Mexico: Earth's Festival of Life

Mexico: Earth's Festival of Life

TV-PG2017•1h 0m•8.2/10

Documentary

Ratings

🎬TMDb

8.2/10(5)

The diverse peoples, wildlife, landscape and culture of Mexico are explored by focusing on three distinct worlds, great mountain ranges, tropical forests and scorching deserts.

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Production

BBC

Language

EN

Status

Ended

First Aired

May 7, 2017

Last Aired

May 21, 2017

Networks

BBC Two

Where to Watch

Region US · Lang EN

US

No providers available for this region.

Seasons & Episodes

Select a season to view episodes. Reddit links may contain spoilers.

Season

Mountain Worlds

E1

Mountain Worlds

Air date: 2017-05-07

Mexico is a vast country, over 2,000 miles long, dominated by the Sierra Madre mountain chain. As we journey down this mountain spine we discover an amazing diversity of life.

Forests of the Maya

E2

Forests of the Maya

Air date: 2017-05-14

The ancient temples of the Maya still tower over the jungles of the Yucatan, where jaguars, monkeys and tropical birds make their home. Beneath the forests a vast, watery underground world is still being explored.

Burning North

E3

Burning North

Air date: 2017-05-21

Northern Mexico is dominated by two great deserts, the Sonoran and the Chihuahuan. This edition unravels the forces that have created this arid world and how the wildlife has adapted to living here

Cast

Eliud Gabriel Porras

Narrator

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