World's Biggest and Baddest Bugs

2009

English

6.9

♡ 2

The World's Biggest and Baddest Bugs, follows host Ruud Kleinpaste, as he embarks on an entomological odyssey around the globe in search of the ultimate biggest and "baddest" creepy crawlies. The World's Biggest and Baddest Bugs will then profile the "stars" of the show, with Ruud explaining in his audience-friendly style exactly what makes them so amazing.

Birders

2019

English

6.4

♡ 2

environmental conservation

nature

short film

Otilia Portillo Padua Director

Zinthia López as Biologist

John Kaye as Count Master & Hawk Watch

Brian Miller as Meteorologist

Richard Moore as Wildlife Photographer

Bird watchers on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border share their enthusiasm for protecting and preserving some of the world's most beautiful species.

Ghabe

2019

Swedish

4.7

♡ 7

Markus Castro Director

Sara Sommerfeld as Angela

Martin Melin as Border Police 1

Elias Palin as Nicklas

Wafai Laila as Yusuf

A refugee falling in love. "Ghabe" follows a Syrian refugee during the summer of the 2015 migration as he falls in love with a majestic forest in Sweden and a mysterious local woman living on its border.

White Water Summer

1987

English

6.2

♡ 13

25%

Jeff Bleckner Director

Sean Astin as Alan

Matt Adler as Chris

Charles Siebert as Jerry Block

Kevin Bacon as Vic

When the experienced guide Vic accompanies the city boy Alan and his three friends on their first wilderness experience, he not only hopes to teach the four boys lessons about the wilderness, but about themselves. Vic pushes them to the limit. Soon after alienating the boys, Vic finds himself in desperate need of help and must rely on his students in order to survive.

Land and Shade

2015

Spanish

7.1

♡ 9

88%

César Augusto Acevedo Director

Haimer Leal as Alfonso

Hilda Ruiz as Alicia

Marleyda Soto as Esperanza

Edison Raigosa as Geraldo

Alfonso is an old farmer who has returned home to tend to his son, who is gravely ill. He rediscovers his old house, where the woman who was once his wife still lives, with his daughter-in-law and grandson. The landscape that awaits him resembles a wasteland. Vast sugar cane plantations surround the house, producing perpetual clouds of ash. 17 years after abandoning them, Alfonso tries to fit back in and save his family.

Facing the Killer Volcano

6.3

After 200 years, the Fugen-Dake volcano awoke in 1991. Journalists, cameramen and scientists flocked to Mount Unzen to study the eruption. For some of them, it would be a fatal choice.

The Most Unknown

2018

English

6.5

♡ 2

82%

Ian Cheney Director

Laurie Santos as Self - Cognitive Psychologist, Yale University

Jennifer L. Macalady as Self - Microbiologist, Penn State University

Anil Seth as Self - Neuroscientist, University of Sussex

Davide D'Angelo as Self - Physicist, Università degli Studi di Milano

An epic documentary film that sends nine scientists to extraordinary parts of the world to uncover unexpected answers to some of humanity’s biggest questions. How did life begin? What is time? What is consciousness? How much do we really know? By introducing researchers from diverse backgrounds for the first time, then dropping them into new, immersive field work they previously hadn’t tackled, the film pushes the boundaries of how science storytelling is approached. What emerges is a deeply human trip to the foundations of discovery and a powerful reminder that the unanswered questions are the most crucial ones to pose. Directed by Emmy-nominated and Peabody Award-winning filmmaker Ian Cheney and advised by world-renowned filmmaker Werner Herzog, The Most Unknown is an ambitious look at a side of science never before shown on screen.

Malika the Lion Queen

2021

English

6.9

♡ 5

91%

Karin Slater Director

Angela Bassett as Narrator

Follows life of Malika, a lioness in South Africa’s Kruger National Park as she battles to survive.

Year of the Hedgehog

2009

English

7.6

♡ 3

Documentary

nature

wildlife

Kurt Mündl Director

Stephen Crilley as Self

It's springtime, the air is tepid, the skylarks chirp, and spring flowers cover the meadows and the forest grounds. Out of a pile of leaves a fluttery, sniffling snout tip appears: it's a hedgehog awakening from its winter sleep heading into the light of a new year, having only two things in mind: food and finding a partner.

Flight of the Butterflies

2012

English

7.2

♡ 3

100%

Mike Slee Director

Stephanie Sigman as Catalina Aguago

Gordon Pinsent as Dr. Fred Urquhart

Stephen Bogaert as Fred Urquhart

Megan Follows as Narrator

It takes two or three generations for the monarch butterfly to reach the Canadian breeding grounds, but it is one "supergeneration" that makes the 2,000 mile return trip back south into central Mexico. The documentary film covers Dr Fred Urquhart's interest in monarch butterflies, with perspectives of Urquhart as a child wondering where the butterflies went, his years of research and study into their life and migration, to his time decades-later as a senior scientist looking back at his investigations and discoveries about the insect's life pattern.

