‎Planet Earth - Apple TV

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This jaw-dropping, award-winning, landmark series from the BBC’s Natural History Unit presents the epic story of life on Earth. A stunning television experience that combines rare action, unimaginable scale, impossible locations and intimate moments with our planet's best-loved, wildest, and most elusive creatures.

Documentary · 2006 · 44 min

Starring David Attenborough

Director Alastair Fothergill

EPISODE 1

From Pole to Pole

Traveling around the Earth, finding where the sun always shines and where it's rarely seen; finding where water is abundant and where it's scarce.

48 min · 5 Mar 2006
EPISODE 2

Mountains

Touring the mightiest mountain ranges.

47 min · 12 Mar 2006
EPISODE 3

Fresh Water

The descent of rivers from their mountain sources to the sea.

49 min · 19 Mar 2006
EPISODE 4

Caves

Exploring caves and their unique habitats.

48 min · 26 Mar 2006
EPISODE 5

Beyond: Deserts

Around 30% of the land's surface is desert, the most varied of our ecosystems despite the lack of rain. Unravel the secrets of desert survival and experience the ephemeral nature of this dynamic environment. Watch Saharan sandstorms nearly a mile high and desert rivers that run for a single day.In the Gobi Desert, rare Bactrian camels get moisture from the snow. In the Atacama, guanacos survive by licking dew off cactus spines. In the USA, the brief blooming of Death Valley triggers a plague of locusts 65km wide and 160km long. A unique aerial voyage over the Namibian desert reveals elephants on a long trek for food and desert lions searching for wandering oryx.

48 min · 2 Apr 2006
EPISODE 6

Ice Worlds

New science about the dynamics of emperor penguin behavior and aerial images of a polar bear swimming.

48 min · 5 Nov 2006

David Attenborough

Narrator
Alastair Fothergill

Director
Alastair Fothergill

Producer
David Attenborough

Writer