Releases Globally On Netflix April 17, 2024

Release Date: April 17, 2024
Narrated by: Cate Blanchett
Production Companies: Wild Space, Freeborne Media
Series Producer: Ben Roy
Executive Producer: James Honeyborne
Produced and Directed by: Laura Coates, Kirstine Davidson, James Shelton, Peter Lown
Music by: Pinar Toprak
Episodes: 4 x 50min
Format: Documentary Series

About Our Living World

This is the wondrous, untold story of the most magical, powerful force on Earth: life itself, and how it shapes the world through incredible physical connections and astonishing webs, producing a planetary life support system that sustains and protects us all. Spanning continents and oceans, fueled by wind and water and fire, this network allows the densest forests to impact the coldest glaciers, and the deepest oceans to feed the hottest deserts. But with Earth now changing at unprecedented speeds due to human activity, our living world’s network is malfunctioning – and it will take all creatures, great and small, to return its balance.

Academy Award-winner Cate Blanchett narrates this unprecedented four-part documentary series from Freeborne Media and Wild Space Productions, the Emmy Award-winning team behind Our Great National Parks. Using cinematic wildlife photography, eye-popping macro close-ups, rich underwater tapestries, and stunning digital effects that illustrate scientific phenomena as yet unseen by human eyes, each episode puts viewers in a front-row seat to witness how species and ecosystems mold and affect one another on a global scale. From the kooky capybara to the crafty crocodile, the savvy wolverine to the busy beaver, the mightiest tree in the forest to the tiniest egg in a salmon’s spawning pool, every creature plays a role – and even when we disrupt their vital connections, they fight on. Packed with engaging action sequences, fascinating facts, and charismatic characters, this revelatory series comes not a moment too soon… because at the precipice of a climate crisis, the more we understand about the ties that bind our living world together, the better chance we have of ensuring its survival.