Deep Blue

Deep Blue (2005)

  • 67% of critics liked it
    (52 reviews)

  • 75% of users liked it
    (4,477 ratings)

Alastair Fothergill's nature documentary Deep Blue consists of 90 minutes of footage of undersea creatures -- living, surviving, fighting, and dying. Similar to like-minded documentaries such as Winged Migration and MicroCosmos, Deep Blue features footage from locations throughout the world. The… More

G, 1 hr. 30 min.
Directed By
Andy Byatt, Alastair Fothergill
Written By
David Attenborough
Genres
Documentary, Special Interest
In Theaters
Jun 3, 2005 Wide
On DVD
Apr 11, 2006
Miramax Flims

Critic Reviews

  • Terry Lawson, Detroit Free Press

    Absorbing.

  • Nancy Churnin, Dallas Morning News

    A magnificent look at the teeming, wildly varied life in and around the ocean.

  • Eleanor Ringel Gillespie, Atlanta Journal-Constitution

    This is a nasty, nauseating, dispiriting movie and, to repeat, whatever you do, don't take the kids -- no matter what the G rating says.

  • Jonathan Holland, Variety

    This majestic film has all the hallmarks of Beeb quality workmanship.

  • Robert K. Elder, Chicago Tribune

    If nature films had genres, Deep Blue would be an action movie.

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  • Angela A


    This is one of those films you could have in the background all day every day. Gorgeous stuff.