Life After People (2008) (TV)

User Rating:

7.5/10   

Director:

David de Vries

Writer:

David de Vries (writer)

Release Date:

21 January 2008 (USA)

Genre:

Documentary

Tagline:

What If

Plot:

Plot Keywords:

What If

Awards:

Nominated for 3 Primetime Emmys.

US TV Schedule:

Sun. July 19	5:00 PM	HISTORY
Tue. July 28	8:00 PM	HISTORY
Wed. July 29	12:00 AM	HISTORY

Cast

Struan Rodger	...	Himself - Narrator (voice)
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
John Anderson	...	Himself
David Brin	...	Himself
Bill Bruninga	...	Himself
Ron Chesser	...	Himself
Ray Coppinger	...	Himself
Eric Doehne	...	Himself
Sergey Gashchak	...	Himself
John Hadidian	...	Himself
Kevin Harrison	...	Himself
Gordon Masterton	...	Himself
Nabil Nasr	...	Himself
Alex Nickson	...	Himself
Stephen R. Palumbi	...	Himself (as Steve Palumbi)
Alan W. Pense	...	Himself
Mary Sackett	...	Herself
Eric Sanderson	...	Himself

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Certification:

Australia:G

Company:

Flight 33 Productions

Goofs:

Factual errors: The Sears Tower is referred to as the tallest man-made structure in North America. This in incorrect; Sears Tower stands at 442 meters tall, while the CN Tower in Toronto is 553.33 meters tall, exceeding the height of the supposed "tallest man-made structure" by 111.33 meters.

Movie Connections:

Followed by "Life After People" (2009)

How come only human disappears

Good work but relies so much on the fact that people disappear as they evaporate. Anything that can kill us till the last man shall have some effect on the environment that we live I assume. Even a deadly epidemic can not kill everyone instantly. From my point of view, they should have dwell on the possible causes of our extinction and create scenarios depending on these. If it is climate changes for example, buildings will fall before they rot because of hurricanes or what so ever.

Another point is, once a species like human disappears totally from a habitat, a lot of other species must disappear as well. As we are the main predators on the planet, without our existence, it is quite difficult to say what can survive and what can not. They tell the story in a way that nothing but people disappears. They focus so much on trees and plants. If we disappear, the bug population will explode since there will be a lot of corpse to eat. After they are done with us, they can destroy the forests. What I want to say is, we already changed the ecosystem some much. Without us, before a fair balance, another species (may be bugs) that may not be as sane as us (I mean it, we do not destroy totally) may destroy more species in a quite short time period than we did over the history of man.