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February 16, 2024

A nature documentary or wildlife documentary is a genre of documentary film or series about animals, plants, or other non-human living creatures. Nature documentaries usually concentrate on video taken in the subject's natural habitat, but often including footage of trained and captive animals, too. Sometimes they are about wildlife or ecosystems in relationship to human beings. Such programmes are most frequently made for television, particularly for public broadcasting channels, but some are also made for the cinema. The proliferation of this genre occurred almost simultaneously alongside the production of similar television series which is distributed across the world.

Shooting of a wildlife film in Namibia

History edit

In cinema edit

Robert J. Flaherty's 1922 film Nanook of the North is typically cited as the first feature-length documentary[1]. Decades later, Walt Disney Productions pioneered the serial theatrical release of nature-documentaries with its production of the True-Life Adventures series, a collection of fourteen full length and short subject nature films from 1948 to 1960.[2] Prominent among those were The Living Desert (1953) and The Vanishing Prairie (1954), both written and directed by James Algar.

The first full-length nature-documentary films pioneering colour underwater cinematography were the Italian film Sesto Continente (The Sixth Continent) and the French film Le Monde du silence (The Silent World). Directed by Folco Quilici Sesto Continente was shot in 1952 and first exhibited to Italian audiences in 1954.[3] The Silent World, shot in 1954 and 1955 by Jacques Cousteau and Louis Malle, was first released in 1956.[4]

In television edit

In 1954, the BBC started airing Zoo Quest, featuring David Attenborough. Other early nature documentaries include Fur and Feathers shown on CBC from 1955 to 1956 and hosted by Ian McTaggart-Cowan.,[5] and Look, a studio-based BBC magazine-program with filmed inserts, hosted by Sir Peter Scott from 1955 to 1981. The first 50-minute weekly documentary series, The World About Us, began on BBC2 in 1967 with a color installment from the French filmmaker Haroun Tazieff, called "Volcano". Around 1982, the series changed its title to The Natural World, which the BBC Natural History Unit in Bristol continued to produce as of 2023. In 1961, Anglia Television produced the first of the award-winning Survival series.

Between 1974 and 1980, the Spanish nature documentary television series El Hombre y la Tierra (The Man and the Earth), produced by TVE and presented by naturalist Félix Rodríguez de la Fuente used 35 mm film, which posed significant logistic and technical challenges at the time. The show gained international recognition.[6]

During the late 1970s and early 1980s, several other television companies round the world set up their own specialized natural-history departments, including the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in Melbourne, Australia and TVNZ's unit in Dunedin, New Zealand — both still in existence, the latter having changed its name to "NHNZ". ITV's contribution to the genre, Survival, became a prolific series of single films. It was eventually axed when the network introduced a controversial new schedule which many commentators have criticized as "dumbing down".

Wildlife and natural history films have boomed in popularity and have become one of modern society's most important sources of information about the natural world.[citation needed] Yet film and television critics and scholars have largely ignored them.[citation needed]

The BBC television series Walking With, narrated by Kenneth Branagh, used computer-generated imagery (CGI) and animatronics to film prehistoric life in a similar manner to other nature documentaries. The shows (Walking with Dinosaurs, Walking with Beasts, and Walking with Monsters) had three spinoffs, two of which featured Nigel Marven: Chased by Dinosaurs and Sea Monsters: A Walking with Dinosaurs Trilogy. Robert Winston presented Walking with Cavemen.

Content edit

Overview edit

Most nature documentary films or television series focus on a particular species, ecosystem, or scientific idea (such as evolution). Although most take a scientific and educational approach, some anthropomorphise their subjects or present animals purely for the viewer's pleasure. In a few instances, they are in presented in ethnographic film[7] formats and contain stories that involve humans and their relationships with the natural world, as in Nanook of the North (1922), The Story of the Weeping Camel (2003), and Grass: A Nation's Battle for Life (1925).

Although almost all have a human presenter, the role varies widely, ranging from explanatory voice-overs to extensive interaction or even confrontation with animals.

Most nature documentaries are made for television and are usually of 45 to 50 minutes duration,[citation needed] but some are made as full-length cinematic presentations.

Such films include:

In addition, the BBC's The Blue Planet and Planet Earth series have both been adapted by BBC Worldwide and Greenlight Media for theatrical release.[8]

In some cases, nature documentaries are produced in the short subject form and are subsequently screened in theaters or broadcast on television. Often they are about the relationship between humans and nature. Notable examples include:

Every two years the Wildscreen Trust, of Bristol in the UK presents the Panda Awards for nature documentaries.

