A Plastic Ocean (2016)

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 ... See full summary »

Director:

Craig Leeson

Writers:

Craig Leeson, Mindy Elliott (additional writing)

Stars:

David Attenborough, Sylvia Earle, Ben Fogle

2 wins.

Cast

Credited cast:
David Attenborough	...	Himself - Special Contributor (as Sir David Attenborough)
Sylvia Earle	...	Herself - Special Contributor (as Dr. Sylvia Earle)
Ben Fogle	...	Himself - Royal Geographical Society
Craig Leeson	...	Himself
Barack Obama	...	Himself
Jo Ruxton	...	Herself - Marine Conservationist
Tanya Streeter	...	Herself
Ivan Varela	...	Doblaje al Español

Storyline

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.

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Taglines:

We need a wave of change.

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Genres:

Documentary

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Details

Country:

UK Hong Kong

Language:

English

Release Date:

19 April 2017 (Netherlands)

Also Known As:

A Plastic Ocean

Box Office

Budget:

$3,000,000 (estimated)

Company Credits

Technical Specs

Runtime:

102 min

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

16:9 HD

Did You Know?

Quotes

Dr. George Bittner: Over ninety percent of all plastics that don't have BPA nonetheless release chemicals having estrogenic activity.

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Connections

Featured in Finding Story (2018)

User Reviews

Should be mandatory viewing, not that it will make any difference in this corrupted world.

For the quality of the documentary it deserves a high rating. It's extremely well done, with tons of data that are easy to understand as it's all well explained. The documentary itself is not something that will cheer you up, quite the contrary, as we're all just witnessing how we slowly, if you can call slowly a century in earth's time, destroying our planet by poluting it like there is no tomorrow. Recycling is the only solution. Banishing plastic completely would be better but we all know that's just utopic as there is too much money involved. The negative reviewers on here just prove that stupidity is all around us and it's not going to get better as the population will reach 10 billion by 2050, and so tons and tons of more polution. Glad I have no children.