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Life

★ 9.1 51K votes 2009–2009 1 season · 10 episodes Ended BBC One
Nature & scienceThe natural world or science itself as the subject.This show: 10/10Wonder & aweSpectacle and imagination that expand the world.This show: 10/10Visually strikingComposition and imagery worth pausing for.This show: 10/10Big-budget spectacleBlockbuster-scale production values.This show: 9/10DocuseriesNonfiction storytelling across episodes.This show: 9/10AtmosphericMood and place thick enough to touch.This show: 8/10Family-safeNothing to worry about with anyone in the room.This show: 8/10Distinctive scoreMusic inseparable from the show's identity.This show: 7/10
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About

"Evolution's wildest survival tricks, filmed patiently"

Life is a BBC nature documentary that spends each episode on a different branch of the animal or plant kingdom, showing the bizarre, brutal, and ingenious ways creatures survive and reproduce. Expect jaw-dropping wildlife footage years in the making, patient long takes of hunts and courtship rituals, and calm, authoritative narration tying it all together. The pace is unhurried but never boring, built for savoring rather than bingeing. It's less about drama and more about awe: the sheer variety of solutions evolution has found to the same basic problems of eating, mating, and not dying.

Watch it for

the astonishing, patiently filmed footage of behaviors rarely captured on camera before.

Maybe skip if

you want fast-paced storytelling rather than slow, observational nature footage.

Written by our AI editor to help you decide, spoiler-free by design.

All Seasons

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Season 12009
8.56K1010h 11m
EpTitleRatingYoursVotesRuntime
▶1Challenges of Life8.7
81259 min
▶2Reptiles and Amphibians8.7
69459 min
▶3Mammals8.4
64262 min
▶4Fish8.5
60761 min
▶5Birds8.3
58562 min
▶6Insects8.5
58062 min
▶7Hunters and Hunted8.3
56061 min
▶8Creatures of the Deep8.5
56562 min
▶9Plants8.7
58461 min
▶10Primates8.5
54162 min

Full Cast & Crew

Cast

Oprah Winfrey Self - Narrator (U.S. Broadcast), American narrator, Self
David Attenborough Self - Narrator
Doug Allan Self, cameraman
Justine Evans Self, camera woman
Michael Pitts Self
Neil Lucas Self, producer
Jonathan Smith Self
Barrie Britton Self, cameraman
Roger Munns Self, cameraman
Nick Guy Self, cameraman

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