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David Attenborough's Planet
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All the best nature, animals, science and history shows are narrated by David Attenborough, the man with a voice like a warm fuzzy blanket.


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Movie: The Year Earth Changed ( 2021 )
A fresh new approach to the global lockdown and the uplifting stories that have come out of it. People all over the world have had the chance to engage with nature like never before.
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Movie: David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet ( 2020 )
One man has seen more of the natural world than any other. This unique feature documentary is his witness statement. In his 93 years, David Attenborough has visited every continent on the globe, exploring the wild places of our planet and documenting the living world in all its variety and wonder. Now, for the first time he reflects upon both the defining moments of his lifetime as a naturalist and the devastating changes he has seen. Honest, revealing and urgent, DAVID ATTENBOROUGH: A LIFE ON OUR PLANET is a powerful first-hand account of humanity's impact on nature and a message of hope for future generations. Created by award-winning natural history filmmakers Silverback Films and global conservation organization WWF, the film is Directed by Alastair Fothergill, Jonnie Hughes and Keith Scholey and Executive Produced by Colin Butfield. Celebrated British naturalist Sir David Attenborough has a broadcasting career spanning over eight decades. He has visited every continent on the globe, exploring the wild places of our planet and bringing the wonders of the living world to audiences worldwide through groundbreaking natural history series. His work includes: Life on Earth, Planet Earth and more recently the Netflix original documentary series Our Planet.
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Movie: Extinction: The Facts ( 2020 )
With a million species at risk of extinction, Sir David Attenborough explores how this crisis of biodiversity has consequences for us all.
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Movie: Planet Earth: A Celebration (TV Special 2020) ( 2020 )
TV special features a compilation of sequences from BBC America's 'Planet Earth II' and 'Blue Planet II' with new narration and music.
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Movie: Wild Karnataka ( 2020 )
An unprecedented UHD film on Karnataka's rich Biodiversity narrated by David Attenborough. Portraying the state with highest number of Tigers and Elephants using the latest technology - a masterpiece showcasing the state, its flora, fauna.
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Movie: Our Planet: Behind the Scenes ( 2019 )
Behind the Scenes look at the hardships and drama of capturing footage from Our Planet.
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Movie: Climate Change: The Facts ( 2019 )
David Attenborough takes a stark look at the facts surrounding climate change in today's world, detailing the dangers we are already having to deal with and future threats, but also the possibilities for prevention and radical political, social and cultural change.
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Movie: Timelapse of the Future: A Journey to the End of Time (Short 2019) ( 2019 )
View what the modern science points to what the future looks like from the present year all the way to trillions upon trillions of years into the future.
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Movie: Saving Planet Earth: Fixing a Hole ( 2018 )
A documentary about the scientific detection of the decrease of and the creation of , the ozone hole, that were highlighted and widely discussed from the mid 70's till the Montreal- protocol were signed in the early 90's. It tells the basic story of the scientific development of CFC-gasses that were ultimately considered the main reason for ozone depletion in the atmosphere. Through interviews with the most prominent politicians and scientists and representatives for the chemical companies in this era , gives a good perspective of how a ''world disaster'' were avoided.
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Movie: David Attenborough's Tasmania ( 2018 )
Tasmania is a vast, island wilderness of ancient forests and pristine rivers, surrounded by spectacular coastline. Its animal inhabitants are every bit as extraordinary as they are bizarre: a cast of black devils, white wallabies, miniature penguins and giant trees. With Antarctica the next landfall south, their lives are governed by the cool climate and strong seasonal calendar. Tasmania may be part of Australia, but life here is very different indeed.
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Movie: The Queen's Green Planet ( 2018 )
Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II talks to Sir David Attenborough about her ambitious legacy project the Queen's Commonwealth Canopy which aims to create a global network of protected forests in each of the 53 Commonwealth countries.
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Movie: Timelapse of the Entire Universe ( 2018 )
The universe is ancient - 50,000 times older than our species. On a cosmic time scale, human history is as brief as the blink of an eye. By compressing all 13.8 billion years of time into a 10 minute scale, this video shows just how young we truly are, and just how ancient and vast our universe is. Starting with the big bang and culminating in the appearance of homo sapiens, this experience follows the unfolding of time at 22 million years per second, adhering closely to current scientific understanding.
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Movie: Attenborough and the Sea Dragon ( 2018 )
Sir David Attenborough investigates the discovery of a 200 million year old Ichthyosaur on the Jurassic Coast in southern England.
