Yarn Documentary Club

Attenborough

Same rule as the rest of the shelf: nothing before 1985, so Life on Earth and The Living Planet are not here, and they are the two that made his name. What is left is still forty years of it, and watching them in order you get two things happening at once. The cameras keep getting better, from film and a tripod to drones and rigs left running for months. And the world in front of them keeps getting emptier. Through the whole lot of it there is that voice, which somehow makes a beetle sound like the most important thing you have ever been told about, and which by the end is telling you what we…