Criticism edit

The "naturalness" of nature documentaries has been disputed.[9][10][11] Some, particularly those involving animals, have included footage of staged events that appear "natural" while actually contrived by filmmakers or occurring in captivity.[12] In a famous example, Walt Disney's White Wilderness (1958), lemmings were herded to their deaths from a cliff by the filmmakers.[12][13] Examples also occur in modern nature documentaries, such as Hidden Kingdoms (2014)[14] and Blue Planet II (2017),[15] indicating that such practices are still routine.[16][17] Due to the difficulties of recording sounds on locations, it is common for nature documentary makers to record sounds in post-production using Foley and to use sound effect libraries.[18][19] Compositing and computer-generated imagery are also sometimes used to construct shots.[20][21] Wild animals are often filmed over weeks or months, so the footage must be condensed to form a narrative that appears to take place over a short space of time.[22] Such narratives are also constructed to be as compelling as possible—rather than necessarily as a reflection of reality—and make frequent use of voice-overs, combined with emotional and intense music to maximise the audience's engagement with the content.[23] One common technique is to follow the "story" of one particular animal, encouraging the audience to form an emotional connection with the subject and to root for their survival when they encounter a predator.[10] In 1984, David Attenborough stated:

There is precious little that is natural … in any film. You distort speed if you want to show things like plants growing, or look in detail at the way an animal moves. You distort light levels. You distort distribution, in the sense that you see dozens of different species in a jungle within a few minutes, so that the places seem to be teeming with life. You distort size by using close-up lenses. And you distort sound. What the filmmaker is trying to do is to convey a particular experience. … The viewer has to trust in the good faith of the filmmaker.[23]

Nature documentaries have been criticized for leaving viewers with the impression that wild animals survived and thrived after encounters with predators, even when they sustain potentially life-threatening injuries.[24] They also cut away from particularly violent encounters,[10][25] or attempt to downplay the suffering endured by the individual animal, by appealing to concepts such as the "balance of nature" and "the good of the herd".[26]

Notable nature documentary filmmakers edit

Among the many notable filmmakers, scientists, and presenters who have contributed to the medium include:

List of notable nature documentary series edit

Sir David Attenborough edit

See also: David Attenborough filmography

Sir David Attenborough's contributions to conservation are widely regarded, and his television programs have been seen by millions of people throughout the world. Series narrated and/or presented by him include:

  • Planet Earth III (2023), 8 episodes

    • Steve Irwin edit

    Steve Irwin's documentaries, based on wildlife conservation and environmentalism, aired on Discovery Channel, and Animal Planet. The series comprises:

    Other notable documentaries edit

    In addition to those listed above, the following is a sampling of the genre:

    Current production edit

    In recent years, most traditional style 'blue chip' programming has become prohibitively expensive and are funded by a set of co-producers, usually a broadcaster (such as Animal Planet, National Geographic, or NHK) from one or several countries, a production company, and sometimes a distributor which then has the rights to sell the show into more territories than the original broadcaster.

    Two recent examples of co-productions that were filmed by the BBC are Planet Earth II (2016) and Blue Planet II (2017).[29]

    Production companies are increasingly exploiting their filmed material, by making DVDs and Blu-rays for home viewing or educational purposes, or selling library footage to advertisers, museum exhibitors, and other documentary producers.

    See also edit

    Further reading edit

    • Bush, W. Stephen (1915) Wild Life in Films The Moving Picture World Vol 23 #10:1462-1463
    • Gregg Mitman: Reel Nature: America's Romance with Wildlife on Film (Weyerhaeuser Environmental Classics), Paperback (Second Edition), Combined Academic Publishers, 2009, ISBN 0-295-98886-X
    • Chris Palmer: Shooting in the Wild: An Insider's Account of Making Movies in the Animal Kingdom, Sierra Club Books, 2010, ISBN 1578051487

