Life After People

2008 "Welcome to Earth... Population: Zero."
7.3| 1h34m| en| More Info
Released: 21 January 2008 Released
Producted By: History
Country: United States of America
Budget: 0
Revenue: 0
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In this special documentary that inspired a two-season television series, scientists and other experts speculate about what the Earth, animal life, and plant life might be like if, suddenly, humanity no longer existed, as well as the effect humanity's disappearance might have on the artificial aspects of civilization.

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LastingAware The greatest movie ever!
Beystiman It's fun, it's light, [but] it has a hard time when its tries to get heavy.
Twilightfa Watch something else. There are very few redeeming qualities to this film.
Billie Morin This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows
denis888 This is a decent documentary movie describif what could have happened if all people were gone. The idea is not new, truly so, but this is a very exciting and really chilling sensatio to see what will happen after. The film is okay, pacing is good, and the commentaries are useful, but then, there sre two serious drawbacks which hamper and hinder the whole thing - first, rather poorly executed and naive CGI that make it look childish and rather...well...funny, and second, the ending section seems to be rushed and thus a bit bland, as we expected more and deeper and better. All in all, a nice try, full of great inights into chiiling reality of men gone off.
Cute Collie Overall it is a good show but it is very repetitive and it is too much focus on American landmarks, most of which are places that are extremely insignificant like who the f**k cares about a creepy elephant statue in Atlantic City or some random church in Boston. Australia was only in one episode and it was only about the Sydney Opera House and the Harbour bridge, nothing else. I think the episodes should have set up so certain groups of episodes would be dedicated to a certain continent and another episode about one of the capital cities.Take the episode "The Capital Threat" for example, it is an episode dedicated to capital cities and the only one one featured is Washington D.C. and Los Angeles is NOT a capital city why didn't they feature a city like London or Canberra. It would have made much more sense.
Cedric Sagne Life after people is a ripoff of Alan Weisman "World without us" (first of all by using a title structure in three words, but whatever).The basic thought experiment of Alan Weisman is aimed not so much at looking at how nature would recover after we have left, and how buildings etc deteriorate but in fact analysing to what extent our actions on the environment are permanent.Life after people (the main program) hardly mentions our use of plastics, our pollution of the planet with PCBs, how permanent nuclear waste will be and focuses on the mild, innocent traces of us that will be erased easily: wood, paper, iron, cement. Overall both the program and the series remain a list of crumbling buildings, repeated over and over again, with the same engineering viewpoint.The series (which I lazily address with this comment too) do mention this a bit more, along with our impact on fauna (eg bison population), or the recovery of fish population due to our current overfishing. Too little still.The documentary is reasonably good, padded with special effects that are shown over and over again, and with a shift of focus to American landmarks, which is understandable as it was made for US TV.The content presents a somewhat idealistic and benign-ized vision of our impact on the planet, which really misses the point of actually addressing what are the harmful things we are doing right now and which our descendants will curse us for.
stumpmee77 As it's based on scientific conjecture anyway. Where's history where's there no people to live it? And no I don't believe the monkeys will evolve. Yep, swap this with Sci-Fi Channel's Ghost Hunters which deals with histories of sites and lives. History's movers and shakers must be they so desperate to get it's emphasis off WWII they'll leap on anything—and such a stupid pointless anything. I've tried watching and I just can't. It goes over the same progression—One day , month, year....Blah. And it's mostly CGI—make a video game out it please. I'm giving it a 3 for the animal shots that said it could be transplanted to Animal Planet. Please History drop this; make more episodes of "Gangland", much needed new episodes of "Civil War Journal" hey even "Modern Marvels" which though I don't like all that much it provides the background of inventions. If it has to stay on History it should be a series shown on random occasions—weekly doesn't work to for me.