David Attenborough

biography:
Sir David Attenborough (born May 8, 1926) is a broadcaster and naturalist. His career as the respected face and voice of natural history programmes has endured for more than 50 years. He is best known for writing and presenting the nine "Life" series, in conjunction with the BBC Natural History Unit, which collectively form a comprehensive survey of all life on the planet. He is also a former senior manager at the BBC, having served as controller of BBC Two and director of programming for BBC Television in the 1960s and 1970s.

He is the younger brother of director, producer and actor Richard Attenborough.

This Morning

overview: This Morning features a variety of news, as well as show business, fashion, beauty, lifestyle, home and garden, food, tech, live phone-ins, and competitions.

original_name: This Morning

original_language: en

The One Show

overview: A topical magazine-style daily television programme broadcast live on BBC One.

original_name: The One Show

Life in Cold Blood

overview: David Attenborough reveals the surprising truth about the cold-blooded lives of reptiles and amphibians. These animals are as dramatic, as colourful and as tender as any other animals.

character: Self - Narrator (voice)

original_name: Life in Cold Blood

Friday Night with Jonathan Ross

overview: Jonathan Ross's take on current topics of conversation, guest interviews and live music from both a guest music group and the house band.

original_name: Friday Night with Jonathan Ross

Horizon

overview: Horizon tells amazing science stories, unravels mysteries and reveals worlds you've never seen before.

original_name: Horizon

The Terry and Gaby Show

overview:
The Terry and Gaby Show was a daytime television show broadcast on Five on weekday mornings between June 2003 and April 2004, produced by Chris Evans' company UMTV. It was hosted by Terry Wogan and Gaby Roslin.

The opening titles featured Gaby dressed up like a movie star driven to the studio in a limo and walking on red carpet to the door. Meanwhile Terry, carrying a briefcase, rode a rickety old bicycle across London and parked it outside the back door before quietly entering the building through said back door.

The show was not well known for the guests who appeared on it, but rather for its many bloopers or double entendres

original_name: The Terry and Gaby Show

First Life

overview: Sir David Attenborough goes back in time to the roots of the tree of life, in search of the very first animals, telling their story with stunning photography, state of the art visual effects and the captivating charm of the world’s favorite naturalist.

character: Self - Presenter

original_name: First Life

Attenborough's Life in Colour

overview: Exploring the vital role colour plays in the daily lives of many species.

original_name: Attenborough's Life in Colour

Life in the Undergrowth

overview: David Attenborough reveals the amazing stories behind the tiny lives of invertebrates, exploring their incredible miniature world with ground-breaking camerawork and technology.

original_name: Life in the Undergrowth

Wildlife Specials

overview:
The BBC Wildlife Specials are a series of nature documentary programmes commissioned by BBC Television. The Wildlife Specials began with a pilot episode in 1995. 20 programmes have been made to date, with three of the recent ones being in multi parts. The earlier programmes were produced in-house by the BBC's specialist Natural History Unit, but the more recent Spy in the... titles were made by the independent John Downer Productions. The first 18 programmes, up to 2008, were narrated by David Attenborough. The most recent two were narrated by David Tennant.

"The world's leading natural history filmmakers meet the world's most charismatic animals"

— BBC tagline

original_name: Wildlife Specials

The Living Planet

overview: David Attenborough examines the ways in which animals and plants adapt to their surroundings.

original_name: The Living Planet

Zoo Quest

overview: Documentary series starring David Attenborough who follows zoo keepers on a quest to find different animals to be added to the zoo. David Attenborough and a team from London Zoo travel in search of exotic animals. Their aim is to capture them and bring them back to the UK for exhibit in the zoo.

original_name: Zoo Quest

State of the Planet

overview: David Attenborough examines the ecological and conservation crises that threaten the world

original_name: State of the Planet

Trials of Life

overview: Each of the twelve 50-minute episodes features a different aspect of the journey through life, from birth to adulthood and continuation of the species through reproduction.

original_name: Trials of Life

The Life of Birds

overview: In the documentary series produced by the BBC, The Life of Birds, Sir David Attenborough unveils a new investigation into the behaviour of birds, perfectly adapted animals that conquer the air. This ten-part series reveals the secret of the birds' great success, their remarkable strategies for finding food, their complex social systems, and their ingenious and often bizarre ways of mating and breeding. From the high speed of large airborne hunters to long distance migrations or the bright colors of nectar feeding hummingbirds, this is the ultimate bird series that every ornithologist should not miss.

original_name: The Life of Birds

The Life of Mammals

overview: David Attenborough presents a nature documentary series looking at why mammals are the most successful creatures on the planet.

original_name: The Life of Mammals

Life in the Freezer

overview: Sir David Attenborough looks at the natural history of the Antarctic continent

original_name: Life in the Freezer

The Blue Planet

overview: Sir David Attenborough narrates this critically acclaimed series that dives deep into the marine environment of Planet Earth. Although two-thirds of the world's surface is covered with water, scientists know less about the oceans than they do about the surface of the moon. This limited series travels from various coasts to the poles to examine watery denizens ranging from the gigantic blue whale to microscopic coral polyps.

original_name: The Blue Planet

The Alan Titchmarsh Show

overview: The Alan Titchmarsh Show is a British daytime chat show presented by Alan Titchmarsh. It was first broadcast on ITV on 3 September 2007 and currently airs on weekday afternoons. The show's main focus is the "Best of British" theme with many of the shows' segments focusing on fashion, health, nature, cookery and animals.

original_name: The Alan Titchmarsh Show

Life on Earth

overview: The story of life, from the first primitive cells to the plants and animals that now live around us.

original_name: Life on Earth

Lost Worlds, Vanished Lives

overview: David Attenborough presents a series on fossils and palaeontology.

character: Presenter - Narrator

original_name: Lost Worlds, Vanished Lives

Natural World

overview:
Natural World is a nature documentary television series broadcast annually on BBC Two and regarded by the BBC as its flagship natural history brand. It is currently the longest-running series in its genre on British television, with more than 400 episodes broadcast since its inception in 1983.

Natural World is produced by the BBC Natural History Unit in Bristol, but individual programmes can be in-house productions, collaborative productions with other broadcasters or films made and distributed by independent production companies and purchased by the BBC. Natural World programmes are often broadcast as PBS Nature episodes in the USA. Since 2008, most Natural World programmes have been shot and broadcast in high definition.

character: Presenter

original_name: Natural World

Nature's Great Events

overview: Documentary series looking at the most dramatic wildlife spectacles on our planet, showing how life responds to natural events which can dramatically transform entire landscapes.

original_name: Nature's Great Events

name: The Earthshot Prize: Repairing Our Planet

overview: Aims to discover, celebrate and scale innovative solutions to the greatest environmental challenges facing our planet.

original_name: The Earthshot Prize: Repairing Our Planet

The Tribal Eye

overview: David Attenborough explains the enormous growth of interest in tribal art, and explores the emotions which lie behind the masks and decorations of primitive people.

original_name: The Tribal Eye

The First Eden

overview: David Attenborough presents the history and natural history of the Mediterranean lands.

original_name: The First Eden

The Miracle of Bali

overview: The Miracle of Bali is a BBC series of cultural documentaries narrated by David Attenborough and first shown in 1969. The series comprises three programs about the culture of Bali. The complete series is available as a special feature on the DVD release of David Attenborough's 1975 series The Tribal Eye.

original_name: The Miracle of Bali

The People of Paradise

overview: A six-part documentary film series exhibiting the people and geography of Oceania; particularly, of Fiji and Tonga.

original_name: The People of Paradise

Are We Changing Planet Earth?

overview: David Attenborough explores just how far climate change is altering our planet.

original_name: Are We Changing Planet Earth?

Life

overview: David Attenborough looks at the extraordinary ends to which animals and plants go in order to survive. Featuring epic spectacles, amazing TV firsts and examples of new wildlife behaviour.

original_name: Life

Natural World

character: Narrator (voice)

The Jonathan Ross Show

overview: The Jonathan Ross Show is a British chat show presented by Jonathan Ross. It was first broadcast on ITV on 3 September 2011 and currently airs on Saturday evenings following the conclusion of Ross' BBC One chat show, Friday Night with Jonathan Ross, in July 2010.

original_name: The Jonathan Ross Show

Eastward With Attenborough

original_name: Eastward With Attenborough

Tiger: Spy In The Jungle

overview: David Attenborough narrates the lives of four growing tiger cubs using footage collected by hidden-camera-carrying elephants. Over two years, the elephants help capture the most intimate portrayal of tigers ever filmed.

original_name: Tiger: Spy In The Jungle

Trans-Antarctic Expedition 1955-1958

original_name: Trans-Antarctic Expedition 1955-1958

Madagascar

overview: Over 80 per cent of Madagascar's animals and plants are found nowhere else on Earth. Discover what made Madagascar so different from the rest of the world, and how evolution ran wild here.

original_name: Madagascar

origin_country: IT GB

Africa

overview: Africa, the world's wildest continent. David Attenborough takes us on an awe-inspiring journey through one of the most diverse places in the world. We visit deserts, savannas, and jungles and meet up with some of Africa's amazing wildlife.

original_name: Africa

name: David Attenborough's Rise of Animals: Triumph of the Vertebrates

overview: David Attenborough embarks on a remarkable 500 million-year journey revealing the extraordinary group of animals that dominate our world, and how their evolution defines our human bodies.

original_name: David Attenborough's Rise of Animals: Triumph of the Vertebrates

name: All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace

overview: We have been colonised by the machines we have built. Although we don't realise it, the way we see everything in the world today is through the eyes of the computers.

original_name: All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace

David Attenborough's Global Adventure

overview: From the deep oceans in a state-of-the-art submarine on the Great Barrier Reef, to the ancient rainforests of Borneo, David Attenborough embarks on a unique natural history adventure across the globe and through time.

NOVA

overview: PBS' premier science series helps viewers of all ages explore the science behind the headlines. Along the way, NOVA demystifies science and technology, and highlights the people involved in scientific pursuits.

Nature

overview: Consistently stunning documentaries transport viewers to far-flung locations ranging from the torrid African plains to the chilly splendours of icy Antarctica. The show's primary focus is on animals and ecosystems around the world. A comic book based on the show, meant to be used an as educational tool for kids, was briefly distributed to museums and schools at no cost in the mid-2000s.

Life Story

overview: The remarkable and often perilous story of the journey through life. It is a story that unites each of us with every animal on the planet, because we all set out on this journey from the moment we are born. For animals there is just one goal in life – to continue their bloodline in the form of offspring. This series follows that journey through its six crucial stages: first steps, growing up, finding a home, gaining power, winning a mate and succeeding as a parent.

name: David Attenborough's Natural Curiosities

overview: Sir David shines the spotlight on some of nature’s evolutionary anomalies and reveals how these curious animals continue to baffle and fascinate.

original_name: David Attenborough's Natural Curiosities

Planet Earth

overview: David Attenborough celebrates the amazing variety of the natural world in this epic documentary series, filmed over four years across 64 different countries.

Frozen Planet

overview: David Attenborough travels to the end of the earth, taking viewers on an extraordinary journey across the polar regions of our planet.

The Mating Game

overview: The struggles and successes of a wide variety of animals as they take on one of life's most vital challenges: finding a partner.

The Hunt

overview: This major landmark series looks in detail at the fascinating relationship between predators and their prey. Rather than concentrating on ‘the blood and guts’ of predation, the series looks in unprecedented detail at the strategies predators use to catch their food and prey use to escape death. Sir David Attenborough narrates.

name: David Attenborough's Conquest of the Skies

overview: Evolutionary story of flight from the very first insects to the incredible array of creatures which rule the skies today.

original_name: David Attenborough's Conquest of the Skies

name: Greta Thunberg: A Year to Change the World

overview: This revealing series follows environmental activist Greta Thunberg as she seeks to raise awareness of the accelerating climate change and spread her message, that we must act to drastically reduce our carbon emissions.

original_name: Greta Thunberg: A Year to Change the World

name: Great Barrier Reef with David Attenborough

overview: Following his visit to the Great Barrier Reef in 1957, naturalist and broadcaster David Attenborough returns and uses the latest filming techniques to unlock the secrets of the natural wonder.

original_name: Great Barrier Reef with David Attenborough

Folk Britannia

overview: Three 1-hour films exploring British folk music from the rebirth of English romance to the latter day revival.

