David Attenborough
Known for: Acting
Born: May 8, 1926
Place of birth: London, England, UK
Sir David Attenborough (born May 8, 1926) is a broadcaster and naturalist. His career as the respected face and voice of natural history programmes has endured for more than 50 years. He is best known for writing and presenting the nine "Life" series, in conjunction with the BBC Natural History Unit, which collectively form a comprehensive survey of all life on the planet. He is also a former senior manager at the BBC, having served as controller of BBC Two and director of programming for BBC Television in the 1960s and 1970s. He is the younger brother of director, producer and actor Richard Attenborough.
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Filmography
166 movies · 114 TV shows, newest first
7.0
David Attenborough's 100 Years on Planet Earth
2026
8.5
Making Life on Earth: Attenborough’s Greatest Adventure
2026
NR
Queen Elizabeth II: Her Story, Our Century
2026
NR
Deep Ocean: Kingdom of the Coelacanth
2026
7.8
A Gorilla Story: Told by David Attenborough
2026
8.5
Secret Garden
2026
8.3
Wild London
2026
7.8
Kingdom
2025
7.0
RTL Tonight
2025
8.0
Parenthood
2025
8.0
Ocean with David Attenborough
2025
6.0
A Deeper Dive with David Attenborough
2025
7.0
Simon Schama's Story of Us
2025
NR
Attenborough's Life Journey
2024
8.8
Asia
2024
7.5
Secret Lives of Orangutans
2024
7.0
Fateful Planet
2024NR
Saving the Storks with Sir David Attenborough
2024
8.4
Mammals
2024
8.2
Secret World of Sound
2024
7.8
Attenborough and the Giant Sea Monster
2024
8.0
David Attenborough: A Life on Earth
2023
8.6
Planet Earth III
2023
NR
Our Planet II
2023
8.2
Wild Isles
2023
7.0
How the BBC Began
2022
8.4
Frozen Planet II
2022
8.3
Prehistoric Planet
2022
NR
Dinosaur Apocalypse
2022
7.4
Dinosaurs: The Final Day with David Attenborough
2022
NR
Great Mammoth Mystery
2022
8.5
David Attenborough's Global Adventure
2022
8.8
The Green Planet
2022
8.6
Attenborough's Wonder of Song
2022
7.4
Attenborough and the Mammoth Graveyard
2021
8.5
The Earthshot Prize: Repairing Our Planet
2021
8.3
The Mating Game
2021
10.0
Parkinson at 50
2021
7.5
Breaking Boundaries: The Science of Our Planet
2021
8.0
Attenborough’s Journey
2021
7.9
The Year Earth Changed
2021
3.9
Greta Thunberg: A Year to Change the World
2021
7.6
Attenborough's Life in Colour
2021
8.7
A Perfect Planet
2021
6.0
Prince William: A Planet For Us All
2020
8.0
Michael Palin: Travels of a Lifetime
2020
8.4
David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet
20205.7
Sir David Attenborough and Sir Michael Palin in Conversation
2020
7.6
Extinction: The Facts
20208.7
The Romantics and Us with Simon Schama
2020
8.3
Planet Earth: A Celebration
2020NR
Gay Byrne's Late Late Moments
2020
7.0
Diving Deep: The Life and Times of Mike deGruy
2020
7.0
The Forum
2019
8.5
Seven Worlds, One Planet
2019
NR
The Living Thames
2019
NR
The Kiwi, The Knight and the Qashqai
2019
6.3
Climate Change: The Facts
2019
7.6
Our Planet: Behind the Scenes
2019
8.5
Our Planet
2019
NR
Blue Planet UK
2019
8.3
Timelapse of the Future: A Journey to the End of Time
2019
8.0
Dragons and Damsels
2019
8.6
Wild Karnataka
2019
7.3
Whale Wisdom
2018
8.3
Dynasties
2018
7.6
Into the Jungle
2018
9.3
Deep Ocean: Descent into the Mariana Trench
2018
7.5
David Attenborough's Tasmania
2018
6.5
Pangolins: The World's Most Wanted Animal
2018
7.0
The Queen's Green Planet
2018
6.0
Attenborough's Wonder of Eggs
2018
NR
Timelapse of the Entire Universe
2018
NR
Tomorrow's World: People of Science
2018
7.0
Attenborough and the Sea Dragon
2018
NR
Deep Ocean: Giants of the Antarctic Deep
2018
7.5
The Making of David Attenborough's Ant Mountain
2018
7.8
