Marine Life Movies
- 2012

The Last Reef: Cities Beneath the Sea
The Last Reef: Cities Beneath the Sea7.32012HD
From the Academy-Award nominated creators of the Broadway show STOMP and the award-winning film Wild Ocean, The Last Reef is an uplifting,...
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- 2021

A Whale’s Worth
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What is a whale worth? What price can be put on the life of such majestic animals? How can we estimate that cost? And how have humans changed the way...
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- 2018

Whale Wisdom
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Whales have long been a profound mystery to us. They live in a world so removed from our own that we can barely imagine their lives. Their...
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- 2024

Protecting Paradise: The Story of Niue
Protecting Paradise: The Story of Niue5.8332024HD
The documentary follows leaders and community members from the tropical Pacific island nation who are making bold changes to move the needle on...
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- 2020

Most Wanted Sharks
Most Wanted Sharks6.72020HD
Whether it's the biggest great white, the most photographed tiger shark, or the shark known for jumping 100 feet up out of the water, we're diving...
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- 2022

Hearing from the Dolphin
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Hundreds of offshore wind turbines are being built in proximity to the habitat of endangered white dolphins, as a cetacean scholar tries to find a...
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- 2018

Air Jaws: Back From The Dead
Air Jaws: Back From The Dead5.12018HD
After great whites, known as "Air Jaws", vanished from their hunting grounds in South Africa, photographer Chris Fallows and filmmaker Jeff Kurr seek...
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- 1982

The Little Flying Fish Gets Sick
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The peaceful passage of daily life in the Pacific Ocean is upended in a flash on March 1, 1954, with the first American nuclear test at Bikini Atoll....
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- 1928

The Octopus
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An octopus slithers over objects on land—a doll, a skull—then oozes along the shore into the sea. It secretes its ink. The camera follows...
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- 1935

The Sea Horse
The Sea Horse6.61935HD
Examines the sea horse, the only fish that swims upright. We watch it use its prehensile tail to wrap around plants and other sea horses. A frontal...
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- 1939

The Little Goldfish
The Little Goldfish7.31939HD
A goldfish dreams of living in the ocean, and ends up getting there after being accidentally washed down the drain, then finds that it’s too...
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- 1970

Ghosts of the Arctic - Greenland Shark
Ghosts of the Arctic - Greenland Shark01970HD
Filmmaker Christina Karliczek Skoglund goes in search of the Greenland shark.
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- 2016

Call of the Baby Beluga
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A scientist tries to save the life of a beluga bush calf stranded on the beach of the St. Lawrence River in Canada.
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- 1997

Cuttlefish: Kings of Camouflage
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Join NOVA on a voyage beneath the waves, where you'll discover a bizarre, alien-like creature like no other. It's an animal with eight sucker-covered...
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- 2016

Life in the Blue
Life in the Blue7.52016HD
This films reveals the extraordinary variety of life found in the vast blue expanses of the open ocean. Here, all the action takes place in a...
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- 2004

The Truth About Killer Squid
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Gripping, hi-octane adventure as intrepid underwater explorer Jacquie Cozens and experienced filmmaker Mike deGruy attempt to uncover the truth...
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- 2016

Hunting the Hammerhead
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- 2016

Wild Window: Bejeweled Fishes
Wild Window: Bejeweled Fishes6.32016HD
Bejeweled Fishes captures the spectacular beauty of the myriad fishes inhabiting coral reefs of the Tropical and Eastern Pacific. This Wild Window...
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- 2015

The Cradle of Whales
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Thanks to sophisticated equipment, marine biologists have managed to capture unprecedented scenes of the intimate life of humpback whales off the...
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- 2012

A Sea Turtle Story
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This animated short chronicles the life cycle of the critically endangered sea turtle. Capturing the beauty of the ecosystems that sea turtles...
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