The Green Planet

Tropical Worlds

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.

Tropical Worlds

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.

Previews + Extras

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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

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