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First Life

  • TV Mini Series
  • 20102010
  • 59m
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8.4/10
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First Life (2010)
The First Life
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Documentary
David Attenborough goes back in time to investigate the origins of life.David Attenborough goes back in time to investigate the origins of life.David Attenborough goes back in time to investigate the origins of life.
IMDb RATING
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1.7K
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  • Stars
    • David Attenborough
    • Richard Fortey
    • Hazel Barton
  • Stars
    • David Attenborough
    • Richard Fortey
    • Hazel Barton
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    • 3User reviews
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    • Nominated for 2 BAFTA Awards

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    David Attenborough
    David Attenborough
    • Self - Presenter
    Richard Fortey
    • Self - Palaeontologist, Natural History Museum
    Hazel Barton
    Hazel Barton
    • Self - Microbiologist, Northern Kentucky University
    Guy Narbonne
    • Self - Palaeontologist, Queen's University, Ontario
    Bernard Degnan
    • Self - Marine Biologist, University of Queensland
    Justin Marshall
    • Self - Marine Neurobiologist, University of Queensland
    Philip Donoghue
    • Self - Palaeontologist, University of Bristol
    Mary Droser
    • Self - Palaeontologist, University of California
    Jim Gehling
    • Self - Palaeontoloigst, South Australia Museum
    Jean-Bernard Caron
    • Self - Palaeontologist, Royal Ontario Museum
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    9/10
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    This series of three episodes is very distinct from the famous BBC nature documentaries. It depicts the story of how life developed, and therefore also uses animations. It is amazing to see how life developed such things as being able to move around and sexual reproduction. To me, fossils always seemed boring pieces of stone. But in this series, David Attenborough travels the world to show places and fossils that demonstrate pivotal developments in the early evolution of life.

    After you've seen this, all other nature documentaries that depict the world's current nature may feel like merely portraying an aftermath of the journey this documentary takes us on. All life's current wonders become but a small moment in time in an evolution that has been going on for millions of years and in which the real leaps forward were taken long before life even came to land.
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      • November 5, 2010 (United Kingdom)
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