The Jacques Cousteau Odyssey includes all 12 episodes of the 1978 television series featuring the research adventures of Cousteau, a celebrated documentarian and public conscience of mankind's ...

Today, we associate Frenchman Jacques-Yves Cousteau with the ocean. If, however, you grew up in the 1970s as I did, the co-inventor of the aqualung, a pioneering nature filmmaker and environmentalist ...

For a while, French oceanographer Jacques-Yves Cousteau held the world’s rapt attention like a rock star. Brimming with Gallic charisma, he was the planet’s most famous seaman, easily identifiable by ...

Ever since "The Silent World" hit movie screens around the world in 1956, Jacques Cousteau (1910 – 1997) and his red cap have been synonymous with ocean exploration. Sailing around the world on his ...

Jacques Cousteau was a man ahead of his time in multiple respects, which provides the backbone of “Becoming Cousteau,” a documentary devoted to both the ocean explorer’s life and his early ...

Sailors tell tales of a magical world beneath the sea. Until Jacques-Yves Cousteau pioneered the aqualung, that world was barred to all but submariners and professional divers in clunky suits and ...

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Filmmaker Liz Garbus is nominated for an Emmy this year for directing an episode of the Hulu dystopian drama The Handmaid’s Tale, but she isn’t abandoning her work in documentary. Garbus’s latest ...

Jacques Cousteau was an adventurer, filmmaker, inventor, author, unlikely celebrity and conservationist. But for National Geographic’s “Becoming Cousteau,” director Liz Garbus focused on his legacy as ...

Liz Garbus's film reveals Jacques Cousteau becoming the deep-sea diver and filmmaker of legend, but it's most moving showing us the impassioned ahead-of-the-curve environmentalist he became.