Life After People (TV 2008)

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 ... See full summary »

Director:

David de Vries

Writer:

David de Vries

Stars:

Struan Rodger, John Anderson, David Brin

Nominated for 3 Primetime Emmys. Another 1 nomination.

Cast

Credited 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
Howard Oliver	...	Himself (as Dr. Howard Oliver)
Stephen R. Palumbi	...	Himself (as Steve Palumbi)

Storyline

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. A visual journey, LIFE AFTER PEOPLE is 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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Plot Keywords:

broken glass | storm | no survivors | no cast of characters credits | nature | 

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Taglines:

What If

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Genres:

Documentary | Sci-Fi

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Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

21 January 2008 (USA)

Also Known As:

After Days

Company Credits

Production Co:

Flight 33 Productions

Technical Specs

Color:

Color

Did You Know?

Goofs

There is an footage file. In which clip, appears a worker working and walking on a bridge support wire and then the worker disappears (is digitally removed), but his shadow on the surface of the bridge support wire is not cleared and continues walking.

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Quotes

Narrator: Time has run out for man. Our hold on the planet is over. Welcome to Earth. Population: zero.

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Connections

Followed by Life After People (2009)

User Reviews

Great documentary

I watched it when it first aired and It was really interesting and fairly awesome. I think the entire thing kind of reinforces my not being religious. I mean 10,000 years after we all die all of our buildings fall down, all of our paper rots away, and the entire place is all grass again. Plus, from the documentary, if you took the entire history of planet Earth and made it into a 24 hour day humans would only make up 30 seconds of that day. Our entire human existence is 30 seconds out of a full 24 hour day yet the world is here for us and made for us? Please.

We're just not that special or important. Probably the creatures with the highest intelligence that will ever walk the face of the planet but that's about it. The world wasn't designed for us, we're just here.