Get your popcorn—or your favorite movie-watching snack—ready to celebrate Earth Day! Such a neat way to spend some quality family time during this rainy week. We recommend 6 movies and series that will leave you amazed with this unique planet, our biggest home and the one that we must preserve with our daily actions so that our children and the children of our children can enjoy this extraordinary place.
Series: Our Planet
Release Date: 5 April 2019 (USA)
Director: Various
“Our Planet” is an original Netflix documentary series narrated by David Attenborough with 8 episodes focused on the diversity of habitats around the world and wildlife shows. This series was filmed in more than 50 countries and examines how climate change affects all living beings on Earth. On the official site, we can find interesting content about each episode and discover what you can do to help save our planet.
Official Site: https://www.ourplanet.com/en/
Movie: Born In China (Disneynature)
Release Date: 21 April 2017 (USA)
Director: Chuan Lu
Born in China is a documentary film and in the release version in the United States, it is narrated by John Krasinski. The film documents intimate family moments and adventures of a leopard family, a young gold monkey and a pair of pandas. This film is a co-production between Disneynature and Shanghai Media Group, Disneynature is an independent film unit of Walt Disney Studios that produces documentary films about nature.
Official Site: https://nature.disney.com/born-in-china
Movie: Colombia: Wild Magic (Colombia Magia Salvaje)
Release Date: 10 September 2015 (Colombia)
Director: Mike Slee
Colombia: Wild Magic is a documentary film produced for Grupo Éxito, by the Ecoplanet Foundation and the British production company Off The Fence, and narrator by Julio Sanchéz Cristo. The documentary was filmed in 85 different locations in Colombia and in 90 minutes it presents the enormous biodiversity, landscapes, and wildlife of this country.
Official Site: http://www.magiasalvaje.org/
Movie: Bears (Disneynature)
Release Date: 18 April 2014 (USA)
Director: Alastair Fothergill y Keith Scholey
It’s a documentary film narrated by John C. Reilly that presents the life in Alaska of a family of bears that during a year face the change of seasons and everything they have to face to survive. An extraordinary film, which shows first hand what wildlife lives in their day to day. A child’s favorite!
“In an epic story of breathtaking scale, Disneynature’s upcoming True Life Adventure “Bears” showcases a year in the life of a bear family as two impressionable young cubs are taught life’s most important lessons. Set against a majestic Alaskan backdrop teeming with life, their journey begins as winter comes to an end and the bears emerge from hibernation to face the bitter cold. The world outside is exciting—but risky—as the cubs’ playful descent down the mountain carries with it a looming threat of avalanches. As the season changes from spring to summer, the brown bears must work hard to find food—ultimately feasting at a plentiful salmon run—while staying safe from rival male bears and predators, including an ever-present wolf pack. “Bears” captures the fast-moving action and suspense of life in one of the planet’s last great wildernesses—Alaska!”
Official Site: https://nature.disney.com/bears
Movie: Flight of the Butterflies
Release Date: January 8, 2013
Director: Mike Slee
In this documentary film, you can discover the scientific research of Dr. Fred Urquhart on the monarch butterfly and you can accompany millions of monarch butterflies on their migration journey through Canada, the United States, and Mexico. Truly a remarkable feat!
“The monarch butterfly is a true marvel of nature. Weighing less than a penny, it makes one of the longest migrations on Earth across a continent to a place it has never known. Follow the monarchs’ perilous journey and join hundreds of millions of real butterflies in the remote mountain peaks of Mexico, with breathtaking cinematography from an award winning team including Oscar® winner Peter Parks. Be captivated by the true and compelling story of an intrepid scientist’s 40-year search to find the monarchs’ secret hideaway. Unravel the mysteries and experience the Flight of the Butterflies.”
Official Site: http://www.flightofthebutterflies.com/home/
Series: If I were an Animal…
Release Date: 2017-2018
Director: Marie-Claire Javoy
“If I Were An Animal is the first wildlife documentary written as fiction and told by kids for kids. Using the most amazing footage portraying life in the wild, filmed with state-of-the-art techniques, each episode is going to take us inside the life of one particular animal species, adopting the point of view of the “animal child” and his family, at that precious moment when he or she starts to grow up, learns the ropes and of course, plays around. The voice over will be that of budding child explorers who tell us the story of their chosen animal with intimacy and passion, thus making it super easy for kids everywhere to identify with the most adorable, “animal kids” imaginable.”