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- StarsDavid AttenboroughBackground to the origins of life on Earth and with the evidence of fossils, how some of today's living creatures can trace their ancestry back through the eons to those earliest of times.
- StarsDavid AttenboroughThe continuing story of the evolution of life on earth explores the earliest sea living invertebrates.
- StarsDavid AttenboroughExplores the first land living plants and insects, the problems they faced and how they overcame them.
- StarsDavid AttenboroughExamines the symbiosis between plants and insects together with how some insects have become super-organisms.
- StarsDavid AttenboroughTracing the evolution of fish leading to today's immense variety and ability to occupy remarkable environments.
- StarsDavid AttenboroughThe evolution of life continues with some fish moving on to the land and becoming amphibians.
- StarsDavid AttenboroughThe rise and evolution of reptiles including the history of dinosaurs.
- StarsDavid AttenboroughThe evolution of birds from their first reptilian ancestors to the immense variety of species we know today.
- StarsDavid AttenboroughTracing the early evolution of mammals that rose to prominence following the extinction of the dinosaurs and concentrating on today's egg laying mammals (monotremes) and marsupials.
- StarsDavid AttenboroughThe evolution of mammals continues with the focus on some placental species including emphasis on bats, whales and dolphins.
- StarsDavid AttenboroughA study into those mammals that became herbivores and their colonisation over many parts of the world. Also examines their main predators and defense strategies.
- StarsDavid AttenboroughContinues the mammal theme, by focusing on primates. Beginning with the lemurs of Madagascar, then describing the differences between old world and new world monkeys and concluding with a study of gorillas and chimpanzees.
- StarsDavid AttenboroughTracing the evolution of the human species from African ape to the prodigious colonization of the entire earth and the impact upon the planet both now and in the future.
- DirectorRichard BrockStarsDavid AttenboroughExplores how the surface of the Earth continually moves and transforms due to volcanic activity both above and below sea level and how animals and plants have adapted to cope with the varied resulting environments.
- StarsDavid AttenboroughHow some creatures and plants manage to overcome the harsh environments found at high altitude together with those prevailing in the Arctic and Antarctic.
- DirectorIan CalvertStarsDavid AttenboroughAn exploration of the various global forests in the northern hemisphere and how animal and plant life, both permanent and migratory, have to cope with changing seasons and climates.
- StarsDavid AttenboroughA study of tropical rain forests and how it's universal climate provides the habitats for the immense variety of flora and fauna that proliferate there.
- DirectorRichard MatthewsStarsDavid AttenboroughA study of the vast grasslands of the Earth and how they support a great variety of animal life from insects to large herbivores including their predators.
- StarsDavid AttenboroughRoasting temperatures during the day and equally cold temperatures at night, require both animals (incl. humans) and plants to adapt to extreme habitats including minimal availability of water.
- StarsDavid AttenboroughDescribes the ability of birds, insects and bats to fly including migration often over great distances; and how plant seeds defy gravity in order to disperse over a wide area.
- StarsDavid AttenboroughDavid Attenborough reveals the extraordinary variety of animal life that live both in or close to or otherwise depend on freshwater focusing principally on the Amazon river and other global freshwater expanses.
- StarsDavid AttenboroughFrom worms to crocodiles, all manner of creatures and plant life have to adapt to the unique habitat that exists where the land meets the sea and cope with the rise and fall of daily tides.
- StarsDavid AttenboroughHow isolation on islands and atolls has lead to unique diversity and specialization amongst animal and plant life together with the devastating results of human intervention.
- StarsDavid AttenboroughFrom plankton to whales, there is as much amazing diversity of life and habitats in the world's oceans as there is on land. A marine lifestyle presents unique problems for its inhabitants.
- StarsDavid AttenboroughOver the last 10,000 years, modern man has utilized his superior intellect to colonize most of the Earth in order to further his species; sometimes to the detriment of other creatures and damaging natural habitats and environments.
