The Living Planet ★ BBC Nature series - with MKV Files

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The Living Planet: A Portrait of the Earth - by David Attenborough ★ BBC Nature series - with MKV Files, Subtitles and Companion Books!

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A week after I posted this page I added MKV Rips from those source DVDs - and I also added subtitles to the .MP4 files I'd already had posted. On August 15th, 2024 - the size of each .MP4 video has more than tripled! The download size jumped from 3.8 GB to 13.8 GB just for the .MP4 files.

In order to use the subtitles, in either the .MP4 or the .MKV videos: you must download them to your device and play them from there - with a media player (like VLC) that shows subtitles.

I found the source ISO Images here: https://archive.org/details/living-planet-iso - my thanks to the uploader! I found The Making Of here: https://archive.org/details/bbc-the-living-planet

After I posted this page: I found another copy in the Archive at https://archive.org/details/bbc-the-living-planet that was more complete than this page.

I borrowed their copy of "The Making of the Living Planet" video to add to this collection. My thanks to them!

The Living Planet: A Portrait of the Earth is a BBC nature documentary series written and presented by David Attenborough, first transmitted in the UK from 19 January 1984.

The sequel to his pioneering Life on Earth, it is a study of the ways in which living organisms, including humans, adapt to their surroundings. Each of the twelve 55-minute episodes (one fewer than his previous series) featured a different environment. The executive producer was Richard Brock and the music was composed by Elizabeth Parker of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop.

"Our planet, the Earth, is, as far as we know, unique in the universe. It contains life. Even in its most barren stretches, there are animals. Around the equator, where those two essentials for life, sunshine and moisture, are most abundant, great forests grow. And here plants and animals proliferate in such numbers that we still have not even named all the different species. Here, animals and plants, insects and birds, mammals and man live together in intimate and complex communities, each dependent on one another. Two-thirds of the surface of this unique planet are covered by water, and it was here indeed that life began. From the oceans, it has spread even to the summits of the highest mountains as animals and plants have responded to the changing face of the Earth." — David Attenborough’s opening narration

Episodes: 01 The Building of the Earth 02 The Frozen World 03 The Northern Forests 04 Jungle 05 Seas of Grass 06 The Baking Deserts 07 The Sky Above 08 Sweet Fresh Water 09 The Margins of the Land 10 Worlds Apart 11 The Open Ocean 12 New Worlds 13 The Making of The Living Planet

"Immensely powerful though we are today, it's equally clear that we’re going to be even more powerful tomorrow. And what's more there will be greater compulsion upon us to use our power as the number of human beings on Earth increases still further. Clearly we could devastate the world. […] As far as we know, the Earth is the only place in the universe where there is life. Its continued survival now rests in our hands." — David Attenborough, in closing

Archive

Internet Archive, in Lost telecourses

Licence or status

Public Domain Mark 1.0, as the Internet Archive states it.

Rights statement

Fair Use Notice

Credit

BBC

Language

English

Who can watch

The archive gives no rating. Invisible Network shows it to Tweens profiles and older, judged from its collection and subjects. How films are placed