2000s
| Year | Title | Duration | Subject | Credit(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | State of the Planet | 3x50min | Attenborough's first overtly environmental series examines the detrimental impact that modern man is having on the natural world | Writer and presenter |
| 2000 | Living with Dinosaurs | 1x50min | A profile of crocodiles, turtles and other modern reptiles whose ancestry can be traced back to the dinosaurs | Narrator |
| 2000 | The Song of the Earth | 1x50min | A scientific look at the musicality of animals, including the songs of birds, whales and gibbons | Writer and presenter |
| 2000 | The Greatest Wildlife Show on Earth | 1x50min | A Christmas special in which Attenborough travels to some of the world's wildlife hotspots to view spectacular natural events | Presenter |
| 2000 | The Lost Gods of Easter Island | 1x50min | Attenborough traces the provenance of a small wooden carving in his possession back to Easter Island, and recounts the island's troubled past | Writer and presenter |
| 2000 | Bowerbirds: The Art of Seduction | 1x50min | A look at how different species of the male Bowerbirds attract a mate | Writer and presenter |
| 2001 | The Blue Planet | 8x50min | A landmark series on the natural history of the world's oceans, executive-produced by Alastair Fothergill | Narrator |
| 2002 | Life on Air | 1x60min | Michael Palin interviews Attenborough at his home and looks back at highlights from his 50-year television career | Interviewee |
| 2002 | The Life of Mammals | 10x50min | To follow up The Life of Birds, Attenborough turned his attention to the mammals, the most successful group of modern animals | Writer and presenter |
| 2002 | Great Natural Wonders of the World | 1x60min | A sequel to The Greatest Wildlife Show on Earth, this programme featured natural wonders such as the Grand Canyon and was again screened at Christmas time | Presenter |
| 2004 | The Amber Time Machine | 1x50min | Attenborough investigates the stories behind the insects captured in Amber millions of years ago | Narrator |
| 2004 | Satoyama: Japan's Secret Water Garden | 2x52min | Documentary about how the local residents of a village in 'Satoyama' live in harmony with nature. | Narrator |
| 2005 | Animal Crime Scene | 5x60min | A series which combined the traditional wildlife documentary format with that of a crime drama | Narrator |
| 2005 | Life in the Undergrowth | 5x50min | Developments in macro and close-up film technology enabled the world of invertebrates to be brought to the screen for the first time | Writer and Presenter |
| 2006 | Planet Earth | 11x50min | Billed as "the ultimate portrait of our planet" by the BBC, this is the most expensive documentary series ever made | Narrator |
| 2006 | The Truth about Climate Change | 2x60min | Attenborough is convinced by the evidence for man-made global warming, and uses archive footage from his previous series along with contemporary film to show how climate change is affecting the world | Writer and presenter |
| 2006 | Gorillas Revisited | 1x60min | The story of Rwanda's mountain gorillas reunites Attenborough with the crew who filmed his famous encounter in Life on Earth | Presenter |
| 2007 | Climate Change: Britain Under Threat | 1x60min | Following his recent documentary on the global issue of climate change, Attenborough fronted this programme on the implications for Britain | Presenter |
| 2007 | Trek: Spy in the Wildebeest | 2x60min | A BBC One series which used camouflaged mobile cameras to bring new insight to the Serengeti wildebeest migration | Narrator |
| 2007 | Tom Harrisson: The Barefoot Anthropologist | 1x60min | Part of a season on anthropologists screened on BBC Four, this programme profiled Tom Harrisson, famous for discovering early human remains in Borneo | Presenter |
| 2007 | Sharing Planet Earth | 1x60min | This programme launched the BBC's Saving Planet Earth season, culminating in a live telethon from Kew Gardens to raise funds for endangered species conservation | Writer and presenter |
| 2007 | Attenborough Explores... Our Fragile World | 1x60min | Broadcast on digital channel UKTV Documentary, this specially commissioned programme saw Attenborough again tackle the global environmental crisis | Writer and presenter |
| 2008 | Life in Cold Blood | 5x50min | Attenborough concluded his globetrotting documentaries with the final part of the specialised Life series, featuring reptiles and amphibians | Writer and Presenter |
| 2008 | Tiger: Spy in the Jungle | 3x60min | Series following a mother tiger and her three cubs in India, filmed using cameras hidden in the jungle and others carried by elephants | Narrator |
| 2008 | Humpbacks: From Fire to Ice | 1x50min | A documentary made for Australian television on the humpback whale | Narrator |
| 2009 | Charles Darwin and the Tree of Life | 1x60min | Attenborough presents a personal study of the theory of evolution | Writer and presenter |
| 2009 | Nature's Great Events | 6x50min | The film techniques of Planet Earth are deployed to dramatise some of the greatest annual wildlife events on the planet | Narrator |
| 2009 | Uncovering Our Earliest Ancestor: The Link | 1x60min | A special documentary to coincide with the announcement of a 47 million-year-old primate fossil | Writer and narrator |
| 2009 | Life | 10x50min | A landmark series documenting some of the more unusual survival strategies that animals and plants around the globe have evolved | Writer and narrator |
| 2009 | Horizon Special: "How Many People can Live on Planet Earth?" | 1x60min | A special episode of BBC Two's science strand looking at the issue of global population growth | Presenter |
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