Attenborough's Ocean asks: What are we doing here?

Paul Kunert  |  Features  |  earth watch
Date posted:  3 Jul 2025
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Attenborough's Ocean asks: What are we doing here?

Promotional poster for David Attenborough's new documentary Ocean. Source: Disney+

Ocean. David Attenborough’s latest made-for-the-big-screen documentary. Perhaps you’ve seen it. If not, please do – I can’t recommend it highly enough.

Barrow-rolling seal, sun-dappled kelp forest, coral garden reef, phytoplankton and whale, the astonishing beauty of it all. You’ll experience joy, wonder, horror, anger, hope and much else besides, all in the space of 90 minutes. It’s impossible not to be stirred, maybe shaken. Available in cinemas and, by the time you’re reading this, on Disney+.

What is it in this film that stirs us so powerfully? Perhaps it’s that, like Psalm 104, we see the beauty of God’s creation and shout: “O LORD, how wonderful are your works! … the sea, great and wide, creeping things innumerable are there, living things both small and great.”

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