Life Story is a British natural-history television series co-produced by the BBC Natural History Unit, Discovery Channel and France Télévisions in association with The Open University.

[1] The six-part series, narrated by David Attenborough, reveals the challenges faced by individual animals at different stages of their lives.

As with other BBC Natural History Unit productions, Life Story was a co-production between BBC Television, Discovery Channel, France Télévisions and Open University, who each contributed to the documentary's funding, and is the first Natural History Unit series to film using ultra high-definition 4K cameras.

Life Story's world premiere took place at Bristol's Cinema de Lux on 14 October 2014, to coincide with the BBC's 80th anniversary in the city.

[8] The series was released in the UK as Region 2, two-disc DVD (BBCDVD3981)[10] and Blu-ray (BBCBD0281) box sets[11] by BBC Worldwide on 1 December 2014.