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A Plastic Ocean

  • 20162016
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  • 1h 42m
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A Plastic Ocean (2016)
and a world record free-diver as they travel the earth discovering the shocking impact plastic is having on our oceans and the marine animals that live there. They investigate how our addiction to plastic is impacting the food chain and how that is effecting every one of us through new and developing human health problems. The expedition leads the two adventurers to unusual scientific discoveries, heart-breaking truths and important solutions to one of the biggest problems confronting mankind.
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Journalist Craig Leeson teams up with diver Tanya Streeter and an international team of scientists and researchers, and they travel to twenty locations around the world over the next four ye... Read allJournalist Craig Leeson teams up with diver Tanya Streeter and an international team of scientists and researchers, and they travel to twenty locations around the world over the next four years to explore the fragile state of our oceans.Journalist Craig Leeson teams up with diver Tanya Streeter and an international team of scientists and researchers, and they travel to twenty locations around the world over the next four years to explore the fragile state of our oceans.

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  • Director
    • Craig Leeson(attached)
  • Writers
    • Craig Leeson
    • Mindy Elliott(additional writing)
  • Stars
    • David Attenborough
    • Sylvia Earle
    • Ben Fogle
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  • Director
    • Craig Leeson(attached)
  • Writers
    • Craig Leeson
    • Mindy Elliott(additional writing)
  • Stars
    • David Attenborough
    • Sylvia Earle
    • Ben Fogle
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    • 14User reviews
    • 2Critic reviews
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    David Attenborough
    David Attenborough
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    Sylvia Earle
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    Jo Ruxton
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    • Director
      • Craig Leeson(attached)
    • Writers
      • Craig Leeson
      • Mindy Elliott(additional writing)
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    A Plastic Ocean begins when journalist Craig Leeson, searching for the elusive blue whale, discovers plastic waste in what should be pristine ocean. In this adventure documentary, Craig teams up with free diver Tanya Streeter and an international team of scientists and researchers, and they travel to twenty locations around the world over the next four years to explore the fragile state of our oceans, uncover alarming truths about plastic pollution, and reveal working solutions that can be put into immediate effect. —Anonymous
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      • We need a wave of change.
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      Dr. George Bittner: Over ninety percent of all plastics that don't have BPA nonetheless release chemicals having estrogenic activity.

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      Featured in Finding Story (2018)

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    7/10
    I don't have an agenda
    I mainly enjoyed the documentary, could be a bit more well produced though. It should be, in my opinion, more about the plastic in the ocean per se, the consequences, direct and indirect, the study cases (and there are thousands of those), as it was in the first part, and less about the human self-destruction with garbage (2nd part).

    All in all this documentary is a 50% of good scientific proof of the damage plastic is to our environment/our possible future, and 50% of opinion journalism. I don't dislike the opinions, but most are uninformed and there are some scientific errors here and there.

    Still I give it a positive review, as it can achieve its goal into showing people what our mindless action can do to the environment and, in the midle/long term, to us! I would recommend it, but be aware of some sensasionalistic opinions.
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    • Release date
      • April 19, 2017 (Netherlands)
    • Countries of origin
      • United Kingdom
      • Hong Kong
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    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Пластиковый океан
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      • $3,000,000 (estimated)
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      1 hour 42 minutes
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      • Stereo
    • Aspect ratio
      • 16:9 HD

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