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The Green Planet

Breathing life into our world.

  • 2022
  • Ended
  • Documentary
  • 1 season
  • 8.8/10

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.

Latest: Season 1 · 2022

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  1. E1. Tropical Worlds

    Jan 9, 2022 · 59m

    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.

  2. E2. Water Worlds

    Jan 16, 2022 · 58m

    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.

  3. E3. Seasonal Worlds

    Jan 23, 2022 · 58m

    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.

  4. E4. Desert Worlds

    Jan 30, 2022 · 59m

    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.

  5. E5. Human Worlds

    Feb 6, 2022 · 58m

    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.

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