David Attenborough Filmography - 1990s

1990s

Year Title Duration Subject Credit(s)
1990 The Trials of Life 12x50min The final part of the original Trilogy of Life deals with the animal behaviour, with each episode focusing on a particular stage of animals' lives Writer and presenter
1993 Life in the Freezer 6x30min A collaboration with Alastair Fothergill, this was the first series devoted to the natural history of Antarctica Writer and presenter
1993 Wildlife 100 Unknown To mark the 100th episode of Wildlife on One, Attenborough selected his favourite episodes from past series for this special Narrator
1994 Heart of a Nomad 1x60min Attenborough interviews the British explorer and writer Wilfred Thesiger for a Channel 4 documentary Presenter
1995 The Private Life of Plants 6x50min In the first of his more specialised Life series, Attenborough brought the world of plants to life using innovations such as timelapse photography Writer and presenter
1996 Winners and Losers 2x45min A look at how the subjects of early wildlife filmmaker Eugene Schumacher's 1960s documentary The Rare Ones have fared in the intervening years Narrator
1996 Q.E.D. "The Secret Life of Seahorses" 1x45min Attenborough lends his voice to an episode of BBC One's regular half-hour science series, featuring seahorses Narrator
1996 Attenborough in Paradise 1x50min Attenborough fulfils a lifelong ambition in New Guinea, where he finally witnesses several birds of paradise species displaying Writer and presenter
1997 BBC Wildlife Specials 16x50min After a pilot episode on the great white shark in 1995, the Wildlife Special format was developed into a six-part series to mark the Natural History Unit's 40th anniversary in 1997. Further programmes followed on an occasional basis over the following decade Narrator
1998 The Life of Birds 10x50min For this series, infrared cameras were employed for the first time to film nocturnal birds such as kiwis and shearwaters Writer and presenter
1998 The Origin of Species: An Illustrated Guide 1x30min Broadcast as part of a BBC season on evolution, this programme used library footage to help explain Charles Darwin's theory Narrator
1999 Sharks - The Truth 1x50min A programme which seeks to dispel some of the received wisdom surrounding shark behaviour, broadcast as part of BBC One's Shark Summer season Narrator
1999 They Said It Couldn't Be Done 7x60min On the eve of the millennium, Attenborough interviews a series of leading wildlife film-makers in front of an audience at the Royal Geographical Society to discover the secrets behind some of their most famous programmes Presenter

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