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The Private Life of Plants
1995 · Film · documentary · 292 min
David Attenborough takes us on a guided tour through the secret world of plants, to see things no unaided eye could witness. Each episode in this six-part series focuses on one of the critical stages through which every plant must pass if it is to survive:- travelling, growing, and flowering; struggling with one another; creating alliances with other organisms both plant and animal; and evolving complex ways of surviving in the earth's most ferociously hostile environments.
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If you like this then check out the Peabody Award winning 6-part Documentary series from 1995 David Attenborough & filmed by the equally talented but less celebrated BBC Natural History Unit :
The Private Life of Plants [1]
It's AMAZING! They speed up plant time to show layers of behavior that are otherwise invisible to the naked eye.
"Midwinter, and the countryside is so still, it seems almost lifeless. But these trees and bushes and grasses around me are living organisms just like animals. And they have to face very much the same sort of problems as animals face throughout their lives if they're to survive. They have to fight one another, they have to compete for mates, they have to invade new territories. But the reason that we're seldom aware of these dramas is that plants of course live on a different time-scale."
— David Attenborough’s opening words
[1] (9/10) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0123360/