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      Galapagos

      1999 40m Documentary List
      100% 10 Reviews Tomatometer 82% 1,000+ Ratings Audience Score Part adventure, part scientific expedition, part personal quest, and part fantastic voyage, this unprecedented non-fiction film takes audiences on a journey with marine biologist Dr. Carole Baldwin, from the Smithsonian Institutions Museum of Natural History, on her first trips to the famed Galpagos Islands. Read More Read Less

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      Omar R Es geniaaal, que bueno que hagan estos proyectos con lo mejor del Ecuador. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 04/22/23 Full Review Audience Member I busted the Galapagos a few years ago on a diving expedition. It's an awesome experience. The currents can be swift so always use caution and stay with your buddy. Wolf & Darwin Islands are the two best places to dive! We went to the Darwin Museum and saw Lonesome George before he passed away. Please support their work. I enjoyed the movie and hope you will too! Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/02/23 Full Review Audience Member Took me a while to finish this one. Started in months ago and forgot it had a total of three parts. While this was beneficial for me because quite redundant in parts (so it helped refresh my memory of what I saw before), I think if this were viewed in one sitting it could be overly-long because of the re-iteration. I didn't care for the narration (would have liked David Attenborough). The cinematography is top-notch, and there is so much more I wanted to see. I learned so much that I didn't know before beyond the finches and tortoises that I usually associate with the islands. Did you know they have penguins there? Sea lions that eat water lizards? It just seems like such a wonderful place that I want to visit. But the end showed that 30,000 people live there now and have introduced an abundance of flora and fauna to the place, thus displacing those that have been there for eons. Makes me mad. Should stay pristine - at least somewhere should! On par with Planet Earth, Winged Migration, Microcosmos, Life in the Undergrowth, March of the Penguins, and Animals are Beautiful People for my favorite nature-oriented documentaries. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/02/23 Full Review Audience Member A great way to test out your HD home theatre. Fascinating topic, beautiful cinematography. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/18/23 Full Review Audience Member Interesting, but often carries on and on about one thing. Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 02/22/23 Full Review Audience Member A BBC produced nature documentary shot in HD, consider me sold. While it certainly doesn't hold a candle to the epic Planet Earth, it's still a fairly interesting and visually pleasing doc. P.S. Darwin! Whoo! Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/26/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Louise Kennedy Boston Globe A few magnificent moments underwater can make it all seem worthwhile. Rated: 2.5/4 Nov 12, 2004 Full Review Mick LaSalle San Francisco Chronicle A film worth seeing. Rated: 3/4 Oct 27, 2001 Full Review A.O. Scott New York Times It's hard to resist the lumbering Galpagos tortoise, the skittering bright-orange crabs or the legions of proud black marine iguanas that sun themselves en masse on outcroppings of petrified lava. Rated: 3/5 Apr 24, 2001 Full Review Jim Lane Sacramento News & Review Rated: 4/5 Aug 7, 2008 Full Review Brian J. Arthurs Beach Reporter (Southern California) Rated: 3/5 Oct 4, 2002 Full Review Christine James Boxoffice Magazine The film is intellectually intriguing and visually exciting, but literally and figuratively only occasionally plumbs the depths of its subject. Rated: 2.5/5 Jun 25, 2002 Full Review Read all reviews

      Movie Info

      Synopsis Part adventure, part scientific expedition, part personal quest, and part fantastic voyage, this unprecedented non-fiction film takes audiences on a journey with marine biologist Dr. Carole Baldwin, from the Smithsonian Institutions Museum of Natural History, on her first trips to the famed Galpagos Islands.
      Director
      David Clark, Al Giddings
      Producer
      Barry Clark, Andrew Gellis, Peter Guber, Laurence P. O'Reilly
      Screenwriter
      David Clark, Barry Clark
      Production Co
      National Science Foundation, IMAX Corporation, Mandalay Media Arts, Smithsonian Institution
      Genre
      Documentary
      Original Language
      English
      Release Date (Streaming)
      Jun 11, 2020
      Box Office (Gross USA)
      $18.6M
      Runtime
      40m