Attenborough's Passion Projects
Today I am going to review a series from another documentarian that has changed my life and the world: Sir David Attenborough. We're going to look at a few of his lesser know documentaries that have been repackaged for rebroadcasting. The series was put together by using archival footage from earlier series and reworked for a new generation. (and to honor Sir David's 90th Birthday in 2016) It worked exceedingly well, in my opinion. It's a four part series, at about an hour/hour-ten mins per episode, and it touches on some of the more intimate interests of Sir David himself. Episode 1: A Blank on the Map Sir David travels to Papua New Guinea in search of the Biami tribe, which at that point, (1971) were uncontacted. He hires some ten and hundred men to be porters, guides and most importantly: cultural liaisons. They trek through uncharted territory for days, up and down mountains, across rivers (the porters make a suspension bridge with ...