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The Last Lions
Really Great 66 Points 2011

Perhaps the most incredible nature documentary ever, The Last Lions features individualized lions and buffaloes engaged in an intricate plot worthy of scripted drama. It also provides unprecedented intimacy with the King of Beasts, making it breathtaking entertainment and potent political motiv…

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WikChip Video Chills from this awesome documentary.
Secret Yosemite
Very Good 66 Points 2007

Yosemite lovers will find this brief NatGeo documentary a spectacular bit of uplifting TV, especially when streamed onto an HD big screen. A touch preachy perhaps, yet its vistas trump all.

Amongst the highlights: shots up Little Yosemite Valley as monumental lightning bolts strike Nevada F…

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WikChip Image Moon over Half Dome: Superlative
Prehistoric Pre...
Good 66 Points 2007

Cmon, what boy hasn’t hankered after the sabertoothed tiger? This brief NatGeo documentary scratches that itch.

It turns out that hundreds of these top predators got inadvertently preserved in Los Angeles’ La Brea tar pits, yielding skeletons that provide insight into their unique hunting sty…

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WikChip Image Holy cow: Sabertooth bite test experi...
Oceans
Great 66 Points 2010

Spectacular ocean creatures jump, school, dive, and crash in new and surprisingly intimate ways in this engaging documentary. Just when you thought that decades of Discovery Channel and Jacques Cousteau have delivered every which way to bring our spectacular oceans to the screen, the images and …

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Mongol
Perfect 83 Points 2007

Perfect from the first frame, this fascinating historical epic succeeds as enchanting love story, enthralling war movie and breathtaking nature film. Recounting the life of Temudgin from his noble boyhood to his emergence as Genghis Khan, Mongol puts to shame most action movies, with their con…

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WikChip Image Mongol Empire
Chimpanzee
Great 83 Points 2012

Youth is wasted on the young – the saying goes. The same can be said about Chimpanzee. Not that children won’t appreciate it. They’ll love it. It’s just that grownups will appreciate it more, though how many adults without kids in tow deign to see “family” nature documentaries?

Dramatic …

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WikChip Video A Sweet Taste from the Trailer
Big Miracle
None Yet 0 Points 2012
African Cats
Good 66 Points 2011

Billed as a warm and fuzzy Disney Nature adventure, African Cats instead is a hair-raising, heartrending drama. It profiles two families, a cheetah and her cubs, and a lioness and her cub, each of which is in mortal danger for nearly the entire movie.

There’s nothing necessarily wrong with …

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WikChip Video Be warned: Tougher than usual Disney ...
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