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Planet Earth episode 1
From the poles to the plains, mountains to caves, fresh water to deep seas, Planet Earth uncovers every facet of the natural world.
Planet Earth episode 2
From viscous lakes to vicious pumas, the mountains’ majestic glory is home to some of the most impressive mountaineers on the planet.
Planet Earth episode 3
Starting in the mountains and snaking to the oceans and seas, Freshwater uncovers life like no other.
Planet Earth episode 4
From the largest caves to the most exotic creatures, Caves delves into lands that few have ventured to.
Planet Earth episode 5
Life in the desert is anything but barren, and Planet Earth shows these ephemeral regions in their glory and their hardships.
Planet Earth episode 6
The poles endure the most extreme seasonal transformations on the planet, from numbing temperatures in the winter to rapidly receding ice in the summer.
Planet Earth episode 7
The eerie silences and open land of the Great Plains is merely an illusion as millions of animals survive in the planet’s vast open spaces...
Planet Earth episode 8
The jungle is the ‘planet’s hothouse’: fifty per cent of the world’s species live in the tropical rainforests that cover only three per cent of the world...
Planet Earth episode 9
Most of the life in Earth’s waters thrives in the eight per cent of the ocean that is barely one tenth of a mile deep: the shallow seas.
Planet Earth episode 10
Forests circle the globe, and each has its own personality...
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