    References edit

    1. ^ Rothman, William (January 1997). Documentary Film Classics. Cambridge University Press. p. 1. ISBN 9781139172691.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link)
    2. ^ True-Life Adventures
    3. ^ Sesto Continente as mentioned at the IMDB website
    4. ^ In 1956 The Silent World was released in three different countries: France (May 26, 1956), Japan (August 15, 1956) and the United States (September 24, 1956). See the release information page at the IMDB website.
    5. ^ Ian McTaggart-Cowan bio shines light on pioneering TV nature program host
    6. ^ "Félix Rodríguez de la Fuente, el divulgador más mediático". 13 March 2020.
    7. ^ Ethnographic film
    8. ^ BBC Press Office: Planet Earth set for movie release
    9. ^ Malnick, Robert; Malnick, Edward (2011-12-18). "BBC accused of routine 'fakery' in wildlife documentaries". Daily Telegraph. ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 2019-10-09.
    10. ^ a b c Lopatto, Elizabeth (2016-08-15). "How natural are nature documentaries?". The Verge. Retrieved 2019-10-09.
    11. ^ Ivakhiv, Adrian J. (2013). "Writing, Seeing, and Faking Nature". Ecologies of the Moving Image: Cinema, Affect, Nature. Waterloo, Ontario: Wilfrid Laurier University Press. ISBN 9781554589050.
    12. ^ a b D'Amico, Lisa Nicole (2013-07-19). Ecopornography and the Commodification of Extinction: The Rhetoric of Natural History Filmmaking, 1895-Present (Thesis).
    13. ^ Mikkelson, David (27 February 1996). "Did Disney Fake Lemming Deaths for the Nature Documentary 'White Wilderness'?". Snopes.com. Retrieved 2019-10-14.
    14. ^ Lawson, Mark (2014-01-08). "BBC telling us it staged sequences makes Hidden Kingdoms hard to watch". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2019-10-09.
    15. ^ Carrington, Damian (2017-10-23). "Blue Planet 2: Attenborough defends shots filmed in studio". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2019-10-09.
    16. ^ "FAKERY in Wildlife Documentaries". The Fifth Estate. CBC Television. Nov 26, 2008. from the original on 2010-10-03. Retrieved April 18, 2012.
    17. ^ Street-Porter, Janet (2018-04-06). "It's about time we recognised that nature documentary makers regularly deceive us – and we're partly to blame". The Independent. Archived from the original on 2022-06-18. Retrieved 2019-10-09.
    18. ^ "Sounds Natural". 99% Invisible. Retrieved 2019-10-09.
    19. ^ Collins, Karen (April 2017). "Calls of the wild? 'Fake' sound effects and cinematic realism in BBC David Attenborough nature documentaries". The Soundtrack. 10 (1): 59–77. doi:10.1386/ts.10.1.59_1.
    20. ^ "Using graphics when making wildlife films". BBC. 2016-04-29. Retrieved 2019-10-23.
    21. ^ Dargis, Manohla (2011-06-23). "'Turtle: The Incredible Journey,' a Loggerhead Epic - Review". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-10-23.
    22. ^ "Filming Wildlife: Producers Discuss the Challenges". PBS. 2007-12-11. Retrieved 2019-10-09.
    23. ^ a b Lopez, German (2017-04-29). "The tricks that nature documentaries use to keep you watching". Vox. Retrieved 2019-10-09.
    24. ^ Norcross, Desli (2019-02-28). . Nature Ethics. Archived from the original on 2020-08-04. Retrieved 2019-10-09.
    25. ^ Rustin, Susanna (2011-10-21). "David Attenborough: 'I'm an essential evil'". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2020-04-19. People who accuse us of putting in too much violence, [should see] what we leave on the cutting-room floor.
    26. ^ Pearce, David. "The Post-Darwinian Transition". The Animal Rights Library. Retrieved 2019-10-09.
    27. ^ Information on King of the Jungle series 2008-09-17 at the Wayback Machine. Tv.com (2005-07-14). Retrieved on 2012-09-05.
    28. ^ Official show page for Ocean Mysteries 2014-01-29 at the Wayback Machine. Georgiaaquarium.org (2011-08-31). Retrieved on 2012-09-05.
    29. ^ editor, Graham Ruddick Media (2018-01-11). "BBC follows Blue Planet II with hard-hitting nature documentaries". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2019-10-14. {{cite news}}: |last= has generic name (help)

    External links edit

    • Light & Shadow Productions: German nature documentary company 2018-09-02 at the Wayback Machine
    • "The Mysterious Bee" An award winning documentary about Honey Bees
    • – a professional 50 minute HD film about illegal rosewood logging in Madagascar and the impact on the silky sifaka lemur
    • List of Nature Documentaries
    • Nature at BBC
    • Nature at PBS
    • TV/Radio Programmes at BBC
    • Outdoors Country, ca. 1957, Archives of Ontario YouTube Channel

