An Icon Goes From Explorer to Environmentalist in “Becoming Cousteau” (Review)
There was a time in the not-so-distant past where it seemed like the entire world was transfixed by French explorer and captain, Jacques Cousteau.
Sailing on his ship Calypso, Cousteau and his team became famous with a network series called "The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau" that ran for a decade (and was followed by a public television series for many years after as well).
Director Liz Garbus ("What Happened, Miss Simone?") takes us back to his earliest days that turned him into the tireless environmentalist that he became.
After running out of funds for his research vessel, he took money from oil companies to dive for them. I was blown away to learn that his team discovered all of the oil underwater off the coast of Abu Dhabi while working for BP in the early 1950s and ...