Kingdom of Plants

overview: Sir David discovers a microscopic world that’s invisible to the naked eye, where insects feed and breed, where flowers fluoresce and where plants communicate with each other and with animals using scent and sound.

Skavlan

overview:
Skavlan is a Norwegian-Swedish television talk show hosted by Norwegian journalist Fredrik Skavlan. It premiered in Sweden on Sveriges Television in January 2009, and the first guests to appear on the show were former Prime Minister of Sweden Göran Persson and his wife Anitra Steen. On 8 May 2009, it was announced that Skavlan had been renewed for a second season. It was also announced that the show would no longer only be produced by SVT in Sweden; Skavlan would now be partly produced in Norway by the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation. The first twelve episodes of Skavlan's second season were produced by SVT in Sweden, and the remaining twelve by NRK in Norway.

Skavlan speaks Norwegian and his dialog is therefore subtitled in Swedish in Sweden, even though the two languages are quite similar and mutually intelligible. If the persons being interviewed by Skavlan are Swedish, he often tells them to let him know if they do not understand what he is saying. Swedish novelist Jan Guillou has criticized SVT for subtitling the program, stating "there is no need for that. If the host had been Danish, subtitling would have been necessary, but with a Norwegian host it does not make any sense."

Brave New World with Stephen Hawking

overview: Aided by some of the world's leading scientific figures, this new five-part series examines how 21st century scientists are battling the world's big killer diseases, breaking down the barriers between man and machine and expanding our understanding of the universe.

The Romantics and Us with Simon Schama

overview: From popular revolt to the obsession with the self, even to modern nationalism, Simon Schama explores the enduring and powerful legacy the Romantics have left on our modern world.

Planet Earth II

overview: David Attenborough presents a documentary series exploring how animals meet the challenges of surviving in the most iconic habitats on earth.

Prehistoric Planet

overview: Experience the wonders of our world like never before in this epic series from Jon Favreau and the producers of Planet Earth. Travel back 66 million years to when majestic dinosaurs and extraordinary creatures roamed the lands, seas, and skies.

Micro Monsters with David Attenborough

overview: It s a small world after all. In this revolutionary new series, David Attenborough reveals the marvellous adaptability of the most successful group of animals on the planet. Using pioneering macroscopic filmmaking techniques, he explores in unparalleled detail the intricate, sophisticated behaviours of these fascinating creatures and the complexity of the environments they build and inhabit, in a world normally hidden from the human eye. From armies of killer ants to spiders weaving silken trap doors, ferocious scorpions with paralysing stings, beetles shooting boiling chemicals at their enemies, bees communicating with a waggle dance and assassin bugs that clothe themselves in their victims corpses; David Attenborough will as never before take viewers deep into the macroscopic world of bugs.

Blue Planet UK

overview: Celebrating marine life from all corners of the UK as we dive deep to explore the health of our oceans.

Blue Planet II

overview: There is nowhere more powerful and unforgiving yet more beautiful and compelling than the ocean. Join us and explore the greatest yet least known parts of our planet.

Tomorrow's World: People of Science

overview: Explore the future with a series of programmes and interactive digital content. Hosted by Brian Cox.

Wogan

overview: Chat show hosted by Terry Wogan, featuring live studio interviews with famous and notable personalities.

Galapagos 3D with David Attenborough

overview: David Attenborough uses pioneering 3D-techniques and technology to explore the unique environments and species of the Galapagos.

Attenborough: 60 Years in the Wild

overview: Sir David Attenborough looks back at the unparalleled changes in natural history that he has witnessed during his 60-year career.

Going Live!

overview:
Going Live! was a Saturday morning magazine show, broadcast on BBC1 between 1987 and 1993. It was presented by Phillip Schofield and Sarah Greene.

Other presenters included Trevor and Simon, Peter Simon, Emma Forbes, and puppet Gordon the Gopher.

The show was broadcast during the autumn to spring seasons, with other shows such as the 8:15 from Manchester and Parallel 9 taking over during the summer months. It was preceded by Saturday Superstore, and succeeded by Live & Kicking.

In 1988, when the second series started, Greene was hurt in a helicopter crash with her then boyfriend, Mike Smith. Guest presenters stood in for her including T'Pau's Carol Decker. Similarly, in 1992-93 during the final series, Schofield was starring in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat and was unable to present the show. A third presenter took his place. Originally, Neighbours actor Kristian Schmid took the role but soon left after problems with his work permit. Various other celebrities to stand in included Shane Richie and Robbie Williams during his Take That days.

Our Planet

overview: Experience our planet's natural beauty and examine how climate change impacts all living creatures in this ambitious documentary of spectacular scope.

Dynasties

overview: Follow the true stories of five of the world's most celebrated, yet endangered animals; penguins, chimpanzees, lions, painted wolves and tigers. Each in a heroic struggle against rivals and against the forces of nature, these families fight for their own survival and for the future of their dynasties.

Blue Planet III

overview: The third series of this nature documentary uses the very latest in underwater filming techniques to reveal brand new and untold stories from magical underwater worlds focusing on five major underwater habitats: the tropical seas, temperate seas, polar seas, high seas and deep seas.

Wild Isles

overview: This nature documentary introduces viewers to the fauna and flora of Britain and Ireland across four main areas: woodlands, grasslands, freshwater and marine.

Mammals

overview: The series offers fascinating insights into the most successful animal group in the world. From the tiny Etruscan shrew to the giant blue whale, Mammals will reveal the secrets of their success, and how their winning design, incredible adaptability, unrivaled intelligence, and unique sociability have all contributed to their remarkable rise.

Frozen Planet II

overview: Ten years on from the original Frozen Planet, this documentary series takes audiences back to the wildernesses of the Arctic and Antarctica and tells the complete story of the entire frozen quarter of our planet that’s locked in ice and blanketed in snow.

Attenborough's Passion Projects

overview: As part of a season of programming marking Sir David Attenborough's 90th birthday, four of his favourite films are brought together as the renowned naturalist looks back on his personal highlights.

The Private Life of Plants

overview: Without plants, there would be no food, no animals of any sort, no life on earth at all. Yet for most of the time their lives remain a secret to us, hidden, private events.The reason is merely a difference of time. Plants live on a different time-scale from ours. Though not obviously to the naked eye, they are constantly on the move: developing, fighting, avoiding or exploiting predators or neighbours, struggling to find food, to increase their territories, to reproduce themselves, to find and hold a place in the sun. We only need to learn to look.

Planet Earth III

overview: Journeying to the far reaches of our planet, this eight part series follows some of the world's most amazing species, telling extraordinary stories that are dramatic, thrilling, funny and sometimes heart-breaking, but always full of hope.

Genius of Britain

overview:
Genius of Britain is a five-part television documentary presented by leading British scientific figures, such as Stephen Hawking, Richard Dawkins, James Dyson, David Attenborough, Robert Winston, Paul Nurse, Jim Al-Khalili, Kathy Sykes and Olivia Judson. The series charts the history of some of Britain's most important scientists and innovators.

It was first broadcast on Channel 4 on 30 May 2010.

Seven Worlds, One Planet

overview: Millions of years ago, incredible forces ripped apart the Earth’s crust creating seven extraordinary continents. This documentary series reveals how each distinct continent has shaped the unique animal life found there.

Michael Palin: Travels of a Lifetime

overview: Michael Palin revisits his first four TV travel documentaries. He draws on his personal archive of audio recordings and diary notebooks, and reflects on how he became a seasoned global traveller. Featuring contributions from fans and friends, including David Attenborough, Joanna Lumley and Simon Reeve.

The Graham Norton Show

overview: Each week celebrity guests join Irish comedian Graham Norton to discuss what's being going on around the world that week. The guests poke fun and share their opinions on the main news stories. Graham is often joined by a band or artist to play the show out.

The Green Planet

overview: This documentary series about plants is the first immersive portrayal of an unseen, inter-connected world, full of remarkable new behaviour, emotional stories and surprising heroes in the plant world. Planet Earth from the perspective of plants.

How the BBC Began

overview: The often-hilarious stories of the BBC's first 50 years. The corporation's pioneers describe its evolution – which was often by accident rather than design.

Deep Ocean

overview: Once you pass 1,000 meters, the water is completely devoid of light, and you have reached the deep ocean. Down here, temperatures plummet to 39 degrees Fahrenheit, and constantly stay near freezing. The pressures at these depths range from about 40 to over 110 times the pressure of Earth's atmosphere. We know more about outer space than the ocean floor. Want to learn more about the ocean? Start with this mind-blowing series! , narrated by ... David Attenborough

Wildlife on One

overview:
Wildlife on One was, for nearly thirty years, the BBC's flagship natural history programme.

First broadcast in 1977, each edition ran for half an hour. The narrator was David Attenborough. When repeated on BBC2, the programmes were retitled Wildlife on Two. The series came to an end in 2005.

Secrets of Wild India

overview: India is home to over a billion people with 1/5 of the world's population on only 2% of the world's surface. Yet India still has a wild side, populated by giants, fierce predators, the rare and beautiful…all wrapped up in a land of extremes. 'Secrets of Wild India' celebrates the diversity and drama of India's extraordinary and varied landscapes. In this three-part series, each episode focus' on one iconic ecosystem, a snapshot of how life works in each unique environment.

A Perfect Planet

overview: A unique fusion of blue chip natural history and earth science that explains how our living planet operates. This five-part series shows how the forces of nature drive, shape and support Earth’s great diversity of wildlife.

Wild City

overview:
Singapore: One of the fastest growing cities in the world. Once a tropical jungle, it is now 665 square kilometres of hustle, bustle, concrete and air-con. But nestled among the urban sprawl there is a wild side; - places where pangolins, crocodiles, monkeys, otters, snakes and hornbills sit right among the skyscrapers and boardwalks.

This series, narrated by Sir David Attenborough, discovers how nature has evolved within this teeming city.

Wild City showcases the range of different habitats found in and around the built-up urban sprawl, then journeys around the island’s hidden wildlife hotspots – from the overlooked interior to the inaccessible coastline and islands that have become unplanned sanctuaries for Singapore’s natural heritage.

Asia

overview: From the vast Gobi Desert to the jungles of Borneo, and from the polar wilderness of Siberia to the coral seas of the Indian Ocean, showcasing the breath-taking variety of Asia's wildest places.

Parkinson

overview: Michael Parkinson returns for a second run of his iconic talk show.

Fabulous Animals

overview: Travelers' stories have long fueled beliefs in the existence of dragons, giants, sea monsters, mermaids, and magical unicorns in distant corners of the world. David Attenborough investigates these legends to uncover the truth.

Simon Schama's Story of Us

overview: Art and culture define us - but in an age of change, who are we now? In divided times, Simon Schama asks whether art, music and words can be the threads that bind us together.

Winterwatch

overview: Live coverage as our wildlife faces up to the most challenging time of year.

Parenthood

overview: A journey like no other, full of risk and reward. David Attenborough tells stories of dedication, ingenuity and sacrifice as animals embark on an epic challenge – being a parent.

Secret World of Sound

overview: Anthony Morgan explores the extraordinary ways that animals hear and produce sound, and the crucial role sound plays in the lives of animals around the globe - from birth to surviving adulthood and finding a mate.

