Documentaries and Movies

In 1966, Jacques Cousteau produced an hour-long television special entitled "The World of Jacques-Yves Cousteau," Many of the critics who saw the show were in approval, and their approval lead to a contract between ABC and Cousteau to produce his most known television program, entitled “The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau, which aired in 1968. The show continued on for eight seasons, and featured Cousteau and a number of different sea creatures.

He is accredited with having written over 50 books, and been involved in at least 120 movies and documentaries combined. It is also important to note that Cousteau's films were more helpful not in simply illustrating the wonders of the sea, but in fact showing political figures how important it was to stand in defense of the environment, an idea at the time that was considered not to be a problem.