Life After People (History Channel)
by David de Vries
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Director: David de VriesBrand: A and E Home Video
Performer: Struan Rodger
Performer: John Anderson
Performer: David Brin
Performer: Bill Bruninga
Performer: Ron Chesser
Performer: Ray Coppinger
Performer: Eric Doehne
Performer: Sergey Gashchak
Performer: Gordon Masterton
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 94 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-03-18
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: A&E HOME VIDEO
Product features:
- THE HISTORY CHANNEL and Academy Award-winning special effects studio Industrial Light and Magic (Star Wars, Harry Potter) join forces to imagine the state of planet Earth years after humans disappear. Stunning visual effects show how the environment will change as dams overflow, buildings crumble, and fires engulf once-mighty cities. Domestic animal life will die out and new species will claim the
Movie Reviews of Life After People (History Channel)
Movie Review: 4.5 stars: Very good with minor flaws
Summary: 5 Stars
This program explores the likely outcome of a sudden disappearance of all humans from the Earth. How or why this would happen is not covered: the subject of this DVD is the succession of events following such a disappearance, as things arranged and constructed by humans fail over time (out to 100,000 years after said disappearance).
Pros:
- The show is very dramatic and maintains interest.
- Graphical effects demonstrate likely outcomes, including spectacular sequences of large-scale collapses.
- Experts showcased on the show seem authoritative and provide relevant insight.
Cons (these are all minor, in my opinion):
- At times, this program seems a little too dramatic. The narration sometimes comes from the perspective that nature is hostile, and surprise is expressed at the notion that "the planet and life on it would go on without us".
- One of the featured experts was a little too philosophical. Though I liked hearing most of what he had to say, he was given too much air time.
- Given the extremely low cost of computer-generated special effects today, visual quality should have been better.
This is not a "con", but my guess is that the depicted timeline is somewhat accelerated.
In short, this production poses a very interesting hypothetical question, explores the likely answer with experts and presents the whole package very well.
Flaws are relatively small.
If one is interested in this subject, note that a similar program has been developed, "National Geographic: Aftermath - Population Zero" (2008).
Summary of Life After People (History Channel)
If humans were suddenly to disappear, what would happen to our planet ? the structures we've built, the everyday items we take for granted, domesticated and wild animals, plants, trees? What would become of the things that define our species and leave our mark on this Earth?Visit the ghostly villages surrounding Chernobyl (abandoned by humans after the 1986 nuclear disaster), travel to remote islands off the coast of Maine to search for abandoned towns that have vanished from view in only a few decades, then head beneath the streets of New York to see how subway tunnels may become watery canals.
HISTORY® takes you on an amazing visual journey in Life After People, a though-provoking adventure that combines movie-quality visual effects with insights with insights from experts in the fields of engineering, botany, ecology, biology, geology, climatology, and archeology to demonstrate how the very landscape of our planet will change in our absence.
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