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And I remember very well that first shot
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David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet

And I remember very well that first shot

And I remember very well that first shot

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And I remember very well that first shot.
Duration
5 seconds
Views
35
Timestamp in Movie
00:20:13
Uploaded
May 29, 2025
Genres
documentary, biography
Production
Silverback Films,Altitude Film Entertainment,WWF-UK

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Movie Summary

One man has seen more of the natural world than any other. This unique feature documentary is his witness statement.
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...
The largest whales, the blues, - David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet 00:07
The largest whales, the blues,
We found humpbacks off Hawaii only by listening out for their calls. - David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet 00:13
We found humpbacks off Hawaii only by listening out for thei...
[whales singing] - David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet 00:32
[whales singing]
Their mournful songs were the key - David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet 00:14
Their mournful songs were the key
[Attenborough] Animals that had been viewed - David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet 00:31
[Attenborough] Animals that had been viewed
The killing of whales turned from a harvest to a crime. - David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet 00:16
The killing of whales turned from a harvest to a crime.