TV series
Life on Our Planet
Overview
Life's extraordinary journey to conquer, adapt and survive on Earth across billions of years comes alive in this groundbreaking nature docuseries.
Details
- First air date
- 2023-10-25
- Status
- Ended
- Seasons
- 1 season
- Episodes
- 8 episodes
- Genres
- Documentary
- Network
- Netflix
- Production
- Silverback Films, Amblin Television
- Country
- US
- Original language
- EN
Cast
- Morgan Freeman as Self - Narrator (voice)
Creators and crew
- Alastair Fothergill - Executive Producer
- Keith Scholey - Executive Producer
- Justin Falvey - Executive Producer
- Darryl Frank - Executive Producer
- Steven Spielberg - Executive Producer
- Alastair Fothergill - Producer
Episodes
Episode 1: Chapter 1: The Rules of Life
Evolution. Competition. Mass extinction. Three fundamental rules have driven the rise and fall of life on Earth for over four billion years.
Episode 2: Chapter 2: The First Frontier
For billions of years, land on Earth was uninhabitable. But in the seas, predation allowed species to thrive before — and after — two mass extinctions.
Episode 3: Chapter 3: Invaders of the Land
Sprawling moss, towering trees, flying insects, limbed amphibians: Early species vied for domination as the land went from hostile to hospitable.
Episode 4: Chapter 4: In Cold Blood
After Earth's third mass extinction, mammals' surviving ancestors ruled the supercontinent Pangea. But lizards soon ushered in the age of reptiles.
Episode 5: Chapter 5: In the Shadow of Giants
The formation of continents with varied environments allowed for an explosion of biodiversity — and turbo-charged the evolution of mighty dinosaurs.
Episode 6: Chapter 6: Out of the Ashes
The dinosaurs met their end with a cataclysmic asteroid impact. Rising from the ashes, birds reinvented themselves into a dynasty 10,000 species strong.
Episode 7: Chapter 7: Inheriting the Earth
Emerging from the dinosaurs' shadows, mammals went from underdogs to global power, with game-changing adaptations that would conquer land, air and sea.
Episode 8: Chapter 8: Age of Ice and Fire
As the Ice Age thawed, humans rose above the rest. But the possibility of a sixth mass extinction now looms: Has our ingenuity caused our downfall?
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