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Movies Like A Beautiful Planet

If you liked A Beautiful Planet (2016), a documentary movie directed by Toni Myers, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.

  1. 1Space Station 3D

    Space Station 3D (2002)

    ★ 6.5/10Also documentary

    Some 220 miles above Earth lies the International Space Station, a one-of-a-kind outer space laboratory that 16 nations came together to build. Get a behind-the-scenes look at the making of this extraordinary structure…

  2. 2Unknown: Cosmic Time Machine

    Unknown: Cosmic Time Machine (2023)

    ★ 7.4/10Also documentary

    The James Webb Telescope stirs imaginations with vivid photos of distant galaxies. This documentary tracks its historic journey from inception to launch.

  3. 3IMAX Hubble

    IMAX Hubble (2010)

    ★ 7.1/10Also documentary

    An IMAX 3D camera chronicles the effort of 7 astronauts aboard the Space Shuttle Atlantis to repair the Hubble Space Telescope.

  4. 4Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds

    Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds (2020)

    ★ 6.5/10Also documentary

    This remarkable journey across our planet and universe explores how meteorites, shooting stars, and deep impacts have awoken our wonder about other realms—and make us rethink our destinies.

  5. 5An Inconvenient Truth

    An Inconvenient Truth (2006)

    ★ 6.9/10Also documentary

    A documentary on Al Gore's campaign to make the issue of global warming a recognized problem worldwide.

  6. 6Chasing Coral

    Chasing Coral (2017)

    ★ 7.7/10Also documentary

    Coral reefs are the nursery for all life in the oceans, a remarkable ecosystem that sustains us. Yet with carbon emissions warming the seas, a phenomenon called "coral bleaching" -- a sign of mass coral death -- has…

  7. 7Elstree 1976

    Elstree 1976 (2015)

    ★ 6.2/10Also documentary

    A documentary about ten very different lives connected by having appeared onscreen wearing masks or helmets in Star Wars.

  8. 8Earth: One Amazing Day

    Earth: One Amazing Day (2017)

    ★ 7.7/10Also documentary

    An astonishing journey revealing the awesome power of the natural world. Over the course of one single day, we track the sun from the highest mountains to the remotest islands to exotic jungles.

  9. 9Ocean with David Attenborough

    Ocean with David Attenborough (2025)

    ★ 8.1/10Also documentary

    David Attenborough takes viewers on a breathtaking journey showing there is nowhere more vital for our survival, more full of life, wonder, or surprise, than the ocean. Through spectacular sequences featuring coral…

  10. 10Billie Eilish - Hit Me Hard and Soft: The Tour (Live in 3D)

    Billie Eilish - Hit Me Hard and Soft: The Tour (Live in 3D) (2026)

    ★ 8.4/10Also documentary

    Captured during Billie Eilish's sold-out world tour, a concert experience from one of the most celebrated and successful artists of her generation, presented in immersive 3D.

  11. 11The Year Earth Changed

    The Year Earth Changed (2021)

    ★ 7.9/10Also documentary

    Never-before-seen footage shows how our living in lockdown opened the door for nature to bounce back and thrive. Across the seas, skies, and lands, Earth found its rhythm when we came to a stop.

  12. 12All the Empty Rooms

    All the Empty Rooms (2025)

    ★ 7.2/10Also documentary

    A journalist and a photographer set out to memorialize the bedrooms left behind by children killed in school shootings.

  13. 13The Captains

    The Captains (2011)

    ★ 6.4/10Also documentary

    The Captains is a feature-length documentary film written and directed by William Shatner. The film follows Shatner as he interviews the other actors who have portrayed starship captains in the Star Trek franchise.

  14. 14Shark Whisperer

    Shark Whisperer (2025)

    ★ 6.7/10Also documentary

    Marine conservationist and social media activist Ocean Ramsey fearlessly swims with sharks in this documentary about her risky mission to protect them.

  15. 15Ghosts of the Abyss

    Ghosts of the Abyss (2003)

    ★ 6.8/10Also documentary

    With a team of the world's foremost historic and marine experts as well as friend Bill Paxton, James Cameron embarks on an unscripted adventure back to the wreck of the Titanic where nearly 1,500 souls lost their lives…

  16. 16Naqoyqatsi

    Naqoyqatsi (2002)

    ★ 6.2/10Also documentary

    A visual montage portrait of our contemporary world dominated by globalized technology and violence.

  17. 1714 Peaks: Nothing Is Impossible

    14 Peaks: Nothing Is Impossible (2021)

    ★ 7.3/10Also documentary

    In 2019, Nepalese mountain climber Nirmal “Nims” Purja set out to do the unthinkable by climbing the world’s fourteen highest summits in less than seven months. (The previous record was eight years). He called the…

  18. 18National Geographic: Journey to the Edge of the Universe

    National Geographic: Journey to the Edge of the Universe (2008)

    ★ 7.8/10Also documentary

    In one single, epic camera move we journey from Earth's surface to the outermost reaches of the universe on a grand tour of the cosmos, to explore newborn stars, distant planets, black holes and beyond.

  19. 19Obi-Wan Kenobi: A Jedi's Return

    Obi-Wan Kenobi: A Jedi's Return (2022)

    ★ 6.8/10Also documentary

    This special explores the return of Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker to the screen, as well as Ewan McGregor and Hayden Christensen to their classic roles. Director Deborah Chow leads the cast and crew as they…

  20. 20Oasis: Don't Look Back in Anger

    Oasis: Don't Look Back in Anger (2026)

    ★ 6.9/10Also documentary

    Experience the meteoric rise of Oasis through rare footage and untold stories as the band reunites for Oasis Live '25, chronicling their journey from Manchester streets to global rock stardom.

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