Film · France

The Silent World

Name: The Silent World
Genre: Hydropunk
Released: 1956

Jacques Cousteau and Louis Malle1956

Hydropunk

The deep

A documentary aboard the Calypso and one of the first films to show the depths in colour. Reality rather than fiction, but it gave the genre its colour palette and its aqualung divers.

Close in spirit

20,000 Leagues Under the SeaFilm · 1954 · Essential
Amphibian ManFilm · 1962 · Essential
City Under the SeaFilm · 1965
Mysterious IslandFilm · 1961
The AbyssFilm · 1989 · Essential
The Beast from 20,000 FathomsFilm · 1953
The Drowned WorldBook · 1962 · Essential
Voyage to the Bottom of the SeaFilm · 1961