Omnibus

overview: Omnibus was an arts-based BBC television documentary series, broadcast mainly on BBC1 in the United Kingdom. The programme was the successor to the long-running arts-based series 'Monitor'.  It ran from 1967 until 2003, usually being transmitted on Sunday evenings. During its 35-year history, the programme won 12 Bafta awards.  Among the series' best remembered documentaries are Cracked Actor, a profile of David Bowie, and Rene Magritte, a graduate film by David Wheatley, 'Madonna: Behind the American dream', a film produced by Nadia Hagger, and a profile of the British film director Ridley Scott.  For a season in 1982, the series was in a magazine format presented by Barry Norman.  The series was replaced by 'Imagine' hosted by Alan Yentob.

Kingdom

overview: Filmed across five years in a single spectacular location, the lives and fates of our four families - leopards, hyenas, wild dogs, and lions - are inextricably linked as they strive for a foothold in a remote and fertile river valley in Zambia.

The World About Us

overview: A series of films from all over the world about our astonishing planet and the creatures that live on it. Combining natural history with an element of adventure, the series featured well-known naturalists such as Jane Goodall and Gerald Durrell, and the oceanographer Jacques Cousteau. Succeeded by The Natural World.

David Attenborough's Wild City

overview: A natural history event like no other, Wild City will reveal the hidden wild inside the Lion City. Deploying the latest filmmaking techniques and narrated by natural history legend Sir David Attenborough, this three part series will be an awakening for the eyes and the mind. See Singapore like never before.

In Confidence

overview: In Confidence is a British television series presented by Laurie Taylor and executive produced by Victor Lewis-Smith, in which a one-on-one in depth interview with a public figure takes place over the course of about an hour. The object of the interview is to try to get to the bottom of who the subject really is and how they think. The show airs on Sky Arts in the UK.

Secret Garden

overview: David Attenborough reveals the drama unfolding in the hidden wild world of Britain's backyards. Because even in familiar surroundings, the rules of the wild are still in force.

RTL Tonight

overview: In RTL Vanavond's new talk show, presenters Renze Klamer, Beau van Erven Dorens, and Humberto Tan are joined by a whole squad of well-known divers. And there are some notable names among them.

The Spirit of Asia

overview: David Attenborough visits Indonesia, Thailand, Burma, Cambodia, Vietnam, and India-countries where the world's most ancient religions and art forms have remarkably endured into the 20th century,

Gay Byrne's Late Late Moments

overview: Six part series looking back on some entertaining and memorable moments from Gay Byrne's 37 year career at the helm of RTÉ’s flagship chat show.

Explorers

overview: Driven by ambition and greed; or in quest of prestige and glory; or searching for a unique brand of personal fulfilment; they deserted their homelands to make journeys never before achieved.

Television

overview: Exhaustive 13-part survey of the television medium from its hesitant beginnings in the 1920s to the multi-million dollar extravaganzas of today and the cable and satellite technologies of the future [relative to 1985]. Tackling the medium as a worldwide phenomenon, the series examines each of the principal areas of programming - news, drama, documentaries, and light entertainment - and the unique impact of "live" coverage.

Flying Casanovas

overview: Seduction through construction: see how male bowerbirds build astounding shrines to attract a mate. Travel to Australia and New Guinea with David Attenborough to explore the bowerbird's "obsessive" courtship practices. Step into elaborate and ornate structures and examine how each bowerbird species builds and decorates with a unique sense of style; see how the females tour these "bachelor pads" and choose their mates.

Deutsch

biography: Sir David Frederick Attenborough ist ein britischer Tierfilmer und Naturforscher. David Attenborough wurde durch seine preisgekrönten Naturdokumentationen bekannt, die er im Auftrag der BBC produzierte.

svenska

biography: Sir David Attenborough är en brittisk zoolog, författare och programledare i TV. Han är mest känd som TV-presentatör av naturprogram, inklusive för den på 1980-talet mycket uppmärksammade Liv på jorden. Attenborough har även haft andra roller på BBC, bland annat som programdirektör.

Pусский

Дэвид Аттенборо

biography: Сэр Дэвид Фредерик Аттенборо  — один из самых знаменитых в мире телеведущих и натуралистов. Многие считают его пионером документальных фильмов о природе. Он был ведущим и главным создателем многих знаменитых документальных сериалов о природе, подробно рассказывающих обо всех видах жизни на Земле и об их взаимодействии. Кроме того, он работал главным менеджером Би-би-си в 1960-х и 1970-х годах.

Український

Девід Аттенборо

biography: Девід Аттенборо — один із найзнаменитіших у світі ведучих-натуралістів. Народився 8 травня 1926 р., в західному Лондоні, Англія. Багато хто вважає його піонером документальних фільмів про природу. Він був ведучим і головним творцем десяти знаменитих документальних серіалів про природу (десятий був закінчений восени 2009 року), які детально розповідають про всі види життя на землі і про їх взаємодію. Крім того, він працював головним менеджером Бі-бі-сі в 1960-х і 1970-х роках. Молодший брат знаменитого режисера й актора Річарда Аттенборо.

普通话

大卫·爱登堡

biography:
大卫·爱登堡爵士是一名广播员和博物学家。 他作为自然历史项目受人尊敬的面孔和声音的职业生涯已经持续了 50 多年。 他最出名的是与 BBC 自然历史部门合作撰写和展示九个“生命”系列，这些系列共同构成了对地球上所有生命的全面调查。 他还是 BBC 的前高级经理，曾在 1960 年代和 1970 年代担任 BBC Two 的总监和 BBC 电视台的节目总监。

他是导演、制片人和演员理查德·阿滕伯勒的弟弟。

Magyar

biography:
Sir David Frederick Attenborough OM (London, 1926. május 8. –) angol természettudós, dokumentumfilmes, az ismeretterjesztő televízióműsorok egyik úttörője. A Cambridge-i Egyetemen végzett, illetve a London School of Economics-on, 1957 óta készít természetfilmeket és sorozatokat a brit BBC televíziócsatorna számára, amelyek közül is a legismertebb a kilenctagú Élet-sorozat, mely átfogó képet mutat be a földi élővilágról. Emellett a BBC programigazgatója volt az 1960-as és 1970-es években.

A természettudományok széles körű ismertetésében végzett nagy formátumú munkásságának elismeréseképpen egy 1998-ban felfedezett új hangyászsün fajt róla neveztek el, ez az Attenborough-hangyászsün (Zaglossus attenboroughi). Attenborough a magyar nézők szívébe híres-hírhedt trilógiájával lopta be magát annak idején, amelynek darabjai az Élet a Földön, Az élő bolygó és Az élet megpróbáltatásai voltak. A hátizsákos világjáró hihetetlen kalandjainak és közvetlen, sztorizós modorának köszönhetően egy csapásra Cousteau kapitány és Gerald Durrell egyenrangú társává emelkedett.

Később jött a szintén nagy sikerű Az első édenkert, majd az Antarktiszt bemutató Élet a fagyban című sorozat, de természetfilmjei mellett, más szálak is kötötték a tévéhez: a hetvenes években a BBC programigazgatójaként a csatorna az ő elnöklése alatt kezdett el például színes filmeket sugározni.

Munkájának jelentőségét maga a királynő is elismerte azzal, hogy 1985-ben lovaggá ütötte. 2005. június 10-én megkapta az Order of Merit kitüntetést is, amelyet szintén II. Erzsébet brit királynő adományoz azoknak, akik kiemelkedő tetteket hajtottak végre a művészetek vagy a tudományok területén.

Az Attenborough nyolcvanadik születésnapján tartott ünnepség több mint ötvenéves tévés munkásságáról is megemlékezett, a beszédekben többek között Anglia nemzeti kincseként emlegették a tudóst. A rendezvényen nem kevésbé híres testvére, a rendező-színész Richard Attenborough (Gandhi, Chaplin, Jurassic Park) mellett, tiszteletét tette például a Monty Pythonból ismert Michael Palin is, aki szintén készített már ismeretterjesztő sorozatot, Nyolcvan nap alatt a Föld körül címmel.

David Attenborough más híres természetvédőkkel (pl. Jane Goodall, aki szintén a Cambridge-en végzett) együtt védnöke az angliai Population Matters (A népesedés nagyon is számít – korábbi név: Optimum Population Trust) szervezetnek. Ők szervezik az European Population Alliance (Európai Népesedés Szövetség) hálózatot. Ennek magyar tagja a BOCS Alapítvány, amely elkészítette David Attenborough 2009-es How Many People Can Live on Planet Earth? (Hány ember élhet a Földön?) c. egyórás BBC filmjének magyar feliratozását.

ελληνικά

Ντέιβιντ Ατένμπορο

biography:
Ο Σερ Ντέιβιντ Φρέντερικ Ατένμπορο (ορθή προφορά: Ντέιβιντ Άτενμπρα, αγγλικά: David Attenborough, γεν. 8 Μαΐου 1926) είναι Άγγλος τηλεπαρουσιαστής, φυσιοδίφης και φυσικός ιστορικός. Είναι περισσότερο γνωστός για την συγγραφή και παρουσίαση της Συλλογής της Ζωής, μιας σειράς εννιά ντοκιμαντέρ φυσικής ιστορίας που αποτελούν μαζί μια εκτεταμένη έρευνα στην ζωή των φυτών και των ζώων πάνω στη Γη, σε συνεργασία με τη Μονάδα Φυσικής Ιστορίας του BBC. Είναι πρώην ανώτερος διευθυντής του BBC, έχοντας υπηρετήσει ως διευθυντής του BBC Two και ως διευθυντής προγράμματος της Τηλεόρασης του BBC στην δεκαετία του 1960 και του 1970. Είναι ο μόνος άνθρωπος που έχει κερδίσει Βραβεία Βρετανικής Ακαδημίας Κινηματογράφου για ασπρόμαυρα, έγχρωμα, τρισδιάστατα, υψηλής ευκρίνειας και 4Κ προγράμματα. Το 2018 και το 2019 κέρδισε Βραβεία Έμμυ Υψηλής Ζώνης Τηλεθέασης στην κατηγορία του Εξαιρετικού Αφηγητή.

Ο Ατένμπορο θεωρείται από πολλούς Βρετανούς ως εθνικός θησαυρός της χώρας τους, αν και ο ίδιος δεν προτιμά αυτόν τον όρο. Το 2002, το όνομα του συμπεριλήφθη στον κατάλογο των 100 Μεγαλύτερων Βρετανών μετά από ψηφοφορία του BBC σε όλο το Ηνωμένο Βασίλειο. Είναι ο νεότερος αδερφός του σκηνοθέτη, παραγωγού και ηθοποιού Ρίτσαρντ Ατένμπορο, βαρόνο του Ατένμπορο, καθώς και μεγαλύτερος αδερφός του παράγοντα της αυτοκινητοβιομηχανίας Τζον Ατένμπορο.

普通话

大衞·艾登堡

biography:
大衞·愛登堡爵士是一名廣播員和博物學家。

他作為自然歷史項目受人尊敬的面孔和聲音的職業生涯已經持續了 50 多年。

他最出名的是與 BBC 自然歷史部門合作撰寫和展示九個“生命”系列，這些系列共同構成了對地球上所有生命的全面調查。

他還是 BBC 的前高級經理，曾在 1960 年代和 1970 年代擔任 BBC Two 的總監和 BBC 電視台的節目總監。

他是導演、製片人和演員理查德·阿滕伯勒的弟弟。

Português

David Attenborough

biography:
Sir David Attenborough (nascido em 8 de maio de 1926) é apresentador e naturalista. Sua carreira como rosto e voz respeitados dos programas de história natural já dura mais de 50 anos. Ele é mais conhecido por escrever e apresentar as nove séries da coleção "Vida", em parceria com a Unidade de História Natural da BBC, que juntas formam um abrangente retrato de toda a vida no planeta. Também foi diretor sênior da BBC, tendo atuado como controlador da BBC Two e diretor de programação da BBC Television nas décadas de 1960 e 1970.

