Name: Attenborough's Conquest of the Skies
Released: 2015-01-01T00:00:00.000Z
Cast: David Attenborough

TV Show · Documentary · Educational

In Conquest of the Skies, David Attenborough travels through time to unravel the astonishing 300 million year story of how flying animals first appeared and then evolved into the huge variety of aeronauts that fill our skies today.

2015 · 50m

Starring David Attenborough

Director David Lee

EPISODE 1

The First to Fly

David Attenborough embarks on an extraordinary journey to search for the origins of animal flight, beginning his epic global exploration in the unexpectedly skilful world of the flying insects.
EPISODE 2

Rivals

David Attenborough continues his search for the origins of flying animals, exploring the rise of a new wave of larger flyers...monstrous winged reptiles, feathered dinosaurs, birds and bats.
EPISODE 3

Triumph

David Attenborough concludes his epic history of the evolution of flight with an exploration of the highly versatile flyers that dominate our skies today...from the extraordinarily diverse skills of the birds to the sonar guided precision of the bats.