1993 Directed by Adrian Warren
A breathtaking adventure across five continents and through time to reveal nature's most vital secret. Watch a flying fox gorge itself on a midnight snack of figs. Climb into the prickly jaws of insect-eating plants. Witness a mantis disguised as a flower petal lure its prey to doom.
IMAX THE SECRET LIFE ON EARTH
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A bunch of old IMAX documentaries used to be on Hulu, but this colorful concoction was the only one left, and now it's gone away, too. Presented by South Korea's Ssangyong Corporation (now GS Group), Adrian Warren's film is impressively photographed albeit a bit unfocused, as it begins examining plant life, then branches out to explore symbiosis with the insect and animal kingdoms, before encouraging viewers to do their part in protecting them. Although the environmentalist message is as blunt as a contemporary Captain Planet episode, it's wholly appropriate in this context, and it's served with less doom n' gloom than in more artful pieces like Koyaanisqatsi or Baraka. If I remember correctly, 1990s audiences could view The Secret of…
there’s something kind of nice about a mid doc that my 7th grade alcoholic science teacher would have put on instead of teaching
life is so cool, but humans really had to go n fuck up the balance. Comsumerism sucks; let’s try and rebuild our evolutionarily well-rooted symbiotic relationships with this wild earth. Pretty film.
