David Attenborough’s Galapagos 3D

One of the world’s most extraordinary places, seen for the first time in breathtaking 3D.

Few places on Earth have shaped our understanding of life as profoundly as the Galapagos Islands. Four million years in the making, these remote Pacific islands remain the world’s greatest living laboratory of evolution — and in this three-part series for Sky 3D, David Attenborough explored them as they had never been seen before.

Filmed in one of the most extreme and hard-to-reach locations on the planet, the series combined breathtaking 3D cinematography with Attenborough’s unrivalled depth of knowledge to trace the full story of the Galapagos — from the explosive volcanic forces that created them, to the extraordinary evolutionary innovations that made their wildlife unlike anything else on Earth.

The production made natural history twice over. Joining an expedition on the island of Isabela, Attenborough became the first person ever to film the newly discovered pink land iguana — a species so unexpected that he described it as “the Penny Black of the natural world.” And in a moment of profound significance, the series captured the last ever footage of Lonesome George — the last surviving giant tortoise of his species, who passed away just ten days after filming. Attenborough was the last person ever to film with him.