Wildlife Films and Videos
- Best Wildlife Films of 2006
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- List of films every wildlife filmmaker should see
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Best Wildlife Films 2006
Award Winners of Wildscreen 2006
- Life in the Undergrowth (Best of Show, Best Script & Best Animal Behavior)
- Bearing Witness (Campaign award) [VIEW ONLINE]
- Lost in the Woods: The Movie (Children's Choice award)
- Planet Earth: From Pole to Pole (Best Cinematography)
- Global Dimming (Earth Sciences Award)
- From Orphan to King (Editing)
- The Wild and the West (Innovation)
- Deep Sea 3D (Large format award)
- Mississippi: Tales f the Last River Rat (Music award) [View Trailer]
- Exhuming Adams (Newcomer)
- Bonobo - Missing in Action (One Planet Award)
- Deep Jungle (Popular Broadcast)
- Europe: A Natural History (Best Series)
- Relentless Enemies: Lions and Buffalo (Best Sound) [View Trailer]
- Cherub of the Mist (Developing countries award)
Classic films every wildlife filmmaker should see (some are not actually wildlife films)
Nanook of the North, (Robert Flaherty, 1922) [On YouTube]
Chang, A Drama of the Wilderness, Merian Cooper and Ernest Schoesdsack, 1927
Simba, Martin and Osa Johnson, 1928
The Man With a Movie Camera (USSR, Dziga Vertov, 1929) [Google Video]
L’Age D’Or (Luis Bunuel and Salvador Dali, 1930) [ON YOUTUBE!]
Land Without Bread (Luis Bunuel, 1932)
Triumph of the Will (Leni Riefenstahl, 1935) [Google Video]
Night Mail (Harry Watt and Basil Wright, 1936)
The River (Pare Lorentz, 1937)
Olympia (Leni Riefenstahl, 1938) [Google Video]
The Four Hundred Million (Joris Ivens and John Ferno, 1939)
The Social Behavior of the Laughing Gull, Gladwyn Kingsley Noble, 1940
Bambi, Walt Disney, 1942
Why We Fight: Prelude to War (Frank Capra, 1942) [Google Video]
Social Behavior of Rhesus Monkeys, C. R. Carpenter, 1947
Blood of the Beasts (Georges Franju, 1949)
Beaver Valley, Walt Disney, 1949
Various films, Jean Painlevé [On YouTube]
Watch Mr. Wizard (“The H-Bomb,” 1955)
Night and Fog (Alain Resnais, 1955)
Salt of the Earth (Herbert Biberman, 1954)
Les Maitres Fous (Jean Rouch, 1955) [GoogleVideo]
The Silent World (Jacques-Yves Cousteau, 1956) [Making of on Google Video]
Letter From Siberia (Chris Marker, 1957)
Chronicle of a Summer, (Jean Rouch, 1960) [Google Video]
Harvest of Shame (Fred W. Friendly, 1960)
Don’t Look Back (D.A. Pennebaker, 1960)
Primary (Robert Drew, 1960)
Wavelength (Michael Snow, 1967)
The Battle of Algiers (Gillo Pontecorvo, 1966)
The Year of the Pig (Emile de Antonio, 1968)
Sweet Sweetback’s Baaddasssss Song (Melvin Van Peebles, 1971)
Primate (Frederick Wiseman, 1974)
Hearts and Minds (Peter Davis, 1974)
Harlan County, U.S.A. (Barbara Kopple, 1976)
Connections (Mick Jackson, 1979)
Cosmos (Adrian Malone, 1980)
Gates of Heaven (Errol Morris, 1980)
This is Spinal Tap (Rob Reiner, 1984)
Shoah (Claude Lanzmann, 1985)
Sherman’s March (Ross McElwee, 1986)
Thin Blue Line (Errol Morris, 1988)
Creature Comforts (Aardman Animations, 1989) [Google Video] [YouTube]
Tongues Untied (Marlon Riggs, 1989)
Surname Viet, Given Name Nam, (Trinh Minh-ha, 1989)
In Search of the Edge (Scott Barrie,1990)
Brother’s Keeper (Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky, 1992)
Zoo (Frederick Wiseman, 1993)
Silverlake Life: The View from Here (Peter Friedan and Tom Joslin, 1993)
Hoop Dreams (Steve James, 1994)
Death by Design, Peter Friedman and Jean-Francois Brunet, 1996
Survivors of the Holocaust (Allan Holzman, 1996)
Winged Migration, Jacques Perrin, 2001
An Injury to One (Travis Wilkerson, 2002)
9/11 (James Hanlon, Rob Klug, Gideon Naudet, Jules Naudet, 2002)
The Elephant, the Emperor, and the Butterfly Tree, Alastair MacEwen and Sean Morris, 2003
Ghost of the Abyss (James Cameron, 2003) [View Trailer]
Dragons’ World: A Fantasy Made Real (Justin Hardy, 2004) [View Trailer]
The Story of the Weeping Camel, Byambasuren Dayaa and Luigi Falorni, 2004
March of the Penguins, Luc Jacquet, 2005
Grizzly Man, Werner Herzog, 2005 [TRAILER]
No Direction Home (Martin Scorsese, 2005)
