Jacques-Yves Cousteau

Known for ActingBorn 1910-06-11Died 1997-06-25Saint-André-de-Cubzac, Gironde, France

Jacques-Yves Cousteau, AC (11 June 1910 – 25 June 1997) was a French naval officer, oceanographer, scientist, inventor, filmmaker, photographer, innovator, conservationist, author, and researcher who studied the sea and all forms of life in water. He co-invented the first successful open-circuit self-contained underwater breathing apparatus, ("SCUBA"), called the Aqua-Lung, which assisted him in producing some of the first underwater documentaries. He also pioneered marine conservation and was a member of the Académie française. From 1966 to 1976, he hosted The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau, a documentary television series, presented on American commercial television stations. A second documentary series, The Cousteau Odyssey, ran from 1977 to 1982 on public television stations. In his first book, The Silent World: A Story of Undersea Discovery and Adventure, he surmised the existence of the echolocation abilities of porpoises. The book was adapted into an underwater documentary called The Silent World. Co-directed by Cousteau and Louis Malle, it was one of the first films to use underwater cinematography to document the ocean depths in color. The film won the 1956 Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival and remained the only documentary to do so until 2004 (when Fahrenheit 9/11 received the award). It was also awarded the Academy Award for Best Documentary in 1957. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaRead more

Movies & web series

Square Roots: The Story of SpongeBob SquarePants

St. Lawrence: Stairway to the Sea

Cries from the Deep

Station 307

Danger Under the Sea

Jacques Cousteau: The First 75 Years

Midi Première

Bambi

Titanic's Lost Sister

Shipwrecks

At a Depth of Eighteen Meters

Apostrophes

The Jacques Cousteau Odyssey

30 Years of National Geographic Specials

The Cousteau Collection N°21-1 | A Reluctant Ally: The Mississippi (Part 1)

Le Grand Échiquier

The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau

The Cousteau Collection N°34-1 | The Legend of Lake Titicaca

Numéro un

Becoming Cousteau

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

The Golden Fish

Was bin ich?

Voyage to the Edge of the World

The Cousteau Odyssey: The Nile Part 1

The Cousteau Collection N°5-1 | Life Under an Ocean of Ice

Champs-Elysées

The Dick Cavett Show

Paysages du silence

The Cousteau Collection N°42-1 | Desert Diamonds: South Africa (Part 1)

Vetenskapens värld

The Cousteau Collection N°18-1 | Fleeing Shadows: Indians of the Amazon

World Without Sun

The Merv Griffin Show

Shipwrecked on a Great Lake

The Silent World

Lake Baikal: Pearl of Siberia

The Cousteau Collection N°2-1 | The Song of the Dolphins

The Cousteau Collection N°14-1 | Australia: The People of Water and Fire

The Cousteau Collection N°44-1 | Australia: Treasures of the Sea

Jacques Cousteau: Rediscover the World | New Zealand, Tahiti, Cuba, & Cape Horn

The Cousteau Collection N°20-1 | Alcyone: Daughter of the Wind

The Cousteau Collection N°36-1 | Clipperton: Island of Solitude

The Cousteau Collection N°23-1 | The Easter Island Testament

The Cousteau Collection N°4-2 | The Flight of the Penguin

The Cousteau Collection N°9-2 | Morse's Smile

Midi trente

The Cousteau Collection N°43-1 | Sunken Caverns