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Movie: Attenborough and the Giant Elephant ( 2017 )
David Attenborough investigates the remarkable life and death of Jumbo the elephant - a celebrity animal superstar whose story is said to have inspired the movie Dumbo.
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Movie: In Search of Arcadia ( 2017 )
Art historian Dr Janina Ramirez and angler John Bailey go in search of the origins and ethos of the 18th-century English Landscape movement along a 12-mile stretch of the River Thames.
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Movie: A Plastic Ocean ( 2017 )
A Plastic Ocean begins when journalist Craig Leeson, searching for the elusive blue whale, discovers plastic waste in what should be pristine ocean. In this adventure documentary, Craig teams up with free diver Tanya Streeter and an international team of scientists and researchers, and they travel to twenty locations around the world over the next four years to explore the fragile state of our oceans, uncover alarming truths about plastic pollution, and reveal working solutions that can be put into immediate effect.
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Movie: Zoo Quest in Colour ( 2016 )
Thanks to a recent remarkable discovery in the BBC's Film Vaults, the best of David Attenborough's early Zoo Quest adventures can now be seen as never before - in colour - and with it the remarkable story of how this pioneering television series was made. First broadcast in December 1954, Zoo Quest was one of the most popular television series of its time and launched the career of the young David Attenborough as a wildlife presenter. Zoo Quest completely changed how viewers saw the world - revealing wildlife and tribal communities that had never been filmed or even seen before. Broadcast ten years before colour television was seen in the UK, Zoo Quest was thought to have been filmed in black and white. Until now. Using this extraordinary new-found colour film, together with new behind the scenes stories from David Attenborough and cameraman Charles Lagus, this 90 minute special showcases the very best of Zoo Quest to West Africa, Zoo Quest to Guiana and Zoo Quest for a Dragon in stunning HD colour for the very first time.
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Movie: Attenborough's Life That Glows ( 2016 )
Sir David Attenborough explores the world of bio-luminescence, the often spectacular natural light produced by some creatures. Specially designed cameras reveal nature's leading lights.
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Movie: Attenborough at 90: Behind the Lens ( 2016 )
BBC goes through their archives and tells the story and highlights of national treasure David Attenborough.
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Movie: Attenborough and the Giant Dinosaur ( 2016 )
David Attenborough follows the remarkable story of the discovery of fossils in the Patagonia region of Argentina which prove to belong to the largest animal to ever walk the Earth.
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Movie: Deep Ocean: Lights in the Abyss ( 2016 )
The NHK team that captured the world's first footage of a live giant squid in its natural habitat is setting out for another deep-sea adventure.
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Movie: Hummingbirds: Jewelled Messengers ( 2012 )
David Attenborough takes us into the remarkable lives of hummingbirds via stunning slow motion photography. Everything about these tiny birds is superb and extreme. They have the highest metabolism, fastest heart beat and most rapid wing beat in the avian world. They evolved to feed on flowering plants but are now a crucial part of wider ecosystems. How do they mate, raise their young, and live?
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Movie: VE Day: Remembering Victory ( 2015 )
On the 8th May 1945 Churchill broadcast the long-awaited announcement that the war in Europe was over. To celebrate Britain threw the biggest street party the country had ever seen. Seventy years on some of Britain's best-loved entertainers recall the jubilation of that unforgettable day. The extraordinary archive of celebrations all over Britain helps bring back the memories. Britain's celebrities - including Sir David Attenborough, Johnny Ball, Honor Blackman, Jilly Cooper OBE, John Craven OBE, Sir Bruce Forsyth, Dame Cleo Laine, Kenny Lynch OBE, Miriam Margolyes OBE, Sir Michael Parkinson, Leslie Phillips CBE, Anne Reid MBE, Dame Esther Rantzen, Sir Patrick Stewart, Una Stubbs, June Whitfield CBE - share their memories of the tea parties, bonfires, joyful tears and dancing in the streets. After the heady days of celebration it was back to the realities of food rationing and unheated homes; but gradually the nation got back on its feet. The gloom of austerity was replaced a new era of optimism and prosperity. This is the story of the Victory generation.
