Four billion years of life on Earth, compressed into a single sweeping series, arrives from the team behind "Our Planet" and narrated by Morgan Freeman.
What is Life on Our Planet about?
"Life on Our Planet" traces the enormous arc of life on Earth from its earliest beginnings through the ages that followed, using a mix of natural-history storytelling and visual re-creation to bring long-vanished eras back into view. Rather than focusing on a single ecosystem or era, the series moves across deep time, tracking how life has repeatedly adapted, dominated, and been reshaped by the planet's changing conditions. It is produced from the United Kingdom and the United States by the team behind "Our Planet," and it carries that same documentary lineage into a far longer timescale than a typical nature series attempts. Morgan Freeman's narration guides viewers through this history, giving structure and weight to a story that spans continents, climates, and ages long before humans existed. The series is built for viewers who want the scope of a natural-history epic rather than a narrow case study, treating the history of life itself as the subject rather than any one species or habitat.
About the cast
Morgan Freeman narrates the series, lending his voice to a documentary built around the sweep of Earth's natural history rather than a scripted cast. Kefas Brand is credited alongside him, with the series directed by Joanna Bowzer, Tim Gagliardo, Barry Pollack, Tim Russ, and Shae-Lee Shackleford.
Context & significance
Released in 2023 and produced jointly in the United Kingdom and the United States, "Life on Our Planet" belongs to the prestige natural-history documentary tradition, sharing creative lineage with "Our Planet" and built around Steven Spielberg's production involvement. Each episode runs around 60 minutes, giving the series room to move at a deliberate pace through its subject, and it sits comfortably alongside other big-canvas documentary series for viewers drawn to science and natural history programming.
Watching Life on Our Planet on Ktime
"Life on Our Planet" is available on K-Time with Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles, making the series easy to follow for Farsi-speaking audiences from the very first episode. A free K-Time account login is all that's required to start watching, and the platform's Farsi interface is designed for the Iranian diaspora, so the whole experience stays in Persian from browsing to playback.