2000s British documentary television series

Planet Earth

Series Age rating: 3 Year: 2006 IMDB Rating: 9.4

David Attenborough celebrates the amazing variety of the natural world in this epic documentary series, filmed over four years across 64 different countries.

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Life

Series Age rating: 2 Year: 2009 IMDB Rating: 9.1

David Attenborough looks at the extraordinary ends to which animals and plants go in order to survive. Featuring epic spectacles, amazing TV firsts and examples of new wildlife behaviour.

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Life in Cold Blood

Series Age rating: 7 Year: 2008 IMDB Rating: 9

David Attenborough reveals the surprising truth about the cold-blooded lives of reptiles and amphibians. These animals are as dramatic, as colourful and as tender as any other animals.

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The Blue Planet

Series Age rating: 2 Year: 2001 IMDB Rating: 9

David Attenborough narrates a natural history of the oceans.

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The Power of Nightmares

Series Age rating: n/a Year: 2004 IMDB Rating: 8.8

Examines how politicians have used our fears to increase their power and control over society.

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The Century of the Self

Series Age rating: n/a Year: 2002 IMDB Rating: 8.8

The legacy of famed psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud informs the lives of people throughout the world even to this day, though it's a phenomenon to which most are unaware. The film is an exhaustive examina...

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The First World War

Series Age rating: n/a Year: 2003 IMDB Rating: 8.6

This ten-part docuseries tells the comprehensive story of the First World War, featuring excerpts written by Winston Churchill, Karen Blixen, Georges Clémenceau, David Lloyd George, Siegfried Sassoon...

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Auschwitz: The Nazis and the Final Solution

Series Age rating: 12 Year: 2005 IMDB Rating: 8.6

This documentary series tackles one of history's most horrifying subjects: the Holocaust and the infamous Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp.

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Natural World

Series Age rating: n/a Year: 1983 IMDB Rating: 8.6

Natural World is a nature documentary television series broadcast annually on BBC Two and regarded by the BBC as its flagship natural history brand. It is currently the longest-running series in its g...

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Meerkat Manor

Series Age rating: n/a Year: 2005 IMDB Rating: 8.3

Meerkat Manor is a British television programme produced by Oxford Scientific Films for Animal Planet International that premiered in September 2005 and ran for four series until its cancellation in A...

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