The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill (2004), River (2015), Dersu Uzala (1975), Into the Wild (2007), Rivers and Tides: Andy Goldsworthy With Time (2001), Red Desert (1964), The Wind Will Carry Us (1999), Never Cry Wolf (1983) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Man And Nature movies.
Storyline: A homeless musician's life is transformed after he discovers a flock of wild South American parrots living in San Francisco. How they got there is a mystery, but Mark Bittner forms a bond with the exotic birds through his music and his patient, attentive care. Over time he comes to appreciate their individual identities and makes a case for humans to reevaluate their relationship to animals. When he is forced to leave them, he despairs over the birds' fate.
Plot Keywords: documentary, nature, birds, san francisco, wildlife, environmental, human-animal bond ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In the south of Laos, an American volunteer doctor becomes a fugitive after he intervenes in the sexual assault of a young woman.
Plot Keywords: drama, adventure, nature, documentary, travel, environmental, river ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A Russian army explorer who is rescued in Siberia by a rugged Asian hunter renews his friendship with the woodsman years later when he returns as the head of a larger expedition. The hunter finds that all of his nature lore is of no help when he accompanies the explorer back to civilization.
Plot Keywords: adventure, survival, friendship, nature, siberia, hunter, wilderness ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Based on a true story. After graduating from Emory University, Christopher McCandless abandoned his possessions, gave his entire savings account to charity, and hitchhiked to Alaska to live in the wilderness. Along the way, Christopher encounters a series of characters who shape his life.
Plot Keywords: adventure, biography, drama, travel, survival, nature, freedom ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Portrait of Andy Goldsworthy, an artist whose specialty is ephemeral sculptures made from elements of nature.
Plot Keywords: documentary, art, nature, time, landscape, creative process, photography ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In a bleak rundown industrial area a young woman, Giuliana, tries to cope with life. She's married to Ugo the manager of a local plant but is soon having an affair with one of his co-workers, Corrado Zeller, who is visiting. Giuliana is unstable, not quite knowing anymore just what her role is, whether that be a wife, a mother or just another person. Her escape from life is short-lived however as Zeller is simply using her to satisfy his own needs and desires.—garykmcd
Plot Keywords: art film, existentialism, psychological drama, alienation, modernity, female protagonist, visual storytelling ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Irreverent city engineer Behzad comes to a rural village in Iran to keep vigil for a dying relative. In the meanwhile the film follows his efforts to fit in with the local community and how he changes his own attitudes as a result.
Plot Keywords: drama, rural life, existentialism, slow cinema, man and nature, cultural conflict, documentary style ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The researcher Tyler is assigned by his government to travel to the Arctic to study the wolves that they believe are responsible for the reduction of the caribou population. The reckless pilot Rosie takes him to the wilderness and he is left alone with his supply in an extremely cold spot. He is saved by the local Ootek that is traveling with his dog sledding. He builds a shelter for Tyler and organizes his supplies. Tyler finds two wolves that he calls George and Angeline and their three offspring and he examines his excrement to learn what they eat. Soon he discovers that the wolves eat only mice and Tyler decides to do the same to prove to the government that the wolves do not eat caribous. Ootek returns with his friend Mike that speaks English and translates what Ootek say. The trio stays together and Tyler learns that Mike is a hunter. Mike travels with Ootek by canoe to see a herd of caribou that is attacked by a pack of wolves. Tyler examines the bones and finds that the animal was diseased, proving that the wolves are responsible for keeping the caribou strong as told by Ootek. Tyler finds Rosie with two hunters planning to explore the area with tourism and Tyler has an argument with the pilot and returns to the camp. He finds the three offspring but the wolves are missing. Tyler initially suspects of Rosie but when he sees the nervous Mike, he finds that he killed the animals.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Plot Keywords: adventure, drama, nature, wildlife, survival, canada, arctic ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A boy befriends an orphaned water spirit, or Kappa, he found dried up and buried in a riverbank. He and his family help the creature adjust to life in the modern world.
Plot Keywords: animation, fantasy, family, adventure, comedy, friendship, japan ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A trio wanders the cliffs of an Outer Hebridean island and encounters a gravestone at the edge of a precipice; it reads, "Peter Manson ... gone over." One man in the trio knows the story of the gravestone and tells it to the others... It is ten years earlier, and the way of life on the island is dying; steam trawlers from the mainland threaten its survival as a fishing port. Peter Manson, one of the community's leaders, resists evacuating to the mainland, though his son Robbie is about to leave the island himself. Meanwhile, Robbie's twin sister plans to marry his best friend, Andrew Gray. Andrew and Robbie argue over evacuation and decide to settle the matter by racing to the top of a cliff. Ruth is terrified: she may lose them both. The race ends in tragedy, which tears apart the families of Manson and Gray. Times passes and Ruth reveals she is pregnant with an illegitimate child. This promises to bring the two families back together, but not before desperation hits the islanders. Evacuation is inevitable. And so is one last tragedy.—sspurli
Plot Keywords: adventure, drama, history, british film, black and white, 1930s, scotland ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Documentary that covers the famous and successful expedition of the Everest conquest by Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary, the first climbers to reach its peak.
Plot Keywords: documentary, expedition, history, himalayas, black and white, adventure, nature ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Herders guide an enormous flock of sheep to summer pastures on their final drive through the Beartooth Mountains.
Plot Keywords: documentary, usa, agriculture, montana, nature, landscape, tradition ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: George Adamson fights to save Kenya's wildlife. Together with his young assistant Tony Fitzjohn, he battles to keep the animals on his game reserve, and "Kora", from dangerous poachers.
Plot Keywords: adventure, biography, drama, wildlife, conservation, true story, africa ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Sixteen years after the release of the ground-breaking film Rivers and Tides - Andy Goldsworthy Working with Time director Thomas Riedelsheimer has returned to work with the artist. Leaning into the Wind - Andy Goldsworthy follows Andy on his exploration of the layers of his world and the impact of the years on himself and his art. As Goldsworthy introduces his own body into the work it becomes at the same time even more fragile and personal and also sterner and tougher, incorporating massive machinery and crews on his bigger projects. Riedelsheimer's exquisite film illuminates Goldsworthy's mind as it reveals his art.—Leslie Hills
Plot Keywords: documentary, art, nature, environment, creative process, artist, landscape ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Teenaged Mowgli, who was raised by wolves, appears in a village in India and is adopted by Messua. Mowgli learns human language and some human ways quickly, though keeping jungle ideas. Influential Merchant Buldeo is bigoted against 'beasts' including Mowgli; not so Buldeo's pretty daughter, whom Mowgli takes on a jungle tour where they find a treasure, setting the evil of human greed in motion.—Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>
Plot Keywords: animation, disney, classic, adventure, fantasy, family, children ...
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