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Blue Planet II

★ 9.3 58K votes 2017–2017 1 seasons · 7 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: 10/10Visually strikingComposition and imagery worth pausing for.This show: 10/10Big-budget spectacleBlockbuster-scale production values.This show: 9/10DocuseriesNonfiction storytelling across episodes.This show: 8/10AtmosphericMood and place thick enough to touch.This show: 8/10Family-safeNothing to worry about with anyone in the room.This show: 8/10Distinctive scoreMusic inseparable from the show's identity.This show: 7/10
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Starring
Peter Drost
Starring
Peter Drost
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About

"Stunning proof the ocean is stranger than fiction"

A follow-up nature documentary series exploring the world's oceans, from sunlit coral reefs to the crushing dark of the deep sea. Each episode focuses on a different marine habitat, showing how creatures survive, hunt, and adapt amid changing conditions. The pace is slow and immersive, built around breathtaking cinematography and quiet wonder rather than plot or tension. Narration is calm and informative, occasionally somber when addressing environmental damage. It feels less like watching television and more like being handed a window into an alien world hiding beneath our own, one astonishing sequence after another.

Watch it for

the jaw-dropping cinematography of deep-sea creatures and behaviors never filmed before.

Maybe skip if

you want fast pacing or find nature narration and slow visual storytelling tedious.

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Season 12017
8.99K76h 4m
A follow-up to the 2001 award-winning show "The Blue Planet," this natural history series sees Sir David Attenborough return as narrator and host. A breathtaking exploration of the world's vast oceans, hourlong episodes capture animals and other living organisms in their natural habitat, presenting viewers with a fascinating insight into what life is like underwater. From tropical seas to the harsh conditions of the Arctic, the makers of "Blue Planet II" use modern filming equipment and techniques to shine a light on areas of the planet that humans have never seen before.
EpTitleRatingYoursVotesRuntime
1One Ocean9.1
2K51 min
2The Deep9.1
2K54 min
3Coral Reefs9.0
1K51 min
4Big Blue8.7
1K52 min
5Green Seas8.9
1K53 min
6Coasts8.8
1K50 min
7Our Blue Planet8.4
93653 min

Full Cast & Crew

Cast

David Attenborough Self - Narrator
Peter Drost Narrator: The Netherlands
Roger Horrocks Self
Roger Munns Self

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