David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet

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You'll not see a better or more valuable documentary this year.

 

 

David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet

 

Review  By: By John DeSando

 

 

Grade: A

 

Directors: Alastair Fothergill (Penguins), Jonathan Hughes, Keith Scholey

 

Cast: David Attenborough

 

Runtime: 1 h 23 m

 

By: John DeSando

 

“We need to ‘re-wild’ the world.” Richard Attenborough

 

Attenborough, a natural historian, has been chronicling the changes in our natural habitat for most of his 94 years, so his “A Life on Our Planet” documentary is a fitting capstone that summarizes his vision for sustainability as the answer to saving the planet. His narration is soothing, his demeanor avuncular, and his message simple: We can prolong a healthy world if we become a part of nature, not apart from it.

 

Some of the pleasant footage comes from the nine series of the BBC’s Life collection: Life on Earth, The Living Planet, The Trials of Life, Life in the Freezer, The Private Life of Plants, The Life of Birds, The Life of Mammals, Life in the Undergrowth, and Life in Cold Blood. His approach is quiet reasoning as he takes us from the teeming wilds of the early 20th century to the current dangers of overpopulation, excess carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, and the dramatically reduced “wild” earth left.

 

A short 83 minutes, A Life soothingly shows how we have encroached on nature, but it brings hope that we can save the planet by reasonable activity. Attenborough’s “mission statemen” is one of the best, most helpful, and most entertaining documentaries you will ever see.

 

You’ll wish he were your uncle. You’ll wish we would listen to him. You’ll rejoice that someone has found the answer to our survival. And you’ll be happy it’s not about the election and the pandemic, yet they are not far from his advice for survival.

 

On Netflix.

 

 

 

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