Name: Life After People
Released: 2009-04-21T00:00:00.000Z
Cast: James Lurie

TV Show · Documentary

What would happen if every human being on Earth disappeared? This is the story of what happens to the world we leave behind. Examine how the landscape of planet Earth would change in our absence in Life After People - The Series, a stunningly graphic journey to a world wiped clean of humanity.

2009 · 39m

Starring James Lurie

Director Douglas Cohen

EPISODE 1

Water World

In a world without humans, water turns from life-giver to destroyer, flooding cities, collapsing dams and triggering ancient forces long kept at bay.

39 min
EPISODE 2

Shop 'Til You Drop

When humanity disappears, the global retail machine collapses, malls rot, shipping lanes turn explosive and ghostly grocery stores become battlefields for rodents, predators and time.

39 min
EPISODE 3

Urban Jungles

In the absence of humanity, the world's cities like New York, Orlando and Rio de Janeiro are reclaimed by nature, as forests rise, animals roam free and fire and flood undo centuries of construction.

39 min
EPISODE 4

Sands of Time

In a world without humans, the deserts once tamed rise to reclaim great triumphs: from Las Vegas to Dubai's Burj Khalifa; as sand, salt, and sun dismantle cities, the wastelands quietly take back the ground borrowed.

39 min
EPISODE 5

Home on the Strange

After humanity ceases to exist, the homes we built from suburban mansions and Miami condos to rural farmhouses face a relentless siege by fire, flood, wildlife and time.

38 min
EPISODE 6

The Underground Rises

When humanity vanishes, the vast and fragile infrastructure hidden underground-from subways and pipelines to one of the big coal seams in the United States-begins to unravel.

39 min

James Lurie

Narrator
Douglas Cohen

Director
Paul Cabana

Producer
Darryl Rehr

Producer
Robert Beemer

Writer

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