Underwater Movies

A short film by Encyclopedia Pictura.

Val Sebald is an author who comes to the Island to retreat from life and land. There he lives among the islanders and his favorite women, the...

Forrest Galante explores stunning kelp forests and ocean depths never seen by humans to study the unusual sharks around the tip of South Africa.

Bejeweled Fishes captures the spectacular beauty of the myriad fishes inhabiting coral reefs of the Tropical and Eastern Pacific. This Wild Window...

The Hawai'ian Islands are ground zero for the aquarium trade who capture and traffic reef fish for hobbyists’ tanks, decimating the reef, ocean...

This unusual film, narrated by Orson Welles, records the day-by-day events in the lives of six oceanauts who, in an unique experiment, spent 27 days...

During the Exodus, one of the most famous miracles of the Old Testament took place. More than 3000 years have passed since Moses led two million...

Arktis is a poetic approach to the bizarre landscape of ice, rock, and water; a journey to the arctic ocean and surroundings, with images and sounds....

The Last Turtle documents the work of the Dominica Sea Turtle Conservation Organisation (DomSeTCO). Illegal poaching, plastic pollution and climate...

A man gasps for breath until there is none left.

On life in the death of empire; what remains of a place that once was.

A committed synchronized swimmer tries to win the championship and the heart of the coach.

A brief glimpse of Manhattan's skin. Music by Michael Gordon.

Tiny and fragile, they wander in immensity, drifting with currents. Their migrations are accidental, their deployments are spectacular. Shaped like...

A kappa village is devastated by a large storm during festival preparations. With no fish in the river, the village is weakened. Kawatarou and his...

The sharks are the predators of the seas, they are ruthless, bloodthirsty and they do not stop at anyone, not even humans! But is that really true?...

An homage to the weird and wonderful world of B-movies, this short fauxdocumentary by film artist Chris Gerrard splices together classic clips with...

The tiny firefly couldn't find its place in the deep sea until it found itself among others like it — glowing plankton particles.

A newly discovered mega-hunt is happening off the coast of South Africa. In an epic annual spectacle in False Bay, a pod of cunning killer whales...