The Dragons of Galapagos (1998)

Directed by

David Parer

Genre

documentary

Country

Australia

Runtime

55 min

Rating

7.2 of 10 from 5 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A wildlife documentary that follows a filmmaker couple living on a remote Galapagos island for two years to record the animals and their behavior. The film shows life on the islands through close observation of creatures like the marine iguanas and giant tortoises.

observationalimmersivepeacefulintimatepatientawe-inspiringmethodical

What happens

The Dragons of Galapagos is a 1998 wildlife documentary film created by David Parer and Elizabeth Parer-Cook. It looks at the life on the Galapagos Islands. The couple spend two years living in a tent on the island of Fernandina to record the animals, with Parer working the camera and Parer-Cook recording the sound. It was produced by the BBC, National Geographic and the ABC and was narrated by David Attenborough. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

More like this

• Galapagos: Beyond Darwin (1996)
• Australia: Land of Parrots (2008)
• Wildest Australia (1996)
• Edge of The Deep (1959)
• Platypus - World's Strangest Animal (2003)
• Birds of the Gods
• Sea Lions of the Galapagos (2025)
• Proč vyhynula velká australská zvířata