David Attenborough Season 1 Episodes
Season 1 Episode Guide
Episode 1 - Life On CameraSir David Attenborough has witnessed an unparalleled period of change in our planet’s history. Now he gives his unique perspective on 60 years of innovation in wildlife filmmaking – developments that have brought ever more breath-taking and intimate images of wildlife to our television screens, changing our view of life on the planet forever. He revisits key places and events in his filming career, reminisces with his old photos and reflects on memorable wildlife footage: including him swimming with dolphins, the bat cave in Borneo and an intimate portrait of a snow leopard.
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Episode 1 - The Silk SpinnersOpen your eyes to the bizarre, ferocious and surprisingly beautiful world of the invertebrates! Join David Attenborough on his groundbreaking exploration into a spectacular miniature universe never normally seen, but teeming all around us. Not just bugs and beetles, but exotic cicadas, neon glow worms, intricate silk-weaving spiders and iridescent dragonflies - not to mention a whole host of other incredible life forms and intimate, startling behaviour. Thanks to technical innovations in lighting, optics and computerised motion control, this turbulent, super-organised world is finally revealed from the perspective of its extraordinary inhabitants. These beasts may be miniscule, but they live life on a truly grand scale...
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Episode 2 - The Land InvadersIn telling the epic story of the reptiles and amphibians - the most enduringly successful animals ever to walk on land - David Attenborough completes his overview of life on the planet. The very latest technology enables extraordinary and previously unseen behaviour to be captured in intimate detail, overturning the myth that cold blooded life is slow, solitary and primitive and revealing these creatures to be as dramatic, social, sophisticated and passionate as warm blooded animals. As with Life in the Undergrowth, this series will change the audience's perceptions forever - giving them a new, warm-hearted relationship with Life in Cold Blood.
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Episode 2 - Understanding the Natural WorldDavid Attenborough shares his passion for science, reflecting on the most exciting scientific discoveries that have transformed our view of life on earth during his lifetime. How do continents move, how do animals communicate and why do they behave the way they do? In a story of individual passions, dedication and ingenious insights he shares his memories of the scientists and the breakthroughs that helped shape his own career. He also recalls some of his more hair-raising attempts to bring new science to a television audience.
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Episode 3 - Attenborough in ParadiseThe most beautiful, dazzling and glamorous birds in the world live in New Guinea. Only a few species of birds of paradise and bowerbirds have ever been filmed, partly because they are so shy, partly because they live in remote regions. This film is the first portrait of the family as a whole. Sir David Attenborough takes the viewer into hides, up trees and through swamps to observe their splendid plumage, their wonderful courtship displays, their fascinating behaviour and their amazing variety.
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Episode 3 - Our Fragile PlanetDavid Attenborough reflects on the dramatic impact that we have had on the natural world during his lifetime. He tells the surprising, entertaining and deeply personal story of the changes he’s seen. Of the pioneering conservationists in whose footsteps he’s followed and of the revolution in attitudes towards nature that has taken place around the globe. And he looks back at rare footage from his early days in television, at his own photos and classic encounters with Orangutans, Whales, Mountain Gorillas, Panamanian frogs and the giant Galapagos tortoise, Lonesome George.
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Episode 5 - Bowerbirds: The Art of SeductionBowerbirds' antics put the most extravagant of soap operas into the shade. The males are obsessed with sex, and will do anything to get it. They are master decoraters, building elaborate bowers to attract a female. But sometimes neighbouring bowerbirds pay sneaky visits and steal decorations, bright feathers, fruits, flowers to adorn their own nest. They are also birds with all the darker emotions associated with sex: envy and jealousy. They sometimes gang up on an over-successful neighbour. Master storyteller, David Attenborough, as author and presenter, ensures this is a memorable treat.
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Episode 6 - The Amber Time MachineAmber holds the secrets of the tropical rainforests of 25 million years ago. In the time of dinosaurs, some trees produced a noxious resin to protect themselves from voracious jaws, and this resin embalmed anything it touched in exquisite detail. Today, it and its contents endure in the form of amber. David Attenborough, (a life long collector of amber) embarks on a journey of discovery, examining and identifying the contents of this unique material - tracing the entombed animals and plants back to their origins. Detective work and specialised visual effects enable this film to unravel extraordinarily detailed stories about these ancient tropical plants and animals bringing them to life for the first time.
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