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The Future Is Wild (2003)

Animation · Documentary · Sci-Fi

The Future Is Wild was a 2002 thirteen-part documentary television miniseries. Based on research and interviews with several scientists, the miniseries shows how life could evolve in the future if Homo sapiens left the earth. The version broadcast on the Discovery Channel modified this premise, supposing instead that the human race had completely abandoned the Earth and had sent back probes to examine the progress of life on the planet. The show took the form of a nature documentary. The miniseries was released with a companion book written by geologist Dougal Dixon, the author of several "anthropologies and zoologies of the future", in conjunction with natural history television producer John Adams. For a time in 2005, a theme park based on this program was opened in Japan. In 2008 a special on the Discovery Channel about the development of the video game Spore was combined with airings of The Future Is Wild. A film version of the series was picked up by Warner Bros.

IMDb rating
7.6 (956 votes)
Seasons
1
Language
EN
Type
TV series

Ratings refreshed Jul 3, 2026 · 1 season indexed

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Seasons

Season 1 (2003)

7.98 avg 13 episodes 7.5 → 8.4 26 min avg

Ep 1: 7.5 · 32 votesEp 2: 7.8 · 26 votesEp 3: 8.0 · 28 votesEp 4: 7.5 · 24 votesEp 5: 7.9 · 24 votesEp 6: 8.4 · 24 votesEp 7: 8.1 · 23 votesEp 8: 8.1 · 23 votesEp 9: 7.8 · 23 votesEp 10: 7.7 · 23 votesEp 11: 8.5 · 23 votesEp 12: 8.0 · 22 votesEp 13: 8.4 · 26 votes
Season 1 episodes — IMDb ratings
#TitleRatingVotes
1Welcome to the Future7.532
2Return of the Ice7.826
3The Vanished Sea8.028
4Prairies of Amazonia7.524
5Cold Kansas Desert7.924
6Waterland8.424
7Flooded World8.123
8Tropical Antarctica8.123
9The Great Plateau7.823
10The Endless Desert7.723
11The Global Ocean8.523
12Graveyard Desert8.022
13The Tentacled Forest8.426