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Documentaries like Home

Not everyone loves Home for the same reason. Pick the one that was yours, and the picks follow.

The 3 reasons people love Home

Read them all. One will sound more like you than the others.

  1. You want ninety minutes of images you could never see from the ground.

  2. You like deltas, ice fields and herds filmed from a helicopter.

  3. You like being made to feel small by the scale of a landscape.

Picks that share your reasons

Which reasons were yours?

Tick them here or with “That’s me” above. The picks re-sort by how many of your reasons they share.

  • Our Planet2019

    • ninety minutes of images you could never see from the ground
    • deltas, ice fields and herds filmed from a helicopter
    • being made to feel small by the scale of a landscape

    Good for you if you like animals in their habitats, from forests to the deep sea.

  • David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet2020

    • ninety minutes of images you could never see from the ground
    • deltas, ice fields and herds filmed from a helicopter

    Good for you if you like reefs, orangutans and the Serengeti filmed up close.

  • My Octopus Teacher2020

    • deltas, ice fields and herds filmed from a helicopter
    • being made to feel small by the scale of a landscape

    Good for you if you like cold water, kelp and the life hidden in it.

  • Welcome to Earth2021

    • deltas, ice fields and herds filmed from a helicopter
    • being made to feel small by the scale of a landscape

    Good for you if you like discovering the planet with someone who is amazed by it.

  • Blue Planet II2017

    • ninety minutes of images you could never see from the ground
    • deltas, ice fields and herds filmed from a helicopter
    • being made to feel small by the scale of a landscape

    Good for you if you like ocean life, from coral reefs to the deep sea.

  • March of the Penguins2005

    • deltas, ice fields and herds filmed from a helicopter
    • being made to feel small by the scale of a landscape

    Good for you if you like Antarctica, its cold and its silence.

  • Before the Flood2016

    • deltas, ice fields and herds filmed from a helicopter

    Good for you if you care about forests, ice and endangered species.

  • Koyaanisqatsi1983

    • ninety minutes of images you could never see from the ground
    • deltas, ice fields and herds filmed from a helicopter

    Good for you if you can watch landscapes and crowds in time-lapse for an hour and a half.

  • Seaspiracy2021

    • deltas, ice fields and herds filmed from a helicopter

    Good for you if you care what happens to the ocean and what lives in it.

  • Cosmos2014

    • being made to feel small by the scale of a landscape

    Good for you if you like feeling small in front of billions of years and galaxies.

  • Planet Earth II2016

    • ninety minutes of images you could never see from the ground
    • deltas, ice fields and herds filmed from a helicopter

    Good for you if you like seeing how animals live in every kind of habitat, even cities.

  • An Inconvenient Truth2006

    • deltas, ice fields and herds filmed from a helicopter

    Good for you if you care about glaciers, oceans and the climate.

Reasons taken from Home's card. Picks from the Ipsomap catalogue. This application uses TMDB and the TMDB APIs but is not endorsed, certified, or otherwise approved by TMDB.

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