Egypt X Diving
A library of the films that show diving at its best, and at its most frightening — from Whalefall to the classics — with a short note on each.
A survival thriller based on Daniel Kraus's novel: a diver searching for his father's remains off California is swallowed by a sperm whale, with one hour of air left to find a way out.
More about this title ↗Based on a true story: a saturation diver's umbilical is severed in the North Sea and his team races to save him before his air runs out. A 2019 documentary and a 2025 feature film tell it.
More about this title ↗A documentary about freedivers Alessia Zecchini and Stephen Keenan, and the 2017 dive at the Blue Hole in Dahab, Egypt, where Keenan, working as a safety diver, went to her rescue.
More about this title ↗Ron Howard's retelling of the 2018 Tham Luang cave rescue in Thailand, and the volunteer cave divers who brought twelve boys and their coach out alive.
More about this title ↗A documentary about a filmmaker who spends a year visiting a wild octopus in a South African kelp forest, and the unusual bond that grows between them. Winner of the Oscar for Best Documentary.
More about this title ↗A time-lapse documentary team races to film a coral reef bleaching event as it happens, showing how warming seas are killing reefs around the world.
More about this title ↗A cave-diving expedition is trapped underground by a storm and must find a way out through unexplored flooded passages. Co-produced by James Cameron.
More about this title ↗Rob Stewart's documentary follows his campaign against shark finning and makes the case for seeing sharks as animals to protect, not to fear.
More about this title ↗Two divers are accidentally left behind by their dive boat in open sea. A low-budget thriller inspired by a real case, still a classic lesson in head counts and dive-boat safety.
More about this title ↗James Cameron's sci-fi adventure: an oil-rig diving crew is sent to a sunken submarine and meets something unknown at the bottom of the ocean. Famous for its real underwater filming.
More about this title ↗Luc Besson's cult drama about two rival freedivers, loosely inspired by Jacques Mayol and Enzo Maiorca, and the pull of the deep. The film that made freediving famous.
More about this title ↗Jacques Cousteau and Louis Malle's classic, among the first colour films shot underwater, following the Calypso crew on expeditions that included the Red Sea. Palme d'Or and Oscar winner.
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