This review of “Becoming Cousteau” was first published on Sept. 2 after the film’s premier at the Telluride Film Festival. “We must go and see for ourselves,” Jacques Cousteau declared about the ...

National Geographic Documentary films are set to begin streaming the critically acclaimed film Becoming Cousteau next week on Disney+, as shown in a new trailer. The documentary from Academy Award ...

Liz Garbus' documentary chronicles the life and career of the filmmaker-explorer who introduced millions to the teeming life beneath the sea. By Frank Scheck In the opening minutes of Liz Garbus’ new ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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“We must go and see for ourselves,” Jacques Cousteau declared about the mysteries of the sea. But for those who weren’t so lucky, his oceanographic films were the next best thing. This is also true of ...

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 ...