The Atlantic ranked all of Sir David Attenborough's "Life" series episodes:
http://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/05/every-episode-of-david-attenboroughs-life-series-ranked/480678/
Agree or disagree? Where does your favorite episode fall?
General David Attenborough/documentary thread
>>2116490
He's 89 years old now. The day he dies will be a sad day indeed.
It could happen any day now.
>>2116508
I'm hoping that he lives to 100, and within those 11 years, we find evidence of life elsewhere in the universe. He'll narrate the documentary
>>2116510
I hope more that someone else is capable of taking his place.
Never have I seen someone with such passion and love for nature as this guy. He speaks about nature like a teacher would to his preschool class.
>>2116490
Fucking hell for a second there my heart stopped and I thought this thread was announcing his death
>>2116515
Every time I see any sort of post with his name of face I get that reaction.
I'm not ready.
>>2116490
>>2116508
>>2116510
>tfw you see a david attenborough thread and you panic thinking he died while you were sleeping
this man is a treasure to the world, may he live forever
also look at how fine he was
I think they're just making these threads for the shock value now. I clicked the thread expecting to see RIP's and Press F's
>Oprah narrates the American version.
>>2116524
>mfw I turned on the tv and heard her instead of based Attenborough
Why did they feel the need to do that?
>>2116540
He doesn't insult the intelligence of his viewers
>>2116521
What episode/series is that gif from? I thought I'd seen all his stuff but I don't recognize it.
>>2116540>>2116540
Slightly off topic but was anyone else butt hurt when they put in character voices last minute for the new Walking with Dinosaurs?>>2116540
>>2116548
He explains everything so simplistic yet elegant, it makes you feel like a naturalist just from watching the shows
>>2116564
you mustve also forgot his stuff about boiling the eggs of endangered turtles etc.
>>2116540
>Australian documentary
>Oi mates, that is a tropical praying mantis
>It has sharp arms to get its prey he is quite fast too
>This critter is able to give some us some nasty cuts if we mess with it
>I'm gonna touch it
>>2116713
I miss Steve Irwin.
>>2116575
incredibly
To the point I still refuse to watch it until its narrated by Kenneth Branagh
>>2116540
This. I was watching some documentary on the TV here the other day, and they referred to a Merlin as a "jet-powered killing machine"
>>2116713
>>I'm gonna touch it
Every fucking time
Fucking love aussies don't change this is the kind of fearless attitude that enabled them to survive in the hardmode Australian environment
>>2116540
God I fucking hate american documentaries.
>>2116781
Honestly I do to. A lot of people simply knew him as "retarded australian crocodile man" but I watched him a lot and always really liked him
>>2117318
Some of them were good. Although not a real nature documentary, Dinosaur Planet was good. As well as the Wild "insert country" documentaries. Although yeah, all American documentaries are the same. And especially if it's some "rare" animal that goes on through shit until the very end of the film to showcase the creature at hand.
There was a NatGeo documentary that gave me a chuckle. The Super Squirrel was cute, and a bit comical, although very little educational value.
>>2116540
>was
He's not dead yet.
His brother, RICHARD Attenborough(old guy in Jurassic Park, and the leader in The Great Escape), did pass away last year, however.
>>2116540
> american documentary
> three second clip of a squirrel falling out of a tree followed by three minutes of hilarious commentary from gilbert gottfried sitting in front of a green screen
>>2116513
Benedict Cumberbatch actually does okay as a narrator.
But the thing with attenborough was his passion that seeped through. He honestly just fucking loves nature, and he lives and breatehs it, and actually would go out and get down and ditry with the things he was filming (in his younger days)
>>2117421
>Was
HE'S NOT DEAD
>>2116524
Could have sworn Sigourney Weaver narrated at least blue planet?
>>2117426
She was part of Planet Earth, I'm very certain.
>>2117423
>90 yrs old
>>2116513
>I hope more that someone else is capable of taking his place
>Never have I seen someone with such passion and love for nature as this guy. He speaks about nature like a teacher would to his preschool class.
For a second I was going to suggest Carl Sagan... now I made myself sad.
>>2118423
YOU SHUT YOUR WHORE MOUTH
>>2116490
"Sir" David Attenborough is full of shit and so many nature shows I watch are ruined by this buffoon.
>Everything is hyperbole "the ___ ___ on earth", etc.
>Obsessed with the Global Warming Doomsday Cult.
>Drama queen "one wrong step will be fatal"
>So PC he hates commercial fishing/hunting, but when indigenous people kill an animal he needs to declare "no part of the animal will go to waste".
I fucking hope he dies already
>>2120254
no u
>>2120254
> he hates commercial fishing/hunting
No wonder, as it is right now commercial fishing is so fucking disastrous and overdeveloped governments have to pay subsidies so the activity doesn't sink under its own weight.
Can't say too much about the hunting tho.
>>2120254
Dude's singlehandedly responsible for modern mainstream interest in conservation, without him getting his face on the TV and talking animal shit for so many decades, the world would unarguably be a worse place.
His main issue is overpopulation rather than global warming, he never shuts up about 3rd world mass-breeding. So it really wouldn't surprise me if he was quite redpilled - old museum archivist, well-travelled worldly bug collectors and botanists often are.
i just watched the first episode of the africa series. that giraffe fight was the hypest shit ever.
>>2120254
>Obsessed with the Global Warming Doomsday Cult.
get the fuck out you science hating denier cunt
>>2120760
>redpilled
I'm certain he's not an angsty, bitter, woman-hating beta.
