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David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet

You saw a blue marble, a blue sphere in the blackness,and you realized that that was the...

You saw a blue marble, a blue sphere in the blackness,
and you realized that that was the earth

Full Transcript

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You saw a blue marble,
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a blue sphere in the blackness, and you realized that that was the earth.
Duration
10 seconds
Views
49
Timestamp in Movie
00:20:17
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.
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.
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.