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Planet Earth

★ 9.4 238K votes 2006–2006 1 season · 11 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: 9/10Distinctive scoreMusic inseparable from the show's identity.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: 7/10
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Starring
Sigourney WeaverNikolay DrozdovThomas Anguti Johnston
Starring
Sigourney WeaverNikolay DrozdovThomas Anguti Johnston
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About

"Nature filmed like it deserves an epic score"

Planet Earth is a sweeping nature documentary that travels across every major habitat on the globe, from polar ice to deep ocean trenches, showing how animals survive in extreme environments. Narrated by David Attenborough, each episode focuses on a different ecosystem, blending breathtaking cinematography with patient, informative storytelling. The pace is slow and contemplative rather than thrilling, letting landscapes and creatures speak for themselves. It feels less like a show and more like an immersive, meditative journey through the natural world, carried almost entirely by its visuals and calm, authoritative narration.

Watch it for

the era-defining wildlife cinematography that still looks astonishing years later.

Maybe skip if

you need fast pacing or a strong narrative arc rather than observational nature footage.

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All Seasons

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Miniseries2006
8.837K118h 58m
EpTitleRatingYoursVotesRuntime
▶1From Pole to Pole9.0
5K49 min
▶2Mountains8.8
4K48 min
▶3Fresh Water8.8
4K49 min
▶4Caves8.8
3K49 min
▶5Deserts8.6
3K49 min
▶6Ice Worlds8.9
3K49 min
▶7Great Plains8.6
3K49 min
▶8Jungles8.9
3K49 min
▶9Shallow Seas8.8
3K49 min
▶10Seasonal Forests8.8
3K49 min
▶11Ocean Deep8.9
3K49 min

Full Cast & Crew

Cast

Sigourney Weaver Narrator - US Version
David Attenborough Self - Narrator
Nikolay Drozdov Narrator
Thomas Anguti Johnston Inuktitut Narrator
Sanae Ueda Self - Narrator Japan
Huw Cordey Self - Producer, Self
Doug Allan Self
Mark Linfield Self, Self - Producer
Simon King Self
Tom Clarke Self - Camerman

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