David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet

David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet (2020) is a documentary you can watch online on iFILM. The veteran British broadcaster, who has filmed wildlife on every continent, sits down to give what he calls his witness statement.

He was in his nineties when the cameras rolled, and the film moves through the decades of his career as a measure of how fast the living world has thinned out. Footage of untouched forests and reefs from his early expeditions cuts hard against what stands in their place now. He lays out the numbers plainly: shrinking species variety, vanished woodland, an emptied ocean. Directors Alastair Fothergill and Keith Scholey shoot it with the scale of full-blown natural-history filmmaking.

The back half refuses to end on despair. It maps a concrete way to reverse the damage, from rewilding to rethinking how we power and feed ourselves. This Netflix film lands for lifelong fans of his BBC work and for anyone meeting that voice for the first time. Quiet, unhurried, hard to argue with. Stream A Life on Our Planet (2020) online on iFILM.