Planet Earth: A Celebration highlights eight of the most extraordinary sequences from BBC America’s impactful and Emmy®-winning Planet Earth II and Blue Planet II and features new narration from Sir David Attenborough. To accompany these sequences, award-winning composer Hans Zimmer, Jacob Shea, and the team at Bleeding Fingers created new compositions, and have rearranged the original scores for this exciting, joyful, and adrenaline-packed journey around the world to some of the most extreme environments, where despite the odds animals manage to survive.

The string section of the score is performed by the BBC Concert Orchestra, accompanied by Brit and Mercury Award-winning UK rapper, Dave, who performs on the grand piano. Both the orchestra and Dave were filmed for the program in the Lyndhurst Hall at Air Studios, London.

Planet Earth: A Celebration is directed by Helen Scott and produced by Annie Backhouse. The executive producer is Jo Shinner.


Music by Hans Zimmer & Jacob Shea for Bleeding Fingers Music
Additional music by Adam Lukas & James Everingham

Score produced by Russell Emanuel
Score supervisor: Christopher J. King
Score coordinator: Marsha Bowe
Music production services by Steven Kofsky

Score recorded by Geoff Foster
Score recorded at AIR Studios
Assistant engineer: Alex Ferguson
Pro Tools recordist: Adam Miller

Score technical engineer: Alexander Stix-Brunell, Alessandro Saini, Sebastian Ruiz Velasco Agaudo
Score technical assistant: Adam Adams, Anthony Sternstein

Score mixed by John Witt Chapman

Guitars performed by Thomas Obernosterer
Woodwinds performed by John Yoakum