Title: Underwater Wonders of the National Parks
Year: 2016
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA
Viewing method: Whole series
Why in Database: A short, 7-episode series about underwater wonders in national parks – turtles are in the fifth episode, “Buck Island”. It is a short segment, three stages of turtle life are shown, eggs, hatching and running towards the water, and an adult individual.
Author: XYuriTT
Title: Life on Earth
Year: 1979
Narration David Attenborough
Genre: Documentary
Country: UK
Viewing method: Whole series
Why in Database: A thirteen-episode nature series narrated by David Attenborough. The turtle elements only appear in two episodes, but mostly in episode seven, “Victors of the Dry Land” where there is a really big chunk about the largest of the tortoises. Besides that, in the last episode, the thirteenth, “The Compulsive Communicators” there are two or three short pieces about turtles – first something turtle-like is visible when aboriginal drawings are shown, then a short scene with a tramping turtle, and finally when the printing press and the newspaper composition process are briefly shown, it can be seen that an element of the shown page will be a photo with turtles.
Author: XYuriTT
Title: The Private Life of Plants
Year: 1995
Narration: David Attenborough
Genre: Documentary
Country: UK
Viewing method: Whole series
Why in Database: A six-episode series about the life of flowers. In the second episode, titled “growing”, one of the tiny fragments is about turtles, you can also see a turtle on the screen for a while.
Author: XYuriTT
Title: Terra Mater
Year: 2011-ongoing
Genre: Documentary
Country: Austria
Viewing method: Selected episodes
Why in Database: A multi-episode Austrian Documentary series, in which we only describe episodes 18 and 19 of the sixth series, that is “Galapagos – Die Macht des Meeres” (Galapagos – In the Grip of the Ocean) and “Galapagos – Gefangen im Paradies” (Galapagos – Trapped in Paradise), which as titles points out, are about the Galapagos, so there are many turtle scenes in both episodes. Within the series itself, there are certainly more episodes to which you should pay attention from a turtle’s point of view, and we will definitely come back to this topic.
Author: XYuriTT
Title: Wonders of the Universe
Year: 2011
Narration: Brian Cox
Narrator: Steven Mackintosh
Genre: Documentary
Country: UK
Viewing method: Whole series
Why in Database: A four-episode series led by Brian Cox. In the first episode (“Destiny”) there is fragment about sea turtles, which are shown.
Author: XYuriTT
Title: Animal Crime Scene
Year: 2005
Narration: David Attenborough
Genre: Documentary
Country: UK
Viewing method: Whole series
Why in Database: A five-episode series in the atmosphere known to people watching series from the CSI family – there is a body (of an animal) and the causes of its death are examined to determine the most likely scenario. The educational value of the program results from showing how different threats await specific animals, for some people the fact that dead animals can be seen may be a downside. The second episode, “Ocean Assassin“, is entirely devoted to the case of a dead sea turtle found on the beach – so of course a huge number of turtle scenes appear.
Author: XYuriTT
Title: Ocean Parks
Year: 2016
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA
Viewing method: Whole series
Why in Database: A five-episode series about ocean national parks, one per episode. Such places, being peculiar sanctuaries for ocean life, are of course visited by sea turtles, so they can be seen in three episodes: 01 – Bonaire National Marine Park, 02 – Florida Keys NationalMarine Sanctuary and 04 – Mesoamerican Reef.
Author: XYuriTT
Title: The Trials of Life
Year: October-December 1990
Prowadzenie i Narration David Attenborough
Genre: Documentary
Country: UK
Viewing method: Whole series
Why in Database: A twelve-episode series about the lives of various animals (and the differences in they approach to many things), from birth/hatching, growing up, getting food, shelter, fighting, and finally finding a mate and extending species. Turtle themes appear in three episodes: 5 – Finding the Way, 7 – Living Together and 12 – Continuing the Line.
Author: XYuriTT
Title: Quest under Capricorn
Year: 1963
Narration: David Attenborough
Genre: Documentary
Country: UK
Viewing method: Whole series
Why in Database: A six-episode series about Australia. According to Wikipedia, it is part of the Zoo Quest series, according to IMDB, part of the Adventure series, due to these discrepancies, at the moment we describe it as an independent entity. Turtles appear in two episodes – in the fourth (The Artists of Arnhem Land) in the form of an old painting and in the sixth (The First Australians), where it is shown how the natives catch a sea turtle (for obvious purpose …)
Author: XYuriTT
Title: Galapagos
Year: March-April 2017
Narration: Liz Bonnin
Genre: Documentary
Country: UK
Viewing method: Whole series
Why in Database:A three-episode series about the Galapagos, so tortoises could not be missing. They appear in all episodes, although in the second one, only symbolically. They have the most time for themselves in the third.
Episode Titles:
01 – Cauldron of Life
02 – Secrets of the Deep
03 – Future Frontiers
Author: XYuriTT
