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Our Oceans (2024)
8.0/10on IMDb
First aired
Start here if you want another series that visits a different ocean each episode. A current links all five, so the episodes give you a way to follow how events in one stretch of water shape life elsewhere. Save the Southern Ocean episode for a close look at how the water around Antarctica fits into the wider story.
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Big Pacific (2017)
8.2/10on IMDb
First aired
This series organizes the Pacific around behaviors as well as geography. The episode on reproduction brings together forest penguins, great white sharks, and male pregnancy. A separate making-of episode gives you a reason to stay after the wildlife footage if you want to know how it was made.
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Oceans (2010)
7.7/10on IMDb
Released
Pick the Disneynature film for a single evening with a wide range of animals. It moves from migrating whales and dolphins in motion to a close swim with a great white shark. The changes in scale and pace are a bigger part of its appeal than any one scientific question.
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Deep Blue (2003)
7.4/10on IMDb
Released
This BBC Worldwide and Greenlight Media feature is the closest companion here to the original Blue Planet. It reshapes footage from the series’ production into a feature-length film, from sea lions to animals far below the waves. Choose it if you want to revisit that world in one sitting, or start with Our Oceans if you want an entirely different series.
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Secrets of the Whales (2021)
8.4/10on IMDb
First aired
The four episodes follow several kinds of whales and make social behavior the main event. Start with the Arctic episode to see how belugas and narwhals approach a shared landscape of sea ice. The orca episode gives you a different comparison, looking at behaviors passed on in separate groups.
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Under the Sea 3D (2009)
7.5/10on IMDb
Released
Howard Hall's large-format film sticks to underwater encounters from trips to Australia, Papua New Guinea, and Indonesia. The geographic focus makes this a handy change after a global overview. It also gives you time to look at smaller reef animals up close, at the scale the film was designed to show.
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The Living Sea (1995)
7.1/10on IMDb
Released
Palau provides one of the most memorable stops in this large-format film about how the oceans connect. Meryl Streep's narration and Sting's music give it a different feel from an episode built around a naturalist explaining a hunt. It works if you want to spend more time looking at a whole habitat.
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Aliens of the Deep (2005)
6.3/10on IMDb
Released
This is the exploration choice. James Cameron and Steven Quale take viewers to the deep ocean, where teams of oceanographers and NASA scientists look at life around hydrothermal vents. The film frames those encounters as a reason to think about what exploration beyond Earth might look like.
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Chasing Coral (2017)
8.0/10on IMDb
Released
Underwater time-lapse makes a reef’s change visible across days and weeks. When the team needs a way to document bleaching on the Great Barrier Reef, they return to the same spots to photograph the corals by hand. Choose it if the work behind the footage interests you as much as the event it captures.
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The Last Ocean (2012)
7.4/10on IMDb
Released
Peter Young's film brings you to the Ross Sea off Antarctica and follows a conservation campaign centered on the Antarctic toothfish fishery. It gives the polar scenery a specific question to carry: how what diners order far away can put pressure on an ecosystem most of them will never see.
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Sharkwater (2006)
7.8/10on IMDb
Released
Rob Stewart films sharks around Cocos Island and the Galápagos and follows the business of shark finning. Choose it if you want time with the animals underwater and a sense of why filming them became part of a campaign. The camera follows the investigation on land as well as the sharks at sea.
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Mission Blue (2014)
7.9/10on IMDb
Released
This is a portrait of oceanographer Sylvia Earle and the work that led her to champion Hope Spots, places she wants people to help protect. It suits a viewer who wants to follow one scientist’s changing relationship with the ocean and see how that experience shaped a conservation project.
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Ocean with David Attenborough (2025)
8.4/10on IMDb
Released
Attenborough turns his attention to how people treat the seafloor. Footage of bottom trawling, filmed from underwater, gives you a clear view of what the gear does as it passes. The film sets that evidence alongside the question of how marine life can recover where there is protection.
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