The Green Planet
2022 · 1 season · 5 episodes · Ended · BBC One
Documentary
TMDB 8.8 · 70 votes
Breathing life into our world.
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
- S01E01Tropical Worlds2022-01-0959m
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.
- S01E02Water Worlds2022-01-1658m
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.
- S01E03Seasonal Worlds2022-01-2358m
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.
- S01E04Desert Worlds2022-01-3059m
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.
- S01E05Human Worlds2022-02-0658m
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.