É irmão mais novo do diretor, produtor e ator Richard Attenborough.

also_known_as:
David Frederick Attenborough
Sir David Attenborough
Дэвид Фредерик Аттенборо
Девід Аттенборо
大卫·爱登堡
大衛·艾登堡
デヴィッド・アッテンボロー
大衛·艾登伯祿
دیوید اتنبرو
Ντέιβιντ Άτενμπρα
Ντέιβιντ Φρέντερικ Ατένμπορο

title: Deep Ocean: Giants of the Antarctic Deep

original_title: Deep Ocean: Giants of the Antarctic Deep

title: Charles Darwin and the Tree of Life

overview: Darwin's great insight – that life has evolved over millions of years by natural selection – has been the cornerstone of all David Attenborough’s natural history series. In this documentary, he takes us on a deeply personal journey which reflects his own life and the way he came to understand Darwin’s theory.

title: Survival Island

overview: Standing almost alone in the great Southern Ocean, South Georgia island plays host to some of the largest concentrations of animals anywhere on Earth during the spring and summer months. This is the story of these vast animal cities, and of the order that lies beneath their seeming chaos.

title: At Home with Badgers

overview: A short documentary from Eric Ashby on the badgers leaving near his home.

title: A TV Dante

overview: A TV Dante is an experimental mini-series directed by Tom Phillips and legendary filmmaker Peter Greenaway. It covers eight of the thirty-four cantos in Dante Alighieri's Inferno, part of his 14th century epic poem The Divine Comedy. The eight cantos of the film are not conventionally dramatised, rather they are illuminated with layered and juxtaposed imagery while the text is read entirely in "talking head" fashion, and punctuated with a kaleidoscopic blend of both newly shot and archival footage.

title: Richard Batterham, Master Potter

overview: A film about Richard Batterham – the last of Bernard Leach’s practicing apprentices.

title: Satoyama I: Japan's Secret Watergarden

overview: Japan is a country of steep mountains surrounding wide flat plains where people have lived for thousands of years. On the largest plain lies the country's largest freshwater lake, Lake Biwa, which is not at all far from Japan's ancient, capital city of Kyoto. The slopes that stretch down towards the lake have been terraced. Here rice seedlings need shallow water in which to grow, and the neat, meticulously constructed paddy fields provide just this. Some of them have been cultivated continuously for thousands of years. Alongside them stand patches of woodland where, for centuries, the people have found their fuel and their food. This is a land that has been touched by people, yet the people tread lightly upon it. It's a land that has been ruled for centuries by the demands of the rice, yet it's still dominated by the rhythmic cycle of the seasons. Here is a landscape that the Japanese people hold so close to their hearts that they have a special word for it: Satoyama.

title: Hotel Armadillo

overview: David Attenborough looks at the giant armadillo and examines how this seldom-seen animal provides scores of other creatures with the hotel and restaurant services they need to thrive in earth's biggest natural wetland - the Pantanal of Brazil.

title: Mountain Lions: Big Cats in High Places

overview: For the first time, and through the eyes of two special mountain lion families, the true nature of North America's big cat can finally be revealed. Set in Wyoming's spectacular Rocky Mountains, the dramatic story of two mothers struggling to raise their kittens is helping scientists rewrite our understanding of these elusive predators. This is mountain lions up-close, in-depth and more intimate than ever before.

title: Puerto Rico: Island of Enchantment

overview: David Attenborough tells the revealing story of this Caribbean island's exotic but vulnerable wildlife. A team of conservation champions are making it their mission to save the most precious species. We see how Puerto Rican parrots, manatees and turtles are now making a comeback.

title: Sperm Whales: Back from the Abyss

overview: Wildlife film about sperm whales, revealing the secret lives led by these often misunderstood ocean giants. Scientists all over the world are now learning about the secret lives of sperm whales, the world's largest hunters that spawned the legendy of Moby Dick. Although Mellville painted them as fearsome beasts of the sea, they are actually shy creatures, and cameraman Rick Rosenthal needed patience and persistence to film them at close quarters. They turn out to be efficient hunters with a close family network involving sophisticated and vocal social lives.

title: The Mating Game

overview: David Attenborough narrates the charming and fascinating story of some real-life animal romantics. There are show-offs and singers, dancers and fighters, stories of undercover affairs and heartwarming devotion. These include a male polar bear that plays hard to get, a lemur whose odour bags him a mate and a lizard who is tender and faithful to the very end. It reveals that animals can be loving, complex, funny and inventive - it is all part of the mating game.

title: Attenborough’s Journey

overview: In honor of his 95th birthday, a look at Sir David Attenborough’s life and contributions to broadcasting and the natural world. Presented by BBC.

title: Attenborough and the Giant Sea Monster

overview: Sir David Attenborough investigates the discovery of a lifetime: the giant skull of a prehistoric sea monster, known as a pliosaur – the Tyrannosaurus rex of the seas!

title: Flying Monsters 3D with David Attenborough

overview: 220 million years ago dinosaurs were beginning their domination of Earth. But another group of reptiles was about to make an extraordinary leap: pterosaurs were taking control of the skies. The story of how and why these mysterious creatures took to the air is more fantastical than any fiction. In Flying Monsters 3D, Sir David Attenborough the world’s leading naturalist, sets out to uncover the truth about the enigmatic pterosaurs, whose wingspans of up to 40 feet were equal to that of a modern day jet plane.

original_title: Flying Monsters 3D with David Attenborough

title: Kea: The Smartest Parrot

overview: Sir David Attenborough narrates a documentary about the Kea, the world's only alpine parrot. Playful and destructive, it attacks cars, starts landslides and terrorises New Zealand ski resorts but behind the bad behaviour there's a sharp mind at work. David tries to play chess with a kea and discovers how its cheeky character is the key to its survival.

title: The Private Life of Plants

overview: David Attenborough takes us on a guided tour through the secret world of plants, to see things no unaided eye could witness. Each episode in this six-part series focuses on one of the critical stages through which every plant must pass if it is to survive:- travelling, growing, and flowering; struggling with one another; creating alliances with other organisms both plant and animal; and evolving complex ways of surviving in the earth's most ferociously hostile environments.

title: Bowerbirds: The Art of Seduction

overview: The male bowerbirds of Australia and New Guinea display an incredible artistic talent -- and all in the name of love! Collecting 'jewels' they set them in specially-built showcases and some even paint the walls with mashed berries. If all this isn't enough to woo potential mates, they also perform a most bizarre stiff-winged dance. But displaying darker emotions associated with sex, such as envy and jealousy, males will sometimes destroy a rival's construction and steal his jewels.

title: The Song of the Earth

overview: Is there a connection between animal sounds and the music that humans create? Using a surprising and wide variety of evidence from the animal kingdom -- including the humpback whale, the lyre bird, the siamang gibbon and the great reed warbler -- Sir David Attenborough seeks to prove that the origions of music lie in territory, emotion and sex.

title: Attenborough the Controller

overview: A completely fantastic programme, charting the time of our favorite presenter at the head of the then struggling and controversial BBC2. Packed chock full of interviews, clips and reminiscences both old and new, including the very tasty Joan Bakewell of the 60s. Sir David Attenborough's reign as controller of BBC TWO, from 1965 to 1973, is still thought of as the golden age of television. He was responsible for a number of programme strands that were, and many argue still remain, the high point of public service broadcasting. Match of the Day and Pot Black sat alongside comedy such as The Likely Lads and Not Only But Also. Horizon, Man Alive, One Pair of Eyes, Masterclass, The Forsyte Saga and The Money Programme set the standard for years to come. Sir Attenborough also commissioned series on a grand scale: Kenneth Clark's Civilisation and Jacob Bronowski's Ascent of Man remain two of the great creations of television.

title: Attenborough's Ark

overview: David Attenborough chooses his ten favorite animals that he would most like to save from extinction. From the weird to the wonderful, he picks fabulous and unusual creatures that he would like to put in his 'ark', including unexpected and little-known animals such as the olm, the solenodon and the quoll. He shows why they are so important and shares the ingenious work of biologists across the world who are helping to keep them alive.

title: Attenborough's Big Birds

overview: Meet the big birds, a feathered family who have never flown a day in their lives! From ostriches to kiwis, these bizarre birds appear to be nature's greatest novelty act. How they came to be and how they continue to survive is a fascinating tale that has long captivated Sir David Attenborough. It is a story of dedicated dads, enormous eggs and a serious need for speed. And far from being the court jesters of the animal world, these flightless curiosities once nearly ruled the land.

title: Attenborough's Wonder of Song

overview: Sir David Attenborough chooses his favourite recordings from the natural world that have revolutionised our understanding of song. Each one - from the song of the largest lemur to the song of the humpback whale to the song of the lyrebird - was recorded in his lifetime.  When Sir David was born, the science of song had already been transformed by Charles Darwin’s theory of sexual selection: singing is dangerous as it reveals the singer’s location to predators, but it also offers the male a huge reward, the chance to attract a female and pass on genes to the next generation. Hence males sing and females don't.

title: Attenborough and the Mammoth Graveyard

overview: Sir David Attenborough joins an archaeological dig uncovering Britain's biggest mammoth discovery in almost 20 years. In 2017, in a gravel quarry near Swindon, two amateur fossil hunters found an extraordinary cache of Ice Age mammoth remains and a stone hand-axe made by a Neanderthal.

title: Leopard: The Agent of Darkness

overview: In this documentary produced by the BBC, Sir David Attenborough leads us through an examination of the lives of two leopards living in Zambia’s Luangwa Valley.

title: Humpback Whale: The Giant of the Oceans

overview: Latest research shows the humpback whales’ song to be a weapon used in verbal exchanges between bulls fighting over females. These battles can sometimes turn physical, sometimes endangering mothers with vulnerable calves.

title: Cougars Undercover

overview: This documentary follows the lives and hardships of several cougars (mountain lions) which have been under study by the Teton Cougar Project since 2000.

title: Islands of the Vampire Birds

overview: The story of Darwin's finches and their relationship with other creatures of the Galapagos; tracing their evolution, how the islands were formed and how it's main inhabitants got there.

title: Elsa the Lioness

overview: First transmitted in 1961, David Attenborough travels to Meru National Park in Kenya to visit Joy and George Adamson and meet Elsa the lioness and her cubs shortly before Elsa's death.

title: Zoo Quest to West Africa

overview: In September 1954, David Attenborough, cameraman Charles Lagus, Jack Lester and Alf Woods, both from the Zoological Society of London, set out for Sierra Leone. They spent three months intently surveying the landscapes of Sierra Leone in search of nature’s rarest animals. Although predominantly searching for Picathartes gymnocephalus (the White-necked Rockfowl) they hoped to take back to London a representative collection of the whole of animal life in this part of Africa.

title: Killer Whales: Wolves of the Sea

overview: Do they really launch themselves onto the shore to grab a hapless snack? See for yourself, and gain a vivid appreciation for their appetites and skills.  While your jaw drops at their fearsome agility, you’ll also be learning about their migratory and other behaviours from scientists who observe them daily and strive to increase our understanding of their needs for survival.  In this National Geographic ‘Wildlife Special’ you’ll journey around the globe to see their extraordinary hunting techniques in action.

title: Attenborough and the Giant Egg

overview: David Attenborough returns to the island of Madagascar on a very personal quest.  In 1960 he visited the island to film one of his first ever wildlife series, Zoo Quest. Whilst he was there, he acquired a giant egg. It was the egg of an extinct bird known as the 'elephant bird' - the largest bird that ever lived. It has been one of his most treasured possessions ever since.  Fifty years older, he now returns to the island to find out more about this amazing creature and to see how the island has changed. Could the elephant bird's fate provide lessons that may help protect Madagascar's remaining wildlife?  Using Zoo Quest archive and specially shot location footage, this film follows David as he revisits scenes from his youth and meets people at the front line of wildlife protection. On his return, scientists at Oxford University are able to reveal for the first time how old David's egg actually is - and what that might tell us about the legendary elephant bird.

