The Best Plants & Fungi Documentaries

Science & Tech - 30 free documentaries about plants & fungi.

Start with Trees Are So Weird (11 min, Kurzgesagt), then Why Are There No Holes Around Trees? (11 min, Kurzgesagt). All 30 documentaries here are free to watch from their makers' official uploads. To read deeper, the top-rated book on plants & fungi is The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben.

• Trees Are So Weird (11 min, Kurzgesagt)
• Why Are There No Holes Around Trees? (11 min, Kurzgesagt)
• Photosynthesis Has a Fatal Flaw (and We Can Fix It) (18 min, Be Smart)
• The Organic Gold Hunters of the Himalayas (53 min, Free Documentary)
• Could the Cordyceps Fungus Really Take Over? (19 min, Real Science)
• The Oldest Living Thing In The World: The Mysterious Methuselah Tree | Oldest Tree (50 min, Timeline - World History Documentaries)
• Why Farmers Can't Legally Replant Their Own Seeds (47 min, Veritasium)
• Trees Are Smart. Are We Smarter? | Climate California (25 min, PBS)
• This Plant Costs $14,000 — And People Are Stealing It | The Deep End (23 min, VICE)
• Why trees look like rivers and also blood vessels and also lightning… (11 min, Be Smart)
• Why Seedless Fruit Is a Disaster Waiting To Happen (15 min, Be Smart)
• Billion Dollar Flower Market (45 min, ENDEVR)
• Exploding Weed Seeds (28,546 fps Slow Motion)- Smarter Every Day 257 (12 min, Smarter Every Day)
• Evidence of Plant Intelligence - The Bizarre Polarity of Plants - Rupert Sheldrake (33 min, After Skool)
• Blue Lily Flower Power: The Sacred Medicine? (51 min, Real Stories)
• PANSPERMIA - Did Life Begin on Earth? Are Mushrooms USING US to Get to Space? (19 min, After Skool)
• Fungal Intelligence - Conscious Mushrooms, Zombie Ants & The Hidden Wisdom of Nature (9 min, After Skool)
• Inside the Svalbard Seed Vault (9 min, Veritasium)
• The Weird Reason Plants Aren't Black (10 min, Be Smart)
• Magic Medicine: The Possible Effect of Mushrooms Treating Depression (79 min, ENDEVR)
• HOW IT WORKS | Mushrooms, Laboratory Glassware, Flatpack Shelf, Hotel laundry | Episode 30 (23 min, Free Documentary)
• The Insane Biology of: The Venus Flytrap (16 min, Real Science)
• Death Traps: How Carnivorous Plants Catch Prey | Deadly Australians Ep101 (48 min, Love Nature)
• The Assassin's Favorite Plant (17 min, Real Science)
• How This Singaporean Moved To Thailand To Be A Mushroom Farmer | On The Red Dot (23 min, CNA Insider)
• Geylang: Not Just The Seedy Underbelly Of Singapore | On The Red Dot (23 min, CNA Insider)
• Seeds battles - The Doomsday vault - VPRO documentary - 2013 (50 min, VPRO Documentary)
• Can Plants And Funghi Save The Planet? | What's The Big Deal? (23 min, CNA Insider)
• Replaying The Dark, Seedy Past Of Singapore's Bras Basah-Bugis | Streets Made For Talking - Part 4 (47 min, CNA Insider)
• How does a plant taste salt? (Big Questions 7/8) (43 min, VPRO Documentary)

Top-Rated Books About Plants & Fungi

1. The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben (4.3/5) - View on Amazon
2. Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer (4.6/5) - View on Amazon
3. The Botany of Desire by Michael Pollan (3.8/5) - View on Amazon
4. Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake (4.5/5) - View on Amazon
5. Botany by James D. Mauseth (4.7/5) - View on Amazon
6. Plant pathology by George N. Agrios - View on Amazon
7. Introductory plant biology by Kingsley R. Stern - View on Amazon
8. Wicked Plants by Amy Stewart (4.2/5) - View on Amazon
9. Biology of plants by Peter H. Raven - View on Amazon
10. Herball by John Gerard - View on Amazon