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Movie: Attenborough's Paradise Birds ( 2015 )
Birds of paradise are one of David Attenborough's lifelong passions. He was the first to film many of their beautiful and often bizarre displays, and over his lifetime he has tracked them all over the jungles of New Guinea. In this very personal film, he uncovers the remarkable story of how these 'birds from paradise' have captivated explorers, naturalists, artists, film-makers and even royalty. He explores the myths surrounding their discovery 500 years ago, the latest extraordinary behaviour captured on camera and reveals the scientific truth behind their beauty: the evolution of their spectacular appearance has in fact been driven by sex.
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Movie: Galapagos: Nature's Wonderland ( 2014 )
In the vastness of the Pacific Ocean, there is a paradise unlike any other: the Galapagos archipelago. Amongst these fascinating and remote volcanic islands, life has played out over millions of years in relative isolation. The result is a wonderland of nature, with a remarkable collection of plants and charismatic animals that have all adapted to this unique environment. Meet giant half-ton tortoises and marine iguanas that spit sea-salt from their noses. Dance with tropical albatrosses and hunt fishes with the colorful blue-footed boobies. Dive into the ocean with flightless cormorants and swim with tiny penguins thousands of miles away from their natural habitats. Around the archipelago, converging cross-winds and deep, cold, nutrient-rich currents have made possible a unique and bio-diverse marine oasis, which boasts everything from abundant microscopic plankton to Galapagos sharks. This is a story of discovery, of survival against the odds, and of nature's ingenuity, all brought to life in stunning 3D. You're invited to explore these extraordinary and enchanted islands, whose remarkable inhabitants helped change the way we understand nature.
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Movie: When Björk Met Attenborough ( 2013 )
Award-winning musician Björk and legendary broadcaster and naturalist Sir David Attenborough have admired each other's work for years but this is the first time they have discussed their mutual love of music and the natural world on screen. In this remarkable documentary, Björk explores our unique relationship with music and discovers how technology might transform the way we engage with it in the future. At the heart of the film is Biophilia, Björk's cutting-edge music project that explores where nature, music and technology meet. David Attenborough explains how music exists in the natural world and speaks about his own passion for music. Author and professor of neurology and psychiatry Oliver Sacks explains the extraordinary and beneficial effects music has on our brains and explains why performing and engaging with music is something all of us should take more seriously.
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Movie: Penguins ( 2012 )
Narrated by David Attenborough, "Penguins 3D" celebrates the destiny of a very special King Penguin, who returns to his birthplace in the sub-Antarctic. Known as Penguin City, the island is home to hundreds of albatrosses, fur seals and brawling elephant seals-as well as six million penguins! Somehow our hero must earn his place among the island inhabitants and fulfill his destiny by finding a mate and raising a family. What follows is the story of the most challenging time in a King Penguin's life, when he is driven to nurture and defend his offspring against harsh weather and fierce predators. This cosmic drama plays out in one of Earth's last great wildernesses, amid steep mountain ranges and windblown plains half buried beneath snow and ice. "Penguins 3D" is an unforgettable tale of one King Penguin's journey through his species' central rite of passage.
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Movie: Superfish Bluefin Tuna ( 2012 )
Rick Rosenthal goes on a quest that plumbs the secrets of the legendary bluefin tuna. This fish can weigh up to 1,500 pounds and can move up to 50 miles per hour. Here he catches a bluefin tuna on camera.
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Movie: Flying Monsters 3D with David Attenborough (TV Short 2011) ( 2011 )
Famous naturalist David Attenborough explains the rise and fall of pterosaurs, mistakenly known as flying dinosaurs. He also flies a glider to show how big the Quetzalcoatlus, at the time the largest known pterosaur species, really was.
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Movie: Desert Seas ( 2011 )
Sir David Attenborough unveils the two stunning underwater realms of Saudi Arabia - the flamboyant Red Sea and the contrasting hot muddy Gulf, capturing for the first time the rare event of Palolo worms spawning at night.
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Movie: The Secrets of Scott's Hut ( 2011 )
Host Ben Fogle travels to Antarctica to find Captain Scott's hut from a century ago. Built in 1911 during Scott's first attempt to reach the South Pole, it still contains the many items left by Scott and his companions. Host Ben uncovers the hut and its contents, finding new information about his hero Scott and his famously tragic expedition. Scott's diaries are read by Kenneth Branagh.
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Movie: Charles Darwin and the Tree of Life ( 2009 )
David Attenborough explores Charles Darwin's controversial theory of evolution by natural selection.
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Movie: The Great Bustard ( 2009 )
A short documentary looking at the decline and re-introduction of the Great Bustard to the UK.
