First Contact (1983 film)
"First Contact" is the first documentary in what later became known as "The Highland Trilogy". The other two films are "Joe Leahy's Neighbours" (1989) and "Black Harvest" (1992). These three films, between them, have won some thirty major awards, included each film winning both the Grand Prix at the Festival Cinéma du Réel in Paris and AFI Award for Best Documentary.
The Silent World
"The Silent World" was the first of Cousteau's documentary films to win an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature; "World Without Sun" also won in 1964. The film also won the "Palme d'Or" award at the 1956 Cannes Film Festival, being the only documentary film to win the award until Michael Moore's "Fahrenheit 9/11" repeated the feat in 2004.