Episodes
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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How Vines Lasso Their Way to the Top of the Plant World
S1 E1 - 3m 20s
Watch vines and the world's fastest growing tree, the balsa, in a battle to reach the sun with beautiful time-lapse photography.
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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.
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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.
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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.
Schedule
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