Robert Nixon
Directing
Known For

This documentary follows oceanographer Sylvia Earle's campaign to save the world's oceans from threats such as overfishing and toxic waste.
Mission Blue

Follow ocean legend Sylvia Earle, renowned underwater National Geographic photographer Brian Skerry, writer Max Kennedy and their crew of teenage aquanauts on a year-long quest to deploy science and photography to inspire President Obama to establish new Blue Parks to protect essential habitats across an unseen American Wilderness.
Sea of Hope: America's Underwater Treasures
We have volunteered for the Earth Conservation Corps to restore the Anacostia river and the Washington wasteland where we live and often meet an early violent death. We are striving to return our nation's bird,the bald eagle, to our Nation's Capitol. If the eagles survive maybe we can too. We began filming this documentary in 1992 to show people our America. "Endangered Species" is our story. - Written by Antoine Woods
Endangered Species

Oscar nominated short film from 1989. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2012.
Amazon Diary
A fifteen-year old fisherman joins legendary conservationist Dr. Sylvia Earle on a global quest to make peace with nature and save a dying ocean.
World at War

Dr. Barbara Block reveals the vast, rich and hidden world of the Pacific Ocean