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Best Wildlife Films 2006
Award Winners of Wildscreen 2006
- Life in the Undergrowth (Best of Show, Best Script & Best Animal Behavior)
- Bearing Witness (Campaign award) [VIEW ONLINE]
- Lost in the Woods: The Movie (Children's Choice award)
- Planet Earth: From Pole to Pole (Best Cinematography)
- Global Dimming (Earth Sciences Award)
- From Orphan to King (Editing)
- The Wild and the West (Innovation)
- Deep Sea 3D (Large format award)
- Mississippi: Tales f the Last River Rat (Music award) [View Trailer]
- Exhuming Adams (Newcomer)
- Bonobo - Missing in Action (One Planet Award)
- Deep Jungle (Popular Broadcast)
- Europe: A Natural History (Best Series)
- Relentless Enemies: Lions and Buffalo (Best Sound) [View Trailer]
- Cherub of the Mist (Developing countries award)
Classic films every wildlife filmmaker should see (and some aren't even wildlife films)
- Nanook of the North, (Robert Flaherty, 1922) [On YouTube]
- Chang, A Drama of the Wilderness, Merian Cooper and Ernest Schoesdsack, 1927
- Simba, Martin and Osa Johnson, 1928
- The Man With a Movie Camera (USSR, Dziga Vertov, 1929) [Google Video]
- L’Age D’Or (Luis Bunuel and Salvador Dali, 1930) [ON YOUTUBE!]
- Land Without Bread (Luis Bunuel, 1932)
Triumph of the Will (Leni Riefenstahl, 1935) [Google Video]
Night Mail (Harry Watt and Basil Wright, 1936)
The River (Pare Lorentz, 1937)
Olympia (Leni Riefenstahl, 1938) [Google Video] - The Four Hundred Million (Joris Ivens and John Ferno, 1939)
The Social Behavior of the Laughing Gull, Gladwyn Kingsley Noble, 1940 - Bambi, Walt Disney, 1942
- Why We Fight: Prelude to War (Frank Capra, 1942) [Google Video]
- Social Behavior of Rhesus Monkeys, C. R. Carpenter, 1947
- Blood of the Beasts (Georges Franju, 1949)
- Beaver Valley, Walt Disney, 1949
- Various films, Jean Painlevé [On YouTube]
- Watch Mr. Wizard (“The H-Bomb,” 1955)
- Night and Fog (Alain Resnais, 1955)
- Salt of the Earth (Herbert Biberman, 1954)
- Les Maitres Fous (Jean Rouch, 1955) [GoogleVideo]
- The Silent World (Jacques-Yves Cousteau, 1956) [Making of on Google Video]
- Letter From Siberia (Chris Marker, 1957)
- Chronicle of a Summer, (Jean Rouch, 1960) [Google Video]
- Harvest of Shame (Fred W. Friendly, 1960)
- Don’t Look Back (D.A. Pennebaker, 1960)
- Primary (Robert Drew, 1960)
- Wavelength (Michael Snow, 1967)
- The Battle of Algiers (Gillo Pontecorvo, 1966)
- The Year of the Pig (Emile de Antonio, 1968)
- Sweet Sweetback’s Baaddasssss Song (Melvin Van Peebles, 1971)
- Primate (Frederick Wiseman, 1974)
- Hearts and Minds (Peter Davis, 1974)
- Harlan County, U.S.A. (Barbara Kopple, 1976)
- Connections (Mick Jackson, 1979)
- Cosmos (Adrian Malone, 1980)
- Gates of Heaven (Errol Morris, 1980)
- This is Spinal Tap (Rob Reiner, 1984)
- Shoah (Claude Lanzmann, 1985)
- Sherman’s March (Ross McElwee, 1986)
- Thin Blue Line (Errol Morris, 1988)
- Creature Comforts (Aardman Animations, 1989) [Google Video] [YouTube]
- Tongues Untied (Marlon Riggs, 1989)
- Surname Viet, Given Name Nam, (Trinh Minh-ha, 1989)
- In Search of the Edge (Scott Barrie,1990)
- Brother’s Keeper (Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky, 1992)
- Zoo (Frederick Wiseman, 1993)
- Silverlake Life: The View from Here (Peter Friedan and Tom Joslin, 1993)
- Hoop Dreams (Steve James, 1994)
- Death by Design, Peter Friedman and Jean-Francois Brunet, 1996
- Survivors of the Holocaust (Allan Holzman, 1996)
- Winged Migration, Jacques Perrin, 2001
- An Injury to One (Travis Wilkerson, 2002)
- 9/11 (James Hanlon, Rob Klug, Gideon Naudet, Jules Naudet, 2002)
- The Elephant, the Emperor, and the Butterfly Tree, Alastair MacEwen and Sean Morris, 2003
- Ghost of the Abyss (James Cameron, 2003) [View Trailer]
- Dragons’ World: A Fantasy Made Real (Justin Hardy, 2004) [View Trailer]
- The Story of the Weeping Camel, Byambasuren Dayaa and Luigi Falorni, 2004
- March of the Penguins, Luc Jacquet, 2005
- Grizzly Man, Werner Herzog, 2005 [TRAILER]
- No Direction Home (Martin Scorsese, 2005)
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