Nature Documentaries

What this quiz asks

• The BBC's famous Natural History Unit, which made Planet Earth, is based in which English city?
• What was the name of David Attenborough's landmark 1979 series tracing the evolution of life?
• The 2005 film March of the Penguins follows the long breeding journey of which species?
• The Blue Planet, first shown in 2001, was devoted to which part of the natural world?
• Jacques Cousteau helped develop the Aqua-Lung, the breathing device that made modern scuba diving possible.
• What was the name of Jacques Cousteau's research ship?
• Which actor narrated the English-language version of March of the Penguins released in the United States?
• David Attenborough's older brother Richard directed which film that won the Oscar for Best Picture?
• How does time-lapse filming make a flower seem to open in a few seconds?
• Planet Earth (2006) was the first BBC natural history series to be filmed in high definition.
• How many episodes made up the original 2006 series of Planet Earth, not counting follow-up specials?
• Select ALL the camera techniques that let crews film animals in the dark without lighting them up with visible light.
• Did David Attenborough once run the BBC Two channel as its controller?
• Disney's True-Life Adventures nature films began in 1948 with a short film about which animals?
• The 2017 series Blue Planet II is widely credited with raising public concern about which problem?
• Planet Earth crews filmed hunts from far above using a gyro-stabilised camera mounted on what?
• Who co-directed Jacques Cousteau's 1956 underwater documentary The Silent World?
• Put these David Attenborough series in order of first broadcast, earliest first.
• Select ALL of these nature films that won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.
• Which 2019 Netflix series was made by Silverback Films, the company co-founded by Planet Earth producer Alastair Fothergill?