Fateful Planet

Season 12024

This 5-part documentary series reconstructs major events that shaped our world and shows how life evolved—despite apocalyptic catastrophes.

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5 Episodes

E01 Dramatic Birth

Shortly after the formation of our solar system the potential for life begins when Earth collides with another protoplanet. Somehow Earth survives and a new world is created: the moon. Without the moon there may not have been life on our planet.

June 6, 2024

E02 Snowball Earth

Throughout its history Earth has continuously fluctuated between "greenhouse" and "icehouse." An icehouse phase known as "Snowball Earth" is the most extreme period of cold our planet has ever witnessed with ice encasing Earth from the poles to the equator. Somehow new life manages to survive.

June 13, 2024

E03 Great Dying

540 million years ago the ancestors of modern complex organisms suddenly emerge in the Cambrian seas. Evolution progresses and even manages to make the leap onto land. But 250 million years ago massive volcanic eruptions trigger the most severe mass extinctions in Earth’s history.

June 20, 2024

E04 Doom of the Dinosaurs

In the Triassic period dinosaurs rise to dominate our planet for 150 million years. 66 million years ago the dinosaurs vanish—along with 75% of all species. Did an asteroid cause the last mass extinction? Experts are using the latest scientific methods to discover what killed the dinosaurs.

June 27, 2024

E05 Age of Humankind

Shortly after humans appear they become the dominant species on Earth but face threats from both above and below—including super volcanic eruptions and falling asteroids. Today scientists around the world use the latest technology to mitigate future catastrophes.

July 4, 2024

Fateful Planet

E01 Dramatic Birth

E02 Snowball Earth

E03 Great Dying

E04 Doom of the Dinosaurs

E05 Age of Humankind

Monsters vs. Aliens

Breaking Bad

Stranger Things

Squid Game

Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba

Game of Thrones

Wednesday

WandaVision

My Hero Academia

W: Two Worlds Apart

Elite

The Boys

The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power

The Last of Us

Chernobyl

The Falcon and the Winter Soldier

One Piece

The Witcher

Peaky Blinders

Black Mirror

E01 Dramatic Birth

E02 Snowball Earth

E03 Great Dying

E04 Doom of the Dinosaurs

E05 Age of Humankind