The remarkable and often perilous story of the journey through life. It is a story that unites each of us with every animal on the planet, because we all set out on this journey from the moment we are born. For animals there is just one goal in life – to continue their bloodline in the form of offspring. This series follows that journey through its six crucial stages: first steps, growing up, finding a home, gaining power, winning a mate and succeeding as a parent.
Producer: Michael Gunton
Self - Presenter
No overview available.
4 episodes
This short special shows some of incredible techniques the BBC team use to capture their amazing footage.
Runtime: 10 minThis short special explores one our closest relatives in the animal kingdom, the bonobo.
Runtime: 10 minThis short special shows some of incredible techniques the BBC team use to capture their amazing footage.
Runtime: 10 minLife Story Diaries includes the Greenland shoot and the difficult scenes witnessed by the film crew (First Steps), the team's two-and-a-half-year quest to capture footage of young Arctic foxes snow diving for lemmings (Growing Up), how the Zambia crew obtained rare footage of a complete wild dog hunt (Home) and the Senegal chimpanzee shoot, where the crew spent 700 hours with the troop to film the spear-hunting behaviour (Power).
Runtime: 60 minNo overview available.
7 episodes
Fur seals and flightless barnacle goose chicks fight to survive the challenges of infancy.
Runtime: 59 minThe moment when all animals must strike out on their own in search of independence.
Runtime: 59 minAnimals must find homes that provide shelter from the elements and a refuge from enemies.
Runtime: 59 minTo gain power an animal must find a way to rise through the ranks of its society.
Runtime: 59 minDavid Attenborough explores the courtship displays of flame bowerbirds and pufferfish.
Runtime: 59 minIn this episode, animals attempt to rear their offspring.
Runtime: 59 minLife Story with David Attenborough: Trailer - BBC One