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Attenborough dominates our pick of 2024's best documentaries to date

Enjoy the year's top documentaries so far, including David Attenborough on the rise of the mammals and a profile of Victor Glover, soon to be the first Black astronaut to orbit the moon

By Bethan Ackerley

15 May 2024

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BBC TV series Mammals shows why this group dominates the planet

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When it comes to TV criticism, three things tend to be true: documentaries don’t always get the attention they deserve; when they do, they are probably about nature; and they are probably narrated by David Attenborough. I am not immune to this tendency as you will see from what follows.

There have already been many science documentaries that we haven’t had a chance to cover this year. Here are some of the best.

Let’s start, inevitably, with entries from the incomparable Attenborough. Mammals, a six-parter…

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