David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet
2020 · Movie · PG · 83 min · ★ 8.4 · 84% critics
A veteran naturalist reflects on a lifetime spent exploring Earth’s wild places and witnessing dramatic changes to the living world. The documentary blends wonder, warning, and hope as it looks at the challenges facing nature and the possibilities for a better future.
Also known as David Attenborough: Une vie sur notre planète
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Streaming on Netflix.
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Details
- Years
- 2020
- Release date
- 2020-09-28
- Language
- English
- Rated
- PG
- Runtime
- 83 min
- Max quality
- UHD
- Critic score
- 84/100
- TMDB rating
- 8.4/10 (443 votes)
About
You’ll like this if you enjoy Planet Earth-style nature documentaries with urgent environmental themes and a hopeful outlook; Not for you if you prefer escapism over real-world ecological concerns.
Pros: hopeful message; beautiful visuals; accessible storytelling | Cons: familiar themes; broad solutions; heavy subject
Themes
- climate change
- biography
- destruction of planet
- nature
- evolution
- future vision
- climate observatory
- nature documentary
- semi-biographical
- save the planet
- planet earth
- future earth
- +8 more
Cast & crew
David Attenborough
as Self
- MH
Max Hughes
as Young David
Directed by Alastair Fothergill, Keith Scholey, Jonathan Hughes