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The Green Planet

PBS Western Reserve (WNEO 45.1 / WEAO 49.1):

Wednesdays at 8 PM beginning July 6

Thursdays at 1 AM beginning July 7

Wednesdays at 5 PM beginning July 13

 

In this five-part series, Sir David Attenborough travels the globe to take us on a magical journey inside the hidden world of plants.

Plants live secret, unseen lives. Using specialized cameras, this spectacular series allows us to travel beyond the power of the human eye, to look closer at their interconnected world, showcasing over two decades of new discoveries. From deserts, tropical jungles and underwater worlds to seasonal lands and our own urban environment, each episode introduces a set of plants and reveals the battles they face and ingenious ways they’ve found to survive. New stories, never-seen-before animal behaviors, surprising heroes: this is planet Earth from the perspective of plants.

Episodes

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.


Water Worlds
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.


Seasonal Worlds
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.


Desert Worlds
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.


Human Worlds
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.

 

The Green Planet

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Sir David Attenborough travels the globe to reveal the secret, incredible world of plants.