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About The Greenland Shark: The Search For A 400-Year-Old Monster | Natural Kingdom

Featuring exclusive footage of a species never before filmed in the wild, Searching For A Monster chronicles an incredible four-year scientific quest to find and explore one of nature's most reclusive, little-known creatures; the Greenland Shark. The Greenland Shark: Searching For A 400-Year-Old Monster | Natural Kingdom | Real Wild Content licensed by TVF International to Little Dot Studios.

The Greenland Shark: The Search For A 400-Year-Old Monster | Natural Kingdom is presented by Real Wild. Its listed runtime is 45 minutes. The source link and publisher attribution are provided with the embedded film.

As a society documentary, The Greenland Shark: The Search For A 400-Year-Old Monster | Natural Kingdom uses greenland, shark, search as its central frame. Social documentaries work best as invitations to examine systems through lived experience. Distinguish individual testimony from wider claims, and consider which institutions, incentives and inequalities shape the choices shown.

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The Greenland Shark: The Search For A 400-Year-Old Monster | Natural Kingdom
Category
Society
Runtime
45 minutes
Language
English
Publisher
Real Wild

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