10: Themes and Variations | Life On Earth

1: The Infinite Variety | Life On Earth

The first ever episode of the landmark natural history series Life on Earth. David Attenborough explores the wildlife and landscape t...

2: Building Bodies | Life On Earth

Sir David Attenborough presents a revised version of the original wildlife series about the remarkable evolution of life on our planet. Th...

3: The First Forests | Life On Earth

For most of Earth's history there was no life on land. But over 400 million years ago some tiny plants began an invasion from the water,...

4: The Swarming Hordes | Life On Earth

David Attenborough looks at the role of a few of the millions of insect species, some of which have developed extremely close relation...

5: Conquest of the Waters | Life On Earth

Fish occur in populations of billions and there are over 30,000 species, more than in any other group of backboned animals. The dev...

6: Invasion Of The Land | Life On Earth

Some 350 million years ago, evolution reached one of its most crucial stages when fish crawled from the water onto the land and becam...

7: Victors of the Dry Land | Life On Earth

David Attenborough looks at the history of reptiles, the first back-boned creatures to solve the problems of living high and dry o...

8: Lords of the Air | Life On Earth

The story of life, from the first primitive cells to the plants and animals that live around us. David Attenborough looks at the advantag...

9: The Rise Of The Mammals | Life On Earth

Mammals have proved to be one of the most adaptable products of evolution. David Attenborough looks at their evolution from reptil...

10: Themes and Variations | Life On Earth

David Attenborough looks at some of the huge variety of mammals. The tree shrew has attracted great interest as it shows how mammal...

11: The Hunters and the Hunted | Life On Earth

David Attenborough explores the eternal duel between the hunters and the hunted - one of the driving forces of evolution.

12: Life in the Trees | Life On Earth

David Attenborough's now-legendary encounter with young gorillas is featured in this episode as he looks at the history of primates.

13: The Compulsive Communicators | Life On Earth

David Attenborough seeks to explain how we came to dominate life on earth, tracing the African origins of humans to nearly t...