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The Blue Planet

“A NATURAL HISTORY OF THE OCEANS.”

200151m / epDocumentary

First aired

September 12, 2001

8.4

TMDB Score

84% match · 416 votes

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S01 · E04

Frozen Seas

The Blue Planet · Oct 3, 2001 · 50m

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E01▶

Introduction

Sep 12, 2001 · 50m

E02▶

The Deep

Sep 19, 2001 · 50m

E03▶

Open Ocean

Sep 26, 2001 · 50m

E04Playing

Frozen Seas

Oct 3, 2001 · 50m

E05▶

Seasonal Seas

Oct 10, 2001 · 50m

E06▶

Coral Seas

Oct 17, 2001 · 50m

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Tidal Seas

Oct 24, 2001 · 50m

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Coasts

Oct 31, 2001 · 50m

An environment where only the toughest survive, the Arctic and Antarctic are unrelenting habitats. Only in spring does life begin again. Plankton blooms and feeds fast hordes of migrating fish, walruses rake the seabed for clams, and minke and humpback whales gorge themselves on gigantic swarms of krill. But it is a brief spring feast - the ice soon returns and pushes life back into the ocean.

About the Series

Documentary

Synopsis

Sir David Attenborough narrates this critically acclaimed series that dives deep into the marine environment of Planet Earth. Although two-thirds of the world's surface is covered with water, scientists know less about the oceans than they do about the surface of the moon. This limited series travels from various coasts to the poles to examine watery denizens ranging from the gigantic blue whale to microscopic coral polyps.

CreatorsAndy Byatt, Alastair Fothergill