Idaho the Movie

The Wandering Camera: The Best Travel & Nature Docs, Movies & Series

Nature and travel documentaries have been a staple of cinema since the beginning of the audiovisual medium. In the late XIX and early XX century, traveling was expensive and time-consuming - certainly more than in our age of cut-rate economy airlines. Most people would never have the resources to take on such an adventure, so they traveled vicariously through art: literature, photography, and eventually, film and video. They could give you the illusion of knowing places you would never set foot on.