Redoubt

2018

English

6.7

♡ 1

88%

Matthew Barney Director

Eleanor Bauer as Calling Virgin

K.J. Holmes as Electroplater

Matthew Barney as Engraver

Laura Stokes as Tracking Virgin

The goddess Diana and her two attendants traverse the rugged terrain of Idaho’s Sawtooth Mountains in pursuit of the elusive wolf. An Engraver (Matthew Barney) furtively documents their actions in copper engravings and provokes a series of confrontations. The characters communicate through dance, letting movement replace language as they pursue each other and their prey.

Les animaux amoureux

2007

French

6.6

♡ 4

50%

Laurent Charbonnier Director

Cécile De France as Récitante / Narrator

Translated literally as "Animals in Love," the French-language documentary Animaux Amoreux depicts various species of the animal kingdom in courting, mating and reproduction activities. Laurent Charbonnier directs.

Adoration

2019

French

6.3

♡ 3

93%

Fabrice Du Welz Director

Gwendolyn Gourvenec as Dr. Loisel

Benoît Poelvoorde as Hinkel

Martha Canga Antonio as Jeanne, l'infirmière

Sandor Funtek as Lucien, l'infirmier

Paul lives with his mother in the private clinic of doctor Loisel, deeply hidden in the woods. Paul likes to roam the forest and observe nature. One day Gloria, a schizophrenic teenager of around fifteen years old, arrives, and Paul falls in love immediately.

Pride: Ruler's at Risk

2016

English

6.9

♡ 1

Reinhard Radke Director

Only few big cats have been as intensively studied as lions. We thought we knew everything about them. Yet some parts of their lives kept hidden in the dark. Cameras follow two prides and their respective females by day and by night, revealing astonishing behavioral patterns of Africa's largest lions. Symbols of courage and power, lions have been intensively researched for many decades. While hardly a single facet of their lives has gone unnoticed, certain things have remained hidden. Thanks to thermal imaging cameras, this two-part series reveals the last secrets of Africa's largest wild cats. We follow two prides in Southern Kenya and their respective females by day and by night, discovering astonishing behavioral patterns. Lean times face the animals as the huge wildebeest herds, which, until now have supplied the young families with ample food, are migrating south to the Serengeti. We will watch the daily struggle for survival as these mothers risk everything in order to rear ...

Amazonia

2013

Portuguese

6.5

♡ 4

52%

Thierry Ragobert Director

Keenon Douglas as All Animals

Lúcio Mauro Filho as Castanha

Isabelle Drummond as Gaia

Martin Sheen as Narrator

After a plane crash, Saï, a capuchin monkey born and raised in captivity, finds himself alone and lost in the wilderness of the Amazon jungle.

Deepsea Challenge

2014

English

6.9

♡ 19

John Bruno Director

Paul Henri as Don Walsh

Frank Lotito as Giuseppe Buono

Suzy Amis as Herself

James Cameron as Himself

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.

Lost Worlds: Life in the Balance

2001

English

6.5

♡ 7

44%

Bayley Silleck Director

Paulina Abarca-Cantin as Narration

Harrison Ford as Narrator

Lost Worlds looks at untouched aspects of nature in parts of the world where humans rarely tread. From plants, to animals, to geology, this artfully photographed documentary presents facets of the biological world that you are not likely to see anywhere else.

Vanishing of the Bees

2009

English

7.1

♡ 1

61%

Maryam Henein Director

Ellen Page as Narrator

Michael Pollan as Self - Author, In Defense of Food

Emilia Fox as Self - Narrator

Bret Adee as Self - World's Largest Beekeeper

This documentary takes a piercing investigative look at the economic, political and ecological implications of the worldwide disappearance of the honeybee. The film examines our current agricultural landscape and celebrates the ancient and sacred connection between man and the honeybee. The story highlights the positive changes that have resulted due to the tragic phenomenon known as "Colony Collapse Disorder." To empower the audience, the documentary provides viewers with tangible solutions they can apply to their everyday lives. Vanishing of the Bees unfolds as a dramatic tale of science and mystery, illuminating this extraordinary crisis and its greater meaning about the relationship between humankind and Mother Earth. The bees have a message - but will we listen?

Fuck for Forest

2012

Polish

5.2

♡ 2

Michal Marczak Director

Tommy Hol Ellingsen as Self

Leona Johansson as Self

Dany DeVero as Self Kaajal

Kaajal as Self

A film on the world's most bizarre charity: based on the idea that sex can change the world, the NGO raises money for their environmental cause by selling home-made erotic films on the internet.

Into the Deep

1994

English

6.7

♡ 5

53%

Howard Hall Director

Kate Nelligan as Narrator

An underwater exploration beneath kelp forests in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Southern California. The film captures the birth of a shark, squids mating, a lobster molting, a fish protecting its nest from an octopus and a sea urchin, and the sea bed covered with brittle stars.

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World's Biggest and Baddest Bugs

Birders

Ghabe

White Water Summer

Land and Shade

Facing the Killer Volcano

The Most Unknown

Malika the Lion Queen

Year of the Hedgehog

Flight of the Butterflies

Redoubt

Les animaux amoureux

Adoration

Pride: Ruler's at Risk

Amazonia

Deepsea Challenge

Lost Worlds: Life in the Balance

Vanishing of the Bees

Fuck for Forest

Into the Deep