Key Stages: 2 - 4

Description

Episode length - 1 hour

Documentary series presented by Sir David Attenborough which explores the planet's oceans.

1 - One Ocean

From the equator to the poles, new worlds and animal behaviours are revealed, from tool-using fish to mother walruses fighting for space on the ice for their tiring pups.

2 - The Deep

This episode goes on a groundbreaking journey to the deep, home to real-life aliens, from monstrous sharks to shrimps in glass cages and perhaps the origin of all life on earth.

3 - Coral Reefs 

This episode reveals the ingenious ways life exists in the undersea cities of tropical reefs, from mesmerising cuttlefish to a giant carnivorous worm.

4 - Big Blue 

This episode explores the big blue, a vast ocean desert where dolphins race to beat the competition and sperm whales must dive 1,000 metres just to feed.

5 - Green Seas

From enchanted forests to undersea prairies, green seas teem with life. Giant cuttlefish do battle for a mate, and an ingenious octopus outwits deadly sharks.

6 - Coasts

Coasts are the most changeable of the ocean worlds, but they offer great riches. Here sea lions beach large tuna, and moray eels crawl over land to catch their prey.

7 - Our Blue Planet

David Attenborough explores the issues behind the series' most spectacular stories, meets pioneers striving to protect the ocean and examines the future of the planet.

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