- StarsDavid AttenboroughHow the Mediterranean Sea was formed, separating Southern Europe from Northern Africa, what unique animals evolved there, and how migrating birds and other land and sea creatures became dependent on it for food, breeding and habitat.
- StarsDavid AttenboroughHow the early Man hunted, worshiped and eventually domesticated wild animals and plants of the Mediterranean region, only to, by the time of Ancient Rome, overexploit its rich natural resources through methods used even today.
- StarsDavid AttenboroughHow life in medieval times in the Mediterranean region was shaped by new trends like horse breeding and falconry, dark age superstitions, the plague and endless costly devastating wars like the Muslim invasion of Spain or the Crusades.
- StarsDavid AttenboroughHow the Suez Canal and the Nile dams changed the Mediterranean for the worse, and how modern-day issues like mass tourism, land development, oil spills, pollution and overexploitation threaten the future of all life in the region.
- StarsDavid AttenboroughIn the first of this four-part BBC series, David Attenborough shows us how ancient creatures have come to be preserved as fossils and how those fossils can shed light on characteristics of these creatures' lives, and even their death. He further demonstrates how scientists use a variety of ingenious methods to extract once living creatures and plants from their rocky tombs.
- StarsDavid AttenboroughUsing modern day creatures for comparison, scientists theorize what prehistoric animal traits seen within fossilized remains might have been used for during their period. Teaming together with aeronautical engineers, the Smithsonian Institution commissions a scale replica of a pterosaur to determine its flight capabilities.
- StarsDavid AttenboroughAttenborough visits several museums of natural history. With the aid of dinosaur skeletons, he demonstrates how they existed in real life, and speculates about the reasons for their sudden demise.
- StarsDavid AttenboroughIn this final installment to the series, David Attenborough travels to four unique locations about the globe where an abundance of fossilized plant and animal remains have given us a detailed picture of what life could have been like in prehistoric times. Each of the sites experienced its own set of circumstances which enabled it to preserve many perfect specimens for extraction and analysis. Piecing together the collected evidence, paleontologists have been able to determine early animal hierarchies, their diets and their evolutionary paths.
- DirectorMichael GuntonStarsDavid AttenboroughThe first dangerous step into a hazardous world. From egg laying to live-bearing mammals have adopted an extraordinary variety of techniques to give birth, but the release of an egg to the safe delivery of an infant is merely one step in the great journey through life.
- DirectorMichael GuntonStarsDavid AttenboroughFor some baby animals, the care of diligent parents smooths the way to adulthood. Whereas others are abandoned before their childhood is over. But whether cared for or not, the main trial remains the same; staying alive during this difficult period.
- DirectorMichael GuntonStarsDavid AttenboroughFinding enough to eat is a problem which faces every animal on the planet and since animals - unlike plants - cannot manufacture their own food, they have to eat other organisms which, by and large, don't welcome the experience.
- DirectorMichael GuntonStarsDavid AttenboroughKill or die. Escape or perish. Such life and death duels are fought on a daily basis in the wild between assassins and their victims and have fuelled a long evolutionary arms race.
- DirectorMichael GuntonStarsDavid AttenboroughHow do animals find their way around the globe with such extraordinary accuracy - an accuracy which we have only been able to match in recent years with satellite navigation.
- DirectorMichael GuntonStarsDavid AttenboroughTo create their hugely varied homes, animals become potters and plasterers, weavers and needleworkers, miners, masons, scaffolders, thatchers and sculptors.
- DirectorMichael GuntonStarsDavid AttenboroughWhole communities of different kinds of animals have been committed by evolution to live together. We show how some of these animal partnerships are ancient and intricate, whilst others are just being formed and that the delicate balance of benefit and exploitation is ever-changing.
- DirectorMichael GuntonStarsDavid AttenboroughFighting is most usually an expression of competition - for food, for land or for a mate. But all fights do not have to be expressed with physical violence. Some are also ritualised encounters in which conflict is waged by signals and in which the only damage done is psychological.
- DirectorMichael GuntonStarsDavid AttenboroughMany animals find it advantageous, essential even, to live in social groups where recognising friends and respecting the power of rivals is vital. However there are problems: inevitable squabbles over food, disputes over nesting places and arguments over mates.
