This has the science backing up the facts and has some intreging new technology to show the way colours are seen in nature.
13 Reviews
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allanmichael3028 February 2021
Very good, but not the best
tibovl28 April 2021
Let me start off by saying that this is a fine documentary in the standard Attenborough-style. However the first episode, which is also the most important to get people to watch the rest is the worst of the three. It is a tad repetitive and there are a lot of scenarios avid documentary viewers will already have seen.
Episode rating for me is like this. Ep1: 7, ep2: 8 and ep3: 8.5, end result is an 8 overall.
People that haven't seen as many documentaries will be able to get more out of this series, but for me it doesn't reach the same heights as series like Planet Earth or Our Planet. Don't get me wrong, this is still a competent and enjoyable show which I do recommend.
Episode rating for me is like this. Ep1: 7, ep2: 8 and ep3: 8.5, end result is an 8 overall.
People that haven't seen as many documentaries will be able to get more out of this series, but for me it doesn't reach the same heights as series like Planet Earth or Our Planet. Don't get me wrong, this is still a competent and enjoyable show which I do recommend.
Don't understand the reasoning behind the third episode
cromki13 May 2021
It feels like this whole series was just edited lazily. The third episode should have been incorporated into the other two, but instead is repetitive, containing the same exact species, cuts, information and dialogues, with a bit of a "behind the scenes ". It just doesn't seem right.
First time
pdanielaa27 April 2021
It's my first time watching a nature documentary and maybe this is why I found this one so attractive. But "attractive" wasn't the only thought. It was an amazing experience. I loved every single detail. It's interesting and full of colour. I really enjoyed it.
Brief and Beautiful
owen-watts8 March 2021
I'm a sucker for anything Attenborough and this short two-part documentary sees him anciently roaming the land like a wonderful turtle and taking in the multifarious ways that colour affects life in the animal world. It's unclear if the brevity of the series was due to real life goings-on but even two short hours of it is lovely - darting from species to species like a magical "animal colour facts" greatest hits. The obligatory 10-minute behind the scenes bits are quite unbalanced as always but it's easy to forgive when our beloved turtle pops up so frequently here. The world will be a far less colourful place without him.
A beautiful film!!
skoyal7 May 2021
There is a brilliant effort by David Attenborough and his team to give us all preview of beauty of life in a Netflix series called 'Life in Colour'
It's fascinating, enthralling and some of the beautiful mysteries of wild life unravelled and shown in three parts,; Seeing, Hiding and Chasing in colour.
Well till I saw this I had thought Peacock was a colourful being, Chameleon changed colours, zebra was black and white but never knew why all this was....
It is an amazing film( how they have done their camera work is shown at the end) where even a tiniest of being in the wild uses color to its advantage, how its not just the chameleon that changes color and how the zebra uses its stripes as a defence system!!
I don't think my excitement of having watched 2 parts so far can be poured in words... cause it's a wonderful connection of the filmmaker and his subjects that is so universal that it needs to be seen and experienced!!
Watch this and I bet you will realise life is soo beautiful with colour or black and white! It will take your mind to a beautiful place! Enjoy!!!
It's fascinating, enthralling and some of the beautiful mysteries of wild life unravelled and shown in three parts,; Seeing, Hiding and Chasing in colour.
Well till I saw this I had thought Peacock was a colourful being, Chameleon changed colours, zebra was black and white but never knew why all this was....
It is an amazing film( how they have done their camera work is shown at the end) where even a tiniest of being in the wild uses color to its advantage, how its not just the chameleon that changes color and how the zebra uses its stripes as a defence system!!
I don't think my excitement of having watched 2 parts so far can be poured in words... cause it's a wonderful connection of the filmmaker and his subjects that is so universal that it needs to be seen and experienced!!
Watch this and I bet you will realise life is soo beautiful with colour or black and white! It will take your mind to a beautiful place! Enjoy!!!
obvious subject matter
SnoopyStyle2 June 2021
David Attenborough hosts this Netflix nature doc on how creatures use colors to survive and thrive. It seems to be an obvious subject matter for a nature TV show. In addition to the obvious, I do learn some things. I didn't know that a tiger's orange coloring blends in with the green background and the color blind prey. So far, there're only three episodes. There should be more to this subject matter.
Natural colour
TheLittleSongbird20 September 2021
'Life in Colour' is the second David Attenborough series released and aired in 2021. The other being 'A Perfect Planet', which while not one of his best was a truly fine and often brilliant series (despite the final episode not being as good as the others). 'Life in Colour' did fascinate me from the get go, due to its subject matter. A large part of me was so interested in seeing how colour is used in the depicted animals' lives and how it would benefit them or cause problems.
It turned out to be another fine Attenborough effort. Did prefer 'A Perfect Planet' of the two series from 2021 and he has done better overall. Ones that are more ground-breaking, more varied and more emotional. 'Life in Colour' however does do a great job with the subject matter and anybody who watches Attenborough's work expecting high production values, wonderful animals and footage, to be educated and memorable scenes will not be disappointed.
My only real issue actually with 'Life in Colour' (have not seen the third episode yet) was the information regarding the polarised lights in "Seeing in Colour", which did go over my head a bit and didn't need to be as complicated in explanation as it turned out.
