Oh I loved loved loved The Bear. I think the same director made another nature movie, too.
Jean-Jacques Annaud. He made
Quest for Fire.
Microcosmos
!
ETA: Annaud also made a movie called
Running Free.
In 1914, a German supply ship is en route to Africa with a cargo of work horses when one of the mares gives birth to a foal. The colt is soon separated from his mother when the ship docks in a mining community, and he has a hard time getting along, but an orphaned boy who works at a stable takes a liking to the little horse and looks after him. When war breaks out, the stable is abandoned and the pony escapes into a nearby desert, where an Oryx antelope and a native girl become his companions and teach him how to survive on his own.
I haven't seen MotP, but I'm thinking too cold a movie for the summer. Otherwise the one where we kill the earth and all the white Americans become illegal aliens in Mexico would be at the top of my list.
Ooh, Microcosmos is so awesome and pretty and fascinating. Must check out the other one.
Maybe if we showed it on a really hot night would be good.
March of the Penguins
is responsible for one of my favorite ads ever: [link]
What about Whale Rider or Fly Away Home?
megan, it was Running Free that I was thinking of.
Winged Migration?
as part of our education, we don't want to encourage any fantasy's of bonding with wild animals (this shit is tricky!). Grizzly Man is still my number 1!
Winged Migration looks cool.
Just refound Life in the Undergrowth, another fave along with Microcosmos.
Winged Migration
is by the same team as
Microcosmos.
French nature documentaries rule!
Sadly, like Phoenix, Daft Punk, or Air, no one knows they are French.
as part of our education, we don't want to encourage any fantasy's of bonding with wild animals
That makes sense. One of the reasons I like Fly Away Home so much is that in the end, those birds fly away.
