Life After People

What would happen to planet earth if the human race were to suddenly disappear forever? Would ecosystems thrive? What remnants of our industrialized world would survive? What would crumble fastest? From the ruins of ancient civilizations to present day cities devastated by natural disasters, history gives us clues to these questions and many more in the visually stunning and thought-provoking special Life After People.

Abandoned skyscrapers would, after hundreds of years, become “vertical ecosystems” complete with birds, rodents and even plant life. One small animal might be responsible for bringing down the Hoover Dam hydroelectric plant. Swelled rivers, crumbling bridges and buildings, grizzly bears in California and herds of buffalo returning to the Great Western Plains: In a world without humans, these would be the visual hallmarks. Our cars would shrivel to piles of dust, our house pets would be overtaken by flourishing wildlife and most of the records of our human storybooks, photos, records would fade quickly, leaving little evidence that we ever existed.

Using feature film quality visual effects and top experts in the fields of engineering, botany, ecology, biology, geology, climatology and archeology, Life After People provides an amazing visual journey through the ultimately hypothetical.

The 1986 nuclear power plant accident at Chernobyl and its aftermath provides a riveting and emotional case study of what can happen after humans have moved on. Life After People goes to remote islands off the coast of Maine to search for traces of abandoned towns, beneath the streets of New York to see how subway tunnels may become watery canals, to the Montana wilderness to divine the destiny of the bears and wolves.

Humans won’t be around forever, and now we can see in detail, for the very first time, the world that will be left behind in Life After People.

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  1. That dog better not die.

  2. i don’t think that if this would ever happen, humans would not just disapear and everything else would stil exist

  3. NOT slowest player in existance sillies: It the NOest player there never was. There nothing there…

  4. If I wanted a hot girlfriend I wouldn’t be on a documentary site, show the damn video.

  5. Terrible player.  Can’t feed the stream and continually has to be reloaded.  Then it cuts off after playing 72 minutes.  Can’t be bothered to try to watch the rest of the film.

  6. Slowest player in existence. 

  7. Slowest player in existence. 

  8. Slowest player in existence. 

  9. My good god!! i HATE MEGAVIDEO!!SO BLOODY SLOW!!

  10. where is the video?

    why can’t i play this?