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David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet

We are ultimately bound byand reliant upon the finite natural world about us

We are ultimately bound by
and reliant upon the finite natural world about us

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We are ultimately bound by and reliant upon
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the finite natural world about us.
Duration
8 seconds
Views
46
Timestamp in Movie
00:21:00
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.
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.
as they were made aware of the natural world. - David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet 00:05
as they were made aware of the natural world.
And we now had the means to make people across the world aware. - David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet 00:06
And we now had the means to make people across the world awa...
[Attenborough] By the time Life on Earth aired in 1979, I had entered my 50s. - David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet 00:21
[Attenborough] By the time Life on Earth aired in 1979, I ha...
We're certainly the most numerous large animal. - David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet 00:12
We're certainly the most numerous large animal.
It's all happened within the last 2,000 years or so. - David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet 00:05
It's all happened within the last 2,000 years or so.