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Attenborough's Passion ProjectsIn pictures...

Sir David Attenborough presents four of his favourite films.

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David Attenborough with the wooden carving which revealed secrets about a long lost culture on Easter Island.

Lost Gods of Easter Island, 2000

  • Filming crew on location in Papua New Guinea
  • David Attenborough on his expedition through the unexplored forests of Papua New Guinea to discover an uncontacted tribe.
  • An image of the original expedition map
  • David uses gestures and sign language to communicate with previously uncontacted members of the Biami tribe.
  • Detail from Sir David Attenborough's diary showing a description of the Biami tribal home
  • A skull, possibly the victim of tribal warfare, discovered at the Biami settlement.
  • Over one hundred men were needed in order to carry enough food and survival kit to support the overland expedition.
  • The mysterious statues created by a culture whose civilization crumbled long before Captain Cooke discovered the island.
  • David Attenborough with the wooden carving which revealed secrets about a long lost culture on Easter Island.
  • The head of a carved, wooden figure, bought in a New York auction by David Attenborough.
  • David stands by the Arongo crater, Easter Island. Now deserted, it was once the site for sacred rituals of a lost culture.
  • A piece of fossil amber is investigated for the organic life it might hold from tens of thousands of years ago.
  • Wiwaxia, a fossil discovered in the Burgess Shale and part of a vast number of animals which lived during the Cambrian era.
  • Paleontologist, Dick Moody, shows David his major find of an immense fossilized skeleton dinosaur in the Saharan desert.
  • Paleontologists working on a dinosaur dig on the southern fringes of the Saharan desert.
  • David Attenborough with the gigantic head of perhaps the most fearsome predator to ever walk the Earth, the tyranosaurus.
  • David Attenborough reflected in Darwin's portrait, while filming takes place for Charles Darwin and the Tree of Life.
  • Details from Darwin's study – tarantula spider in a specimen jar.
  • David Attenborough looking at the details of an Archeopteryx fossil – a clue to the link between birds and reptiles.
  • David Attenborough with the statue of Charles Darwin, filmed in the Natural History Museum.

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