- DirectorMichael GuntonStarsDavid AttenboroughAn exploration of the enormous variety of ways in which animals communicate and then by imitating or adopting some of these, David Attenborough demonstrates how he is able to "talk" to animals.
- DirectorMichael GuntonStarsDavid AttenboroughIn the animal kingdom all sorts of methods are employed to attract the best mate from singing, to fantastical displays of plumage, to stylish dance routines, and more violent strategies like the clashing of horns and the assaults on a rival's property.
- DirectorMichael GuntonStarsDavid AttenboroughA look at the ingenious strategies employed by animals in their desperate attempts to find and retain a mate.
- StarsDavid AttenboroughThis initial foray into Antarctica introduces viewers to the area and how ice governs all forms of life there.
- StarsDavid AttenboroughSpring begins in the sub-Antarctic islands.
- StarsDavid AttenboroughAnimals race to breed during the short Antarctic summer.
- StarsDavid AttenboroughSpecies cope as autumn returns and the ice begins to refreeze.
- StarsDavid AttenboroughA winter season of complete darkness envelops the island of ice.
- StarsDavid AttenboroughAttenborough traces the early exploration of Antarctica, as well as the making of the series.
- StarsDavid AttenboroughUsing time-lapse photography this episode examines the ways in which plants travel from place to place in search of a new area to grow in.
- StarsDavid AttenboroughThis episode shows the ways in which plants defend themselves against animals, and grow in search of sunlight, nutrients and water, all the elements needed to survive.
- StarsDavid AttenboroughThis instalment looks at the ways in which plants procreate. Examining how plants use brightly coloured flowers and sweet scents to lure animals to them so they can spread their seeds to other flowers.
- DirectorNeil LucasStarsDavid AttenboroughThis episode examines how plants either share environments harmoniously or compete for dominance within them. It looks at the ways in which plants have to fight to survive, using any means available, be it excessive growth, capitalizing on disaster or even courting.
- StarsDavid AttenboroughThe fifth programme explores the alliances formed between the animal and plant worlds. It examines the ways in which plants live together and rely on each other. Whether living together in harmony, relying on each other for homes, protection or food, or living off each other, by strangling or otherwise destroying each other in a bid to survive.
- StarsDavid AttenboroughWe look at the ways in which plants have adapted to survive in the harshest climates on Earth. Whether in the driest, hottest deserts or the coldest Arctic wastes, plants have come up with some ingenious ways of surviving, including eating animals and actually caring for their offspring.
- DirectorJoanna SarsbyStarsDavid AttenboroughThe series begins with an in-depth look at flightless birds around the world.
- DirectorJoanna SarsbyStarsDavid AttenboroughThe focus turns to the mastery of flight, from the science of gravity to the ability of birds to cover extremely long distances.
- DirectorJoanna SarsbyStarsDavid AttenboroughDiscovering the role of beaks within various species of birds.
- DirectorJoanna SarsbyStarsDavid AttenboroughBirds eat more than berries; this episode takes a look at birds that eat meat.
- DirectorJoanna SarsbyStarsDavid AttenboroughCameras follow birds as they dive into fresh and salt waters for their meals.
- DirectorJoanna SarsbyStarsDavid AttenboroughThe myth that birds only sing for pleasure is destroyed as birdsongs become known as ways of communication .
- DirectorJoanna SarsbyStarsDavid AttenboroughMale birds show off in the exotic ritual of mating.
- DirectorJoanna SarsbyStarsDavid AttenboroughLaying eggs and keeping nests are two things that keep birds grounded.
- DirectorJoanna SarsbyStarsDavid AttenboroughRaising children is no easier in the air as it is on the ground, as bird parents care for, defend, and even kill their young.
- DirectorJoanna SarsbyStarsDavid AttenboroughLeft to their own devices, birds have reached almost all ends of the Earth - still, humans can do many things to help their feathered friends.