title: Gorillas Revisited with Sir David Attenborough

overview: David Attenborough recounts his very personal experiences with the mountain gorillas of Rwanda. Ever since they were discovered over a century ago, these remarkable creatures have been threatened by loss of habitat, poaching, disease and political instability. But despite all odds their numbers have increased. David tells the extraordinary tale of how conservationists like Dian Fossey have battled to save the mountain gorilla from the brink of extinction.

original_title: Gorillas Revisited with Sir David Attenborough

title: Uncovering Our Earliest Ancestor: The Link

overview: Explores the story behind the discovery of an early primate fossil, Darwinius masillae, nicknamed Ida, in a shale quarry in Germany. The fossil is believed to be around 47 million years old, and is extraordinarily well-preserved. Originally unearthed in 1983, Ida lay in the hands of a private collector for 20 years before it was shown to a Norwegian paleontologist, Dr Jørn Hurum. Realising that Ida could turn out to be a significant missing link between modern primates, lemurs and lower mammals, he persuaded the Natural History Museum in Oslo to purchase the fossil and assembled an international team of experts to study it. Their findings were announced in a press conference and the online publication of a scientific paper on 19 May 2009.

original_title: Uncovering Our Earliest Ancestor: The Link

title: A Blank on the Map

overview: In his now well-known role of narrator of wildlife expeditions, Attenborough accompanies a government-sponsored trek into the central New Guinea highlands to make contact with a group of natives never before seen by Europeans.

title: The Amber Time Machine

overview: David Attenborough searches for the identities of preserved creatures inside a piece of Baltic amber that was given to him by his adoptive sister when he was twelve years old.

title: Dinosaurs: The Final Day with David Attenborough

overview: David Attenborough brings to life, in unprecedented detail, the last days of the dinosaurs.  Palaeontologist Robert DePalma has made an incredible discovery in a prehistoric graveyard: fossilised creatures, astonishingly well preserved, that could help change our understanding of the last days of the dinosaurs. Evidence from his site records the day when an asteroid bigger than Mount Everest devastated our planet and caused the extinction of the dinosaurs. Based on brand new evidence, witness the catastrophic events of that day play out minute by minute.

original_title: Dinosaurs: The Final Day with David Attenborough

title: The Penguin King

overview: South Georgia - alone in a vast ocean. 900 miles from Antarctica, and a mere 100 miles long. A wild rugged landscape with mountain ranges, vast glaciers, windblown plains half buried beneath snow and ice. Three years ago, the Penguin King left home. Now he is returning to the place where he was born and raised: Penguin City. One of the most densely-packed, sought-after pieces of real estate in the entire southern hemisphere and somehow he must establish his own place in it. He must find a mate.

title: Parkinson at 50

overview: Sir Michael Parkinson looks back over his 50 years as a broadcaster, revealing some tricks of the interview trade and remembering some of his favourite encounters.

title: Attenborough's Journey

overview: Following David Attenborough as he travels the globe to film his series, David Attenborough's First Life, in which he explores the very origins of life on Earth.  David journeys to the parts of the world which have had special meaning to him during his 50 years of broadcasting. Beginning near his boyhood Leicestershire home, where he first collected fossils, he then travels to Morocco's arid deserts, the glaciers of Canada and crystal clear waters of Australia's Great Barrier Reef.  As a prelude to the First Life series, Attenborough's Journey provides a unique insight into the mind and character of one of the world's most iconic broadcasters as he shares his passions for the natural world. Combining his global journey for First Life and archive material looking back at his illustrious career both as a programme maker and a controller of the BBC, the film reveals what makes him tick.

title: Attenborough: 60 Years in the Wild

overview: Over three very personal films, Sir David Attenborough looks back at the unparalleled changes in natural history that he has witnessed during his 60-year career.

title: Great Natural Wonders of the World

overview: 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.

title: The Many Lives of Richard Attenborough

overview: Two-part Arena special celebrating the life and distinguished career of one of Britain's best-loved public figures. Lord Attenborough's film CV as actor stretches from Brighton Rock to Jurassic Park, while as director he has been responsible for Oh! What a Lovely War, Shadowlands and Gandhi. He has also been integral to the work of many charities, while his support for minority groups has led to the building of a Centre for Disability and the Arts. Part one examines his early career and follows Attenborough as he visits his childhood home, travels to Brighton and Hove, and reminisces with brothers John and Sir David. Part two explores his other lives as chancellor of Sussex University and vice-president of Chelsea FC, and examines the political commitment behind films such as Cry Freedom and 10 Rillington Place.

title: Jaguars: Brazil's Super Cats

title: Attenborough at 90

overview: In celebration of his ninetieth birthday, Sir David Attenborough shares extraordinary highlights of his life and career with broadcaster Kirsty Young, including the inspiring people he has met, the extraordinary journeys he has made and the remarkable animal encounters he has had across the globe. Joined by colleagues and friends, including Michael Palin and Chris Packham, Sir David shares some of the unforgettable moments from his unparalleled career, from capturing unique animal behaviour for the first time to the fast-paced advances in wildlife filming technology, as well as stories of the wonder and fragility of the natural world - stories that Sir David has spent his life exploring and championing.

title: Robbie the Reindeer: Legend of the Lost Tribe

overview: Follow Robbie as he sets out to discover a mythical tribe of lost Viking warriors to help him save his friends from another dastardly plot by the evil Blitzen and his new-found partner-in-crime The White Rabbit. Robbie is having girl trouble too - Donner is feeling neglected and decides to give Robbie an ultimatum. Can Robbie save the day, keep his girl and unravel the mystery of the Legend of the Lost Tribe?

original_title: Robbie the Reindeer: Legend of the Lost Tribe

title: Trek - Spy on the Wildebeest

overview: 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.

title: David Attenborough's Natural History Museum Alive

overview: Regular opening times do not apply as we accompany Sir David Attenborough on an after-hours journey around London’s Natural History Museum, one of his favourite haunts. The museum's various exhibits come to life, including dinosaurs, reptiles and creatures from the ice age.

original_title: David Attenborough's Natural History Museum Alive

title: Snow Leopard: Beyond the Myth

overview: BBC The Natural World.  In 2004, a team from the Planet Earth series captured the first ever film of a wild snow leopard in the mountains of Pakistan. For Nisar Malik, who led the expedition, these images sparked a passion that compelled him to return. With cameraman Mark Smith, he spent two years documenting the snow leopard's daily life, finally lifting the veil on the most elusive of all cats.

title: When Björk Met Attenborough

overview: 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.

title: Galapagos with David Attenborough

overview: Two hundred years after Charles Darwin set foot on the shores of the Galápagos Islands, David Attenborough travels to this wild and mysterious archipelago. Amongst the flora and fauna of these enchanted volcanic islands, Darwin formulated his groundbreaking theories on evolution. Journey with Attenborough to explore how life on the islands has continued to evolve in biological isolation, and how the ever-changing volcanic landscape has given birth to species and sub-species that exist nowhere else in the world. Encompassing treacherous journeys, life-forms that forge unlikely companionships, and survival against all odds, Galápagos tells the story of an evolutionary melting pot in which anything and everything is possible.

title: Deep Blue

overview: Deep Blue is a major documentary feature film shot by the BBC Natural History Unit. An epic cinematic rollercoaster ride for all ages, Deep Blue uses amazing footage to tell us the story of our oceans and the life they support.

title: Fabulous Frogs

overview: Sir David Attenborough takes us on a journey through the weird and wonderful world of frogs, shedding new light on these charismatic, colorful and frequently bizarre little animals through first-hand stories, the latest science, and cutting-edge technology. Frogs from around the world are used to demonstrate the wide variety of frog anatomy, appearance and behavior. Their amazing adaptations and survival techniques have made them the most successful of all amphibians.

title: Secret Lives of Orangutans

overview: Follow a multi-generational orangutan family through their treetop triumphs and travails in this immersive documentary narrated by David Attenborough.

title: Edwardian Insects on Film

overview: In 1908, amateur naturalist and pioneering filmmaker Percy Smith stunned early cinema goers with his footage of the juggling fly. Hailed as the father of Natural History film, Smith was a hugely influential visual pioneer, inventing many techniques that are still used today. Being both a genius and an eccentric, we follow his life from his earliest films, to the collapse of his house from his mould experiment to his ultimate suicide. We also meet Natural History icon Sir David Attenborough, who was so amazed by Smith’s films in the 1930s that they inspired him to get into natural history.

title: A War on Science

overview: When Charles Darwin published his theory of evolution nearly 150 years ago, he shattered the dominant belief of his day – that humans were the product of divine creation. Through his observations of nature, Darwin proposed the theory of evolution by natural selection. This caused uproar. After all, if the story of creation could be doubted, so too could the existence of the creator. Ever since its proposal, this cornerstone of biology has sustained wave after wave of attack. Now some scientists fear it is facing the most formidable challenge yet: a controversial new theory called intelligent design.

title: Attenborough's Paradise Birds

overview: David Attenborough tells the remarkable story of how these " birds of paradise " have captivated explorers , naturalists, artists, filmmakers and even royalty.

title: Africa's Fishing Leopards

overview: David Attenborough narrates the intimate story of a leopard mother and her two cubs. This very special family must survive in the wilds of Botswana alongside some less-than-friendly neighbours: lions, wild dogs and hyenas. The competition for food is tough, and if they are going to make it they must learn a new skill - they must learn to fish. This is an epic family drama. With them every step of the way is local cameraman Brad Bestelink. Brad's 18-month journey following the lives of these secretive big cats offers a rare glimpse into an otherwise hidden world

title: Tiger: The Elusive Princess

overview: After 25 years of the Project Tiger Scheme operating in the Madhya Pradesh, these magnificent animals have become more trusting, permitting an extraordinary intimate film which follows them from sunrise to sunset, in monsoon rains and in shimmering heat

title: Tales of Television Centre

overview: Various actors, presenters, directors and other staff who have worked at the iconic BBC Television Centre at Shepherd's Bush in London reminisce about their time there.

title: Cheetahs: Growing Up Fast

overview: David Attenborough narrates this astonishing story of a wild cheetah family. Known for being fast, captivating and extremely elusive, cameraman Kim Wolhuter offers a new insight into their remarkable lives. For nearly two years, he walked alongside a wild cheetah mother and her young family to unravel in intimate detail what it takes to turn tiny cubs into accomplished predators

title: General Studies: An Everyday Miracle

overview: In this BBC documentary directed by Andrew Neal and narrated by David Attenborough, modern medical imaging allows scientists and doctors to observe human development in the womb as never before. Following the stages of pregnancy from conception to birth, the film reveals the complex biological processes that shape the earliest months of human life.  (Note: Standalone BBC2 documentary (1981) broadcast within the "General Studies" strand but produced and credited as an independent titled program.)

title: The Trials of Life

title: Attenborough and the Giant Dinosaur

overview: David Attenborough tells the story of the discovery and reconstruction in Argentina of the world's largest-known dinosaur, a brand new species of titanosaur.

title: Autopsy on a Dream

overview: In 1968, John Weiley shot 'Autopsy on a Dream' - a film about the Sydney Opera House detailing its construction process and the politics of Jorn Utzon's dismissal. Weiley's film was controversial; it was screened once and then he was told it had been destroyed. Forty five years later a copy was discovered in the BBC vaults by an ABC producer looking for archive footage of the Opera House. Weiley was contacted and told about a film that had no sound track. Weiley was overjoyed; for years he had kept the original sound. So began the painstaking process of restoring this record of a unique moment in Australian culture to its former glory, complete with updated voice-over from the original narrator, Bob Ellis. It is set in context by a 30 minute prologue entitled 'The Dream of Perfection'. Made by the same filmmaker, John Weiley, forty-five years on, 'Dream of Perfection' tells the story of the 1968 film - from commission to destruction, to surprise resurrection.

