Log-in to add movie to favourites
Please log in to add to collections.
Movie added to favourites
Movie removed from favourites

David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet

David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet poster
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
IMDb
9.0
Metascore
72
Favorite Add to Favorites
One man has seen more of the natural world than any other. This unique feature documentary is his witness statement.
Director
Alastair Fothergill, Jonathan Hughes, Keith Scholey
Year
2020
Genre
documentary, biography
Box Office
N/A
Production
Silverback Films,Altitude Film Entertainment,WWF-UK
Awards
Won 3 Primetime Emmys. 7 wins & 10 nominations total
Homepage
https://www.attenboroughfilm.com/
You Might Also Like
David Attenborough
Self
David Attenborough
Self / Young David Attenborough
Max Hughes
View All Cast

No reviews yet

Be the first to share your thoughts on this movie

Explore 270 Clips

Page of 3Next
This city in Ukraine was once home to almost 50,000 people. - David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet 00:07
This city in Ukraine was once home to almost 50,000 people.
It had everything a community would need for a comfortable life. - David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet 00:14
It had everything a community would need for a comfortable l...
The nearby nuclear power station of Chernobyl exploded. - David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet 00:14
The nearby nuclear power station of Chernobyl exploded.
The explosion was a result of bad planning and human error. Mistakes. - David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet 00:07
The explosion was a result of bad planning and human error. ...
It triggered an environmental catastrophe that had an impact across Europe. - David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet 00:07
It triggered an environmental catastrophe that had an impact...
Many people regarded it as the most costly in the history of mankind. - David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet 00:12
Many people regarded it as the most costly in the history of...
The true tragedy of our time is still unfolding across the globe, - David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet 00:08
The true tragedy of our time is still unfolding across the g...
I'm talking about the loss of our planet's wild places, - David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet 00:07
I'm talking about the loss of our planet's wild pl...
The living world is a unique and spectacular marvel. - David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet 00:45
The living world is a unique and spectacular marvel.
Yet the way we humans live on Earth now is sending biodiversity into a decline. - David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet 00:10
Yet the way we humans live on Earth now is sending biodivers...
This too is happening as a result of bad planning and human error - David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet 00:10
This too is happening as a result of bad planning and human ...
A place in which we cannot live. - David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet 00:04
A place in which we cannot live.
The evidence is all around. It's happened in my lifetime. - David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet 00:05
The evidence is all around. It's happened in my lifetim...
This film is my witness statement and my vision for the future, - David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet 00:15
This film is my witness statement and my vision for the futu...
I am David Attenborough, and I am 93. - David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet 00:06
I am David Attenborough, and I am 93.
It's only now that I appreciate how extraordinary. - David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet 00:05
It's only now that I appreciate how extraordinary.
[speaking indistinctly] - David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet 00:11
[speaking indistinctly]
I've experienced the living world firsthand in all its variety and wonder. - David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet 00:14
I've experienced the living world firsthand in all its ...
I've always had a passion to explore, to have adventures, - David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet 00:14
I've always had a passion to explore, to have adventure...
As much now as I did when I was a boy. - David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet 00:07
As much now as I did when I was a boy.
It was a very different world back then. - David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet 00:21
It was a very different world back then.
It was a great place to come to as a boy, - David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet 00:08
It was a great place to come to as a boy,
When I was a boy, I spent all my spare time - David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet 00:10
When I was a boy, I spent all my spare time
And in life the animal itself lived in the chamber here - David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet 00:07
And in life the animal itself lived in the chamber here
And it lived about 180 million years ago. - David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet 00:04
And it lived about 180 million years ago.
This particular one has a scientific name of Tiltonicerus, - David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet 00:12
This particular one has a scientific name of Tiltonicerus,
Over time, I began to learn something about the earth's evolutionary history. - David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet 00:06
Over time, I began to learn something about the earth's...
By and large, it's a story of slow, steady change. - David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet 00:05
By and large, it's a story of slow, steady change.
Over billions of years, nature has crafted miraculous forms, - David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet 00:16
Over billions of years, nature has crafted miraculous forms,
And then, every hundred million years or so, - David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet 00:20
And then, every hundred million years or so,
All that evolution undone. - David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet 00:22
All that evolution undone.
A mass extinction has happened five times in life's four-billion-year history. - David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet 00:07
A mass extinction has happened five times in life's fou...
The last time it happened - David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet 00:21
The last time it happened
Life had no option but to rebuild. - David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet 00:20
Life had no option but to rebuild.
Scientists call it the Holocene. - David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet 00:04
Scientists call it the Holocene.
The Holocene has been one of the most stable periods - David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet 00:17
The Holocene has been one of the most stable periods
And the rich and thriving living world around us - David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet 00:08
And the rich and thriving living world around us
Phytoplankton at the ocean's surface and immense forests straddling the north - David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet 00:23
Phytoplankton at the ocean's surface and immense forest...
Mangroves and coral reefs along thousands of miles of coast - David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet 00:13
Mangroves and coral reefs along thousands of miles of coast
A thick belt of jungles around the equator has piled plant on plant - David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet 00:14
A thick belt of jungles around the equator has piled plant o...
And the extent of the polar ice has been critical, - David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet 00:10
And the extent of the polar ice has been critical,
The biodiversity of the Holocene helped to bring stability, - David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet 00:19
The biodiversity of the Holocene helped to bring stability,
On the tropical plains, - David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet 00:08
On the tropical plains,
In Asia, the winds would create the monsoon on cue. - David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet 00:08
In Asia, the winds would create the monsoon on cue.
In the northern regions, the temperatures would lift in March, triggering spring, - David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet 00:21
