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A Plastic Ocean

  • 20162016
  • 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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      • Craig Leeson(attached)
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      • 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
    • environmentalism
    • ocean
    • plastic soup
    • capitalism
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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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    8/10
    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.
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    • Release date
      • April 19, 2017 (Netherlands)
    • Countries of origin
      • United Kingdom
      • Hong Kong
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      • Official site
      • Official site (Japan)
    • 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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      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Stereo
    • Aspect ratio
      • 16:9 HD

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