    February 16, 2024
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A nature documentary or wildlife documentary is a genre of documentary film or series about animals plants or other non human living creatures Nature documentaries usually concentrate on video taken in the subject s natural habitat but often including footage of trained and captive animals too Sometimes they are about wildlife or ecosystems in relationship to human beings Such programmes are most frequently made for television particularly for public broadcasting channels but some are also made for the cinema The proliferation of this genre occurred almost simultaneously alongside the production of similar television series which is distributed across the world Shooting of a wildlife film in Namibia Contents 1 History 1 1 In cinema 1 2 In television 2 Content 2 1 Overview 3 Criticism 4 Notable nature documentary filmmakers 5 List of notable nature documentary series 5 1 Sir David Attenborough 5 2 Steve Irwin 5 3 Other notable documentaries 6 Current production 7 See also 8 Further reading 9 References 10 External linksHistory editIn cinema edit Robert J Flaherty s 1922 film Nanook of the North is typically cited as the first feature length documentary 1 Decades later Walt Disney Productions pioneered the serial theatrical release of nature documentaries with its production of the True Life Adventures series a collection of fourteen full length and short subject nature films from 1948 to 1960 2 Prominent among those were The Living Desert 1953 and The Vanishing Prairie 1954 both written and directed by James Algar The first full length nature documentary films pioneering colour underwater cinematography were the Italian film Sesto Continente The Sixth Continent and the French film Le Monde du silence The Silent World Directed by Folco Quilici Sesto Continente was shot in 1952 and first exhibited to Italian audiences in 1954 3 The Silent World shot in 1954 and 1955 by Jacques Cousteau and Louis Malle was first released in 1956 4 In television edit In 1954 the BBC started airing Zoo Quest featuring David Attenborough Other early nature documentaries include Fur and Feathers shown on CBC from 1955 to 1956 and hosted by Ian McTaggart Cowan 5 and Look a studio based BBC magazine program with filmed inserts hosted by Sir Peter Scott from 1955 to 1981 The first 50 minute weekly documentary series The World About Us began on BBC2 in 1967 with a color installment from the French filmmaker Haroun Tazieff called Volcano Around 1982 the series changed its title to The Natural World which the BBC Natural History Unit in Bristol continued to produce as of 2023 update In 1961 Anglia Television produced the first of the award winning Survival series Between 1974 and 1980 the Spanish nature documentary television series El Hombre y la Tierra The Man and the Earth produced by TVE and presented by naturalist Felix Rodriguez de la Fuente used 35 mm film which posed significant logistic and technical challenges at the time The show gained international recognition 6 During the late 1970s and early 1980s several other television companies round the world set up their own specialized natural history departments including the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in Melbourne Australia and TVNZ s unit in Dunedin New Zealand both still in existence the latter having changed its name to NHNZ ITV s contribution to the genre Survival became a prolific series of single films It was eventually axed when the network introduced a controversial new schedule which many commentators have criticized as dumbing down Wildlife and natural history films have boomed in popularity and have become one of modern society s most important sources of information about the natural world citation needed Yet film and television critics and scholars have largely ignored them citation needed The BBC television series Walking With narrated by Kenneth Branagh used computer generated imagery CGI and animatronics to film prehistoric life in a similar manner to other nature documentaries The shows Walking with Dinosaurs Walking with Beasts and Walking with Monsters had three spinoffs two of which featured Nigel Marven Chased by Dinosaurs and Sea Monsters A Walking with Dinosaurs Trilogy Robert Winston presented Walking with Cavemen Content editOverview edit Most nature documentary films or television series focus on a particular species ecosystem or scientific idea such as evolution Although most take a scientific and