Nature Documentary Series and Movies You Must Watch Right Now: Here is the List

Nature documentaries have been one of the significant milestones in the film industry in recent decades when it comes to showing the origin and beauty of Mother Earth.

Both nature documentary series and movies are known for highlighting the current issues that our environment is facing, including the struggle of animals and the threats the planet is experiencing, including climate change and global warming.

In relation to conventional films and television shows which storyline are mostly based on fiction, documentaries in the same industry offers facts through documented reports of an event, issue, individual, group, or other topics that exist in the real world.

Documentaries can cover subjects both in the present and past, as long as they provide relevance and depth.

Nature Documentary Series and Movies

Rotten Tomatoes, an American review-aggregation website for film and television, listed multiple incredible nature documentary series and movies, which spans from David Attenborough's every awesome narration about nature and wildlife to Leonardo DiCaprio's adventure to unravel illegal wildlife trafficking.

Below are some of the site's recommended documentary shows and films about nature than can be streamed in the website or app of their own original production company.

David Attenborough: A Life On Our Planet

This documentary released in 2020 can be streamed on Netflix where Attenborough visited all continents across the globe, exploring wild places and giving importance to the natural world.

However, the British natural historian emphasized on the dangers caused by human activities to nature.

The Ivory Game

Another Netflix documentary that aired in 2016, A-List actor Leonardo Di Caprio went undercover to investigate the world of both illegal and legal ivory trade and sheds light about the horrific reality of elephant tusk poaching.

The "Ivory Game" condemns international ivory trade to prevent the extinction of elephants.

Planet Earth

This 2006 TV miniseries of production company Discovery Channel, as well as by the BBC Studios Natural History Unit and NHK, talks about the wildlife on Earth, with each episode takes its viewers to different natural habitats like: deserts, deep oceans, forest caves, fresh water, jungles, mountains, polar regions, and plains.

The documentary series was also narrated by Attenborough.

Chasing Ice

This 2012 documentary movie involves National Geographic photographer James Balog who revealed years of climate change through the years using time-lapse cameras.

The documentary was made possible by film and impact production company Exposure Labs.

Blackfish

This powerful, daring 2013 documentary story of the tragic life of the performing orca named Tilikum gave acknowledgement to the intelligence of killer whales, as well as their life-draining journey while in captivity inside Sea World.

Rotten Tomatoes critics rated "Blackfish" by Magnolia Pictures 98%, commending the struggle of performance killer whales in their hazardous and unnatural lifetime of captivity.

The nature documentary was reportedly powerful it forced the amusement park to make several changes, according to Rotten Tomatoes.