Attenborough and the Empire of the Ants
2017
7.2
Attenborough and the Giant Elephant
2017
6.3
And the Winner Isn't
2017
8.6
Blue Planet II
2017
NR
Plants Behaving Badly
2017NR
Richmond Park National Nature Reserve
2017
NR
Hotel Armadillo
2017
NR
Puerto Rico: Island of Enchantment
2017
10.0
Cheetahs: Growing Up Fast
2017NR
Richard Batterham, Master Potter
2017
7.4
Planet Earth II: A World of Wonder
2017
8.6
Planet Earth II
2016
NR
Jaguars: Brazil's Super Cats
2016
7.0
Deep Ocean: Lights in the Abyss
2016
8.3
Zoo Quest in Colour
2016
8.1
Attenborough's Life That Glows
2016
8.0
Attenborough at 90
2016
7.7
Attenborough's Passion Projects
2016
8.2
Attenborough at 90: Behind the Lens
2016
5.0
Wild City
2016
8.0
David Attenborough's Wild City
2016
7.4
Attenborough and the Giant Dinosaur
2016
NR
Reef Diaries
2015
7.4
Great Barrier Reef with David Attenborough
20156.0
Cue the Queen: Celebrating the Christmas Speech
2015NR
Cougars Undercover
2015
8.3
The Hunt
2015NR
Afrique sauvage - L'avenir en marche
2015
7.8
David Attenborough Meets President Obama
2015
8.5
Attenborough's Big Birds
2015
7.0
Legends of the Deep: Deep Sea Sharks
2015
9.0
Africa's Fishing Leopards
2015
7.8
Attenborough's Paradise Birds
2015
8.4
David Attenborough's Conquest of the Skies
2015
7.8
Deep Ocean: The Lost World of the Pacific
2015
9.4
Deep Ocean
2015
8.4
Life Story
2014
7.6
Björk: Biophilia Live
2014
NR
Sir David Attenborough – A Life on Earth
2014
NR
Mountain Lions: Big Cats in High Places
2014
8.3
Fabulous Frogs
2014
9.3
The Bat Man of Mexico
2014
NR
Conquest of The Skies 3D
2014
6.8
David Attenborough's Natural History Museum Alive
20147.5
Autopsy on a Dream
2013
8.1
David Attenborough's Rise of Animals: Triumph of the Vertebrates
2013
7.8
When Björk Met Attenborough
2013
NR
The Mating Game
2013
7.6
Micro Monsters with David Attenborough
2013
7.2
Galapagos with David Attenborough
20139.0
Edwardian Insects on Film
2013
8.0
Legends of the Deep: The Giant Squid
2013
7.3
David Attenborough's Natural Curiosities
2013
10.0
David Attenborough: The Early Years
2013
8.2
Winterwatch
2013
8.3
Africa
2013
7.9
Galapagos 3D with David Attenborough
2013
6.9
Attenborough: 60 Years in the Wild
2012
7.4
Attenborough: 60 Years in the Wild
2012
9.0
Attenborough's Ark
2012
7.0
The Penguin King
2012
NR
Voice
2012
8.0
Hummingbirds: Jewelled Messengers
2012
7.8
Kingdom of Plants
2012
8.0
Tales of Television Centre
2012
NR
Hot Tuna
2012
8.3
Superfish: Bluefin Tuna
2012
7.3
Secrets of Wild India
2012
8.4
Frozen Planet
2011
9.3
Brave New World with Stephen Hawking
2011
NR
Animal House
2011
5.2
The Jonathan Ross Show
2011
NR
Great Thinkers: In Their Own Words
2011
8.3
All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace
2011
7.0
Flying Monsters 3D with David Attenborough
2011
9.0
Desert Seas
2011
NR
The Secrets of Scott's Hut
2011
8.6
Attenborough and the Giant Egg
2011
8.3
Madagascar
2011
4.0
Mad and Bad: 60 Years of Science on TV
2010
7.2
First Life
2010
7.3
Attenborough's Journey
2010
8.0
Jane Goodall - Beauty and the Beasts
2010
7.0
Genius of Britain
2010NR
In Confidence
2010
7.7
Birds of Paradise
2010
NR
Water Life A World of Water
2009
8.4
Life
2009
7.1
Uncovering Our Earliest Ancestor: The Link
2009
8.4
Nature's Great Events
2009
7.7
Charles Darwin and the Tree of Life
2009
5.0
Skavlan
2009
NR
NHKスペシャル 映像詩 里山II 命めぐる水辺
2008
8.0
Clever Monkeys
2008
7.0
Superfish
2008
8.3
Tiger: Spy In The Jungle
2008
8.4
Life in Cold Blood
2008
7.0
Snow Leopard: Beyond the Myth
20084.5
The Alan Titchmarsh Show
2007NR
Attenborough Explores... Our Fragile World
2007
7.2
The Graham Norton Show
2007
7.0
Trek - Spy on the Wildebeest
2007
4.4
The One Show
20066.0
Can We Save Planet Earth?
