Polar Bear

Polar Bear is a Disneynature documentary that follows a polar bear as she prepares for motherhood, drawing on her own memories of growing up to face the challenges of raising a cub in a changing Arctic. The film presents the difficulties polar bears encounter in the modern world, and it is narrated by Catherine Keener.

The film is directed by Alastair Fothergill and Jeff Wilson, both of whom also produced it. For Fothergill, it followed a run of nature documentaries that includes Deep Blue, Earth, African Cats, Chimpanzee, Bears, Monkey Kingdom and David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet. It was the first of two films he and Wilson directed in 2022, the second being Bear Witness. Silverback Films and Disneynature produced the documentary, which runs 84 minutes and was released in April 2022.

Audience response has been favourable: on IMDb it holds a rating of 6.9 from around 955 votes, while on TMDB it stands at 7.2 from 65 votes. Those figures suggest a warmly received film with a modest but appreciative viewership.