In the northern regions, the temperatures would lift in Marc...
Its rhythm of seasons was so reliable - David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet 00:07
Its rhythm of seasons was so reliable
[mooing] - David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet 00:32
[mooing]
The pace of progress was unlike anything to be found in the fossil record. - David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet 00:06
The pace of progress was unlike anything to be found in the ...
Our intelligence changed the way in which we evolved. - David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet 00:06
Our intelligence changed the way in which we evolved.
In the past, - David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet 00:08
In the past,
But for us, an idea could do that. - David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet 00:04
But for us, an idea could do that.
And the idea could be passed from one generation to the next. - David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet 00:05
And the idea could be passed from one generation to the next...
We were transforming what a species could achieve. - David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet 00:05
We were transforming what a species could achieve.
A few millennia after this began, I grew up at exactly the right moment. - David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet 00:07
A few millennia after this began, I grew up at exactly the r...
The start of my career in my 20s - David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet 00:20
The start of my career in my 20s
Wherever I went, there was wilderness. - David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet 00:33
Wherever I went, there was wilderness.
It was the best time of my life. - David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet 00:07
It was the best time of my life.
The Second World War was over, technology was making our lives easier. - David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet 00:14
The Second World War was over, technology was making our liv...
[Attenborough] It felt that nothing would limit our progress. - David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet 00:11
[Attenborough] It felt that nothing would limit our progress...
This was before any of us were aware that there were problems. - David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet 00:05
This was before any of us were aware that there were problem...
My first visit to East Africa was in 1960. - David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet 00:06
My first visit to East Africa was in 1960.
Back then, it seemed inconceivable that we, a single species, - David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet 00:12
Back then, it seemed inconceivable that we, a single species...
The Maasai word "Serengeti" means "endless plains." - David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet 00:09
The Maasai word "Serengeti" means "endless pl...
You can be in one spot on the Serengeti, - David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet 00:08
You can be in one spot on the Serengeti,
[bellowing] - David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet 00:08
[bellowing]
A quarter of a million zebra. - David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet 00:10
A quarter of a million zebra.
A few days after that... - David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet 00:14
A few days after that...
It took a visionary scientist, - David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet 00:06
It took a visionary scientist,
He and his son used a plane to follow the herds over the horizon. - David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet 00:09
He and his son used a plane to follow the herds over the hor...
They charted them as they moved across rivers, - David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet 00:32
They charted them as they moved across rivers,
And a few years later, that idea became obvious to everyone. - David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet 00:05
And a few years later, that idea became obvious to everyone.
[NASA technician] Five, four, three, two one, zero. - David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet 00:13
[NASA technician] Five, four, three, two one, zero.
It was the first time - David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet 00:23
It was the first time
One of the extraordinary things about it was that the world - David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet 00:08
One of the extraordinary things about it was that the world
It was extraordinary that you could see what a man out in space could see - David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet 00:09
It was extraordinary that you could see what a man out in sp...
And I remember very well that first shot. - David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet 00:05
And I remember very well that first shot.
You saw a blue marble, - David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet 00:10
You saw a blue marble,
And in that one shot, there was the whole of humanity with nothing else - David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet 00:10
And in that one shot, there was the whole of humanity with n...
And that completely changed the mindset of the population, - David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet 00:08
And that completely changed the mindset of the population,
Our home was not limitless. - David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet 00:13
Our home was not limitless.
We are ultimately bound by and reliant upon - David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet 00:08
We are ultimately bound by and reliant upon
This truth defined the life we led in our pre-history, - David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet 00:18
This truth defined the life we led in our pre-history,
In 1971, I set out to find an uncontacted tribe in New Guinea. - David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet 00:07
In 1971, I set out to find an uncontacted tribe in New Guine...
These people were hunter-gatherers, as all humankind had been before farming. - David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet 00:48
These people were hunter-gatherers, as all humankind had bee...
I spent the latter half of the 1970s traveling the world, - David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet 00:41
I spent the latter half of the 1970s traveling the world,
When I filmed with the mountain gorillas, - David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet 00:16
When I filmed with the mountain gorillas,
I got as close as I did only because the gorillas were used to people. - David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet 00:13
I got as close as I did only because the gorillas were used ...
The process of extinction that I'd seen as a boy... in the rocks, - David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet 00:15
The process of extinction that I'd seen as a boy... in ...
And we were responsible. - David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet 00:16
And we were responsible.
Whales were being slaughtered by fleets of industrial whaling ships in the 1970s. - David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet 00:08
Whales were being slaughtered by fleets of industrial whalin...
Page of 3Next
David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet poster
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
One man has seen more of the natural world than any other. This unique feature documentary is his witness statement.

User Rating: 0.0 (0 ratings)
Director: Alastair Fothergill, Jonathan Hughes, Keith Scholey
Writer: N/A
Production: Silverback Films,Altitude Film Entertainment,WWF-UK
Genre: documentary, biography
Year: 2020
MetaScore: 72/100
ImdbRating: 9.0
BoxOffice: N/A
Released: 04 Oct 2020
Awards: Won 3 Primetime Emmys. 7 wins & 10 nominations total
Homepage: https://www.attenboroughfilm.com/
Also watch: AlphaGo, A Beautiful Place to Die: A Martha's Vineyard Mystery, Dick Johnson Is Dead, Derren Brown: Miracle, Out Cold, The Big Clock, The Year Earth Changed, Third Star, Robin and Marian, Chasing Coral, The Painted Bird

Rate "David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet"

Overall:
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Story:
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Aesthetics:
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Acting:
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Sound:
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Please login to rate movies