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Our Planet
Watch the full One Planet episode on Netflix’s public YouTube channel. It introduces footage from seas, forests, and ice and sets up the eight-part 2019 series, whose full original episodes are also on the channel. Choose this for a wide view before moving to the habitat that interests you most.
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Chasing Coral
Netflix’s public YouTube channel carries the full feature. A team tries to photograph reefs through a bleaching event, following changes that can easily be missed in a single underwater visit. Pick it for the process of making a slow environmental change visible.
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Into the Okavango
Open the complete documentary on Nat Geo Animals. In canoes, the team follows a route toward Botswana’s Okavango Delta and traces connections between the places that supply its water. This is a longer expedition film with people, geography, and wildlife all in view.
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Secrets of the Octopus: Inside the Brain of an Octopus
Nat Geo Animals provides this whole episode. It uses encounters at close range to show what an octopus can do with sight, touch, and an unusually flexible body. Choose it if you want one animal group followed well beyond a highlight reel.
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Living Wild: Animals of America's National Parks
Open the Nat Geo Animals full special for a broad survey of wildlife in protected American landscapes. The variety makes it a good introduction if you want to move among many species and habitats without setting up a second episode.
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Whales: Giants of the Deep Blue Oceans
Nat Geo Animals offers this complete documentary special on whales. It compares behavior you can see from a boat with animals moving through deeper water. Choose this for the scale and movement of whales rather than a single short encounter.
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America the Beautiful: Never-Before-Seen Wildlife Footage
Nat Geo Animals carries this complete America the Beautiful installment. It gives cameras and unusual animal encounters room in the story, with several American landscapes rather than a single park providing the terrain.
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Artifishal: The Fight to Save Wild Salmon
Watch the full Patagonia film on its official channel. It follows arguments about hatcheries, river restoration and wild salmon. The filmmakers take a clear position, and it’s a useful choice when the story of a fish matters to you as much as close-up river footage.
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Blue Heart: The Fight for Europe's Last Wild Rivers
Patagonia’s complete documentary visits rivers in the Balkans and people working to keep them free-flowing. The landscape and what a dam would change are clearer once the film has shown the same stretch of water from several positions.
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How Old-Growth Forests Protect Our Climate
Use DW Documentary’s official full film for a closer look at what changes when a forest has lots of old trees, dead wood and time to regrow. The documentary connects the forest you can see with its importance for carbon storage and a variety of species.
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Secrets of the Elephants: Survival in the Rainforest
The forest elephant is the focus of this full episode. Look here for life under a dense green canopy if your picture of elephants mostly comes from open savannas.
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Wild Hope: Project Shark
Follow Indonesian shark fishermen into a different kind of work, introducing visitors to live sharks. The short format makes this a good entry point for the human choices that shape what happens underwater.
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Wild Hope: Beaver Fever
Beavers make a small landscape change in front of your eyes. See what dams do to a landscape in Devon and why bringing the animals back can mean bringing back an entire wetland.
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Where the Bay Becomes the Sea
Take the tide as a guide to the Bay of Fundy. The shoreline changes shape over the film, exposing mud flats and the creatures that can feed there during a narrow window.
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Incredible Animal Journeys: Antarctica, Home at the End of the Earth
The animals in this full episode have a short Antarctic summer in which to get a great deal done. The hurry gives the film a different shape from a slow survey of snow and ice.
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Antarctic Extremes: The Not-So-Cute Truth About Antarctic Penguins
If you'd enjoy seeing the work that goes into a wildlife shoot, start with this short PBS field report. The hosts travel to Cape Royds to film Adélie penguins and find out how wind changes the plan.
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Life Unearthed with Ariel Waldman: Antarctica's Mysterious Lifeforms
This full PBS episode offers a look at Antarctic life on a much smaller scale. Try it when you've already had your fill of snowy landscapes and want to know what lives beneath the view.
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Wild Hope: Significant Otters
Watch this full Wild Hope episode for the link between sea otters and seagrass in California’s Elkhorn Slough. It follows how otters eating crabs gives smaller animals a chance to keep algae off the seagrass. The local restoration makes that chain of changes easy to follow.
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Animal Fight Night: Deadly Under Dogs
Nat Geo Animals puts the full Animal Fight Night episode on its official channel. Watch it for short animal encounters in which size can be a misleading clue to the outcome. The fights are the focus, so it’s a sharper watch than a quiet habitat tour.
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