"The genius of educational narrative and conversation, David Attenborough, brought us the beginning of his life series and probably the most complete, interesting and fascinating one at that, no matter what today's standards may be.
Life on Earth takes a look at the origins of life on Earth and its evolution through the geological clock, and I bet my science teacher back in the high-school days could have used this documentary to teach us so much more. "
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Aired in UK: 1979
Attenborough travels the globe in order to trace the story of the evolution of life on the planet. It is this series in which he had his famous encounter with a group of mountain Gorillas."