title: The Dragons of Galapagos

overview: This is the story of the incredible struggle for survival of the dragons of the Galapagos. On the island of Fernandina, each year Land Iguanas migrate up the steep slopes of the 5000ft active volcano to lay their eggs in the warm soil. If the rim of the crater is fully occupied they have to climb 1 km down the steep crater walls to the floor below. Many are killed finding a path down as the walls are steep & dangerously unstable causing many landslides.

title: The Lost Gods of Easter Island

overview: 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.

title: Attenborough at 90: Behind the Lens

overview: As Sir David Attenborough turns 90, this intimate film presents new interviews, eye-opening behind-the-scenes footage and extraordinary clips from some of his most recent films. The doc, which was made for the occasion of Attenborough’s 90th birthday, was shot over seven years and follows him as he travels to Borneo, Morocco and the Galapagos to shoot wildlife specials. Anthony Geffen, the CEO of Atlantic Productions, commented, “This is such a special Attenborough film because unusually he is the subject. As I look back over the last seven years, I never fail to be amazed by his extraordinary ambition and drive to use the very latest technology to communicate the natural world to audiences around the globe. This film gives audiences the chance to see what it’s like to be on the road with David.”

title: Zoo Quest in Colour

overview: Thanks to a 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 10 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 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.

title: Attenborough's Life That Glows

overview: Luminous beings, creatures with their own internal light, enchant and astonish us. Anyone who has seen a firefly or a glow-worm cannot help but fall under their spell. The sea at night sparkles as millions of luminous plankton reveal the shapes of dolphins in a truly magical light show.  Join Sir David Attenborough and a team of the world's leading scientists and deep sea explorers on a quest to reveal the secrets of living lights.

title: David Attenborough Meets President Obama

overview: On his 89th birthday, renowned English broadcaster and naturalist Sir David Attenborough pays his first ever visit to the White House to be interviewed by one of his biggest fans, United States President Barack Obama.

original_title: David Attenborough Meets President Obama

title: Aliens From Inner Space

overview: An incredible look at cephalopods – squids, octopi, and cuttlefish, from the Wildlife on One series. Filmed from Hawaii to the Gulf of Mexico, and using computers, scientists study the shape and color-changing abilities of these bizarre animals. Narrated by David Attenborough.  (This film was shown on BBC as Season 12, Episode 2 of Wildlife on One.  This listing is for the 16mm film release.)

title: The Kiwi, The Knight and the Qashqai

overview: Follows Anna Williams, an Oriental carpet repairer from New Zealand, on a pilgrimage to Iran, where she stays with the Qashqai, and then to London where she meets Sir David Attenborough to talk about the Qashqai and their traditionally woven rugs.

title: Superfish: Bluefin Tuna

overview: 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.

title: Desert Seas

overview: 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.

title: David Attenborough: A Life on Earth

overview: The incredible journey and illustrious career of one of the most travelled men in history, this documentary tells the story of how Sir David Attenborough came to be the voice of modern natural history programs by bringing the natural world into our homes.

title: Hummingbirds: Jewelled Messengers

overview: David Attenborough narrates this close up look at these tiny pollinators captured in flight as never before. Acrobats of the air - flying jewels - iridescent partners of countless plants: hummingbirds are amongst the most remarkable creatures on our planet.

title: Legends of the Deep: Deep Sea Sharks

overview: Groundbreaking documentary which follows a Japanese-led team of scientists as they attempt to shed light on the mysterious world of deep sea sharks.  Only 50 specimens of the newly discovered 'megamouth' have ever been sighted. Over four years, scientists and film crews voyaged in midget submarines into the depths of Suruga Bay and Sagami Bay to film them. Prehistoric 'living fossil' sharks such as bluntnose sixgill sharks, goblin sharks and frilled sharks also lurk in the depths.  As part of the investigation, a sperm whale carcass was placed at the bottom of the sea to attract these sharks, which were then studied and observed from the submersible vessels. Revealing in detail the previously unknown behaviour of deep sea sharks, the film unravels another of the intriguing mysteries of our planet's biodiversity.

title: Attenborough and the Giant Elephant

overview: 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.  Attenborough joins a team of scientists and conservationists to unravel the complex and mysterious story of this large African elephant - an elephant many believed to be the biggest in the world. With unique access to Jumbo's skeleton at the American Museum of Natural History, the team work together to separate myth from reality. How big was Jumbo really? How was he treated in captivity? And how did he die? Jumbo's bones may offer vital clues.

title: And the Winner Isn't

overview: A satirical documentary charting Geoffrey Moore and his daughter Ambra’s journey through Hollywood, as the pair track down celebrities and industry insiders in their bid to find out what it takes to become an Academy Award winner.

title: A Zed & Two Noughts

overview: Identical twin zoologists lose their wives in a car crash caused by a white swan. They become obsessed with the death and decay of animals, and develop a strange and unusual relationship with the driver of the car, a woman who is now an amputee.

title: Attenborough and the Sea Dragon

overview: Sir David Attenborough investigates the discovery of a 200 million year old Ichthyosaur on the Jurassic Coast in southern England. Using state of the art technology and CGI David brings the story of the fossilised ichthyosaur out of the rock and shows us what this creature was really like as it lived during the Jurassic time period.

title: Attenborough's Wonder of Eggs

overview: David Attenborough has a passion for birds' eggs. These remarkable structures nurture new life, protecting it from the outside world at the same time as allowing it to breathe. They are strong enough to withstand the full weight of an incubating parent and weak enough to allow a chick to break free.  But how is an egg made? Why are they the shape they are? And perhaps most importantly, why lay an egg at all? Piece by piece, from creation to hatching, David reveals the wonder behind these miracles of nature.

title: The Queen's Green Planet

overview: Featuring a unique conversation between The Queen and Sir David Attenborough as they walked in the garden at Buckingham Palace last summer, a landmark documentary will explore the ambition of a remarkable new initiative - a vast network of native forests across Britain and the Commonwealth, protected forever in The Queen's name.

title: Attenborough Explores... Our Fragile World

overview: Sir David Attenborough takes a look at the potentially devastating impact of climate change.

original_title: Attenborough Explores... Our Fragile World

title: Animal House

overview: Animals across the globe reveal themselves to be natural architects and engineers in this special highlights their unique construction skills.

title: Bears: Spy in the Woods

overview: Attenborough's team travels the globe for up-close looks at polar bears, grizzlies, pandas and other fascinating bear species.

title: The Greatest Wildlife Show on Earth

overview: 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.

title: Satoyama: Japan's Secret Watergarden

overview: Each home has a built in pool or water tank that lies partly inside, partly outside its’ walls… A continuous stream of spring water is piped right into a basin, so freshwater is always available. People rinse out pots in the tank and clean their freshly picked vegetables. If they simply pour the food scraps back in the water, they risk polluting the whole village supply. However, carp can scour out even the greasy or burnt pans. They do the washing up in Satoyama villages. This traditional arrangement is called the riverside method. It’s used all over Japan. Cleaned up by the carp, the tank water eventually rejoins the channel.

title: Pangolins: The World's Most Wanted Animal

overview: In Namibia, conservationist Maria Diekmann found herself on the frontline of the battle to save these wanted animals after unexpectedly becoming a surrogate mother to an orphaned baby pangolin named Honey Bun. On an emotional journey, Diekmann travels to Asia to better understand the global issues facing pangolins, before joining forces with a Chinese megastar to help build a campaign to bring awareness to the plight of these surprisingly charming creatures.

original_title: Pangolins: The World's Most Wanted Animal

title: Life on Air: David Attenborough's 50 Years in Television

overview: Life on Air: David Attenborough's 50 Years in Television is a BBC documentary film that recounts David Attenborough's television career. It is presented by Michael Palin and produced by Brian Leith.  The BBC first transmitted the documentary in 2002 and is part of the Attenborough in Paradise and Other Personal Voyages collection of 7 documentaries. It includes interviews with Attenborough and several of his former colleagues, along with archival footage.

original_title: Life on Air: David Attenborough's 50 Years in Television

title: Lions: Spy in the Den

overview: A nature documentary narrated by David Attenborough and published by BBC broadcasted as part of BBC Wildlife Specials in 2000. A motorised camera with state-of-the-art microphones disguised as a rock covered in leaves. It was invented specifically for this project of infiltrating a pride of lions to record their lives over a period of a couple of years.

title: Deep Ocean: Descent into the Mariana Trench

overview: Exploring an unknown world 10,000 m beneath the waves. After capturing a giant squid on film, NHK's deep-sea film crew explores our planet's deepest point The Mariana Trench is nearly 7 miles deep. The water pressure is immense, and it's a world that's long been out of our reach. What creatures could survive such hostile conditions? This is an expedition to explore the earth's deepest frontier. Narrated By David Attenborough.

original_title: Deep Ocean: Descent into the Mariana Trench

title: David Attenborough's Tasmania

overview: Tasmania lies on the Australian continent, but is a world apart. It is home to an extraordinary cast of black devils and white wallabies. Trees here tower to one hundred metres and green lights dance in the southern sky. As the last landfall heading south before Antarctica, Tasmania's isolation, cooler climate and distinct seasons influence everything.

title: Mad and Bad: 60 Years of Science on TV

overview: From Raymond Baxter live on Tomorrow's World testing a new-fangled bulletproof vest on a nervous inventor to Doctor Who's contemporary spin on the War on Terror, British television and the Great British public have been fascinated with the brave new world offered up by science on TV. Narrated by Robert Webb, this documentary takes a fantastic, incisive and funny voyage through the rich heritage of science TV in the UK, from real science programmes (including The Sky At Night, Horizon, Tomorrow's World, The Ascent of Man) to science-fiction (such as The Quatermass Experiment, Doctor Who, Doomwatch, Blake's 7, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy), to find out what it tells us about Britain over the last 60 years.

title: Björk: Biophilia Live

overview: From a mind unlike any other, Biophilia Live chronicles the multidimensional concert centered on the eighth studio album of avant-garde Icelandic artist Björk. Nick Fenton and Peter Strickland, unique voices in their own right, film Björk live in performance and punctuate her music with evocative animation and science and nature footage. The infinitely creative journey presents a culmination of work that represents one of the most original musical endeavors of a generation.

title: Climate Change: The Facts

overview: After one of the hottest years on record, Sir David Attenborough looks at the science of climate change and potential solutions to this global threat. Interviews with some of the world’s leading climate scientists explore recent extreme weather conditions such as unprecedented storms and catastrophic wildfires. They also reveal what dangerous levels of climate change could mean for both human populations and the natural world in the future.

title: Planet Earth II: A World of Wonder

overview: A compilation episode of the wildlife documentary series presented by David Attenborough, uncovering the secrets of animals across the globe.

title: Our Planet: Behind the Scenes

overview: Years spent recording footage of creatures from every corner of the globe is bound to produce a bit of drama. Here's a behind-the-scenes look.

title: Wild Karnataka

overview: 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.

title: Whale Wisdom

overview: Whales have long been a profound mystery to us. They live in a world so removed from our own that we can barely imagine their lives. Their environment is different, their senses are different, their relationships are different. How might such almost alien creatures see the world?

title: Diving Deep: The Life and Times of Mike deGruy

overview: Diving Deep: The Life and Times of Mike deGruy, tells the story of Mike deGruy, an irrepressibly curious and enthusiastic underwater filmmaker who died suddenly in 2012. DeGruy filmed the oceans for more than three decades becoming as famous for his on camera storytelling as for his glorious, intimate visions of the sea and the creatures who live in it. Inspired to share his legacy as a filmmaker and storyteller, and to spread his mission for protecting the ocean, his wife and filmmaking partner Mimi deGruy returned to the edit room to produce Diving Deep: The Life and Times of Mike deGruy.

original_title: Diving Deep: The Life and Times of Mike deGruy

title: David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet

overview: The story of life on our planet by the man who has seen more of the natural world than any other. In more than 90 years, 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. Addressing the biggest challenges facing life on our planet, the film offers a powerful message of hope for future generations.

