Copyright © 2026 OyList. All Rights Reserved.
Share
Items13
1
Gunda (2021)
7.1/10on IMDb
Released
Viktor Kossakovsky’s black-and-white film spends long stretches with Gunda, a sow raising piglets. The camera often stays low enough for their movement to fill the frame. The farm’s own sounds carry scenes of feeding and exploring, giving you time to notice each piglet’s place in the litter.
More about Gunda2
Cow (2022)
7.1/10on IMDb
Released
Andrea Arnold follows Luma, a dairy cow whose daily life is set by the work of a farm. Calving and milking give the film its rhythm. Staying close to Luma through those routines makes familiar agricultural work look different from an animal’s side of the gate.
More about Cow3
Nénette (2010)
6.8/10on IMDb
Released
Nicolas Philibert films Nénette through the glass of her enclosure at the Jardin des Plantes in Paris. You see the orangutan and hear keepers and visitors, whose faces remain off camera. The arrangement gives you time to watch her respond while you listen to people trying to interpret what they see.
More about Nénette4
My Octopus Teacher (2020)
8.1/10on IMDb
Released
Craig Foster returns to a South African kelp forest where a wild octopus becomes familiar to him. The film builds its portrait through repeated dives, following her around the kelp and rock. Foster’s account is personal, and much of the pleasure comes from observing the same animal closely as she goes about her life.
More about My Octopus Teacher5
Billy & Molly: An Otter Love Story (2024)
8.0/10on IMDb
Released
A wild otter named Molly begins visiting Billy Mail’s home in Shetland. Director Charlie Hamilton James also follows her away from the house, filming her fishing in kelp beds. Those underwater scenes let you see how the animal who visits Billy spends time on her own.
More about Billy & Molly: An Otter Love Story6
The Last Lions (2011)
8.2/10on IMDb
Released
Dereck and Beverly Joubert follow the lioness they call Ma di Tau as she raises cubs in Botswana’s Okavango Delta. A change in territory brings her into a different landscape and puts the cubs at risk. The film gives its account of wild lions a particular point of view by returning to this mother and her family.
More about The Last Lions7
Cloud: Wild Stallion of the Rockies (2004)
Released
In her first PBS film about Cloud, aired in 2001, Ginger Kathrens follows a pale wild horse in Montana’s Pryor Mountains from the time he is a foal. Returning over several years lets her show him change from a youngster in a family band into a stallion.
More about Cloud: Wild Stallion of the Rockies8
The Whale (2011)
8.1/10on IMDb
Released
A young orca called Luna becomes separated from his pod and begins seeking contact with boats and people in British Columbia’s Nootka Sound. The documentary makes his familiar appearances around the docks the basis for an argument over how to help him. This is the revised film by the makers of Saving Luna.
More about The Whale9
Naledi: A Baby Elephant's Tale (2016)
7.6/10on IMDb
Released
After Naledi’s mother dies, the people caring for her have to keep a young elephant feeding and growing. The film follows that work at close range in Botswana. Watching the caregivers solve ordinary problems, such as getting a calf to accept milk, gives the larger story of elephant conservation a concrete starting point.
More about Naledi: A Baby Elephant's Tale10
Koko: A Talking Gorilla (1978)
7.3/10on IMDb
Released
Barbet Schroeder and cinematographer Nestor Almendros observe Koko in a study led by Penny Patterson, who teaches her signs. The interest lies in seeing how the gorilla and the humans work together from one encounter to the next. The film leaves room to ask how much of what we see depends on how the researchers understand her.
More about Koko: A Talking Gorilla11
Echo: An Elephant to Remember (2010)
Released
This PBS Nature special draws on years of footage of Echo, the elephant matriarch who led her family in Kenya’s Amboseli. The archive lets you see the same group across generations. Echo’s role becomes clearest through how the other elephants move with her and how the family carries on after she dies.
More about Echo: An Elephant to Remember12
The World's Most Famous Tiger (2017)
7.9/10on IMDb
Released
The subject is Machli, the tigress filmed over years in India’s Ranthambore National Park. The special covers her rise as a territory holder and stays with her as age changes how she lives. Footage from different stages of her life makes it possible to recognize one wild tiger through those changes.
More about The World's Most Famous Tiger13
Pangolin: Kulu's Journey (2025)
7.5/10on IMDb
Released
Pippa Ehrlich follows Kulu, a young pangolin rescued from trafficking, through rehabilitation in South Africa. Time spent watching him forage shows what the near-invisible work of getting an individual animal ready for release looks like. The people helping him come into the story through what he needs at each stage.
More about Pangolin: Kulu's Journey
