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David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet

It took a visionary scientist, Bernhard Grzimek,to explain that this wasn't true

It took a visionary scientist, Bernhard Grzimek,
to explain that this wasn't true

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It took a visionary scientist,
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Bernhard Grzimek, to explain that this wasn't true.
Duration
6 seconds
Views
40
Timestamp in Movie
00:18:07
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.
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 ...