I was watching Animal Planet the other day about the ocean life and how man and polution are distroying it. The music captured the feeling perfectly.

Tours Du Monde / Tours Du Ciel: Delerue (composed for an astronomy presentation, gorgeous strings)

LA CLOCHE THIBETAINE: Delerue (I can't read the French track listings, but the score has the feel of a travelogue documentary, I love it)

Some IMAX scores are very nice...
Amazon: Alan Williams

Hans Zimmer's "Millenium" is one that yields a lot of replay value, as is Jay Chattaway's "Space Age". These turn up in the New Age bins and nature stores, but they're particularly good.

I ordered it some months ago and was impressed. It won't make my top-playing album list, but it's preferable to some other recent scores I've bought (I mostly go for the ancient soundtracks).

(1.) "The Long Way Home" (Lee Holdrdige)
(2.) "Sixteen Days of Glory" (Lee Holdridge)
(3.) "South Sea Adventures" (Alex North)
(4.) "Africa" (Alex North)
(5.) "The President's Country" (Dimitri Tiomkin)

There are so many great documentary scores, I wouldn't know where to begin. I suppose with Virgil Thomson's scores for The River, The Plow That Broke the Plains, and Louisiana Story. All 3 are just awesome. Copland's score for The City is up there. All the government WW2 docs scored by Tiomkin, North, and Gail Kubic. Alwyn's score for The True Glory. Dello Joio's music for The Louvre, Air Power, Kamakaze, and Smashing the Reich. All the Cinerama travelogues. Tiomkin's Rhapsody of Steel. Constant Lambert's Merchant Seamen. Bax's Malta G.C. Herbert Windt's score to Olympia and Mayuzumi's score to Tokyo Olympiad. All the Jacques Cousteau films. Elmer Bernstein's scores to Making of the President 1960 and the Eames' documentaries like House, Tops, The World of Franklin and Jefferson, A Communications Primer, and Powers of Ten. Rozsa's score to Jacare. And this is only the tip of the iceberg. I'm sure with a little more thinking, I'll turn up dozens more.

I also really like Chronos by Michael Sterns.

Then, there's the massive propaganda films of the second world war. Didn't William Wyler do a lot of those?

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Originally posted by SPOR2:
Marian: A Brief History of Time by Philip Glass is, unfortunately, not available on CD.

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I've been told Gabriel Yared's The Ark and the Deluge was a documentary score too. But I'm not sure. This one really rocks! Very beautiful and illuatrated the feeling of deep ocean perfectly. I just LOVE the great chorus in the last track.

The other score U-BOAT paraphrased was either HIGHPOINT (which replaced a score by John Addison, of all people), or GETTING EVEN ... I think it was GETTING EVEN, but I'm not sure. That's another highly Goldsmithish one.

These were non-union recordings, hence no re-use rights necessary for the show -- or the subsequent album, which I still haven't heard, alas -- and though I've never seen U-BOATS, I'm sure it matched up well.

I'm pretty sure John Scott has won at least one Emmy for his Cousteau documentaries, but the IMDb only lists his Razzie nomination for Worst Score for YOR. This is irritating. (Much of his score for YOR was thrown out in favor of soft-pop nonsense from the DeAngelis brothers; the recent CD reissue of the score, sans the brothers, is a nice big bold action score of the type one usually expects from Mr. Scott.)

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Originally posted by pietari:
Trinity and Beyond is indeed a great score, there`s some cool action and choral stuff there.
I think some of the U-boats score must have been taken from Getting Even (whatever that is) because it definitely is not from Highpoint (although they do sound similar).

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Thanks for the nice words concerning the TRINITY score. This was Bill Stromberg's score and originally I was only going to orchestrate, but ended up composing about 25 minutes of score. Last year, we composed music for two sequels ATOMIC JOURNEYS and NUKES IN SPACE for the same producer. They are 60 minute films, but I don't think they have aired as yet. We used the MSO symphony again.

John Morgan

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Originally posted by pietari:
Any chance of a cd release of these two scores?

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I am sure there will be once the film is out and about.