The Green Planet — Season 1
Breathing life into our world.
About this season
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 (5)
1. Tropical Worlds
9.2Aired 9 January 2022 • 59 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.
2. Water Worlds
8.8Aired 16 January 2022 • 58 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.
3. Seasonal Worlds
8.8Aired 23 January 2022 • 58 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.
4. Desert Worlds
9.2Aired 30 January 2022 • 59 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.
5. Human Worlds
9.0Aired 6 February 2022 • 58 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.