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Alien Worlds

★ 6.6 5K votes 2020–2020 1 season · 4 episodes Ended Netflix
Nature & scienceThe natural world or science itself as the subject.This show: 9/10Wonder & aweSpectacle and imagination that expand the world.This show: 8/10DocuseriesNonfiction storytelling across episodes.This show: 8/10Space & sci-fiSpace, aliens and grand-scale science fiction.This show: 7/10Visually strikingComposition and imagery worth pausing for.This show: 7/10
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Starring
Leigh Joel Scott
Starring
Leigh Joel Scott
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"Real science imagining truly alien biology"

This four-part documentary series imagines what alien life could actually look like, grounding its speculation in real biology, physics, and astronomy. Scientists explain the rules of evolution on Earth, then animators extrapolate those rules onto invented creatures living on real exoplanets. The tone is calm and inquisitive, closer to a nature documentary than sci-fi drama, with slick CGI creature design carrying long stretches where the science talk gets dense. It's short, visually inventive, and best suited to viewers who enjoy speculative science over plot or character.

Watch it for

the creative, biologically grounded creature designs built from real exoplanet data.

Maybe skip if

you want narrative or characters rather than speculative science lecture.

Written by our AI editor to help you decide, spoiler-free by design.

All Seasons

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Season 12020
6.91K42h 54m
EpTitleRatingYoursVotesRuntime
▶1Atlas6.8
38141 min
▶2Janus6.9
27345 min
▶3Eden6.9
24641 min
▶4Terra6.9
25047 min

Full Cast & Crew

Cast

Sophie Okonedo Self - Narrator
Leigh Joel Scott Audio Description, Narrator
Douglas Vakoch Self - Astrobiologist
Thomas M. Iliffe Self - Marine Biologist
Natalie Batalha Self - Astrophysicist
Donato Giovannelli Self - Microbiologist
Robert Hollingworth Self - Natural History Cameraman
Kirsty MacLeod Self - Ecologist
Adam Frank Self - Astrophysicist
Stuart Armstrong Self - Futurologist

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