>>2122061
Haha well maybe I've got the definition of redpilled a bit wrong then, but you get the gist of it. He's clearly aware of the problems in the world.
Does anyone have a list over all his documentaries? I suddernly got the urge to go on a nostalgia trip. I watched his movies more religiously than Disney as a kid.
>>2122052
Wait a minute... You actually believe the global warming horseshit? Like seriously?
>>2123381
>I have never been outside my basement
If you unironically think climate change isn't real, you're either housebound, poorly-travelled, or you simply don't understand what it is.
>>2123400
Or he's just a shitposter
I saw him at Heathrow airport a month or so back, I don't think I've ever been so pleased. He looked just like I thought he would, walking around in his brown jacket. I felt so lucky
What are you favourite Attenborough documentaries?
Mine:
>Africa
>Madagascar
>Planet Earth
>Galapagos
>Frozen Planet
>The Hunt
>Flying Monsters
>Micro Monsters (Wasn't that great, to be honest familia)
Any recommendations?
>>2124191
Blue Planet?
>>2123381
Scuse you?
Go visit China.
>>2124191
I like the one in which he admits the horrible things he's done while making documentaries.
>>2124191
Life in Cold Blood and Life in the Undergrowth.
I love Attenborough to pieces, but thanks to Youtube commenters he will always be known as "frog porn director" in my heart.
>>2116705
those old shows of his are the best IMO. The world was so savage back then.
>>2116490
Ordered a Nep Attenboroughii :^)
Best 150 bucks I've ever spent. It'll be a nice little friend for my maturing robcantleyi
Sharing some of my favourite Attenborough cuteness
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsIszzDRWI8
>all in last 10 years
mate check out his 20th century stuff like Zoo Quest, Life On Earth, The Living Planet, The Trials of Life (fucking GOAT), Life in the Freezer, The Private Life of Plants, The Life of Birbs.
Also, has anyone seen any of his stuff which isn't directly about living organisms in a conventional way, but about other areas like palaeontology, anthropology, geography and the history of exploration? Like for example Lost Worlds, Vanished Lives, or The Tribal Eye, or The People of Paradise, or The Spirit of Asia or The Explorers? People forget how versatile he really is.
>>2116515
Fuck man. I know it's bound to be relatively soon but I am not fucking ready.
>>2117336
Those Wild (wherever) or Wildest (wherever) ones are really good. Didn't realize they were American though, it's a guy with a British accent narrating them if I remember right.
>>2124191
Life in Cold Blood was really good. And Life, of course. As cool as Africa and Madagascar were, I honestly think Life and Planet Earth were the best- the sheer scale of those documentaries was amazing and the cinematography was pretty stellar too. Also The Trials of Life is a great one.
>>2124186
Fuck man. I would love to meet him, I'm jelly.
>>2126044
There hasn't been a Wild America that I know of. The best one to come close was North America by Tom Selleck. It was pretty watchable.
>>2122045
>That duck and counter-riposte at the end
I was literally shouting at the screen.
>>2123400
>>2124181
You're both complete idiots.
>climate change
That's precisely what you morons started calling it after realizing global warming is no longer fashionable. Newsflash: climate change happens constantly; the temperature changing a single degree is climate change. Call it what it is: man made global warming.
Even then, it's still bullshit and you're retarded for believing in it. Start providing evidence it exists instead of accusing anyone who doesn't believe of being a "denier" or keep sucking that hypocrite DiCaprio's cock.
>>2126709
>see this snowball in my hand???: the argument
>>2126709
It's a real and natural phenomenon, but more people now believe that human factors are slowly contributing to it. The goal for humanity right now is to slow it down, not to stop it. What if this "climate change/global warming" is true though? Is it really such a bad thing for all of us to give it a try? Is money a much more important factor than trying to save our loved ones, our friends, our families, our communities or our beautiful irreplaceable planet?
>>2127424
the person you're responding to is either
1. trolling you
or
2. stupid.
if the first, they got you good. Now they'll just pretend not to understand what you're talking about and you'll waste hours of your life trying to explain it in some way they'll understand.
If the second, no explanation you give will convert them.
>>2127428
I don't care, and I did suspect either of those two things; the purpose of my message is for anyone lurking here to understand this is a real possible problem with real consequences and if we all choose to turn our back on this issue we all risk losing ourselves, and animals we had a chance to care for all because we just said ......No.
>>2127428
Typical radical dumbshit; you refuse to engage in any arguments because you lack the brains, so you resort to crying troll. Pathetic.
>>2127424
>climate change
Stop calling it that, dumbass. It makes you look less credible and more like a retard.
>but more people now believe that human factors are slowly contributing to it
Yes, and they're idiots. Until you provide conclusive evidence that human factors are contributing, let alone significantly contributing, then it's not worth spending billions of dollars funding what seems to be nothing as a means of "slowing it down". Those billions of dollars could be better spent on technological advancements that help humanity adapt to whatever nature throws its way in the coming centuries, but alas, dumbshits like yourself and your lord and savior DiCaprio want it invested in a scam.
Again, provide evidence or you're no better than the retard labeling everyone a troll for not seeing it his way. The Earth's temperature and carbon dioxide levels have never shown a strong correlation
>What if this "climate change/global warming" is true though? Is it really such a bad thing for all of us to give it a try? Is money a much more important factor than trying to save our loved ones, our friends, our families, our communities or our beautiful irreplaceable planet?
I said evidence, not the persuasive language skills you learned in 10th grade.
