Attenborough's Passion Projects

- Season 1

(2016)

In this important 1970s documentary that put David Attenborough's name on the map, he goes to Papua, New Guinea to learn about one of the least explored regions on the planet and the tribes who live there.

David Attenborough tries to reconstruct the history of the people who lived on the Easter Island before the Europeans discovered it in the 18th century.

David Attenborough visits major fossil sites around the world and explores their history as well as what the fossils are telling us about the history of our planet.

David Attenborough explores the life and work of Sir Charles Darwin and explains how his revolutionary theories about the evolution of life on Earth influence us.