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Hey there, fellow nature and animal lovers! If you’re anything like me, you’re always on the lookout for those captivating documentaries that let us dive into the incredible lives of creatures big and small.

Whether you’re fascinated by the elegance of a soaring eagle, the underwater antics of dolphins, or the heartwarming stories of animal families, there’s a documentary for you.

So, grab your popcorn, get comfy, and embark on a wild ride through some of the most mind-blowing and heart-tugging documentaries that celebrate the magnificent wonders of the animal kingdom!

1. Planet Earth II (2016)

As someone who’s always been captivated by the wonders of our planet, “Planet Earth II” is an absolute must-watch.

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The documentary series takes you on an awe-inspiring journey through various habitats, showcasing incredible animal behaviors and interactions.

The breathtaking visuals and Sir David Attenborough...

DreamWorks has acquired the rights to remake The Prey (aka La Proie), a French thriller that premiered in 2011 and received a limited U.S. release last June. The story follows a low-level crook who breaks out of jail three months before he is due for release to save his family from his serial-killer former cellmate. According to Deadline, La Proie co-writer Luc Bossi is on board to help develop the remake along with producers Charles S. Cohen (Frozen River) and Daniel Battsek (The Last Lions). I could picture Liam Neeson or Jason Statham in the lead role, but I wonder if DreamWorks---the studio that cast Aaron Paul in Need for Speed---will opt for a less obvious choice. Watch the English-language trailer for the French original after the jump. Official synopsis: Franck Adrien (Albert Dupontel), a bank robber convicted of a heist and sentenced to six months in prison, shares...

The simian star of new Disney film Chimpanzee is the latest animal to be portrayed as having human emotions. But does such anthropomorphism give a distorted view of nature?

You could say cinema and nature got off on the wrong foot, or paw, right from the start. In 1926, to much excitement, an adventurer named William Douglas Burden brought back two komodo dragons to New York's Bronx zoo – the first live specimens the western world had ever seen. Most of that excitement had been generated via a movie Burden had made depicting these semi-mythical reptiles in the Indonesian wild, voraciously devouring a wild boar. By comparison, the real, live komodo dragons were something of a disappointment. They just lay about lethargically in their cage, and died a few months later. It later transpired that Burden's film had been heavily edited and staged to amp up the drama. The dragons hadn't actually...

Release Date: Jan. 3, 2012

Price: DVD $19.99, Blu-ray $29.99

Studio: Virgil Films/National Geographic

Lioness Ma di Tau means business when it comes to her cubs in The Last Lions.

Filled with dazzling views of the African jungle and eye-opening adventure scenarios, The Last Lions is a documentary film that focuses on a proud lioness and her three cubs as they confront such formidable foes as crocodiles, a herd of buffaloes and a rival pride of big cats.

The 2011 movie was made by the South African husband-and-wife team Dereck and Beverly Joubert, veterans of wildlife moviemaking, and narrated by actor Jeremy Irons (The Mission).

The real-life saga of lioness Ma di Tau and her cubs unfolds inside the reality that lions are vanishing from the wild: In the last 50 years, lion populations have reportedly plummeted from 450,000 to as few as 20,000. With The Last Lions, the Jouberts offer a narrative story while posing the...

Weekend Box Office: February 18th through the 20th In a relatively quiet weekend for specialty debuts, its holdovers like “The King’s Speech” and “Black Swan” making all the news. Both passed the $100 million mark, but it’s “Speech” that overtook “Swan” on its way to $6.5 million in its 13th weekend. Amidst an overall decline at the box office, Tom Hooper’s drama experienced only a 9.9% decline despite withdrawing from 177 locations. “Swan” on the other hand was down to 656 theaters in its 12th weekend and only managed a $2,020 average as it continued its fall from the top. No one is happier than Darren Aronofsky, however, as “Swan” has still made more money than all his other films combined and garnered the auteur a Best Director nomination from the Academy. National Geographic is quickly becoming a doc distributor to be reckoned with after releasing “Restrepo” last year—which has since gained...

President's Day weekend saw Dereck Joubert nature doc "The Last Lions" as the top reporting specialty debut, according to estimates provided by Rentrak earlier today. On 4 screens, the National Geographic-distributed film, which follows a journey of a lioness as she battles to protect her cubs, grossed a promising $68,344 over the holiday weekend. That gave it a 4-day per-theater-average of $17,086. "We continue to feel very good about the ...

"The last lions" (documentary); directed by Derek and Beverly Joubert.

By Kevin Bowen - February 16, 2011

A review of the Oscar-nominated nature documentary “The Last Lions.”

Nice.

A review of the Oscar-nominated nature documentary “The Last Lions” from a screening interrupted halfway through by a fire alarm?

Geen-yus!

True, it’ might not be best to review a movie that you’ve only seen halfway. But that’s one of the beauties of nature. The plot is pretty straightforward, and there are not a whole lot of unforeseen plot twists. If you get confused, you have the soothing FM voice of Jeremy Irons to cover the lost ground.

The documentary, by South Africans Dereck and Beverly Joubert, lays down the “man encroaching upon natural habitat” card a little thick. Wild, evil lions, driven from their normal habitat, kill papa lion and drive our relatively friendly lioness out of her domain. She hustles...

Reviewed by Jay Antani

(February 2011)

Directed/Written by: Dereck Joubert

Narrator: Jeremy Irons

A quote from Dereck Joubert, the writer-director-cinematographer behind “The Last Lions,” crystallizes the moral ambivalence at the heart of his wildlife documentary: “Understanding more about the hunt and the kill as well as our own feelings about life and death is what this is about.” For all the hardships and hostility the film’s lioness-protagonist endures, we realize that her and her pride’s lives depend entirely on the success of the hunt. That is, the death of another animal. Without death, life is impossible.

Narrated masterfully by Jeremy Irons, the documentary is a saga of survival in a pitiless environment. After rival members of her tribe kill her mate, a resilient lioness named Ma di Tau escapes with her three cubs from hostile territory in Botswana’s Okavango wetlands. Facing death and danger every step of the way,...

Reviewed by Jay Antani

(February 2011)

Directed/Written by: Dereck Joubert

Narrator: Jeremy Irons

A quote from Dereck Joubert, the writer-director-cinematographer behind “The Last Lions,” crystallizes the moral ambivalence at the heart of his wildlife documentary: “Understanding more about the hunt and the kill as well as our own feelings about life and death is what this is about.” For all the hardships and hostility the film’s lioness-protagonist endures, we realize that her and her pride’s lives depend entirely on the success of the hunt. That is, the death of another animal. Without death, life is impossible.

Narrated masterfully by Jeremy Irons, the documentary is a saga of survival in a pitiless environment. After rival members of her tribe kill her mate, a resilient lioness named Ma di Tau escapes with her three cubs from hostile territory in Botswana’s Okavango wetlands. Facing death and danger every step of the way,...

Can a lion roar? Scientific evidence answer "yes." Can a lion feel pain, show love, fear, revenge, plan strategy of attack, or make decisions for the future? Looks that way. In the introduction to his book The Last Lions author Dereck Joubert, who directed this documentary, writes about lions: "We love them, we hate them, we admire them and perhaps we wish we were more like them." We found some answers to our questions after viewing "The Last Lions."...