From the Emmy-winning team behind Netflix’s ‘Our Great National Parks,’ former US president Barack Obama returns to narrate a five-part nature documentary series on the beauty of the oceans, ‘Our Oceans.’ The documentary highlights the unique characters of the creatures within the five majestic oceans, from playful and cunning to resilient and mysterious.
Release Date
‘Our Oceans’ premieres on Netflix on November 20, 2024.
Synopsis
Our planet’s five oceans are driven by a single, all-powerful engine: the “Global Ocean Current”, a thousand-year phenomenon that links their diverse ecosystems into one giant lifeforce, fueling existence as we know it. From the tiny, tenacious cuttlefish to the gracefully enormous blue whale, every ocean-dwelling creature relies on that current to provide the resources they require to survive. A lonely puffin awaiting his mate in the North Atlantic is linked to the bioluminescent spectaculars off Southern California; bottlenose dolphins in the Indian Ocean frolic in the same waters as polar bear cubs in the Arctic. As the current flows past clownfish circling colorful coral reefs in the Western Pacific to the frigid Antarctic ice floes of chinstrap penguins and crabeater seals, it carries with it valuable nutrients, newborn life, man-made dangers, and hope for the future.
Narrated by President Barack Obama, this five-part documentary from Freeborne Media – the Emmy Award-winning team behind Our Great National Parks – takes viewers on a 75,000-mile cruise across and beneath the oceans as they are today, giving us unprecedented access to some of the most unexplored realms of our planet. Using cutting-edge scientific research and newly-developed underwater filmmaking technology, the series overflows with stunning action sequences, eye-popping drone footage, intimate seabed closeups, and countless never-before-seen animal behaviors: Sea bream playing tennis? Humpback whales staging heists? An octopus packing heat? It’s a literal deep dive into the emotional, relatable lives of the most magical, resourceful, and resilient creatures on Earth, as they face new challenges and develop astounding skills made necessary by the changing waters around them. Our Oceans invites us to care about these plucky heroes, with whom we’ve got a surprising amount in common – and not a moment too soon, as their fates are inextricably linked with our own.
Official Trailer
Watch the official trailer for ‘Our Oceans.’