Ocean with David Attenborough 2025
Directed by Colin Butfield, Toby Nowlan, Keith Scholey
- Documentary
- 85 min
If we save the sea, we save our world.
David Attenborough takes viewers on a breathtaking journey showing there is nowhere more vital for our survival, more full of life, wonder, or surprise, than the ocean. Through spectacular sequences featuring coral reefs, kelp forests and the open ocean, Attenborough shares why a healthy ocean keeps the entire planet stable and flourishing.
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- CinemaSerfon TMDB · May 20258/10
This is one of those films that really does resonate. Using some phenomenal archive photography of the realm beneath the sea, Sir David Attenborough narrates a story of devastation, desperation and ultimately optimism as he takes us on a journey around the globe evaluating the damage caused to the Earth’s oceans by a mankind who has treated this vast resource with contempt ever since industrialisation enabled us to ignore the protective forces of nature and pretty much fish at will. Some of the imagery here is truly breathtaking. It’s beautiful, colourful and vibrant with creatures that look every inch as if they came straight out of science fiction. It’s not just the sheer variety of life that we see that takes your breath away, though. The effects of the trawlers scarifying the scallop beds or the coral reefs renders them akin to a waste ground after a bomb has been dropped on it. The ruin is profound and quite frankly upsetting. Our continuing reliance on cheap and abundant food for ourselves and our pets is compromising the very existence of species that have existed in harmony with nature (and even humanity) for millennia. In his usually potent but understated manner, Sir Davi
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Cast
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- Colin ButfieldDirector
- Toby NowlanDirector
- Keith ScholeyDirector
- Toby StrongDirector of Photography
- Doug AndersonDirector of Photography
- Steven PriceOriginal Music Composer
- Philippa EdwardsEditor
- Toby NowlanProducer
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