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The Private Life of Plants - Flowering
This episode is devoted to the ways in which plants reproduce. Pollen and a stigma are the two components needed for fertilisation. Most plants carry both these within their flowers and rely on animals to transport the pollen from one to the stigma of another. To do this, they attract their...
The Life of Mammals - Chisellers
This episode examines rodents, which are characterised by strong, sharp, continuously growing incisors. These enable the animals to eat food that others find impossible, such as nuts or wood, and have enabled them to become the most successful and numerous of all mammals. Attenborough visits the...
Planet Earth - Jungles
This examines jungles & tropical rainforests.These environments occupy only 3% of the land yet are home to over half of the world's species.New Guinea is inhabited by almost 40 kinds of birds of paradise, w/c avoid conflict w/ each other by living in different parts of the island.Some of their...
Attenborough in Paradise And Other Personal Voyages - Bowerbirds: The Art of Seduction
The male bowerbirds of Australia and New Guinea display an incredible artistic talent - all in the name of love! Collecting 'jewels' they set them of in specially-built showcases and some even paint the walls with mashed berries. If all this isn't enough to woo potential mates, they also perform...
The Tribal Eye - Crooked Beak of Heaven
This episode talks about the native communities of the North West coast of America.
Attenborough in Paradise - A Blank on the Map
Accompanying a government patrol with 100 porters, David Attenborough explores a mountainousarea of central New Guinea, never entered before by Europeans. Their quest was to make the first contact with an indigenous people...
Attenborough in Paradise - The Lost God's of Easter Island
A simple, carved figure bought at an auction in New York leads David Attenborough on a global journey from Russia to Australia, from England back to the Pacific. On the way, he delves into the history of the enigmatic civilization responsible for building the stunning standing stones on Easter...
The Living Planet - The Building of the Earth
This episode begins in the deepest valley: that of the Kali Gandaki river in the Himalayas. Its temperatures range from those of the tropics in its lower reaches to that of the poles higher up. It therefore shows how creatures become adapted to living in certain environments. The higher that...
Evolution BBC documentary
David Attenborough asks three key questions: how and why did Darwin come up with his theory of evolution? Why do we think he was right? And why is it more important now than ever before? David starts his journey in Darwin's home at Down House in Kent, where Darwin worried and puzzled over the...
Life in the Undergrowth -Taking to the Air
Ths programme deals with flying insects. It begins in Central Europe, where the Körös River plays host to millions of giant mayflies as they rise from their larval skins to mate. — the climax of their lives. Mayflies and dragonflies were among the first to take to the air about 320...
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