The Life Collection


The Life Collection is a 24-disc DVD box set of eight titles from David Attenborough's 'Life' series of BBC natural history programmes. It was released in the UK on 5 December 2005 and has also been made available on Region 4 DVD in Australia and New Zealand. The Region 4 DVD contains four fewer discs as Life on Earth is not included. It has not yet been issued in Region 1 encoding for the US.

Contents

The ninth part of the "Life" series, Life in Cold Blood, was not yet available at the time of the release of this set and is not included.

Episodes

The following is a list of episodes found in David Attenborough's Life collection.

Life on Earth

  1. The Infinite Variety
  2. Building Bodies
  3. The First Forests
  4. The Swarming Hordes
  5. The Conquest of the Waters
  6. The Invasion of the Land
  7. Victors of the Dry Lands
  8. Lords of the Air
  9. The Rise of the Mammals
  10. Theme and Variations
  11. The Hunters and the Hunted
  12. Life in the Trees
  13. The Compulsive Communicators

    The Living Planet

  14. The Building of the Earth
  15. The Frozen World
  16. The Northern Forests
  17. Jungle
  18. Seas of Grass
  19. The Baking Deserts
  20. The Sky Above
  21. Sweet Fresh Water
  22. The Margins of the Land
  23. Worlds Apart
  24. The Open Ocean
  25. New Worlds

    The Trials of Life

  26. Arriving
  27. Growing Up
  28. Finding Food
  29. Hunting and Escaping
  30. Finding the Way
  31. Homemaking
  32. Living Together
  33. Fighting
  34. Friends and Rivals
  35. Talking to Strangers
  36. Courting
  37. Continuing the Line

    Life in the Freezer

  38. The Bountiful Sea
  39. The Ice Retreat
  40. The Race to Breed
  41. The Door Closes
  42. The Big Freeze
  43. Footsteps in the Snow

    The Private Life of Plants

  44. Travelling
  45. Growing
  46. Flowering
  47. The Social Struggle
  48. Living Together
  49. Surviving

    The Life of Birds

  50. To Fly or Not to Fly?
  51. The Mastery of Flight
  52. The Insatiable Appetite
  53. Meat-Eaters
  54. Fishing for a Living
  55. Signals and Songs
  56. Finding Partners
  57. The Demands of the Egg
  58. The Problems of Parenthood
  59. The Limits of Endurance

    The Life of Mammals

  60. A Winning Design
  61. Insect Hunters
  62. Plant Predators
  63. Chisellers
  64. Meat Eaters
  65. Opportunists
  66. Return to Water
  67. Life in the Trees
  68. Social Climbers
  69. Food for Thought

    Life in the Undergrowth

  70. Invasion of the Land
  71. Taking to the Air
  72. The Silk Spinners
  73. Intimate Relations
  74. Supersocieties