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Summary
Co-founder of Greenpeace and founder of Sea Shepherd, Captain Watson is part pirate, part philosopher in this provocative documentary about a man who will stop at nothing to protect what lies beneath.
Good for
- Date night
- Friends night
- Teens
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At a glance
Critics vs audiences
Critics like it more than audiences (+17)
Critics 100Audiences 83GoodWatch 82
Tomatometer100%
Audience score94%
IMDb8.2
Letterboxd · 240 ratings3.6/5
Running time
1 h 39 min
A typical length for documentaries
typical 9699Half of all documentaries run 89–107 min.
Reach
Streams in 3 countries, rent or buy in 25 more
Released
2019
November 8, 2019
7 years ago
Genre
DocumentaryLanguage
English
Original language
Made in
- United States
Directing · 1
- Lesley Chilcott Director, Producer
Production · 10
- Diane Weyermann Executive Producer
- Elise Pearlstein Executive Producer
- Dinah Czezik-Müller Executive Producer
- Walter Köhler Executive Producer
- Jeff Skoll Executive Producer
- Wolfgang Knöpfler Producer
Camera · 1
- Logan Schneider Director of Photography
Editing · 1
- Greg Finton Editor
Sound · 5
- Christophe Beck Original Music Composer
- Diego Gaeta Sound Editor
- Frank Gaeta Sound Re-Recording Mixer
- Erick Vargas Sound Mixer
- James Castro Sound Mixer
Art · 1
- Heidi Adams Production Design
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