- DirectorAlastair FothergillStarsDavid AttenboroughPierce BrosnanThe ocean's influence dominates the world's weather systems and supports an enormous range of life. This first episode demonstrates the sheer scale, power and complexity of the "Blue Planet".
- DirectorAlastair FothergillStarsDavid AttenboroughPierce BrosnanLife on the edge of a frozen sea is tough. Ice at both poles is constantly moving, and in winter freezes solid with air temperatures 70 °C below freezing. Only in spring, with the retreating ice and light reaching the water, does life begin again.
- DirectorAlastair FothergillStarsDavid AttenboroughPierce BrosnanEndless blue stretches in every direction. The sea bed is a staggering eight kilometers deeper down and the nearest island is 500 kilometers away. There is nothing save the burning sun above and the blackened abyss below. How, then, does life exist?
- DirectorAlastair FothergillStarsDavid AttenboroughPierce BrosnanThe deep sea, which gets darker with increasing depth until no more sunlight penetrates at about a kilometer depth, and ever colder closer to the bottom of the ocean, covers most of the planet and is thus by far the largest habitat on earth, yet has been explored less than space, so most scientific expeditions, at depths requiring modern submarine technology, discover at least one new species, or even whole new branches of submarine life. Like everywhere else, evolution has over millions of years produced several amazing adaptations to even the most extreme conditions, here especially to the lack of sunlight, with its problems for procreation, searching food and fleeing hunters, such as photophore cells which produce specific light types, mimic rare light penetrating from above, etcetera.
- DirectorAlastair FothergillStarsDavid AttenboroughPierce BrosnanPeter ScoonesShafts of sunlight are the vital source of energy used by the countless billions of plankton that grow every spring and summer in the world's temperate sea, the richest of all habitats.
- DirectorAlastair FothergillStarsDavid AttenboroughPierce BrosnanCoral reefs are the rainforests of the sea; fish compete for food, territory and mates within this oasis of life. Incredible time-lapse photography shows the dramatic formation of a coral reef, portraying its inhabitants and its ultimate destruction.
- DirectorAlastair FothergillStarsDavid AttenboroughPierce BrosnanTidal marshes are one of the most productive parts of the world. Numerous plants support numerous animals, yet life is not easy: predators are attracted to these enormous quantities of food, forcing animals to seek constant protection from attack.
- DirectorAlastair FothergillStarsDavid AttenboroughPierce BrosnanThe boundary between land and sea is an exciting place, with seabirds, turtles, and marine mammals constantly coming and going.
- StarsDavid AttenboroughFirst in a ten-part epic series in which David Attenborough explores why mammals, including humans, are the most successful and diverse animals on the planet. His journey begins in Australia where he encounters the bizarre egg-laying platypus and the country's many marsupials - mammals like the possum, kangaroo and wombat that protect their young in a pouch.
- DirectorMark LinfieldStarsDavid AttenboroughMammals that hunt insects shared the planet with the dinosaurs, but when the giant reptiles disappeared, these creatures seized their chance to conquer new territory. David Attenborough meets strange bats, dim-witted anteaters, less familiar pangolins, moles that swim through sand and the garden hedgehog in the second part of his new series.
- StarsDavid AttenboroughHeavily armoured, indigestible and even poisonous, plants pose problems for some of our biggest predators. David Attenborough learns why eating plants is one of the greatest challenges for the planet's mammals.
- StarsDavid AttenboroughRodents are the most numerous mammals on the planet, comprising an incredibly diverse variety of species. They range from the naked mole rat, which spends its entire life below ground, to the world's largest rodent, the capybara, which grazes in herds across the vast grasslands of South America. In the fourth of his ten-part epic series David Attenborough shares his fascination with these animals, which stop only at his pet hate - rats.
- StarsDavid AttenboroughFrom artic foxes and leopards to the Siberian tiger, carnivores feature in the fifth of David Attenborough's epic ten-part series. Travelling down from the frozen north into India, Attenborough learns of the dangers they pose to other animals - and the threat they face from man.
