Documentary series · Netflix
Our Planet
Experience life's extraordinary journeys.
Who's in it
Cast
The principal ensemble across the run of the series.
The Nutevio profile
TV DNA
How Our Planet actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
Our Planet reads strongest on Character Depth, Bingeability and Emotional Weight.
How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.
How hard it is to stop after one episode.
How much the series is designed to affect you.
How often an episode ends on a hook you can't ignore.
How often the series is genuinely funny, by design.
The sustained pressure the series keeps you under.
The scale, internal logic and texture of the world.
How much each hour depends on the one before it.
Visual ambition — scale, craft and set-piece filmmaking.
The story
What it's about
Experience our planet's natural beauty and examine how climate change impacts all living creatures in this ambitious documentary of spectacular scope.
The run
Seasons
2 seasons · 12 episodes.
Season 1 · Complete
Our Planet
20198 episodes
8.3IMDbExhilarating visuals and stunning footage of rarely-seen animals mix with somber truths about humanity's impact on the planet's habitats and species.
Best episode · S01E03 Jungles
Season 2 · Complete
Our Planet II
20234 episodes
8.3IMDbFollow billions of animals across the globe as they make astonishing seasonal migration journeys amid the dangers of climate change.
Best episode · S02E03 Chapter 3: The Next Generation
Where the series peaks
Best Episodes
The hours that define the show, ranked by audience response and editorial signal.
S02E03
Chapter 3: The Next Generation
Left to fend for themselves until they find their footing, baby sea turtles, elephant seal pups, pumas and crabs bravely trek towards adolescence.
- Directed by Toby Nowlan
S01E03
Jungles
Jungles and rainforests are home to an incredible variety of species like preening birds, intelligent orangutans and remarkable ambitious ants.
- Directed by Huw Cordey
S01E08
Forests
Examine the fragile interdependence that exists between forests' wide variety of residents, including bald eagles, hunting dogs and Siberian tigers.
- Directed by Jeff Wilson
S01E01
One Planet
Witness the planet's breathtaking diversity -- from seabirds carpet-bombing the ocean to wildebeests eluding the wild dogs of the Serengeti.
- Directed by Adam Chapman
S01E02
Frozen Worlds
On the unforgiving frontier of climate change, polar bears, walruses, seals and penguins find their icy Edens in peril.
- Directed by Sophie Lanfear
S02E01
Chapter 1: World on the Move
Be it buffalo, polar bears, humpback whales or albatross chicks, migration is a vital survival strategy for animals to feed, reproduce and find homes.
- Directed by Toby Nowlan
Behind the series
Created by
Showrunners, creators, executive producers and the writers who set the voice of the series.
The craft
Key Crew
Directing, writing, production, camera, music and editing.
Executive production
- Hugh PearsonProducer
- Sophie LanfearProducer
- Adam ChapmanProducer
- Alastair FothergillExecutive Producer
- Ed CharlesProducer
- Keith ScholeyExecutive Producer
Direction
- Hugh PearsonDirector
- Sophie LanfearDirector
- Adam ChapmanDirector
- Ed CharlesDirector
- Huw CordeyDirector
- Mandi StarkDirector
Music
- Jasha KlebeOriginal Music Composer
- Thomas FarnonOriginal Music Composer
- Steven PriceOriginal Music Composer
Where to watch
Streaming
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