Exploring the diversity of habitats in the natural world, this series set the blueprint for Planet Earth over 20 years later

A natural history of Antarctica, short but sweet

Through the 1990s David Attenborough continued to specialise on different parts of the animal kingdom - these 10 episodes on birds are a treat

A study of terrestrial invertebrates, made possible by advances in the technology of filming at very small scales

This box set, released in 2006, includes the first eight Life series (only Life in Cold Blood is missing)

New for 2009, this box set brings together Attenborough's original Trilogy of Life series for the first time

Filmed in high definition and billed as "the ultimate portrait of our planet", this was the most expensive documentary series ever produced when broadcast in 2006. Attenborough narrated the UK version

A short study of the Mediterranean lands and man's impact on the nature of the region through history

7 Attenborough specials including the career retrospective Life on Air, and the title program in which Sir David fulfils a lifelong ambition to film birds of paradise in New Guinea

Al Gore and Leo DiCaprio had their turn, but in 2006 David Attenborough presented his own study of climate change, and it was the best of the bunch

Camouflaged mobile cameras film elephants, lions and bears, with David Attenborough on hand to explain the revealing behaviour

The latest "Spy" programmes followed the lives of India's tigers, using cameras mounted on elephants