The Blue Planet is a BBC (in conjunction with The Discovery Channel) television series subtitled "a natural history of the oceans"; of eight episodes, presented by David Attenborough, originally transmitted in September/ October 2001.
The soundtrack was by George Fenton.
The individual episodes are:
- The Blue Planet
- The Deep
- Open Ocean
- Frozen Seas
- Seasonal Seas
- Coral Seas
- Tidal Seas
- Coasts
There was an accompanying book, and the series is available as a three- disc DVD set, including three additional programmes:
- Making Waves (the making of The Blue Planet; ~50 mins)
- Deep Trouble (ecological documentary; ~50 mins)
- Blue (a five- minute theatrical short)