My Octopus Teacher (2020) on Netflix
NR20201h 25mDocumentary
After years of daily swims in the cold ocean at Africa's tip, Craig Foster meets a curious young octopus. He follows her for months, and she gradually lets him into her world.
- Netflix4.4/5
- IMDb8.1/1072,645 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes95%
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Craig Foster free-dives daily in a cold underwater kelp forest near Simon's Town in False Bay, South Africa, a site exposed to the cold Benguela current. He documents his visits and meets a curious young common octopus that captures his attention. Over nearly a year, he follows her through the kelp, visiting her den and tracking her movements until she trusts him. She plays with Foster and allows him to watch how she sleeps, lives, and eats, while often defending herself from pyjama sharks in the same water.
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about My Octopus Teacher (2020)
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- My Octopus Teacher was the first South African nature documentary to become a Netflix Original, and Craig Foster had begun filming it years before it was finished.
- Some underwater footage that Craig Foster and cameraman Roger Horrocks shot at the kelp forest, but which was not used in My Octopus Teacher, had already appeared in Episode 5 of Blue Planet II in 2017.
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