- StarsDavid AttenboroughOmnivorous mammals run the gamut from human beings to rats and, though they are generalists with their diet, each is equipped with very specialised skills. In the sixth part of his ten-part series, David Attenborough witnesses the feeding secrets of the North American raccoon, the babirusa pig in Africa and skunks in Texas, and shows how they perform astonishing feats to stay alive.
- StarsDavid AttenboroughDavid Attenborough discovers that while mammals such as manatees and sea otters left dry millions of years ago, the blue whale has always had its home in the sea. And though some marine mammals such as seals and sea lions still come ashore to breed, many conduct their mating rituals in the water.
- StarsDavid AttenboroughClimbing is just the start - the challenge is to move between trees. To get close to the creatures, David Attenborough must climb into the canopy. His subjects range from the squirrels to lemurs, the latter able to leap 15 metres. More unfamiliar animals, including the Indian slender ioris and the fossa, Madagascar's largest arboreal predator, are filmed for the first time in the wild.
- DirectorMark LinfieldStarsDavid AttenboroughDavid Attenborough continues his documentary series. He looks at monkeys from all over the world, including red howler monkeys in Venezuela, capuchin monkeys in the Costa Rican swamps, and guenon monkeys in West Africa.
- StarsDavid AttenboroughThe last programme of the series sees David Attenborough compare the foraging skills of humans with those of our distant relatives, the great apes. As bipedal mammals, humans have come to dominate their surroundings and, through the exploitation of the food sources available to them, evolved with larger brains.
- StarsDavid AttenboroughJust over 400 million years ago creatures left the seas to move onto land. They were the invertebrates. Since then they have become the most successful group of animals, adapting to every environment on earth. Now, for every human there are 200 million of them. Their largely unseen world is now revealed as David Attenborough tells the story of the land-living invertebrates.
- StarsDavid AttenboroughFrom the stunning aerobatics of hoverflies in a Bristol garden to the mass migration of purple crow butterflies in Taiwan, this episode tells the story of the winged insects. The latest ultra-slow motion cameras reveal incredible flight skills, such as dragonflies catching their prey and bluebottles flying upside down. While David Attenborugh is on hand to witness the mass emergence of winged cicadas after 17 years underground.
- StarsDavid AttenboroughSilk is the secret weapon of the undergrowth. From the protective stalks of lacewing eggs, to the hanging threads of glow-worms, insects use it in an amazing variety of ways. Silk is stronger than a steel thread of the same diameter but, unlike steel, it's elastic. Witness the spiders who have taken the use of this extraordinary material to its extremes.
- StarsDavid AttenboroughEver since they came onto land, the tiny creatures of the undergrowth have been forming alliances and partnerships with each other and with plants. Many of these relationships are staggeringly complex. While some clearly benefit both partners, others most certainly do not. Meet the bot fly which uses smaller house flies as unwitting couriers to carry its eggs to cows, where they hatch and bore into the unsuspecting animal's flesh.
- StarsDavid AttenboroughSome invertebrates have overcome the limitation of their small size by banding together in huge numbers. Many of these societies are so fine-tuned in the way they operate it's as if they were a single being. But insect societies aren't all shining examples of co-operative behaviour. The series ends with two insect armies fighting head on as Matabele ants raid a nearby termite mound. The result is total carnage.
- DirectorAlastair FothergillMark LinfieldStarsDavid AttenboroughSigourney WeaverNikolay Drozdov"Planet Earth" travels around the Earth, finding where the sun always shines and where it's rarely seen. Next, they find where water is abundant and where it's scarce.
- DirectorAlastair FothergillStarsDavid AttenboroughSigourney WeaverDoug AllanMountains are the most prominent products of the immense forces which shape the living planet: tectonic drift, volcanic activity and erosion by wind, water, frost and precipitation. We see how wildlife adapts to the harsh, often extreme conditions in various types of mountain ranges, such as Gelada baboons on a suddenly volcano-pushed Ethiopian peek, pumas in the Andes, grizzly bears in the Rockies, snow leopards in the Himalaya.
