Top 15 Best Documentaries About the Animal World You Definitely Shouldn't Miss
Currently, the issue of protecting animals as well as rare animals is considered a top priority. Documentaries about the animal world will help you have a more intuitive and vivid view, helping you understand somewhat the importance and necessity of the animal world to us humans. From there, it can help propagate the message of protecting animals around the world. If you are also an animal lover and want to know more about them, then let's take a look at the best documentaries about the animal world that you definitely should not miss.
Elephant (2020)
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Elephant (2020) is a film in the adventure and documentary genre, co-directed by directors Mark Linfield, Vanessa Berlowitz, and director. Tells about the migratory journey of a herd of African elephants, full of spectacular and difficult movements. The journey lasted 8 months and had to cross the hot Kalahari desert.
Director: Mark Linfield, Vanessa Berlowitz
Genre: Adventure, History, Documentary
Actor: Meghan Markle
Duration: 86 minutes
Island Of Lemurs: Madagascar (2014)
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Island Of Lemurs: Madagascar (2014): The incredible true story of nature's greatest explorers — lemurs. Through footage shot in IMAX 3D, audiences will go on a breathtaking journey to the remote and magical world of Madagascar. Join pioneering scientist Patricia Wright on her lifelong mission to help these strange and adorable creatures survive in the modern world.
Director: David Douglas
Genre: Adventure, Sports, Documentary
Cast: Patricia Wright, Morgan Freeman, Hantanirina Rasamimanana
Duration: 39 minutes
Kedi (2016)
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Kedi (2016): A glimpse of Istanbul and its unique people, seen through the eyes of the most mysterious and beloved animal known to man, the Cat.
Director: Ceyda Torun
Genre: Drama, Documentary
Actors: Yaman Barlas, Sari, Arzu Göl
Duration: 89 minutes
Born in China (2016)
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Born in China (2016): Venturing into the wilds of China, "Born in China" captures intimate moments with a panda bear and her growing cub, a young golden monkey. feels replaced by her younger sister, and a mother snow leopard is struggling to raise her two cubs.
Director: Luc Xuyen
Category: Documents
Actors: Chu Tan, Uoc Han
Duration: 79 minutes
Penguin Town (2021)
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Penguin Town (2021) is a documentary about the lives of penguins in a beautiful town located in South Africa. Faced with the risk of extinction, they find a mate to mate and build a family. Besides, these cute penguins are extremely friendly and can soon integrate into the lives of the residents here.
Director: Colin Barnicle
Genre: Netflix, Documentary
Actors: Penguins, Patton Oswalt
Duration: 8 episodes
The Cove (2009)
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The Cove (2009) tells the amazing true story of how an elite team of individuals, film producers and free divers embarked on a secret mission to infiltrate a cove in Japan , unravels a dark and deadly secret. Shocking discoveries are just the tip of the iceberg.
Director: Louie Psihoyos
Genre: Crime, Documentary
Actors: Richard O Barry, Louie Psihoyos, Hardy Jones
Duration: 92 minutes
Polar Bears: A Summer Odyssey (2012)
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Polar Bears: A Summer Odyssey (2012) tells the story of Polar Bears in Hudson Bay struggling in a green world. Up close and personal, originally shot all in native 3D.
Director: Sarah Robertson
Category: Documents
Actor: David Suzuki
Duration: 46 minutes
Imax-Flight Of The Butterflies (2012)
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Imax-Flight Of The Butterflies (2012): It takes monarch butterflies two or three generations to reach their Canadian breeding grounds, but it's a "super generation" that makes the 2,000-mile return trip home. south into central Mexico. The documentary follows Dr. Fred Urquhart's interest in the monarch butterfly, with Urquhart's perspectives as a child wondering where the butterflies went, his years of research and learning about their lives. their lives and migrations, to his time decades later as a senior scientist looking back on his investigations and discoveries into the life patterns of insects.
