Life on Our Planet

Matt Roush says...

For those more into big-picture nature programming, executive producer Steven Spielberg and the team behind the streamer’s Our Planet present an epic eight-part exploration of evolution and survival over roughly 4 billion years on Earth. With narration by Morgan Freeman, intoning “To understand life, we must go back to the beginning,” the visually stunning series uses cutting-edge photorealistic animation to depict species long lost to at least five extinction events that destroyed 99 percent of the planet’s living species. (PBS’s Nova, at 9/8c, also covers the volcanic extinction event known as “The Great Dying” in the “Inferno” episode of its ongoing series, Ancient Earth.)

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