Life on Our Planet

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  1. Chapter 1: The Rules of Life

  43m

  Evolution. Competition. Mass extinction. Three fundamental rules have driven the rise and fall of life on Earth for over four billion years.

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  2. Chapter 2: The First Frontier

  54m

  For billions of years, land on Earth was uninhabitable. But in the seas, predation allowed species to thrive before — and after — two mass extinctions.

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  3. Chapter 3: Invaders of the Land

  57m

  Sprawling moss, towering trees, flying insects, limbed amphibians: Early species vied for domination as the land went from hostile to hospitable.

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  4. Chapter 4: In Cold Blood

  55m

  After Earth's third mass extinction, mammals' surviving ancestors ruled the supercontinent Pangea. But lizards soon ushered in the age of reptiles.

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  5. Chapter 5: In the Shadow of Giants

  51m

  The formation of continents with varied environments allowed for an explosion of biodiversity — and turbo-charged the evolution of mighty dinosaurs.

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  6. Chapter 6: Out of the Ashes

  53m

  The dinosaurs met their end with a cataclysmic asteroid impact. Rising from the ashes, birds reinvented themselves into a dynasty 10,000 species strong.

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  7. Chapter 7: Inheriting the Earth

  52m

  Emerging from the dinosaurs' shadows, mammals went from underdogs to global power, with game-changing adaptations that would conquer land, air and sea.

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  8. Chapter 8: Age of Ice and Fire

  50m

  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?

Cast

Morgan Freeman

Self - Narrator (voice)