educational approach some anthropomorphise their subjects or present animals purely for the viewer s pleasure In a few instances they are in presented in ethnographic film 7 formats and contain stories that involve humans and their relationships with the natural world as in Nanook of the North 1922 The Story of the Weeping Camel 2003 and Grass A Nation s Battle for Life 1925 Although almost all have a human presenter the role varies widely ranging from explanatory voice overs to extensive interaction or even confrontation with animals Most nature documentaries are made for television and are usually of 45 to 50 minutes duration citation needed but some are made as full length cinematic presentations Such films include Among the Great Apes with Michelle Yeoh 2009 Animals Are Beautiful People 1974 Chang A Drama of the Wilderness 1927 Coral Reef Adventure 2003 The Cove 2009 Encounters at the End of the World 2007 Grizzly Man 2005 The Last Paradises On the Track of Rare Animals 1967 The Leopard Son 1996 The Living Desert 1953 March of the Penguins 2005 Microcosmos 1996 Sharkwater 2006 Serengeti Shall Not Die 1959 The Silent World 1956 The Story of the Weeping Camel 2003 Grass A Nation s Battle for Life 1925 The Vanishing Prairie 1954 The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill 2003 White Wilderness 1958 Winged Migration 2001 In addition the BBC s The Blue Planet and Planet Earth series have both been adapted by BBC Worldwide and Greenlight Media for theatrical release 8 In some cases nature documentaries are produced in the short subject form and are subsequently screened in theaters or broadcast on television Often they are about the relationship between humans and nature Notable examples include Agafia s Taiga Life 2013 Grand Canyon 1958 In Beaver Valley 1950 The Land 1942 45 minute documentary made for the U S Department of Agriculture The Plow That Broke the Plains 1936 The River 1938 Seal Island 1948 Every two years the Wildscreen Trust of Bristol in the UK presents the Panda Awards for nature documentaries Criticism editThe naturalness of nature documentaries has been disputed 9 10 11 Some particularly those involving animals have included footage of staged events that appear natural while actually contrived by filmmakers or occurring in captivity 12 In a famous example Walt Disney s White Wilderness 1958 lemmings were herded to their deaths from a cliff by the filmmakers 12 13 Examples also occur in modern nature documentaries such as Hidden Kingdoms 2014 14 and Blue Planet II 2017 15 indicating that such practices are still routine 16 17 Due to the difficulties of recording sounds on locations it is common for nature documentary makers to record sounds in post production using Foley and to use sound effect libraries 18 19 Compositing and computer generated imagery are also sometimes used to construct shots 20 21 Wild animals are often filmed over weeks or months so the footage must be condensed to form a narrative that appears to take place over a short space of time 22 Such narratives are also constructed to be as compelling as possible rather than necessarily as a reflection of reality and make frequent use of voice overs combined with emotional and intense music to maximise the audience s engagement with the content 23 One common technique is to follow the story of one particular animal encouraging the audience to form an emotional connection with the subject and to root for their survival when they encounter a predator 10 In 1984 David Attenborough stated There is precious little that is natural in any film You distort speed if you want to show things like plants growing or look in detail at the way an animal moves You distort light levels You distort distribution in the sense that you see dozens of different species in a jungle within a few minutes so that the places seem to be teeming with life You distort size by using close up lenses And you distort sound What the filmmaker is trying to do is to convey a particular experience The viewer has to trust in the good faith of the filmmaker 23 Nature documentaries have been criticized for leaving viewers with the impression that wild animals survived and thrived after encounters with predators even when they sustain potentially life threatening injuries 24 They also cut away from particularly violent encounters 10 25 or attempt to downplay the suffering endured by the individual animal by appealing to concepts such as the balance of nature and the good of the herd 26 Notable nature