Becoming Cousteau (2021) on Netflix
PG-1320211h 34mAdventureBiographyDocumentary
Jacques-Yves Cousteau, inventor and filmmaker, explores beneath the ocean for more than four decades and becomes an unlikely celebrity. He sounds alarms about warming seas.
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- Netflix4.2/5
- IMDb7.1/101,741 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes98%
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Plot summary
Jacques-Yves Cousteau spends more than forty years taking cameras and gear of his own invention below the surface of the ocean, and the films that come out of those years make him a celebrity. The documentary gathers restored archive material from those decades to trace his working life, the voyages he made and the standing he gained. Where he first went looking for the unknown, he comes to argue for the sea itself, warning about warming water and the fragility of the planet while a growing audience follows him. He keeps making that case for years, and people who grew up watching him carry it onward.
Cast
- Francine Cousteauas Self (voice) (archive audio)
- Pierre-Yves Cousteauas Self (archive footage)
- John Sohas Self
- Jacques Renoiras Self
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Becoming Cousteau (2021)
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- Liz Garbus spent five years working with The Cousteau Society to gain access to unseen footage for the documentary.
