

Every year, in the middle of Croatia, it's the same story: after the annual snowmelt, a huge flood wave spills out of the Alps toward Zagreb and...

Powerful electric storms rip through an arid landscape. Salt water crocodiles occupy territories where tourists camped just weeks earlier. Cyclones...

Norfolk Island, 800 miles off the coast of Australia, is home to some of the largest tiger sharks in the world. As strange as it sounds, some think...

Enric Sala and his team begin their search for deep sea sharks on Easter Island.

Coelacanth (SEEL-uh-kanth): a large fish with limblike fins, armored scales and a tail that no other living fish possesses. This prehistoric fish was...

The return of numerous displaced wild animal species to Europe has been observed since the 1950s. Now scientists have decided to accelerate this...

Do animals have feelings? Empathy even? A documentary with some insights due to advancing technology.

Deep Sea Chemosynthetic Oases Full Movie. This film exploring hydrothermal vents, cold-seep habitats, and food-falls including whale-falls and the...

Saving endangered species in Australia's Kimberley region.

The true story of the birth, growth and coming of age of a leopard cub in Africa's Serengeti plain. The journey of "The Leopard Son" begins at his...

How did peacocks, originally from India, end up on an island in Berlin in the 19th century, and hippopotamuses, a century later, on the banks of a...

Life is a challenge for a young seal in the untamed waters off the southern tip of Africa. Every day is a struggle for survival, whether he's...