Underplayed Gems

Lost Worlds, Vanished Lives (1989)

Lost Worlds, Vanished Lives poster
Genre
nature documentary
Country
United Kingdom
Length
1 season, 4 episodes
Rating
8.6 of 10 from 9 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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The catalogue in 3D

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How it feels

David Attenborough travels to famous fossil sites around the world. He shows how experts study ancient rocks and fossils to understand how life changed on Earth over millions of years.

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What happens

Lost Worlds, Vanished Lives is a 1989 four-part BBC documentary series concerning the discovery of fossils. It is written and presented by David Attenborough, produced by Mike Salisbury, and was originally broadcast on BBC Two in April 1989. It was co-produced by TBS and aired on that channel in April 1991. Lost Worlds, Vanished Lives was made between the second and third installments of Attenborough's Life series: The Living Planet and The Trials of Life, respectively. The study of rocks and their ancient secrets was something of a boyhood passion for David Attenborough. In this series, his enthusiasm for the subject is undiminished. With the help of expert palaeontologists, fossil hunters and (for the time) modern animation techniques, Attenborough attempts to show how life evolved in Earth's distant past. To do so, he travels the globe to visit the world's most famous fossil sites. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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