The Green Planet 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.

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Documentary
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First Aired on

Jan 09, 2022

1 seaons till Feb 06, 2022

Popularity: 11.1815
56 votes
Networks
(GB)
Production

BBC Studios Natural History Unit (GB)ZDF (DE)bilibili (CN)France Télévisions (FR)CCTV (CN)

Status: Ended

Show Ended

Last episode: Human Worlds

Seasons & episodes

Total 1 seasons, 5 episodes

Season 1

Aired

5 Episodes
  • Episode 1Tropical Worlds59 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.

  • Episode 2Water Worlds58 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.

  • Episode 3Seasonal Worlds58 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.

  • Episode 4Desert Worlds59 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.

  • Episode 5Human Worlds58 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.

Crew & Team

Louis Rummer-Downing

Producer's Assistant

Rupert Barrington

Producer

Michael Gunton

Executive Producer

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