The Green Planet (2022–2022)
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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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- 01
Tropical WorldsTropical 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. - 02
Desert WorldsDesert 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. - 03
Human WorldsTwo 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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Season01
- S01E01Season's bestTropical WorldsJanuary 9, 2022Tropical rainforests are plant battlegrounds. New filming techniques allow us to enter the world of plants to see it from their perspective
- S01E02
Water WorldsJanuary 16, 2022Water plants create beautiful, bizarre worlds. Flowers smother rivers and lakes. Plants fight and hunt. A river bubbles like champagne as pl - S01E03
Seasonal WorldsJanuary 23, 2022Plants of the seasonal world face constant change. They use use strategy, deception and feats of engineering to survive. Most importantly, t - S01E04Desert WorldsJanuary 30, 2022Desert plants spend decades in suspended animation waiting for rain, or they travel to find it. They survive using weapons, camouflage and s
- S01E05Human WorldsFebruary 6, 2022Two out of five wild plants are threatened with extinction. Today people are finding remarkable ways to help them, and so make our world a l
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