25 Beautiful Nature Documentaries to Watch for Earth Day

Abakcus team has curated check-list worthy documentaries that reach far beyond their educational purposes. We’ve put together a list of some of the best nature documentaries to watch on Earth Day. Go ahead and escape into the best nature documentaries, below.
Best Nature Documentaries to Watch on Earth Day

We live in a time when our beautiful planet is in much trouble, and with all that’s happening in the world, it’s more important than ever to learn how to take care of the environment. If you don’t believe me, you should check out these beautiful books from Penguin Classics Green Ideas series.

Why You Should Watch Nature Documentaries on the Earth Day?

A nature documentary can be a great way to connect with the world’s natural beauty and can often teach you things about the life around us that you didn’t know. Also, nature documentary films are a great way to learn how to take care of our planet from the comfort of our homes while learning something new.

If you didn’t already know, Earth Day is on April 22, 2022. You might wonder, “What can I do to celebrate Earth Day this year?” It is a special day when people gather to celebrate and care for our planet.

One way to celebrate Earth Day and learn something simultaneously is to watch documentaries. These 25 beautiful nature documentaries are a great way to celebrate Earth Day.

Chasing Coral

Coral reefs around the world are vanishing at an unprecedented rate. Divers, photographers and scientists set out on an ocean adventure to discover why the reefs are disappearing and to reveal the underwater mystery to the world....

The Hunt

Produced by the team that created BBC's "Planet Earth" series, "The Hunt" explores the relationship between predators and their prey. Sir David Attenborough narrates this documentary while the cameras follow the animals in their natural habitats. With a specific focus on strategy, the hunters are examined in detail -- from their use of the environment to their sharp instincts and physical prowess. On the other side of the fence are the hunted, which use their senses and defense tactics to...

Nature’s Most Amazing Events

Nature's Great Events is a wildlife documentary series made for BBC television. The series looks at how seasonal changes powered by the sun cause shifting weather patterns and ocean currents, which in turn create the conditions for some of the planet's most spectacular wildlife events. Each episode focuses on the challenges and opportunities these changes present to a few key species....

Blackfish

Blackfish is a 2013 American documentary film directed by Gabriela Cowperthwaite. It concerns Tilikum, an orca held by SeaWorld and the controversy over captive killer whales. The film premiered at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival on January 19, 2013, and was picked up by Magnolia Pictures and CNN Films for wider release. It was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Documentary....

Grizzly Man

Grizzly Man is a 2005 American documentary film by German director Werner Herzog. It chronicles the life and death of grizzly bear enthusiast Timothy Treadwell. The film includes some of Treadwell's own footage of his interactions with grizzly bears before 2003, and of interviews with people who knew or were involved with Treadwell, as well as professionals dealing with wild bears....

Winged Migration

This documentary presents an epic portrait of winter bird migration. Filmed on all seven continents over four years, the footage is brought together into one portrait of a journey that's uniformly arduous for all kinds of different birds. Rather than concentrating on statistics and facts, the film near-wordlessly portrays the sheer physical effort demanded of the birds on their disparate routes. Along the way, we see the many dangers they face, from man-made waste to a group of hungry crabs....

La marche de l’empereur

March of the Penguins (French La Marche de l'empereur) is a 2005 French feature-length nature documentary directed and co-written by Luc Jacquet and co-produced by Bonne Pioche and the National Geographic Society. The documentary depicts the yearly journey of the emperor penguins of Antarctica. In autumn, all the penguins of breeding age (five years old and over) leave the ocean, which is their normal habitat, to walk inland to their ancestral breeding grounds. There, the penguins participate in a courtship...
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