So we surveyed the eight-member Times TV team about individual picks for the best TV shows on Netflix and compiled the results into this master list. Still, a 75-item unranked list is no fun - and perhaps not terribly helpful if you too need help sorting through all the streamer has to offer. Who’s to say this anime is better than that sitcom, or that melodrama is better than this docuseries? Even if you start off by eliminating nontheatrical (formerly “made-for-TV”) movies, one-off comedy specials and others that could reasonably exist under the TV show umbrella, you’re left with an almost impossible array of options.

Adoring fans address her as “Her Deepness”, in honor of her incredible life dedicated to ocean exploration.There’s no way to select just 75 TV shows from a catalog as large as Netflix’s without making someone mad. Since 1998, she has been a National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence. She was also the first female Chief Scientist of NOAA. She has logged thousands of hours underwater, scuba diving as well as descending to shocking depths in submersibles. Earl has lived a fascinating life, breaking through the glass ceiling all her life: studying marine algae for her doctorate, working as a researcher at the California Academy of Sciences, UC Berkeley, and Harvard, living underwater as the lead aquanaut in TEKTITE II in the Caribbean, working as a biologist on multiple research cruises, and co-founding a company that built some of the most innovative submersibles. Earl’s childhood home on the Gulf Coast, to a lifetime of dedicated work on waters around the globe.

Inspirational and moving, it takes viewers on a journey from Dr. This excellent documentary outlines the life and work of one of the best oceanographers and marine biologists on the planet – Dr. Here are some of the best, most beautiful, and most moving ocean documentaries, all of which can be streamed directly from Netflix. Documentary film-making plays an incredibly important role in raising awareness to marine conservation, as well as inspiring viewers through its beauty to care. For many, the ocean is simply a far-away place and since so much of the action is below the surface – out of sight, out of mind.

Oceans are the largest habitat on our planet, and yet few people encounter or think about the ocean on a daily basis. Featured Image Credit: Mission Blue via Netflix

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