Director: Mike Slee
Genre: Sports, Documentary
Actors: Gordon Pinsent, Patricia Phillips, Shaun Benson
Duration: 40 minutes
Born To Be Wild (2011)
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Born To Be Wild (2011) follows various orphaned forest animals and their daily interactions with the people who rescue them and raise them to adulthood. The film unfolds in two distinct geographical areas. Half of them take place in the rainforests of Borneo, where renowned primatologist Dr. Birute Galdikas assists baby orangutans; The other half takes place on the arid savannahs of Kenya, where zoologist Dame Daphne Sheldrick works with baby elephants.
Director: David Lickley
Genre: Adventure, Sports, Documentary
Actors: Birute Galdikas, Daphne Sheldrick, Morgan Freeman
Duration: 40 minutes
One Life (2011)
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One Life (2011) captures stunning and unprecedented animal behavior sequences guaranteed to bring you closer to nature than ever before, as well as a second disc packed with extras never seen before including the exclusive making of a feature film narrated by Daniel Craig.
Director: Michael Gunton, Martha Holmes
Category: Documents
Actors: Daniel Craig, Koert-Jan de Bruijn
Duration: 85 minutes
Blackfish (2013)
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Blackfish (2013): The infamous killer whale Tilikum is responsible for the deaths of three individuals, including a top killer whale trainer. Blackfish demonstrate the sometimes devastating consequences of keeping such intelligent and sentient creatures in captivity.
Director: Gabriela Cowperthwaite
Category: Documents
Actors: Tilikum, Dave Duffus, Samantha Berg
Duration: 83 minutes
Chimpanzee (2012)
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Chimpanzee (2012) is a nature documentary focusing on a family of chimpanzees living in the rainforests of Ivory Coast and Uganda.
Director: Alastair Fothergill, Mark Linfield
Category: Documents
Actor: Tim Allen
Duration: 78 minutes
Under The Sea (2009)
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Under the Sea (2009): Imagine a world full of color and incredible beauty. Of crabs wearing jellyfish for hats. Fish disguised as frogs, rocks and shag carpets. In a kaleidoscope of life dancing and weaving, floating and plunging in an underwater wonderland. Now, let's go explore it! Howard Hall and his filmmaking team, who brought you Deep Sea and Into the Deep, take you into tropical waters alive with adventure: The Great Barrier Reef and the South Pacific territories other. Narrated by Jim Carrey and featuring incredible footage, this amazing film will take you to witness the wonders of Nature firsthand, from the terrifying grandeur (and terrible teeth) of the Great White species to the comic farce of an obnoxious cuttlefish. Excitement and fun run deep under the sea!
Director: Howard Hall
Genre: Sports, Documentary
Actors: Howard Hall, Toni Myers, Graeme Ferguson
Duration: 45 minutes
March Of The Penguins (2005)
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March Of The Penguins (2005): Every year, thousands of emperor penguins in Antarctica make an incredible journey to breed their young. They walked and marched day and night over a 70-mile route into the darkest, driest and coldest continent on Earth. Morgan Freeman tells this wonderful, real-life story, moving with humor and alive with thrills. Breathtaking photography captures the transcendent beauty and incredible drama of devoted penguin parents who, during the fierce polar winter, take turns guarding their eggs and walking to the ocean to search for food. Predators chase them, storms attack them. But the safety of their adorable chicks makes it all worth it. So follow the leader...adventure!!
Director: Luc Jacquet
Category: Documents
Actors: Morgan Freeman, Romane Bohringer, Charles Berling
Duration: 80 minutes
Coral Reef Adventure (2003)
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Coral Reef Adventure (2003): Follows the real-life expeditions of ocean explorers and underwater filmmakers Howard and Michele Hall. Using large format cameras, Hall guides us to the islands and sun-drenched waters of the South Pacific to document the health and beauty of coral reefs.
Director: Greg MacGillivray
Category: Documents
Actors: Liam Neeson, Howard Hall, Michele Hall
Duration: 45 minutes
