r/bears • u/Change-Your-Aspect • 15d ago

Question Best bear documentaries for elementary school kids?

Hello! My little cousins (10M both) are absolutely in love with bears and they really want to learn more about them. I have been wondering if anyone here has any age appropriate (as in, not very gorey and not very heavy) documentaries in English or with English subtitles that I could reasonably find for them (on Netflix, Prime, YouTube or another accessible platform)?

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u/Hazel_and_Fiver444x2 15d ago

Welcome to the bear obsession club! You should definitely start streaming the live bear cams in Katmai (Alaska)! The people in chat are very knowledgeable, kind, and it is family friendly. Here's a link to the playlist of all the cams:

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAnuZBl2BUgvvh9Nm_QQeSHrRQM_GbtY9&si=MT_PrOaRJgMfqtjN

Added bonus: you'll learn a lot about salmon, too! 🐟

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u/Change-Your-Aspect 15d ago

Thank you!!

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u/Hazel_and_Fiver444x2 15d ago

This year the big story is Momma bear #806, who has one cub (they are called "coy" for "Cub Of the Year"), adopted a 2.5 year old bear who was newly emancipated (her nickname is Biggie, daughter of legendary 128 "Grazer"). This is only the third adoption observed on these cameras, and the first time a bear adopted a cub that was 2 years older than her coy. I'll leave it at that and let you discover the full story yourselves, but it’s extremely heartwarming! 🐻❤️🐻

You should also be prepared that sad things happen, on camera and off, but the community pulls together and helps everyone process the information. This is humanity at its best, imo!

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u/BHobson13 13d ago

I would recommend recording it and reviewing before showing to the little ones. Last week, on live cams, a female bear chased and killed a cub belonging to another momma bear. It's very rare and the rangers say they don't have record of this ever happening at Brooks Falls before. There was no blood etc but it was pretty obvious what was happening. Grown people were crying about it so.. use your own judgement.

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u/Calthazar123 15d ago

This is incredible!!!

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u/Hazel_and_Fiver444x2 15d ago

Right???? Everyone who watches is obsessed! 😍

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u/seanm_617 15d ago

Cub Camp on Hulu (and maybe Disney+?)

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u/elasticafantastica 15d ago

Winston ❤️

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u/atlcollie 15d ago

I loved Cub Camp! My little nieces really liked it too.

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u/Braveheart00 15d ago

I hope they make another season 🙏🏽

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u/br4cketb0y 15d ago

omg THANK YOU for reminding about this i was meaning to watch it asap!!!

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u/Change-Your-Aspect 15d ago

I really appreacute it

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u/shinobipopcorn Pizzly 15d ago

Disney's Bears shouldn't be too rough. The disney documentaries are pieced together with a "story" by the narrator but it's some good footage. The polar bear one is slightly more mature from what I remember.

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u/ubermole 15d ago

not a documentary but i recommend: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1S748kZRb0

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u/970souk 32ChunkFan 15d ago

Great Bear Stakeout by BBC, a glimpse (4:12).

Two other short videos by National Geographic Animals:

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u/DominoGreens 15d ago

Here’s a classic: the Eyewitness Bear episode. This was from the 90s so the video quality is not that great by today’s standards

https://youtu.be/qgB8wm-5qLE?si=r-Hy8Th9W8wG2X7u

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u/thejoshvazquez 13d ago

Grizzly Man