Series
The Green Planet
“Breathing life into our world.”
Documentary
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.
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Seasons & episodes
1Tropical Worlds9 Jan 2022 · 59m · ★ 9.0Tropical 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.
2Water Worlds16 Jan 2022 · 58m · ★ 8.8Water 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.
3Seasonal Worlds23 Jan 2022 · 58m · ★ 8.8Plants 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.
4Desert Worlds30 Jan 2022 · 59m · ★ 9.0Desert 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.
5Human Worlds6 Feb 2022 · 58m · ★ 8.9Two 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.
Details
- First aired
- 9 Jan 2022
- Last aired
- 6 Feb 2022
- Status
- Ended
- Language
- English
- Network
- BBC One
- Episodes
- 5
- Votes
- 74 on TMDB
Where to watch (US)
HBO Max Amazon Channel
Philo
Discovery+ Amazon Channel
HBO Max
Discovery +
Planet Earth Amazon Channel
Thirteen
Cast
David AttenboroughSelf - Narrator (voice)
