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The Secret Life of Trees

The Secret Life of Trees

2025 · 1 season · 3 eps · ★ 7.0 · Documentary

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Narrated by Michael Palin, this fascinating series follows the incredible lives of trees - from their beginning as tiny seeds through to magnificent giants and into old age, revealing the secrets of how they communicate, how they drink and even how some of the three trillion trees on our planet are as old as the pyramids.

Directed by Nathan Budd

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