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A Perfect Planet

★ 9.0 4K votes 2021–2021 1 season · 6 episodes Ended BBC One
Nature & scienceThe natural world or science itself as the subject.This show: 10/10Wonder & aweSpectacle and imagination that expand the world.This show: 9/10Visually strikingComposition and imagery worth pausing for.This show: 9/10Big-budget spectacleBlockbuster-scale production values.This show: 8/10DocuseriesNonfiction storytelling across episodes.This show: 8/10AtmosphericMood and place thick enough to touch.This show: 7/10Family-safeNothing to worry about with anyone in the room.This show: 7/10
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Starring
Cong LiuJeremy Rifkin
Starring
Cong LiuJeremy Rifkin
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Votes per Episode
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About

"Earth's forces of nature, seen as characters"

A sweeping BBC nature documentary that reframes Earth itself as the main character, examining how volcanoes, sunlight, weather, and oceans shape every living thing on the planet. Each episode picks one elemental force and follows the astonishing, sometimes brutal ways animals have adapted to it. The pace is stately and immersive, built around jaw-dropping cinematography and a calm, authoritative narration that ties micro-level animal behavior to planet-scale systems. It's less about individual creature stories than about the invisible machinery of life, and it ends with a sobering look at how humans are disrupting that machinery.

Watch it for

the staggering, often unbelievable footage of animals surviving Earth's most extreme natural forces.

Maybe skip if

you want fast-paced storytelling rather than slow, immersive nature cinematography.

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All Seasons

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Miniseries2021
8.82K64h 52m
EpTitleRatingYoursVotesRuntime
▶1Volcano9.0
42151 min
▶2The Sun9.0
36749 min
▶3Weather8.9
32748 min
▶4Oceans8.8
32048 min
▶5Humans8.4
33049 min
▶6Making A Perfect Planet8.0
7347 min

Full Cast & Crew

Cast

David Attenborough Self - Narrator
Toby Nowlan Self - Assistant Producer
Rolf Steinmann Self
Chadden Hunter Self - Director
Huw Cordey Self - Series Producer
Jesse Wilkinson Self - Camera Operator
Matthew Aeberhard Self - Camera Operator
Richard Wollocombe Self - Camera Operator
Cong Liu Narrator
Jeremy Rifkin Environmentalist, Self - Economist

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