#nature docs

[janedoemayb]

I need a cozy night in. Does any body have a rec for a nature documentary that they enjoyed lately? Any subject is cool.

[kraffff]

Gonna start some discourse in the nature documentary community but no more non-native speakers for nature docs please. Tired of hearing white people try to pronounce words they have no business pronouncing. Yes I am including david attenborough. he has a nice voice but I'm just saying he can use it to narrate whatever animals live in england idc

[theobligatedklutz]

ITS EARTH DAY TODAY!!!!!

It's Earth Day every day, fam.

I repeat, Earth Day every fking day. Take care of the damn beauty we were gifted with before we lose it.

[ourplanetnetflix]

Our Planet | Official Trailer

The new nature series, reminding us that we're all on one team. #OurPlanet, narrated by Sir David Attenborough, explores stunning, never-before-seen habitats. Coming globally to Netflix on April 5.

[awesomlyautistic]

BBC Nature Docs: *Informative, accurate and are works of art in their own right*

US Nature Docs: "Check out this badass creature kill it's prey, so grusome awesomeness!"

[everydayanth]

Netflix's 'Our Planet' Wants to Inspire Change on a Global Scale

Here's a sneak peak at the new Sir David Attenborough show.

For whatever reason, I was very suddenly and voraciously obsessed with the history of Naturalists. They were not included as a primary aspect of my linear-progression STEM focused education, and I found so many familiar names and ideas suddenly surrounded with context. 

So I’ve been trying to dive in all the way, because it’s so easy to raise a historic figure, particularly a champion of nature, on a pedestal these days, so many biographies are written with love and care and focus on beauty, dismissing the colonialism and classism and racism that funded these expeditions, sometimes displaying them as noteworthy qualities of success. 

In order to balance that human bias, I’ve also been consuming documentaries about the planet, literature and media concerned with local conservation efforts, finding the people who are still Naturalists, you get the idea. Our Planet has been on my list for a while because people keep talking about it being different, focused on the actual human-impact, uncomfortably real, and I think I’m going to round out this obsession by watching it and I’ll get back to you when I do. 

But so far, what are your opinions? How do you consume nature docs or literature focused on the human-nature interaction? I’ve always been one for a good disaster film, The Perfect Storm, The Wave, I like the man vs. nature plot because I think it is universal, and also I just love big storms, I always have. There’s something about them that validates an existential crisis, reminding us we’re only human on days where it feels like every aspect of our life is controlled and structured, nature comes in and reminds us to pause, breathe, try to find a synthesis. 

Anyway, what are your thoughts on nature-literature and media? ^-^

[dino-squad-lover-01]

I’ve been watching round planet and it stirs up memories of middle school. Whenever we would watch animal docs I always cheered for the predator. Some of those kids thought I was a monster.

[the-behaviorist]

Nature docs be like

<b>David Attenborough:</b><i> Look at this adorable family of otters! Look how cute they are when they play together!</i>

<b>David Attenborough:</b><i> Now watch as one of them is MAULED to death by a crocodile.