The Green Planet

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.

Stars: David Attenborough, Cong Liu
Director(s): Paul Williams

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.

Stars: David Attenborough, Cong Liu, Tim Shepherd
Director(s): Peter Bassett

Plants of the seasonal world face constant change. They use strategy, deception and feats of engineering to survive. Most importantly, they must get their timing right.

Stars: David Attenborough, Cong Liu
Director(s): Rosie Thomas

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.

Stars: David Attenborough, Cong Liu
Director(s): Paul Williams

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.

Stars: David Attenborough, Cong Liu, Elisabeth Oakham
Director(s): Elisabeth Oakham