documentary filmmakers editAmong the many notable filmmakers scientists and presenters who have contributed to the medium include James Algar Sir David Attenborough Harry Butler Gordon Buchanan Richard Brock Jacques Cousteau Jeff Corwin Gerald Durrell Alastair Fothergill Robert Flaherty Felix Rodriguez de la Fuente Bernhard Grzimek Tim Haines Judy Irving Steve Irwin Hugo van Lawick Jasper James Nigel Marven Greg MacGillivray Ian McTaggart Cowan Desmond Morris Neil Nightingale Marlin Perkins Coyote Peterson Jacques Perrin Louie Psihoyos Eugen Schuhmacher Heinz Sielmann Marty Stouffer Mark Strickson David Suzuki Valmik ThaparList of notable nature documentary series editSir David Attenborough edit See also David Attenborough filmography Sir David Attenborough s contributions to conservation are widely regarded and his television programs have been seen by millions of people throughout the world Series narrated and or presented by him include Zoo Quest 1954 1964 Life on Earth 1979 13 episodes The Living Planet 1984 12 episodes The Trials of Life 1990 12 episodes Life in the Freezer 1993 6 episodes The Private Life of Plants 1995 6 episodes The Life of Birds 1998 10 episodes The Blue Planet 2001 8 episodes The Life of Mammals 2002 10 episodes Life in the Undergrowth 2005 5 episodes Planet Earth 2006 11 episodes Life in Cold Blood 2008 5 episodes Life 2009 10 episodes Nature s Great Events 2009 Frozen Planet 2011 7 episodes Kingdom of Plants 3D 2012 3 episodes David Attenborough s Conquest of the Skies 3D 2015 3 episodes Extra Planet Earth II 2016 6 episodes Blue Planet II 2017 7 episodes Our Planet 2019 8 episodes Seven Worlds One Planet 2019 7 episodes The Green Planet 2022 5 episodes Prehistoric Planet 2022 5 episodes Planet Earth III 2023 8 episodes Steve Irwin edit Steve Irwin s documentaries based on wildlife conservation and environmentalism aired on Discovery Channel and Animal Planet The series comprises The Crocodile Hunter 1992 2004 74 episodes The Crocodile Hunter Collision Course 2002 Movie The Crocodile Hunter s Croc Files 1999 52 episodes Ten Deadliest Snakes in the World 2001 The Crocodile Hunter Diaries 2001 2003 30 episodes New Breed Vets 2005 6 episodes Ocean s Deadliest 2006 Other notable documentaries edit In addition to those listed above the following is a sampling of the genre Andes to Amazon 2000 Animal Atlas 2004 Ark on the Move 1982 Banded Brothers 2010 The Bear Family amp Me 2011 Big Cat Week 2013 British Isles A Natural History 2004 Corwin s Quest Animal Planet 2005 Congo 2001 Cousins 2000 Dark Days in Monkey City 2009 Earth The Power of the Planet 2007 Earthflight 2011 Escape to Chimp Eden 2008 Europe A Natural History 2005 Eyewitness British TV series 1994 1997 The First Eden 1987 The Future Is Wild 2002 The Great Rift Africa s Wild Heart 2010 Ganges 2007 Great Migrations 2010 Going Wild with Jeff Corwin Disney Channel 1997 1999 El Hombre y la Tierra 1974 1981 How the Earth Was Made 2009 How the Universe Works 2010 2012 2014 The Human Animal 1994 Human Planet 2011 In the Womb 2005 2010 Insectia 1999 Inside Life 2009 The Jeff Corwin Experience 2001 2003 Journeys to the Ends of the Earth 1998 King of the Jungle Animal Planet 2003 2004 27 Land of the Tiger 1997 Last Chance to See 2009 Lemur Street 2007 2008 The Living Edens 1997 Madagascar 2011 Meerkat Manor 2005 The Most Extreme 2002 Nature 1982 Natural World 1983 2020 The Nature of Things 1960 Ocean Mysteries with Jeff Corwin ABC 2011 14 28 Oceans 2008 Orangutan Diary 2009 Orangutan Island 2007 Penguin Island 2010 Planet Earth The Future 2006 Really Wild Animals 1993 98 Talking with Animals 2002 The Really Wild Show 1986 2006 River Monsters 2009 Saving Planet Earth 2007 Sea Rescue 2012 2018 The Secret Life of Elephants 2009 South Pacific 2009 State of the Planet 2000 The Stationary Ark 1975 The Predators of the Wild 1992 1996 Super Cats A Nature Miniseries PBS 2018 3 Episodes Supernatural The Unseen Powers of Animals 2008 Survival 1961 Suzuki on Science 1971 Weird Nature 2001 Wild Africa 2001 Wild Caribbean 2007 Wild Down Under 2003 Wild Kingdom 1963 1988 Wild Russia 2009 Yellowstone 2009 Current production editThis section needs to be updated Please help update this article to reflect recent events or newly available information June 2020 In recent years most traditional style blue chip programming has become prohibitively expensive and are funded by a set of co producers usually a broadcaster such as Animal Planet National Geographic or NHK from one or several countries