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Movie: Trek: Spy on the Wildebeest ( 2007 )
Each year over 1.2 million wildebeest travel across the vast Serengeti plains and Kenya's Masai Mara on a 1,800 kilometer circular journey, relentlessly followed by every big African predator. Revolutionary spy cams - airborne, swimming or disguised as rocks, skulls or dung - reveal the Great Wildebeest Migration from entirely new perspectives. This 2-part series focuses on the growing-up of a calf as he takes his first steps, faces his first deadly perils and tries to cross crocodile-infested rivers. It combines natural humor with exciting drama and gripping music.
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Movie: Gorilla Revisited with David Attenborough ( 2007 )
David Attenborough recounts his experiences with the mountain gorillas of Rwanda, and reveals how conservationists have tried to save them from the brink of extinction.
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Movie: Bears: Spy in the Woods ( 2004 )
Bears around the globe were observed in their natural habitat using specially designed and disguised cameras.
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Movie: Deep Blue ( 2003 )
The natural history of the oceans
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Movie: Elephants: Spy in the Herd ( 2003 )
Elephants: Spy In The Herd provides the most intimate portrayal of the everyday life of an elephant herd. Narrated by David Attenborough and filmed over a year, throughout the program the elephant herd exhibits many human similarities: their life span, social structure, wisdom of age and emotional bonds.Witness two males clashing over territory, the birth and slow development of a calf and jealous rivalries between herd members. A real sense of these animals' incredible flexibility and intimacy is shown as they bathe in mineral salts, mud and dust, while their astonishing sensory perceptions are also revealed.
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Movie: The Ancient Forests ( 2003 )
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Movie: Great Natural Wonders of the World ( 2002 )
David Attenborough sets out on an intrepid quest across seven continents to create a unique television event to celebrate the wealth of natural features that makes Planet Earth so varied, so distinctive and so spectacularly beautiful.
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Movie: The Lost Gods of Easter Island ( 2000 )
A simple, carved figure bought at an auction in New York leads David Attenborough on a global journey from Russia to Australia, from England back to the Pacific. On the way he delves into a history of the stunning stones on Easter Island.
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Movie: The Greatest Wildlife Show on Earth ( 2000 )
Follow the path of the sun on its annual cycle, from the Equator, across the northern hemisphere and into the South. Witness a world bursting with life, as spring and summer follow the passage of the sun. Revealed in all their glory are the natural rhythms of life - the urge to breed, to feed and to raise young - all driven by the sun, the moon and the seasons, across the world.
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Movie: Attenborough's Wonder of Song (TV Special 2022) ( 2022 )
David Attenborough chooses seven of the most remarkable songs found in nature.
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Movie: Attenborough and the Mammoth Graveyard (TV Special 2021) ( 2021 )
Sir David Attenborough joins an archaeological dig uncovering Britain's biggest mammoth discovery in almost 20 years.
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Movie: Breaking Boundaries: The Science of Our Planet ( 2021 )
David Attenborough and scientist Johan Rockström examine Earth's biodiversity collapse and how this crisis can still be averted.
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Movie: Dinosaurs - The Final Day with David Attenborough ( 2022 )
Sir David Attenborough presents this landmark documentary which brings to life, in unprecedented detail, the lost world of the very last days of the dinosaurs. Searching in the hills of North Dakota, palaeontologist Robert DePalma makes an incredible discovery in a prehistoric graveyard known as Tanis - fossilised creatures, astonishingly well preserved like the bodie...Read all
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Movie: Vegan 2020 ( 2020 )
Covers the ever growing vegan movement and how it's best for the animals, human health, and the planet.
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Movie: What The Durrells Did Next ( 2019 )
The Durrells (2016) star Keeley Hawes hosts this documentary about the extraordinary lives of The Durrell family after WWII forced them to leave Corfu, with special focus on Gerald, his seminal naturalist work and his visionary zoo.
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Movie: David Attenborough's Conquest of the Skies (Short 2022) ( 2022 )
Join David Attenborough as he takes you on an awe-inspiring journey through the evolution of flight in Conquest of the Skies. Over three episodes, learn how insects, reptiles and birds unshackled themselves from the grips of gravity and took to the skies. Informed by the latest paleontological breakthroughs, this immersive series lets you marvel at an incredible varie...Read all
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Movie: David Attenborough's First Life (Short 2021) ( 2021 )
In this milestone, immersive VR media production join David Attenborough as you journey 3.5 billion years into the past to witness the origins of life on our planet - all with complete scientific justification.