The Green Planet

A brand new series narrated by Sir David Attenborough

The Green Planet | Starting 10 January 2022 at 20:05

SHOW SYNOPSIS

Plants live secret, unseen lives - but in their hidden world and on their timescale, they are as aggressive, competitive and dramatic as animals - locked in desperate battles for food, for light, to reproduce and to scatter their young. Filmed around the world together with Sir David Attenborough, the series employs the latest technologies and showcases over two decades of new discoveries, givi…

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The Green Planet: launch promo

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More kinds of plants are crammed together in the tropical forests than anywhere else on earth.

Land plants surround us, but there’s a parallel world that is largely hidden. Water plants. They create some of the most beautiful, bizarre and important habitats on earth.

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The Green Planet

SHOW SYNOPSIS

Video highlights

The Green Planet: launch promo

Episodes

More kinds of plants are crammed together in the tropical forests than anywhere else on earth.

Land plants surround us, but there’s a parallel world that is largely hidden. Water plants. They create some of the most beautiful, bizarre and important habitats on earth.

Between the tropics and the frozen poles lies a region dominated by relentless change, in the form of the four seasons. Each offers plants brief opportunities and challenges.

Deserts are hostile to life. Temperatures soar and plummet. Water, the stuff of life, is rare. Yet even here, plants find a way.

We rely on plants for the air we breathe and the food we eat. But, as we increasingly recognise what plants do for us and all life on earth, our relationship with them is changing.

More kinds of plants are crammed together in the tropical forests than anywhere else on earth.

Land plants surround us, but there’s a parallel world that is largely hidden. Water plants. They create some of the most beautiful, bizarre and important habitats on earth.

Between the tropics and the frozen poles lies a region dominated by relentless change, in the form of the four seasons. Each offers plants brief opportunities and challenges.

Deserts are hostile to life. Temperatures soar and plummet. Water, the stuff of life, is rare. Yet even here, plants find a way.

We rely on plants for the air we breathe and the food we eat. But, as we increasingly recognise what plants do for us and all life on earth, our relationship with them is changing.

More kinds of plants are crammed together in the tropical forests than anywhere else on earth.

Land plants surround us, but there’s a parallel world that is largely hidden. Water plants. They create some of the most beautiful, bizarre and important habitats on earth.

Between the tropics and the frozen poles lies a region dominated by relentless change, in the form of the four seasons. Each offers plants brief opportunities and challenges.

Deserts are hostile to life. Temperatures soar and plummet. Water, the stuff of life, is rare. Yet even here, plants find a way.

We rely on plants for the air we breathe and the food we eat. But, as we increasingly recognise what plants do for us and all life on earth, our relationship with them is changing.

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