Deep Blue is a major documentary feature film shot by the BBC Natural History Unit. An epic cinematic rollercoaster ride for all ages, Deep Blue uses amazing footage to tell us the story of our oceans and the life they support.
Cinematography
Five years of footage, zero CGI, pure obsession.
Score
George Fenton makes plankton feel like opera.
Production
BBC spent fortunes so a crab could be iconic.
Director
Andy Byatt
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The crew invented new camera housings to film at crushing depths where no human had previously recorded. The pressure at those depths would implode a submarine.
Released the same year as Finding Nemo, this was the adult counterprogramming—same ocean, zero jokes, maximum existential dread about our dying seas.
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