The Blue Planet – BBC

The Blue Planet is a BBC nature documentary series narrated by David Attenborough, first transmitted in the UK from 12 September 2001.
Described as “the first ever comprehensive series on the natural history of the world’s oceans”, each of the eight 50-minute episodes examines a different aspect of marine life. The underwater photography included creatures and behaviour that had previously never been filmed.
The series won multiple Emmy and BAFTA TV awards for its music and cinematography.

1. The Blue Planet
2. The Deep
3. Open Ocean
4. Frozen Seas
5. Seasonal Seas
6. Coral Seas
7. Tidal Seas (not downloaded)
8. Coasts (not downloaded)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blue_Planet

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b008044n/episodes/guide

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Blue-Planet-Complete-Special-Disc/dp/B000ASALVK

State of the Planet – BBC

State of the Planet is a three-part environmental documentary series, made by the BBC Natural History Unit, transmitted in November 2000. It is written and presented by David Attenborough, and produced by Rupert Barrington. It includes interviews with many leading scientists, such as Edward O. Wilson and Jared Diamond. Each of the programmes attempts to find answers to the potential ecological crisis that threatens the Earth.

1. “Is There a Crisis?”
2. “Why Is There a Crisis?”
3. “The Future of Life”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_of_the_Planet

http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/programmes/tv/state_planet/programmes.shtml

Life on Earth – BBC

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p002wnhw/episodes/guide

Episode 1: THE INFINITE VARIETY
David Attenborough traces the stages of life on earth in a series of 13 progs abt the evolution of life from primitive cells to the plants and animals which exist now.

Episode 2: BUILDING BODIES
Bright blue starfish, crimson feather stars, shell-less snails in designs as extravagant as any Paris fashion show, shrimps of every colour, others that are transparent – just a sample of the animal wonders to be found in a small area of the Great Barrier Reef.

Episode 3: THE FIRST FORESTS
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, closely followed by the first animals – the ancestors of millipedes and insects.

Episode 4: SWARMING HORDES
The number of insect species runs into millions; a single termite colony may consist of a million individuals; a locust swarm even a million million.

Episode 5: CONQUEST OF THE WATERS
There are over 30,000 species of fish – more than in any other group of backboned animals.

Episode 6: INVASION OF THE LAND
Evolution reached one of its most crucial stages, some 350 million years ago, when fishes crawled from water on to the land and became amphibians.

Episode 7 VICTORS OF THE DRY LAND
Reptiles were the first backboned creatures to solve the problems of becoming land-lubbers.

Episode 8: LORDS OF THE AIR
Man has yet to invent anything that, weight for weight, is as strong as the feather.

Episode 9: THE RISE OF THE MAMMALS
The mammals have proved to be one of the most adaptable products of evolution. Their ancestry can be traced back nearly 200 million years to the beginning of the dinosaur era.

Episode 10: THEME AND VARIATIONS
A little furry animal from the jungles of south-east Asia, called a tree shrew, has attracted great interest from scientists because it shows how a great group of animals may have originated – the mammals.

Episode 11: THE HUNTERS AND THE HUNTED
Succulent leaves, shoots & roots are an abundant form of food & all over the world vegetarian mammals have adopted a life of browsing, grazing & gnawing.

Episode 12 LIFE IN TREES
Long ago a group of mammals sought their fortune in the tree-tops. There they developed binocular vision for accurately judging distances & grasping hands for taking a firm grip.