Ocean with David Attenborough

Attenborough makes an incredibly convincing argument that this is the only way forward.

A gorgeously-shot film that celebrates the unique beauty and diversity that comes from dipping our heads beneath the surface of the water -- while also addressing the state of the world’s seas. It’s dire.

Attenborough matches the natural world’s grandeur with his own intellectual and moral seriousness.

Age has done little to quell the [David Attenborough's] intellectual curiosity and childlike wonder for what he terms the “greatest age of ocean discovery”.Ardent lovers may well wish for someone to look at them the way Attenborough looks at giant kelp...

This cracking campaigning documentary makes a galvanising case for action – and without lobbing its audience overboard with an anchor weight of hopelessness yoked to their heels.

[The UN Ocean Conference's] aim is a bold one: to protect 30 per cent of the world’s coastal and marine areas by 2030. Attenborough’s new film is a passionate prayer that this will happen, even if he is unlikely to witness the end result.

Ocean is by turns awe-inspiring, informative, deeply angering and cautiously hopeful.

By turning a worrying collection of numbers and data into a story of context, conflict and solution, Attenborough and team have crafted a haunting but blisteringly powerful picture.

The message isn’t: “It’s never too late”, but “It’s almost too late.” We’re hanging on by our fingernails but can still haul ourselves out of danger if we abandon some of our most destructive and wasteful practices.

Unlike Netflix documentary Seaspiracy, this isn’t anti-fishing and it doesn’t lecture the audience.