The Green Planet

Overview

This documentary series about plants is the first immersive portrayal of an unseen, inter-connected world, full of remarkable new behaviour, emotional stories and surprising heroes in the plant world. Planet Earth from the perspective of plants.

Episodes

Tropical Worlds

S01E01 Tropical Worlds

January 9, 2022 9.0 59 min
Tropical rainforests are plant battlegrounds. New filming techniques allow us to enter the world of plants to see it from their perspective and on their timescale.
Water Worlds

S01E02 Water Worlds

January 16, 2022 8.8 58 min
Water plants create beautiful, bizarre worlds. Flowers smother rivers and lakes. Plants fight and hunt. A river bubbles like champagne as plants create the atmosphere itself.
Seasonal Worlds

S01E03 Seasonal Worlds

January 23, 2022 9.0 58 min
Plants of the seasonal world face constant change. They use use strategy, deception and feats of engineering to survive. Most importantly, they must get their timing right.
Desert Worlds

S01E04 Desert Worlds

January 30, 2022 9.0 59 min
Desert plants spend decades in suspended animation waiting for rain, or they travel to find it. They survive using weapons, camouflage and surprising alliances with animals.
Human Worlds

S01E05 Human Worlds

February 6, 2022 9.0 58 min
Two out of five wild plants are threatened with extinction. Today people are finding remarkable ways to help them, and so make our world a little greener and a little wilder.

Cast

David Attenborough
David Attenborough
Self - Narrator (voice)

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