original_title: David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet

title: The Forum

overview: In times of rampant populism and increasing distrust of the elite, the filmmaker accompanies the 81-year-old founder of the controversial World Economic Forum over the period of one year in his efforts to implement his leitmotif: to improve the state of the world. Can the WEF contribute to solving global problems? Or is it rather an integral part of the problem?

title: Dragons and Damsels

overview: More beautiful than butterflies, more spectacular fliers than hummingbirds, and with intriguing behavior as complex as mammals or birds. They’ve been flying around for hundreds of millions of years, crossing paths with dinosaurs before we mammals were even a twinkle in the eye of evolution.

title: Into the Jungle

overview: Conservationists Jim and Jean Thomas braved the steamy jungles of Papua New Guinea to save a tree kangaroo from extinction and ended up providing water and sanitation to ten thousand people in one of the most remote places on earth.

title: Deep Ocean: The Lost World of the Pacific

overview: The same submarine which successfully captured the world's first moving images of a giant squid in its natural habitat is used for exploring the deep sea cliffs off the coast of New Guinea. The team encounters true living fossil species one after another. Join this exciting deep sea adventure!

original_title: Deep Ocean: The Lost World of the Pacific

title: Smart Sharks: Swimming With Roboshark

overview: A 6-foot-long animatronic shark featuring on-board cameras, Robo Shark is designed to blend in with real sharks and capture never-before-seen wild shark behavior. Footage shown in this television special includes the deep-sea thresher shark in the Philippines; giant whale sharks feeding off the coast of Belize; and deadly hammerheads, great whites and bronze whaler sharks in South Africa.

title: David Attenborough: The Early Years

overview: Sir David Attenborough recalls moments from his early television career and discusses the stories behind them. Among the highlights are Sir David's first encounter with Born Free's Elsa the lioness, and being the first to film Indri lemurs using recordings of their calls to entice them out of hiding. Having recently completed the landmark natural history series Africa (2012), Sir David also talks about his very first trip to the continent in 1955 when filming 'Zoo Quest to West Africa'.

title: The Bat Man of Mexico

overview: David Attenborough narrates the story of Rodrigo Medellin, Mexico's very own 'Bat Man', who has dedicated his life to saving bats. Now the legendary drink tequila is also at stake.

title: Richmond Park National Nature Reserve

overview: Richmond Park – National Nature Reserve, presented by Sir David Attenborough, is an award-winning film by conservation charity the Friends of Richmond Park.  Filmed by experienced wildlife film makers (including a leading cameraman from Blue Planet II). The film won first prize in the 2018 Charity Film Awards in the 'Documentary/Long Form' category. Sir David explains in the film:  “Richmond Park is not just a local park it's London's own National Nature Reserve with thousands of species of flora and fauna; but with 5.5 million visitors each year, the Park is under immense pressure. However, as visitors we can all help to protect it through simple actions so that it will remain a wonderful place for the enjoyment of future generations”.

title: Extinction: The Facts

overview: With a million species at risk of extinction, Sir David Attenborough explores how this crisis of biodiversity has consequences for us all, threatening food and water security, undermining our ability to control our climate and even putting us at greater risk of pandemic diseases.

title: Prince William: A Planet For Us All

overview: With exclusive access across two years, this film is an intimate portrayal of Prince William, following him as we’ve never seen him before on a global mission to champion action for the natural world and celebrate the pioneering work of local heroes.

title: Sir David Attenborough and Sir Michael Palin in Conversation

overview: Sir David Attenborough and Sir Michael Palin reflect on the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic and what it has taught us about global co-operation in tackling some of the biggest challenges our planet is faced with.

original_title: Sir David Attenborough and Sir Michael Palin in Conversation

title: Attenborough and the Empire of the Ants

overview: Sir David Attenborough is in the Swiss Jura Mountains to discover the secrets of a giant. Beneath his feet lies a vast network of tunnels and chambers, home to a huge empire of ants. It is believed to be one of the largest animal societies in the world, where over a billion ants from rival colonies live in peace.

title: The Secrets of Scott's Hut

overview: Ben Fogle ventures across the Antarctic to join the international effort to preserve Captain Scott's hut and its artefacts Scott's diaries. Includes readings from Scott's diaries.

title: Attenborough in Paradise

overview: David Attenborough travels to the forests of Papua New Guinea, where 38 of the 42 kinds of bird of paradise are found.

title: Desert Lions

overview: Many years ago lions thrived in the deserts of Namibia's Skeleton Coast, until they were exterminated by man. Six years ago maverick biologist Flip Stander discovered a tiny remnant population alive and well in nearby mountains, and started to study them. Their numbers have grown and they are now returning to the desert in increasing numbers. But if these lions are to continue roaming here, Flip will have to persuade local people that these lions are worth more alive than dead

title: World of Wildlife: African Big Cats

overview: Sir David Attenborough presents and narrates this wildlife series, a visual encyclopedia of the natural world. This episode looks at the fast, sleek and elegant cheetahs - supreme athletes and hunters of the animal world. Also the leopard, another deadly hunter, is observed in its natural habitat.

title: Legends of the Deep: The Giant Squid

overview: The giant squid is a creature of legend and myth which, even in the 21st century, has never been seen alive. But now, an international team of scientists thinks it has finally found its lair, 1,000 metres down, off the coast of Japan. This is the culmination of decades of research. The team deploys underwater robots and state-of-the-art submersible vessels for a world first - to find and film the impossible.

title: Clever Monkeys

overview: David Attenborough's entertaining romp through the world of monkeys has a serious side: for when we look at monkeys we can see ourselves. From memory to morality, from 'crying wolf' to politics, monkeys are our basic blueprint. Pygmy marmosets 'farm' tree sap; bearded capuchins in Brazil develop a production line for extracting palm nuts; white-faced capuchins in Costa Rica tenderly nurse the victims of battle; and in the Ethiopian highlands, a deposed gelada baboon has got the blues.

title: The Year Earth Changed

overview: Never-before-seen footage shows how our living in lockdown opened the door for nature to bounce back and thrive. Across the seas, skies, and lands, Earth found its rhythm when we came to a stop.

title: Can We Save Planet Earth?

overview: In the second of a two-part documentary, David Attenborough explores just how much climate change is altering our planet. He looks ahead to find out what needs to be done to save Planet Earth from the worst impact of global warming and discovers what could happen to the planet once a 'tipping point' of carbon emissions is reached. He also discusses the solutions we can all adopt to prevent catastrophic change.

title: Planet Earth: A Celebration

overview: David Attenborough, Hans Zimmer and Dave unite for a special Natural History event – Planet Earth: A Celebration. The special one-hour programme brings together eight of the most extraordinary sequences from Planet Earth II and Blue Planet II including racer snakes vs iguana, surfing bottlenose dolphins and rare footage of the Himalayan snow leopard.  Featuring new narration from David Attenborough, new compositions and arrangements from Hans Zimmer, Jacob Shea and the team at Bleeding Fingers and performed by the BBC Concert Orchestra, accompanied by Brit and Mercury Award-winning UK rapper Dave.  In these extraordinary times, there is one thing that can offer solace to everyone – the wonder of the natural world.

title: Breaking Boundaries: The Science of Our Planet

overview: David Attenborough and scientist Johan Rockström examine Earth's biodiversity collapse and how this crisis can still be averted.

original_title: Breaking Boundaries: The Science of Our Planet

title: Birds of Paradise

overview: Living in the depths of the New Guinean Rainforest are birds of unimaginable colour and beauty. When Europeans first saw the plumes of these fabulous creatures they believed they must be from heaven and called them Birds of Paradise. David Attenborough introduces a team of New Guinean naturalists as they embark on a gruelling expedition to try and film ten birds of paradise deep in the heart of the rainforest.

title: The Making of David Attenborough's Ant Mountain

overview: Enter the microscopic world of ants guided by Sir David Attenborough, and expert filmmaker Martin Dohrn. Get an exclusive look at the one-of-a-kind camera, that has allowed us to view the world of the ant and follow the lives of the worlds hardest working insects.

original_title: The Making of David Attenborough's Ant Mountain

title: Superfish

overview: The billfish are the biggest, fastest, and most dangerous gamefish in the sea. All have captured man's imagination like few other creatures, whether it's the graceful sailfish, the menacing swordfish or queen of them all, the marlin, immortalized by Hemingway in 'The Old Man and the Sea'. Marine biologist and film-maker Rick Rosenthal has travelled three oceans in his attempt to capture them all on film, and in doing so has become a passionate champion for these endangered yet little-known ocean giants.

title: Cue the Queen: Celebrating the Christmas Speech

overview: Kirsty Young takes a unique look at the story of the Royal Christmas broadcast and how the tradition started by King George V in 1932 has found a place at the heart of Christmas Day.

original_title: Cue the Queen: Celebrating the Christmas Speech

title: Timelapse of the Future: A Journey to the End of Time

overview: How's it all gonna end? This experience takes us on a journey to the end of time, trillions of years into the future, to discover what the fate of our planet and our universe may ultimately be. We start in 2019 and travel exponentially through time, witnessing the future of Earth, the death of the sun, the end of all stars, proton decay, zombie galaxies, possible future civilizations, exploding black holes, the effects of dark energy, alternate universes, the final fate of the cosmos - to name a few.

original_title: Timelapse of the Future: A Journey to the End of Time

title: Hot Tuna

overview: The underwater cinematographer, Rick Rosenthal follows the threatened Bluefin Tuna in their search for a safe refuge along the Atlantic.

title: The Making Of The Trials Of Life - Once More Into The Termite Mound

overview: Behind the scenes of the documentary series The Trials Of Life showing how some of the footage was captured and interviews with the experts that informed them.

original_title: The Making Of The Trials Of Life - Once More Into The Termite Mound

title: Squirrel on My Shoulder

overview: The story of an abandoned baby grey squirrel found by chance in the Oxfordshire countryside.

title: Attenborough's Life Journey

overview: An intimate portrait of Sir David Attenborough's life, from his boyhood days as a fossil hunter, through his early days as a BBC host, to his revered status as the foremost natural history presenter.

title: Barn Owl: Bird of Darkness

overview: Narrated by David Attenborough,  this film explores the private life of a pair of Barn Owls. Often associated with folklore and magic, there can be few more beautiful sights than a glimpse of this silent hunter on a summer's evening.

title: Ocean with David Attenborough

overview: David Attenborough takes viewers on a breathtaking journey showing there is nowhere more vital for our survival, more full of life, wonder, or surprise, than the ocean. Through spectacular sequences featuring coral reefs, kelp forests and the open ocean, Attenborough shares why a healthy ocean keeps the entire planet stable and flourishing.

title: The Minsmere Year

overview: Narrated by David Attenborough, this film showcases the bird diversity of the Minsmere Nature Reserve.

title: Saving the Storks with Sir David Attenborough

overview: The remarkable story of one woman raising an army of over 10,000 people to help save one of the rarest birds on Earth from the depths of extinction.

original_title: Saving the Storks with Sir David Attenborough

title: Living with Dinosaurs

overview: David Attenborough discovers that the descendants of the dinosaur age still thrive today. But how did they survive the cataclysmic events that wiped out their ancient ancestors?

title: A Deeper Dive with David Attenborough

overview: Additional footage and interviews on the making of Ocean.

title: The Living Thames

overview: Introduced by Sir David Attenborough, and presented by environmentalist Chris Baines, The Living Thames is an odyssey along the river as it meanders through London and flows out to sea, exploring its ever-changing ecology.

title: Conquest of The Skies 3D

title: Conquest of The Skies 3D

title: Water Life A World of Water

overview: A World of Water - Dive into the Blue Planet and discover amazing and diverse worlds brimming with color and life. From tropical rainforests to coral reefs, miraculous and mysterious water holds the secrets to life on Earth. Also includes the programs: The Wandering Water, Where Water is Born, Liquid Roads and The Quiet Flow.

