In six weeks, Sir David Attenborough will turn a hundred. The British presenter and naturalist has transformed the way we look at the planet through his documentaries. He has dedicated more than seventy years to television, from the BBC, travelling around the world to teach us about wildlife and make us aware of the climate crisis and biodiversity loss. To celebrate his birthday, however, Sir David has stayed home to discover the fauna of the city of London for us. Wild London (Londres salvaje) you will find it on Movistar+. At Hammersmith station, you will see how pigeons have learned to travel by tube to find food on the next platform, and you will contemplate the growth and first flights of a peregrine falcon chick in front of Charing Cross Hospital. You will also see a young doe learning to walk among the trees of Harold Hill and the risks faced by a pair of toads crossing the road in Ealing.London is the city with the most gardens per square kilometre. It has four million private gardens that have fragmented the territory. But the desire to maintain native fauna has created an extraordinary circuit for hedgehogs to maintain their social life. Sir David Attenborough patiently awaits the arrival of a pair of foxes just before sunset. The charm of Wild London is that, despite being an urban landscape, the narrative codes of wildlife documentaries in the most distant and remote places on the planet are maintained. The fight between coots on a lake in a London park will have the epic of the confrontations we have seen on other occasions in the African savannah. The struggle for territory does not change. A dragonfly nymph mercilessly devours a tadpole in the depths of a pond in the South Kensington Natural History Museum. The mating of two slugs near Buckingham Palace is of extraordinary visual poetry. As with all BBC nature documentaries, there is a clear aesthetic desire to explain urban wildlife. And however annoying the tens of thousands of London parakeets may be, their flight over a cemetery and their collective rest on a tree are of extraordinary beauty.Sir David also explains how the effects of pollution and the heat from the asphalt will have consequences for the insects that live alongside pedestrians. Near a pub, with humans having a beer, bees are also victims of the effects of alcohol in a very curious way. If you ever take a walk along Regent's Canal, it will be inevitable that you think of the snakes that inhabit the undergrowth. Wild London is a very different tour of the city, which surely makes it seem friendlier than it is. But in such a turbulent era when the world is so violent and discouraging, Attenborough's documentaries serve to regain an attentive and humble look at life.

The most commercially successful platforms have increased their productions focused on elite military units and have normalized an aesthetic of order, strength, and discipline. One of the latest examples is the documentary series Pelayo: Beyond the Limit on Prime Video. The protagonist is Pelayo Gayol, a veteran inspector with the Spanish National Police's GEO special operations unit who joins real anti-drug trafficking missions in Colombia. We already met the character in another documentary series, GEO: Beyond the Limitwhere he trained and selected the Special Operations Group, pushing agents to their limits to transform them into superhumans. Pelayo fosters a testosterone-fueled emotional immersion in military discipline. He plunges us into a context of violence and tension while constructing a cheap, pseudo-intellectual discourse about his work.

Iyad Alasttal (Khan Yunis, 1987) She has become one of the most impressive documentary voices to come out of Gaza.capable of reflecting the everyday life of a besieged and destroyed territory in a testament for future generations. His works have been screened at international festivals and have presented a unique perspective on human resilience and fragility. In this interview, conducted via videoconference between Barcelona and Paris, where he lives in exile, Alasttal reflects on how the context has shaped his identity and his filmmaking style.

Streaming platforms, through the documentary genre, have stimulated the rediscovery of high-profile cases from the 80s and 90s. They capitalize on nostalgia, vague memories of events, and the curiosity to understand them better, achieving a phenomenon similar to that of the past. Television's evolution now allows for a more conscious approach to these old stories, a more meticulous understanding of genre conventions, and the use of archival footage to interpret them from a more mature perspective.