Episode 1
Tropical Worlds
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.
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TV series
The Green Planet
2022TV-PG1 season8.8 / 10
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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Checked Jul 22, 2026
The Green Planet is available to stream on DirecTV On Demand, Discovery+, Discovery+ (Via Amazon Prime), HBO (Via Hulu), HBO Max, Max (Via Amazon Prime), and YouTube TV in United States. You can also buy it from Amazon, Apple TV, and Fandango at Home. Use the direct links below to open the provider.
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Synopsis
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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Episode 2
Water Worlds
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.
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Episode 3
Seasonal Worlds
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.
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Episode 4
Desert Worlds
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.
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Episode 5
Human Worlds
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.
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More about The Green Planet
Cast
David AttenboroughSelf - Narrator (voice)Production details
- Status
- Ended
- Series type
- Miniseries
- Episodes
- 5
- Original language
- English
Networks & production
BBC OneUnited Kingdom
BBC Studios Natural History UnitUnited Kingdom
ZDFGermany
bilibiliChina
France TélévisionsFrance
CCTVChina
Themes
botanyecologyecosystemslife challengeslife competitionnatural sciencenature documentaryplant life
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