title: Deep Ocean: Kingdom of the Coelacanth

overview: David Attenborough looks into the ocean's depths to discuss the coelacanth, a primeval fish hidden for 400 million years. Its mysterious movements reveal vital clues about life's journey from sea to land, as well as secrets of evolution and survival.

title: My Favourite Attenborough Moment

overview: Celebrity admirers of Attenborough's work (including Joanna Lumley, Björk and several presenters and producers from the BBC Natural History Unit) introduced a shortlist of twenty highlights from Attenborough's nature documentaries and advocated their particular favourites.

title: Your Favourite Attenborough Moment

overview: Counting down the top 20 moments from David Attenborough's many series, according to audience votes. Featuring the clips and comments from selected talent and, of course, words from Sir David himself.

title: Birds of the Sun God

overview: David Attenborough narrates the natural history of hummingbirds.

title: Jane Goodall - Beauty and the Beasts

overview: Documentary about Jane Goodall, a young secretary from Bournemouth with no scientific qualifications, who entered a remote forest in Africa in 1960 and became accepted by a group of wild chimpanzees. Her discoveries transformed our understanding of them and challenged the way we define ourselves as human beings by showing just how close we are as a species to our closest living relatives. In the film, we discover the person behind the myth, what motivates her and the personal cost her life's work has exacted from her.

title: Deep Ocean: Lights in the Abyss

overview: 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. They will give us a look at the amazing life forms with luminous bodies that have survived the harsh, pitch-dark deep-sea environment of the Pacific.

title: Baobab: Portrait of a Tree

overview: Looks at the baobab trees that grow in the dry bush country of Africa and shows the ecosystem created by them.

title: Wild London

overview: After a life spent travelling the globe, the world’s most famous naturalist turns his attention closer to home to explore the wildlife of England’s iconic capital. Having lived in London for 75 years, Sir David has an intimate knowledge of the city’s natural history, and there's no better guide to introduce us to its most spectacular wildlife secrets. Captured over his centennial year, this personal and poignant film is a timely insight into how cities can become homes for wildlife as well as ourselves.

title: Sir David Attenborough – A Life on Earth

overview: Sir David Attenborough is larger than life, his distinctive voice as recognisable as his name. In this program, renowned Australian journalist Ray Martin turns the cameras away from the beloved wildlife Sir David has spent his life documenting and onto the man himself. The show is an edited interview culled from a series of sold-out events held in theatres across Australia in 2012 and 2013.

original_title: Sir David Attenborough – A Life on Earth

title: Great White Shark - The Silent Stalker

overview: Using revolutionary filming techniques we are given the opportunity to follow the great white shark into its natural habitats.

title: A Gorilla Story: Told by David Attenborough

overview: Veteran naturalist Sir David Attenborough tells the story of a remarkable group of gorillas, from his first encounter in the '70s to the present day.

original_title: A Gorilla Story: Told by David Attenborough

title: NHKスペシャル 映像詩 里山II 命めぐる水辺

original_title: NHKスペシャル 映像詩 里山II 命めぐる水辺

title: Queen Elizabeth II: Her Story, Our Century

overview: Marking what would have been Queen Elizabeth II’s 100th year, this landmark documentary tells the story of her life alongside a century of momentous change in Britain. Through archive and eyewitness reflections, the film explores how she led the monarchy through profound social, political and cultural change. Contributions from some of Britain’s best-known faces and international figures, including Dame Helen Mirren, Sir David Attenborough, Barack Obama and Queen Camilla, reveal how she remained a constant in a changing world.

original_title: Queen Elizabeth II: Her Story, Our Century

title: David Attenborough's 100 Years on Planet Earth

overview: A 90-minute special, broadcast from the Royal Albert Hall, London, celebrating Sir David Attenborough's groundbreaking career on the day of his 100th birthday.

original_title: David Attenborough's 100 Years on Planet Earth

title: Making Life on Earth: Attenborough’s Greatest Adventure

overview: In 1976, David Attenborough embarked on the most ambitious television series he had ever attempted. This is the hair-raising story of how the first wildlife blockbuster was born.

original_title: Making Life on Earth: Attenborough’s Greatest Adventure

title: The Million Pound Bird Book

overview: Biography of American naturalist John James Audubon.

title: David Attenborough's Animals of the British Countryside - Land Mammals

overview: David Attenborough introduces the mammals of Britain.

original_title: David Attenborough's Animals of the British Countryside - Land Mammals

title: Dinosaur Apocalypse

overview: In the Badlands of North Dakota, a team of scientists think they might have found the fossilized remains of animals killed on the day an asteroid struck Earth 66 million years ago. The evidence points to a catastrophic event, with a jumble of rare fossils, including a pterosaur embryo still in its shell and a well-preserved patch of triceratops skin, mixed in with tiny spheres of clay and glass that could be the fallout from the massive asteroid impact. Sir David Attenborough guides us on a search for clues that could give an unprecedented snapshot of what happened in the dinosaurs’ final moments on Earth.

title: Great Mammoth Mystery

overview: Sir David Attenborough investigates a unique site in southern England where amateur fossil hunters uncovered giant mammoth bones and evidence of Neanderthals. A team of paleontologists and archaeologists soon discover that the site preserves rare evidence of the extinct beasts and early human inhabitants of Britain dating to over 200,000 years ago.

title: Reef Diaries

overview: Behind the scenes of David Attenborough's landmark series in which he visited the Great Barrier Reef, revealing how Sir David utilised the latest technology to explore the reef.

title: Deep Blue

title: Attenborough's Ark

title: Galapagos with David Attenborough

title: Charles Darwin and the Tree of Life

title: Bowerbirds: The Art of Seduction

title: The Song of the Earth

title: The Lost Gods of Easter Island

title: A Blank on the Map

title: Elsa the Lioness

title: Afrique sauvage - L'avenir en marche

title: Islands of the Vampire Birds

title: Zoo Quest to West Africa

title: Zoo Quest to West Africa

title: Zoo Quest in Colour

title: Attenborough and the Empire of the Ants

title: Attenborough in Paradise

title: Desert Lions

title: Survival Island

title: The Million Pound Bird Book

title: Climate Change: The Facts

title: Zoo Quest in Colour

title: Wild London

title: Charles Darwin and the Tree of Life

title: Survival Island

title: At Home with Badgers

title: A TV Dante

title: Richard Batterham, Master Potter

title: Satoyama I: Japan's Secret Watergarden

title: Hotel Armadillo

title: Mountain Lions: Big Cats in High Places

title: Puerto Rico: Island of Enchantment

title: Sperm Whales: Back from the Abyss

title: The Mating Game

title: Attenborough’s Journey

title: Attenborough and the Giant Sea Monster

title: Kea: The Smartest Parrot

title: The Private Life of Plants

title: Bowerbirds: The Art of Seduction

title: The Song of the Earth

title: Attenborough the Controller

title: Attenborough's Ark

title: Attenborough's Big Birds

title: Attenborough's Wonder of Song

title: Attenborough and the Mammoth Graveyard

title: Leopard: The Agent of Darkness

title: Humpback Whale: The Giant of the Oceans

title: Cougars Undercover

title: Islands of the Vampire Birds

title: Elsa the Lioness

title: Zoo Quest to West Africa

title: Killer Whales: Wolves of the Sea

title: Attenborough and the Giant Egg

title: The Amber Time Machine

title: A Blank on the Map

title: The Penguin King

title: Parkinson at 50

title: Attenborough's Journey

title: Attenborough: 60 Years in the Wild

title: Great Natural Wonders of the World

title: The Many Lives of Richard Attenborough

title: Jaguars: Brazil's Super Cats

title: Attenborough at 90

title: Trek - Spy on the Wildebeest

title: Snow Leopard: Beyond the Myth

title: When Björk Met Attenborough

title: Galapagos with David Attenborough

title: Deep Blue

title: Fabulous Frogs

title: Secret Lives of Orangutans

title: Edwardian Insects on Film

title: A War on Science

title: Attenborough's Paradise Birds

title: Africa's Fishing Leopards

title: Tiger: The Elusive Princess

title: Tales of Television Centre

title: Cheetahs: Growing Up Fast

title: General Studies: An Everyday Miracle

title: The Trials of Life

title: Attenborough and the Giant Dinosaur

title: Autopsy on a Dream

title: The Dragons of Galapagos

title: The Lost Gods of Easter Island

title: Attenborough at 90: Behind the Lens

title: Zoo Quest in Colour

title: Attenborough's Life That Glows

title: Aliens From Inner Space

title: The Kiwi, The Knight and the Qashqai

title: Superfish: Bluefin Tuna

title: Desert Seas

title: David Attenborough: A Life on Earth

title: Hummingbirds: Jewelled Messengers

title: Legends of the Deep: Deep Sea Sharks

title: Attenborough and the Giant Elephant

title: And the Winner Isn't

title: A Zed & Two Noughts

title: Attenborough and the Sea Dragon

title: Attenborough's Wonder of Eggs

title: The Queen's Green Planet

title: Animal House

title: Bears: Spy in the Woods

title: The Greatest Wildlife Show on Earth

title: Satoyama: Japan's Secret Watergarden

title: Lions: Spy in the Den

title: David Attenborough's Tasmania

title: Mad and Bad: 60 Years of Science on TV

title: Björk: Biophilia Live

title: Climate Change: The Facts

title: Planet Earth II: A World of Wonder

title: Our Planet: Behind the Scenes

title: Wild Karnataka

title: Whale Wisdom

title: The Forum

title: Dragons and Damsels

title: Into the Jungle

title: Smart Sharks: Swimming With Roboshark

title: David Attenborough: The Early Years

title: The Bat Man of Mexico

title: Richmond Park National Nature Reserve

title: Extinction: The Facts

title: Prince William: A Planet For Us All

title: Attenborough and the Empire of the Ants

title: The Secrets of Scott's Hut

title: Attenborough in Paradise

title: Desert Lions

title: World of Wildlife: African Big Cats

title: Legends of the Deep: The Giant Squid

title: Clever Monkeys

title: The Year Earth Changed

title: Can We Save Planet Earth?

title: Planet Earth: A Celebration

title: Birds of Paradise

title: Superfish

title: Hot Tuna

title: Squirrel on My Shoulder

title: Attenborough's Life Journey

title: Barn Owl: Bird of Darkness

title: Ocean with David Attenborough

title: The Minsmere Year

title: Living with Dinosaurs

title: A Deeper Dive with David Attenborough

title: The Living Thames

title: Conquest of The Skies 3D

title: Conquest of The Skies 3D

title: Water Life A World of Water

title: Deep Ocean: Kingdom of the Coelacanth

title: My Favourite Attenborough Moment

title: Your Favourite Attenborough Moment

title: Birds of the Sun God

title: Jane Goodall - Beauty and the Beasts

title: Deep Ocean: Lights in the Abyss

title: Baobab: Portrait of a Tree

title: Wild London

title: Great White Shark - The Silent Stalker

title: NHKスペシャル 映像詩 里山II 命めぐる水辺

original_title: NHKスペシャル 映像詩 里山II 命めぐる水辺

title: The Million Pound Bird Book

title: Dinosaur Apocalypse

title: Great Mammoth Mystery

title: Reef Diaries

title: Deep Blue

title: Attenborough's Ark

title: Galapagos with David Attenborough

title: Charles Darwin and the Tree of Life

title: The Song of the Earth

title: Bowerbirds: The Art of Seduction

title: The Lost Gods of Easter Island

title: A Blank on the Map

title: Elsa the Lioness

title: Afrique sauvage - L'avenir en marche

title: Islands of the Vampire Birds

title: Zoo Quest to West Africa

title: Zoo Quest to West Africa

title: Zoo Quest in Colour

title: Attenborough and the Empire of the Ants

title: Attenborough in Paradise

title: Desert Lions

title: Survival Island

title: The Million Pound Bird Book