The Universe, a History Channel (I know, right?) series, now in it's fifth season. Speculation and CGIfest about what life in other habitable planets might look and behave like. Entry level stuff, really.Īlien Planet, narrated by Dr. IMAX's Cosmic Voyage, pretty good amount of theory with some nice visuals. Supposedly even better if you toke prior to hitting Play. Journey to the Edge of the Universe, extremely underrated, underground, and underradar'd. Journey to the Edge of the-OH FUCK DID THAT JUST HAPPEN?! Hell, it shouldn't even be on this list, you should have already watched it 10 times over and surrendered your ethereal being to captain the starship of the imagination. Suffice it to say, she went back to bribing bored housewives with more gas-guzzling minivans than she could fit under her studio seats.Ĭosmos, by Carl Sagan. To add insult to injury, Discovery Channel decided it would be appropriate to redub the narration, this time with none other than fuckin' Oprah. It seems BBC got lazy and reedited yet again the same HD footage we got from TBP and PE. Life, narrated by Attenborough, sadly isn't worth checking out if you've already seen his earlier stuff. It does a good job at making you feel like shit for being part of the human race, while stunning you with beautiful landscape imagery that seems like some distant world unlike ours. Galapagos, narrated by Tilda "Ice Cold Queen Bitch" Swinton. Nature's Great Events (also known as Nature's Most Amazing Events in America, also redubbed but this time it's highly recommended the original narration by BBC's Attenborough be obtained in lieu of the less eloquent Discovery counterpart.) Seriously, Discovery Channel, what the fuck?) South Pacific (also known as Wild Pacific in America, and redubbed with narration by Mike "I'm a Bear" Rowe himself, who honestly did a pretty damn decent job for a redub of a series that was already in english. The " Life" series, by Attenborough, of which The Life of Mammals (2002) is the pick of the litter. Planet Earth (or the child-sized Disney version, Earth), which is a rerelease in HD of edited footage from the obsolete series The Blue Planet. Sir David Frederick Attenborough is always related.Īlbatross about to have his day ruined by a hungry Great White, in glorious full HD. The following is a list of nature documentaries worth checking out. Click the mute button and put on some Yanni if you don't feel like getting lectured on why human beings are evil and the rest of the animal kingdom are the victims in this space opera called planet Earth. Generally regarded as nature porn, and much like porn, it is ALWAYS better in HD.
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