World Ocean Day is celebrated on June 8 each year to protect, conserve, and honour our Oceans.
On this occasion, let’s dive into the ocean full of entertainment with movies based on Ocean themes. Let’s start!
Life Of Pi (2012): An Oscar-winning adventure, fantasy movie directed by Ang Lee starring Suraj Sharma and Irrfan Khan among others, tells the story of a young man who survived a sea disaster in the Pacific Ocean, trapped with a Bengal tiger in a small lifeboat.
Planet Ocean (2012): Explore the breathtaking world of the ocean with a team of international underwater cinematographers as they unravel the planet’s greatest mysteries, in this documentary movie directed by Yann Arthus-Bertrand and Michael Pitiot.
Dolphin Man (2017): Directed by Lefteris Charitos, this documentary movie narrates the world of French free diver Jacques Mayol, capturing his transformative free-diving experience while providing an immersive depth into the aquatic world.
Captain Phillips (2013): A 6-time Oscar-nominated movie directed by Paul Greengrass and starring Tom Hanks, it follows the true story of the American cargo ship hijacked in 2009 by Somali pirates.
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003): 2-time Oscar-winning action-adventure movie, directed by Peter Weir, follows a brash British captain who pushes his ship and crew to their limit while pursuing a formidable French war vessel around South America, during the Napoleonic Wars.
Titanic (1997): Bagging 11 Oscars, this epic romance drama movie is directed by James Cameron and stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet, featuring a love story between a seventeen-year-old aristocrat and a kind yet poor artist aboard the luxurious and ill-fated R.M.S. Titanic.
Open Water (2003): An adventure horror movie directed by Chris Kentis is based on the true story of two scuba drivers who were accidentally left behind in a shark-infested water after their tour boat left.
The Perfect Storm (2000): A 2-time Oscar-nominated action adventure movie directed by Wolfgang Petersen, tells the story of an unusually intense storm capturing some commercial fishermen in the sea and putting them in mortal danger.
The Abyss (1989): An Oscar-winning adventure mystery movie directed by James Cameron and starring Ed Harris, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, and Michael Biehn, follows a civilian diving team searching for a lost nuclear submarine and their encounter with an alien aquatic species.