Science and Nature

The Green Planet

Sir David Attenborough travels the globe to reveal the secret lives of plants. Using pioneering camera techniques, the series takes viewers on a magical journey inside the hidden world of plants, on which all animals — including humans — are dependent.

Human Worlds

55m 55s

Sir David Attenborough reveals how humans are helping plants, many of which face extinction. From projects in Africa to re-seeding the landscape to rebuilding a Brazilian rainforest tree by tree, everyone can work to make our world a little wilder.

Episodes

  • Human Worlds: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Human Worlds

    S1 E5 - 55m 55s

    Sir David Attenborough reveals how humans are helping plants, many of which face extinction. From projects in Africa to re-seeding the landscape to rebuilding a Brazilian rainforest tree by tree, everyone can work to make our world a little wilder.

  • Desert Worlds: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Desert Worlds

    S1 E4 - 55m 55s

    Sir David Attenborough explores the hostile world of the desert, where plants can spend decades waiting for rain or travel to find it. Survival tactics include using weapons, camouflage and forming surprising alliances with animals.

  • Seasonal Worlds: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Seasonal Worlds

    S1 E3 - 55m 55s

    Sir David Attenborough reveals the surprising and dramatic effects of the four seasons on plant life. In order to survive the huge challenges each season presents, plants must use strategy, deception and remarkable feats of engineering.

  • Water Worlds: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Water Worlds

    S1 E2 - 55m 55s

    Sir David Attenborough explores bizarre and beautiful water plants, which use nature's super-glue, counting, and killer spikes to get a leaf up. Some escape from animals by rolling away while others create bubbles in a magical river in Brazil.

  • Tropical Worlds: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Tropical Worlds

    S1 E1 - 55m 54s

    Sir David Attenborough takes a plants-eye view of life in a rainforest, a world of stunning beauty but also fierce competition. New film techniques allow us to enter their magical world as never before.

Extras + Features

  • Meet the World's Biggest Flower: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Meet the World's Biggest Flower

    S1 E1 - 3m 46s

    The Corpse Flower is more than 3 feet across, blooms for only one week, and smells like a rotting... well, corpse! It's a strategy evolved to lure carrion flies.

  • How Leaf Cutter Ants Feed a Killer Fungus: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    How Leaf Cutter Ants Feed a Killer Fungus

    S1 E1 - 3m 44s

    Leaf Cutter ants deliver thousands of pieces of plant matter to a fungus underground in order to grow food. See how plants fight back - with chemical warfare

  • The War Between Fungi and Trees: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    The War Between Fungi and Trees

    S1 E1 - 2m

    Watch vines and the world's fastest growing tree, the balsa, in a battle to reach the sun with beautiful time-lapse photography.

  • The Green Planet - Teaser: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    The Green Planet - Teaser

    S1 - 30s

    Sir David Attenborough travels the globe to reveal the secret lives of plants. Using pioneering camera techniques, the series takes viewers on a magical journey inside the hidden world of plants, on which all animals—including humans—are dependent.

  • Official Preview: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Official Preview

    S1 - 30s

    Sir David Attenborough travels the globe to reveal the secret lives of plants. Using pioneering camera techniques, the series takes viewers on a magical journey inside the hidden world of plants, on which all animals — including humans — are dependent.

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