David Attenborough

Sixteen years since the original, Blue Planet II returns for a voyage of discovery. This bold cinematic experience takes viewers on a magical adventure across the greatest, yet least known, parts of our planet – our oceans.

The contests between predators and prey are the most critical events in nature. This intimate look at the remarkable strategies of hunters and the hunted explores the challenges animals face and the tactics they employ.

A broadcaster recounts his life, and the evolutionary history of life on Earth, to grieve the loss of wild places and offer a vision for the future.

This nature programme, a collaboration between BBC and The Open University, shows how animals try to overcome the challenges they face throughout their lives to eventually continue their bloodlines by having offspring. The show, narrated by Sir David Attenborough, aims to give viewers an idea of what it is like for animals who face difficult choices in nature. Episodes chronicle animals from surviving the hazards of being young through learning how to survive as an adult, climbing the social ladder, getting a mate and becoming a parent. The featured animals include octopi, cheetahs and chimps.

A personal insight from Sir David Attenborough into Darwin's theory of evolution, exploring why it is more important now than ever before. Beautifully shot, this is a celebration of the man behind the theory that changed the world's thinking.

Explore the wonders, threats and hope for our vast, interconnected Ocean.

Narrated by David Attenborough, never-before-seen footage shows how our living in lockdown opened the door for nature to bounce back and thrive. Across the seas, skies, and lands, Earth found its rhythm when we came to a stop.

From the depths of the ocean to the most remote jungle, discover the planet's last great wild places and the astonishing strategies animals have evolved to survive. Each episode focuses on a distinct and dazzling habitat, including grasslands and deserts, forests, freshwater habitats, and coasts.

David Attenborough and scientist Johan Rockström examine Earth's biodiversity collapse and how this crisis can still be averted.

Narrated by Sir David Attenborough, The Green Planet reveals the strange and wonderful world of plants like never before.

Frozen Planet returns with a spellbinding journey through magical icy lands. The north and south poles. The snow-draped forests and plains of the north. Remote mountain ranges. These are worlds of surprising variety and beauty -- seemingly untouched by human presence. It's this isolation that makes these places so special. Here, the planet's most enigmatic animals reign supreme. Wolves hunt huge bison across vast snowy plains. Killer whales use cunning techniques to stalk their prey. And rarely seen Siberian tigers pad quietly through crisp white snow. Frozen Planet II captures these fairy tale animals and lands on the cusp of change.

Rex, a young King Penguin, has been away from his home for three years, learning to hunt in the deep oceans, but now he's back in Penguin City. His mission: to find a mate, settle down and raise a chick to become a true Penguin King.

Years spent recording footage of creatures from every corner of the globe is bound to produce a bit of drama. Here's a behind-the-scenes look.

On every continent, in every ocean, conquering frozen landscapes and searing deserts – mammals are everywhere. Sir David Attenborough reveals the ingenuity behind their success. The series also highlights many of the challenges facing mammals in a rapidly changing world and how they endeavor to overcome them.

With 1 million species under threat, Sir David Attenborough explores the science of extinction. The huge variety of life on earth is being lost at a rate never seen before in human history. This is a crisis not just for the natural world but for humanity. It threatens food and water security, undermines our ability to control our climate, and even puts us at greater risk of pandemic diseases.

Follow a multi-generational orangutan family through their treetop triumphs and travails in this immersive documentary narrated by David Attenborough.

David Attenborough contrasts the two seas of the Saudi Arabian waters - the flamboyant Red Sea and the hot muddy Gulf, more famous for wars and oil.

In 2014, a shepherd spotted the tip of a gigantic fossil bone sticking out of the Argentinian desert. Natural history legend David Attenborough tells the incredible story of the discovery and reconstruction of the world's largest-known dinosaur, a new species of titanosaur. Measuring 37m long and weighing 70 metric tons, it now holds the record as the biggest animal ever to walk the Earth.

Why do animals produce light of their own? For centuries we could only marvel at the mystery of bioluminescence. Now we can begin to reveal the amazing truth about these living lights. Sir David Attenborough is our guide as we venture into a world he describes as "utterly unlike our own".

David Attenborough explores the science of, and potential solutions to, climate change.