Otherwise the series is great. One always expects Attenborough's documentaries to be well made, and calling 'Life in Colour' well made is an understatement. The best of the footage is quite dazzling, such as the strawberry coloured frogs and the significance of tiger and zebra markings, and it is amazing at how vivid the colours are. Especially in "Seeing in Colour" with the red noses and green chests.
The music has a nice atmosphere and is nicely varied emotionally, such as the mating dance and how it depicts deception. The narration is educational throughout and mostly accessible, like how one can tell whether a fruit is ripe, misfiring only with the polarised lights. Also liked its entertainment value, without it ever being childish and honesty. It is typically brilliantly presented by Attenborough, who has one of those listen to for hours type of voices.
Also cannot fault the animals and the way they behave and what is said being fascinating, with the ways of deception in "Hiding in Colour" being particularly illuminating, The footage is informative and engaging, with enough freshness given to some of the familiar material (mating dances are not new territory for Attenborough documentaries but don't get old) and with "Seeing in Colour" being particularly good in presenting new material well backed up. Actually appreciated the behind the scenes scenes and it made me appreciate the crews' efforts more.
Concluding, fine series. 9/10.
It turned out to be another fine Attenborough effort. Did prefer 'A Perfect Planet' of the two series from 2021 and he has done better overall. Ones that are more ground-breaking, more varied and more emotional. 'Life in Colour' however does do a great job with the subject matter and anybody who watches Attenborough's work expecting high production values, wonderful animals and footage, to be educated and memorable scenes will not be disappointed.
My only real issue actually with 'Life in Colour' (have not seen the third episode yet) was the information regarding the polarised lights in "Seeing in Colour", which did go over my head a bit and didn't need to be as complicated in explanation as it turned out.
Otherwise the series is great. One always expects Attenborough's documentaries to be well made, and calling 'Life in Colour' well made is an understatement. The best of the footage is quite dazzling, such as the strawberry coloured frogs and the significance of tiger and zebra markings, and it is amazing at how vivid the colours are. Especially in "Seeing in Colour" with the red noses and green chests.
The music has a nice atmosphere and is nicely varied emotionally, such as the mating dance and how it depicts deception. The narration is educational throughout and mostly accessible, like how one can tell whether a fruit is ripe, misfiring only with the polarised lights. Also liked its entertainment value, without it ever being childish and honesty. It is typically brilliantly presented by Attenborough, who has one of those listen to for hours type of voices.
Also cannot fault the animals and the way they behave and what is said being fascinating, with the ways of deception in "Hiding in Colour" being particularly illuminating, The footage is informative and engaging, with enough freshness given to some of the familiar material (mating dances are not new territory for Attenborough documentaries but don't get old) and with "Seeing in Colour" being particularly good in presenting new material well backed up. Actually appreciated the behind the scenes scenes and it made me appreciate the crews' efforts more.
Concluding, fine series. 9/10.
Better then nothing
scorpiogemini26 April 2021
This felt more like a fluff piece, but its better then nothing. Beautiful photage as always and the background music score was kept a bit more subtle and not (blasting and over the top as in the latest planet earth series) so we could enjoy the photage in peace.
Really interesting and brilliantly educational
connor_val27 January 2024
Recently lost my tolerance for there climate change stuff due to realising it's all lies, but this particular documentary is amazing and very little points about it, the way I prefer nature documentarys, empty of propaganda based off of lies and filled with almost nothing but educational information, the way I enjoy David Attenborough documentary nowadays. My personal favourite point in the show is the parts about the tigers, always enjoy seeing predators do what they do to survive off what they have adapted to eating, tigers are my fathers most favourite species of animal, so his love for them had an impact on which educational points of shows are, I do not have favourites in terms if individual species because I love them all equally, but in terms of extinctions I have recently started thinking that without extinctions and adaptations life would not be able to survive, if life can't adapt or die they'll all die, it's all based on as Darwin said survival of the fittest, humans are a part of nature so us having an impact on other life is a part of nature, so other animals must adapt better ways of avoiding us or go extinct, but our compassion has caused the number of habitat recovery and species returning to old habitats to outnumber the amount of one's declining or damages. But due to this still having a rather small piece about "climate change" I have not given it a 10. It would've been a 10 if it had zero instances of "climate change" or biodiversity loss, I do not include the symbols at each side of biodiversity loss like I do with climate change cause to me biodiversity loss can be a crises but we currently are not experiencing such a crises as off yet.
A bit repetitive
Simbelmyne4413 August 2021
ye sure
djurrepower11 May 2021
I mean its good, but not really that great. Some new concepts and topics, but mostly just the same old same old. Most subject weren't even that impressive or interesting. So its well made, but inherently not that substancial.
6/10: egh.
6/10: egh.
Nature TV at its best
jologo-1264916 May 2022
Another fascinating nature documentary narrated by David Attenborough. Need more be said? Features the usual high production values and first-rate photography, while answering questions like 'why do zebras have black and white stripes?' and 'why, if tigers need to remain unseen by their prey, they are colored a conspicuous bright orange with black stripes?'.
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