2010 Archive

Bag It has been garnering awards at film festivals across the nation. What started as a documentary about plastic bags evolved into a wholesale investigation into plastics and their effect on our waterways, oceans, and even our bodies. Join the Bag It movement and decide for yourself how plastic your life will be.

Award-winning documentary filmmaker Howard Hall and the production team behind IMAX® film favorites "Deep Sea" and "Into the Deep" return for a dynamic new underwater adventure, "Under the Sea." Filmed entirely with IMAX® cameras for a vivid, immersive viewing experience unlike any other, this new film will transport audiences to some of the most exotic and isolated undersea locations on Earth, including Southern Australia and the Great Barrier Reef, as well as Papua New Guinea and Indonesia in the famed Coral Triangle, for face-to-face encounters with some of the most mysterious and stunning creatures of the sea. Discover the habits and habitats of Great White Sharks, Flamboyant Cuttlefish, Leafy Sea Dragons, Giant Stingrays, Jellyfish, Green Sea Turtles, playful Australian Sea Lions, six-foot Garden Eels and a multitude of brilliantly colorful fish and sea life as they play out the daily dramas of their lives amidst vast coral formations that rise from the ocean floor.

This groundbreaking NRDC documentary explores the startling phenomenon of ocean acidification, which may soon challenge marine life on a scale not seen for tens of millions of years. The film, featuring Sigourney Weaver, originally aired on Discovery Planet Green.

OCEANS takes viewers on a breathtaking and unprecedented high-definition journey to discover nature's mysteries, showcasing creatures captured on film for the first time and state-of-the-art imagery of the colorful symphony that lives under the sea. With crystal clear picture, and theater-quality sound, OCEANS puts audiences in the very heart of the action, racing along amid a school of traveling tuna, leaping with dolphins and swimming shoulder-to-fin with whales that will entertain kids and parents alike.

Willem is an awesome kid who knows the value of whales. In the 2-minute video he tells off-the-cuff stories and asks President Obama to not overturn the Global Ban On Whaling, set to expire very soon.

Everybody dies, but not everybody lives. Into The Dragon's Lair follows Roger Horrocks and Didier Noiret as they penetrate a place no human is known to have ever seen, let alone entered: the underwater lair of the Nile crocodile.

Three years ago Bermuda-based Producer/Director Andrew Stevenson embarked on what seemed like an interesting and challenging project to film the North Atlantic humpback whales underwater in the middle of their mid-ocean migratory crossings. The humpback whales have since become an overriding passion. Come share his journey, told through the eyes of his 6-year old daughter, Elsa. The original musical score was composed by Steve Gallant

The quest to end whaling is at the heart of the international environmental movement. In recent years, the efforts of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society against Japanese “scientific” whaling in the Antarctic have shown that this issue is still very much alive. Inspired by this conflict, two Stanford undergraduates traveled to Norway, a country that resumed commercial whaling after a brief hiatus in the 1980s. Arriving in Sandefjord, Norway with only a camera and two registration cards for the “3rd International Symposium on Whaling and History,” they endeavored to open a dialogue with an ostracized whaling community that has grown bitter to critics as a result of the “whale wars.” During their two months in Norway, they interviewed the heads of Greenpeace Norway, the Norwegian Fisheries Ministry, and the Norwegian Whalers Union, among others. Gradually, their focus evolved from a more scientific point of view (“Is Norwegian whaling sustainable?”), to a deeply philosophical query (“What is really driving Norway to continue the hunt?”). In doing so, the filmmakers found that all parties—whalers and non-whalers alike—claim to champion the tenets of environmentalism. Indeed, they discovered a world where sustainability, environmentalism, and conservation do not mean the same thing, and where those terms are not as purely scientific as they are intensely political.

From the majestic kelp forests of Monterey Bay to a magical night on a coral reef; from the storm-tossed waters of the mighty North Pacific to the crystal blue of the Mediterranean Sea:  episode four of One Ocean explores some of the most stunning underwater locations in the world as it sets sail on a scientific race – a race to predict the fate of the global ocean and its amazing creatures.

Join us on a journey into the future as we explore The Changing Sea .

Some fish can fly.  Others can swim faster than a cheetah runs.  Together, fish are the most diverse backboned creatures on the planet.

Las 4 especies de Tortugas Marinas están en peligro de extinción. Ayúdanos a conservarlas.

Something is amiss in our global world water supply: Striped bass are succumbing to flesh-eating bacteria in Chesapeake Bay; seabird chicks are starving in Hawai‘i; coral reefs are weakening under a growing assault of invisible contaminants and an increasing variety of aquatic animals are showing signs of developmental disorders. Experts and citizens are racing to find clues to the causes—and the solutions. Find out how we all can make a difference.

The waters around Isla Holbox off Mexicos Yucatán Peninsula teem with plankton, a feast for giant whale sharks—10-meter giants that gather by the hundreds from June through September. These super-sized, but toothless filter feeders are the core of a local tourism industry, but over-development could threaten this delicate balance. Dr. Sylvia Earle narrates. Kip Evans - Producer and Director of Photography. 2010 Blue Ocean Film Festival non-broadcast winning Film.

OCEANS takes viewers on a breathtaking and unprecedented high-definition journey to discover nature's mysteries, showcasing creatures captured on film for the first time and state-of-the-art imagery of the colorful symphony that lives under the sea. With crystal clear picture, and theater-quality sound, OCEANS puts audiences in the very heart of the action, racing along amid a school of traveling tuna, leaping with dolphins and swimming shoulder-to-fin with whales that will entertain kids and parents alike.

A trailer for the animated short film "The Krill is Gone." From the director of the critically aclaimed documentary "Deep Green" in association with Bent Image Lab, with voices by Tom Kenny and Jill Talley.

Once hunted to the brink of extinction, the gray whale has made an amazing comeback in the last 80 years. But in 1999 and 2000, these unique creatures, which live along the West Coast of North America, began to mysteriously disappear by the thousands. Their population dropped by one-third. In The Gray Whale Obstacle Course, Jean-Michel Cousteau and the Ocean Adventures team search for clues about this resilient, yet threatened species to gain a better understanding of the increasing challenges, both natural and man-made, that gray whales face along the way.

Bag It has been garnering awards at film festivals across the nation. What started as a documentary about plastic bags evolved into a wholesale investigation into plastics and their effect on our waterways, oceans, and even our bodies. Join the Bag It movement and decide for yourself how plastic your life will be.

The film is packed with action and beauty and compassion as The Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale National Marine Sanctuary experts work with well-trained volunteers to safely cut whales free of marine debris.

Featuring eleven-time world surfing champion Kelly Slater, THE ULTIMATE WAVE follows a quest to find the perfect wave-riding experience. Filmed in Tahiti and among the islands of French Polynesia, the film showcases dramatic giant screen surfing action in a unique Pacific paradise.

The Aleut have lived on the islands of the Bering Sea for generations—now, their once thriving ecosystem is being threatened by over-fishing and trawling methods and their basic survival is at risk. The people are taking a new stance with a fresh approach to fisheries management, and employing traditional cultural values with grassroots organizational tactics." - Kathleen Mullen, PLANET IN FOCUS. THE BERING SEA - ECOSYSTEM IN CRISIS is a documentary short produced by Greenpeace USA.