11 Best Nature Documentaries on Netflix Streaming

4. Human Planet

Site Score: 6, IMDb Score 10; Overall Score: 16 points
Directed by N/A
Year: 2011

Each of the 8 episodes of Human Planet illustrates how humans have adapted to different parts of our planet, with wildly varying climate and wildlife. Each of the habitats depicted in the series (oceans, deserts, Arctic, jungles, mountains, grasslands, rivers and finally cities) required a different skillset in order to be inhabited by humans. Some of the activities presented in the show include whale hunting in Indonesia, dolphin assisted fishing in Brazil, moisture farming in the Atacama Desert, hunting narwhals in Greenland, hunting tarantulas in Venezuela, transporting timber using Asian elephants in India, hunting with golden eagles in Mongolia, stealing food from a lion pride in Kenya, fishing on the edge of Victoria Falls and many more. The final episode deals with humans living in cities and their more unusual activities, like beekeeping in New York City. Human Planet won 2 BAFTA awards in 2011.