Dynamic Watchlist Hub: Apr 12, 2026

10 Best Movies Like Awesome Planet

If you loved Awesome Planet, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Capturing Avatar

Capturing Avatar

2010★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Awesome Planet for fans of Documentary. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

Capturing Avatar is a feature length behind-the-scenes documentary about the making of Avatar. It uses footage from the film's development, as well as stock footage from as far bac...

#2
Koyaanisqatsi

Koyaanisqatsi

1983★ 7.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Awesome Planet for fans of Documentary. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

Takes us to locations all around the US and shows us the heavy toll that modern technology is having on humans and the earth. The visual tone poem contains neither dialogue nor a v...

#3
Mountain

Mountain

2017★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Awesome Planet for fans of Documentary. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

An epic cinematic and musical collaboration between SHERPA filmmaker Jennifer Peedom and the Australian Chamber Orchestra, that explores humankind's fascination with high places....

#4
The Year Earth Changed

The Year Earth Changed

2021★ 7.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Awesome Planet for fans of Documentary. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

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 c...

#5
Naqoyqatsi

Naqoyqatsi

2002★ 6.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Awesome Planet for fans of Documentary. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

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

#6
Samsara

Samsara

2011★ 8.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Awesome Planet for fans of Documentary. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

Filmed over nearly five years in twenty-five countries on five continents, and shot on seventy-millimetre film, Samsara transports us to the varied worlds of sacred grounds, disast...

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