- DirectorAlastair FothergillStarsDavid AttenboroughSigourney WeaverNikolay DrozdovAlthough merely 3% of water on earth, fresh water plays an important part in the planet's weather and erosion. It is immensely important for all non-marine wildlife, which drinks fresh water and swims, procreates, hunts in it. Its concentrations, such as rivers, lakes and swamps, abound in aquatic and other species, often adapted to 'wet' life.
- DirectorAlastair FothergillStarsDavid AttenboroughSigourney WeaverHuw CordeyThe Earth's large, deep calcareous caves are virtually inaccessible and therefore barely explored - requiring expert diving where flooded. Some of its wildlife is as strange and specific as in the deep, darkest part of the ocean, whether physically adapted -notably to the dark. Nevertheless, some caves(did) play an important part in native cultures, even as sources of fresh water for some Mayan cities.
- DirectorAlastair FothergillStarsDavid AttenboroughSigourney WeaverTom ClarkeA large and growing part of earth's land mass is covered in desert - each one widely varied in composition and dryness. Wildlife species have adapted in different ways to these different arid lands especially to get and conserve water. Some are physically desert-models, like camels, others just changed their diet and behavior. Most live mainly at night, when it's cooler. The largest desert is northern Africa's Sahara, US size and extremely sandy, the result of grinding erosion of mountains. Short moist moments or periods are taken intense advantage off, leading to such extravaganzas as the locust swarm.
- DirectorAlastair FothergillStarsDavid AttenboroughSigourney WeaverDoug AllanThe polar caps have the most extreme seasonal contrasts, growing and melting vast ice masses, so wildlife adapts by annual migrations. The majority of Antartica is a vast barren permafrost. Only 3% of the coast and peninsular peaks are where life migrates to in the spring, for a short fertile summer, attracted by rich supplies of krill and fish. Only the Emperor penguin males breed 4 months in winter 100 miles inland. The Arctic has a more complete fauna which migrates back North from the continent. Here, the Polar bear is threatened because global warming defrosts its seal hunt platform ice too fast.
- DirectorAlastair FothergillStarsDavid AttenboroughSigourney WeaverNikolay DrozdovA quarter of the earth's land mass, from arctic to tropical, are open plains consisting of lowland as well as highland plateaus. Here grows virtually indestructible, fast-growing grasses of all sizes that feed the planet's largest herbivore populations, the preys to solitary and social carnivores. Spectacular elements of the seasonal cycle of life can include mass migrations, monsoons, drought and great fires.
- DirectorAlastair FothergillStarsDavid AttenboroughSigourney WeaverHuw CordeyOn 3% of the Earth's surface, the rain forest is the habitat for half our animal species, even 80% of insects. So its wildlife is most competitive, like the birds of paradise's mating, and specialized with unique relationships of predation, parasitism etc. For plants, the quest for light is key to stratification, paralleled by interacting animals eating fruits, leaves and other animals. Even the jungle cacophony is stratified. On the soil, recycling specialist like fungi restart the cycle of life. In Central Africa even herds of elephants specialize in following self-made forest paths.
- DirectorAlastair FothergillStarsDavid AttenboroughSigourney WeaverNikolay DrozdovShallow seas cover only 8% of earth's surface, but contain the richest, most varied maritime life: from plankton and coral (literally vital for the very existence of reefs) to birds and from various invertebrates to mammals like seals, dolphins and whales and from sea snakes to countless fish species. Their ecological interaction is greatly varied and complex, often with nearby land to, even with deserts.
- DirectorAlastair FothergillMark LinfieldStarsDavid AttenboroughSigourney WeaverDany Cleyet-MarrelTrees are earth's largest organisms and are also one of the planet's oldest inhabitants. Seasonal forests (unlike tropical rain-forest) the largest land habitats. A third of all trees grow in the endless taiga of the Arctic north. Northern America has forests that include California's sequoia's, the earth's largest trees. There and elsewhere, their vast production of photosynthesis and shade presides over a seasonal cycle of life and involves countless plant and animal species.