The Taiga forest, on the edge of the Arctic, is a silent world of stunted conifers. The trees may be small but filming from the air reveals its true scale. A third of all trees on Earth grow here and during the short summer they produce enough oxygen to change the atmosphere.
In California General Sherman, a giant sequoia, is the largest living thing on the planet, ten times the size of a blue whale. The oldest organisms alive are bristlecone pines. At more than 4,000 years old they pre-date the pyramids. But the baobab forests of Madagascar are perhaps the strangest of all.

Planet Earth Season 1 Episodes...

• s01e01 - From Pole to Pole
• s01e02 - Mountains
• s01e03 - Fresh Water
• s01e04 - Caves
• s01e05 - Deserts
• s01e06 - Ice Worlds
• s01e07 - Great Plains
• s01e08 - Jungles
• s01e09 - Shallow Seas
• s01e10 - Seasonal Forests
• s01e11 - Ocean Deep

Planet Earth Show Summary

Planet Earth is a 2006 television series produced by the BBC Natural History Unit. Five years in the making, it was the most expensive nature documentary series ever commissioned by the BBC and was described by its makers as 'the definitive look at the diversity of our planet'.

Each 50 minute episode features a global overview of a different biome or habitat on Earth, followed by a ten-minute featurette which takes a behind-the-scenes look.