a production company and sometimes a distributor which then has the rights to sell the show into more territories than the original broadcaster Two recent examples of co productions that were filmed by the BBC are Planet Earth II 2016 and Blue Planet II 2017 29 Production companies are increasingly exploiting their filmed material by making DVDs and Blu rays for home viewing or educational purposes or selling library footage to advertisers museum exhibitors and other documentary producers See also editList of documentary films List of insect documentariesFurther reading editBush W Stephen 1915 Wild Life in Films The Moving Picture World Vol 23 10 1462 1463 Gregg Mitman Reel Nature America s Romance with Wildlife on Film Weyerhaeuser Environmental Classics Paperback Second Edition Combined Academic Publishers 2009 ISBN 0 295 98886 X Chris Palmer Shooting in the Wild An Insider s Account of Making Movies in the Animal Kingdom Sierra Club Books 2010 ISBN 1578051487References edit Rothman William January 1997 Documentary Film Classics Cambridge University Press p 1 ISBN 9781139172691 a href Template Cite book html title Template Cite book cite book a CS1 maint date and year link True Life Adventures Sesto Continente as mentioned at the IMDB website In 1956 The Silent World was released in three different countries France May 26 1956 Japan August 15 1956 and the United States September 24 1956 See the release information page at the IMDB website Ian McTaggart Cowan bio shines light on pioneering TV nature program host Felix Rodriguez de la Fuente el divulgador mas mediatico 13 March 2020 Ethnographic film BBC Press Office Planet Earth set for movie release Malnick Robert Malnick Edward 2011 12 18 BBC accused of routine fakery in wildlife documentaries Daily Telegraph ISSN 0307 1235 Retrieved 2019 10 09 a b c Lopatto Elizabeth 2016 08 15 How natural are nature documentaries The Verge Retrieved 2019 10 09 Ivakhiv Adrian J 2013 Writing Seeing and Faking Nature Ecologies of the Moving Image Cinema Affect Nature Waterloo Ontario Wilfrid Laurier University Press ISBN 9781554589050 a b D Amico Lisa Nicole 2013 07 19 Ecopornography and the Commodification of Extinction The Rhetoric of Natural History Filmmaking 1895 Present Thesis Mikkelson David 27 February 1996 Did Disney Fake Lemming Deaths for the Nature Documentary White Wilderness Snopes com Retrieved 2019 10 14 Lawson Mark 2014 01 08 BBC telling us it staged sequences makes Hidden Kingdoms hard to watch The Guardian ISSN 0261 3077 Retrieved 2019 10 09 Carrington Damian 2017 10 23 Blue Planet 2 Attenborough defends shots filmed in studio The Guardian ISSN 0261 3077 Retrieved 2019 10 09 FAKERY in Wildlife Documentaries The Fifth Estate CBC Television Nov 26 2008 Archived from the original on 2010 10 03 Retrieved April 18 2012 Street Porter Janet 2018 04 06 It s about time we recognised that nature documentary makers regularly deceive us and we re partly to blame The Independent Archived from the original on 2022 06 18 Retrieved 2019 10 09 Sounds Natural 99 Invisible Retrieved 2019 10 09 Collins Karen April 2017 Calls of the wild Fake sound effects and cinematic realism in BBC David Attenborough nature documentaries The Soundtrack 10 1 59 77 doi 10 1386 ts 10 1 59 1 Using graphics when making wildlife films BBC 2016 04 29 Retrieved 2019 10 23 Dargis Manohla 2011 06 23 Turtle The Incredible Journey a Loggerhead Epic Review The New York Times ISSN 0362 4331 Retrieved 2019 10 23 Filming Wildlife Producers Discuss the Challenges PBS 2007 12 11 Retrieved 2019 10 09 a b Lopez German 2017 04 29 The tricks that nature documentaries use to keep you watching Vox Retrieved 2019 10 09 Norcross Desli 2019 02 28 Wildlife Documentaries What Happens to the Limping Gazelle Nature Ethics Archived from the original on 2020 08 04 Retrieved 2019 10 09 Rustin Susanna 2011 10 21 David Attenborough I m an essential evil The Guardian ISSN 0261 3077 Retrieved 2020 04 19 People who accuse us of putting in too much violence should see what we leave on the cutting room floor Pearce David The Post Darwinian Transition The Animal Rights Library Retrieved 2019 10 09 Information on King of the Jungle series Archived 2008 09 17 at the Wayback Machine Tv com 2005 07 14 Retrieved on 2012 09 05 Official show page for Ocean Mysteries Archived 2014 01 29 at the Wayback Machine Georgiaaquarium org 2011 08 31 Retrieved on 2012 09 05 editor Graham Ruddick Media 2018 01 11 BBC follows Blue Planet II 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