Hi.

Noticed this kind of question about nature documentaries doesn’t get asked often around here even though I assume a lot of people watch them but I’m a big fan of nature documentaries in general and Attenborough’s tend to be very consistently high quality and some of the best, so necessarily picking certain ones out can be quite tricky, but I’m more talking “favorite” rather than necessarily “best” although you can decide for yourself whether both words mean the same thing to you.

He has just been churning out a lot of documentaries in the last five years or so especially with Netflix and AppleTV+ joining the BBC the big players making high quality nature documentaries and seemingly every big player wanting Attenborough’s iconic delivery and presence on their documentary. He’s even started getting involved with dinosaurs again, he seems tireless and relentless at the moment.

For me, the ones that stand out are Planet Earth (2006), Planet Earth II (2016), The Hunt (2015), The Blue Planet (2001), Seven Worlds, One Planet (2019), Our Planet (2019) and Life (2009 - I much more enjoy the Attenborough version). There are so many others I could have named including Life on Earth (1979) and Frozen Planet (2011) and Life Story (2013) and Dynasties (2018) and but there’s just so many great ones.

What are your favorites?