2006
10.0
Are We Changing Planet Earth?
2006
NR
Your Favourite Attenborough Moment
2006
7.8
Gorillas Revisited with Sir David Attenborough
2006NR
My Favourite Attenborough Moment
2006
6.0
Desert Lions
2006
8.6
Planet Earth
2006NR
Folk Britannia
2006
8.0
A War on Science
2006
8.3
Life in the Undergrowth
20055.5
Kea: The Smartest Parrot?
2005
NR
Echo and Other Elephants
2005
8.3
Bears: Spy in the Woods
2004
8.0
Satoyama: Japan's Secret Watergarden
2004
7.5
The Amber Time Machine
2004
NR
The Minsmere Year
2004
NR
The Many Lives of Richard Attenborough
2003
NR
Smart Sharks: Swimming With Roboshark
20037.0
The Terry and Gaby Show
2003
6.9
Deep Blue
2003
5.5
Robbie the Reindeer: Legend of the Lost Tribe
2002
8.4
Life on Air: David Attenborough's 50 Years in Television
2002
8.4
The Life of Mammals
2002
NR
Attenborough the Controller
2002
6.1
Great Natural Wonders of the World
2002
6.1
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
2001
8.4
The Blue Planet
2001
NR
Bowerbirds: The Art of Seduction
2000
8.0
Lions: Spy in the Den
2000
7.9
State of the Planet
2000NR
Living with Dinosaurs
2000
6.5
The Lost Gods of Easter Island
2000
7.0
The Song of the Earth
2000
8.5
The Greatest Wildlife Show on Earth
1999
NR
Tiger: The Elusive Princess
1999
10.0
Islands of the Vampire Birds
1999
7.0
Satoyama I: Japan's Secret Watergarden
1999
8.2
The Life of Birds
1998
7.2
The Dragons of Galapagos
1998
NR
Parkinson
1998
NR
Leopard: The Agent of Darkness
1997NR
Humpback Whale: The Giant of the Oceans
1997
NR
Sperm Whales: Back from the Abyss
1996
8.7
Attenborough in Paradise
1996
NR
Attenborough in Paradise
1996
7.0
Survival Island
1996
NR
World of Wildlife: African Big Cats
1995
8.3
Wildlife Specials
1995
8.4
The Private Life of Plants
1995
9.0
The Private Life of Plants
1995
9.0
Great White Shark - The Silent Stalker
1995
8.3
Life in the Freezer
1993
NR
Killer Whales: Wolves of the Sea
1993NR
Barn Owl: Bird of Darkness
1991
NR
The Making Of The Trials Of Life - Once More Into The Termite Mound
1990
8.4
Trials of Life
1990
9.2
The Trials of Life
1990
6.5
A TV Dante
1990
8.6
Lost Worlds, Vanished Lives
1989
5.2
This Morning
1988
8.0
Going Live!
1987
8.5
The First Eden
1987NR
Birds of the Sun God
1987
7.0
A Zed & Two Noughts
1985NR
David Attenborough's Animals of the British Countryside - Land Mammals
1985
NR
The Million Pound Bird Book
1985
8.0
Television
19855.7
Goldene Kamera
1984
8.6
The Living Planet
1984
NR
Aliens From Inner Space
1983
7.4
Natural World
1983
7.9
Nature
1982
5.3
Wogan
1982
NR
General Studies: An Everyday Miracle
1981
NR
The Spirit of Asia
1980
NR
Squirrel on My Shoulder
1979
9.1
Life on Earth
1979NR
At Home with Badgers
1978
9.0
Wildlife on One
1977
NR
Fabulous Animals
1975
NR
Explorers
1975
8.8
The Tribal Eye
1975
7.0
NOVA
1974NR
Eastward With Attenborough
1973
8.0
A Blank on the Map
1971
8.0
Baobab: Portrait of a Tree
1971
7.5
The Miracle of Bali
1969
7.8
The World About Us
1967
7.2
Omnibus
1967
7.5
Horizon
1964
NR
Adventure
1963
NR
Elsa the Lioness
1961
7.0
The People of Paradise
1960NR
Science Is News
1959NR
Trans-Antarctic Expedition 1955-1958
1955
NR
Zoo Quest to West Africa
1955
NR
The Ascent of Kangchenjunga
1955
8.0
Zoo Quest
1954NR
Blue Planet III
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NR
Flying Casanovas
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