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Oceans of Movies

In an ocean of movies, what could be better than ocean movies? If you are an environmental friendly movie buff, who would like to explore the world from your own living room, this post might be for you.

I have always found fascinating those 1001 movies you have to watch before dying kind of lists, where they always recommend you those old but goodies such as Psyco, 90’s classics like Dead Poets Society and A few good men, and even those early 2000’s films that we all have watched more than once as The pursuit of happiness and Catch me if You Can.  When it comes to film industry we all have our favorite genre, that kind of movie that make us feel better when we need it, some of us are into the Breakfast Club  or Lady Bird and some others are more into Pulp Fiction and The Godfather II. It doesn’t matter if you want to see Clueless and Mean Girls for a thousandth time, whether you are craving for any musical in La La Land style or the West Side Story old-fashioned way, even when you are looking for some gripping dramas like The Black Swan or The Reader, the film industry always has your back. However, if there was a genre that couldn’t be more ostracized by the mainstream, it would undoubtedly be the documentaries. They have been deprecated, mistreated and excluded from the cinema narrative for a pretty long time and here I am to prove all of you why we should give them a shot. At first glance, it might sound like a Sunday’s Illness, but I assure you it will be One Fine Day.

It could be said that in the unexplored far-away section where the documentaries lies on our streaming services, the most Precious treasures are waiting to be found. Inside of this Deep Sea of captivating documentary movies, there’s a whole world of docudramas that might help you to understand how life is Underwater. The environmental films are grabbing the attention of the whole world; they are an emergent market that has been under the spotlight for the past decade. Not only are they informative and a trustworthy source of information, but also are they pretty entertaining for some of us who are passionate for our Seven Seas. In this opportunity, I will send all of you in a journey 20,000 Leagues under the Sea; fasten your seatbelts and prepare yourselves to go Below the Sea!

A PLASTIC OCEAN (2016)

Directed by Craig Leeson, this documentary will make you travel to twenty locations around the world to explore the fragile state of our oceans. The story begins when the journalist Craig Leeson, searching for the elusive blue whale, discovers plastic waste in what should be pristine ocean. He will team up with Tanya Streeter a professional diver and an international team of scientist and researchers to uncover alarming truths about plastic pollution and reveal solutions that can be put into immediate effect.

CHASING ICE (2012)

Written by Mark Monroe and directed by Jeff Orlowski, this film will take you to the Arctic with the National Geographic photographer James Balog as he deploys time-lapse cameras designed to capture a multi-year record of the world’s changing glaciers. Traveling with a young team of adventurers by helicopter, canoe and dog sled across three continents, Balog risks his career and his well-being in pursuit of what some called the biggest story in human history.

CHASING CORAL (2017)

Jeff Orlowski took us by surprise again with this marvelous cinematic piece, which will let you discovers the unprecedented vanishing of coral reefs around the world. This thrilling ocean adventure set out by a team of divers, photographers and scientists will bring you to discover underwater mysteries and the reasons of the coral extinction.

SEA OF SHADOWS (2019)

This cinematographic masterpiece of Podolsky, Bogle and Ladkani immerse the audiences into the submarine life of the vaquita, the endangered world's smallest whale, which is near extinction as its habitat is destroyed by Mexican cartels and Chinese mafia. Environmental activists, Mexican navy and undercover investigators are fighting back against this illegal multi-million-dollar business.