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Ancient Apocalypse

  • TV Series
  • 2021
  • 50m
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6.3/10
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Ancient Apocalypse (2021)
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Ancient Apocalypse investigates six catastrophic stories of how the world's greatest civilizations collapsed.Ancient Apocalypse investigates six catastrophic stories of how the world's greatest civilizations collapsed.Ancient Apocalypse investigates six catastrophic stories of how the world's greatest civilizations collapsed.

  • Stars
    • Alisdair Simpson
    • Mary-Ann Ochota
    • Iszi Lawrence
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  • IMDb RATING
    6.3/10
    370
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    • Stars
      • Alisdair Simpson
      • Mary-Ann Ochota
      • Iszi Lawrence
    • 17User reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • See production info at IMDbPro
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    Alisdair Simpson
    • Narrator
    • 2021
    Mary-Ann Ochota
    Mary-Ann Ochota
    • Self - Social Anthropologist
    • 2021
    Iszi Lawrence
    • Self - Historian
    • 2021
    Jeff Rose
    • Self - Archaeologist
    • 2021
    Robert R. Cargill
    Robert R. Cargill
    • Self - Assoc. Prof. of Classics and Religious Studies
    • 2021
    Iain Stewart
    Iain Stewart
    • Self - Geologist
    • 2021
    Helen Farr
    • Self - Archaeologist…
    • 2021
    Naoíse Mac Sweeney
    • Self - Professor of Archaeology
    • 2021
    Ty Hurley
    • Ernst Forstemann
    • 2021
    Gregory Mallard
    Gregory Mallard
    • Arthur Demarest
    • 2021
    Rebecca Bradshaw
    • Self - Archaeologist
    • 2021
    Martin Archer
    • Self - Physicist
    • 2021
    Steven Collins
    • Self - Director of the Veritas International University School of Archaeology
    • 2021
    Eric Cline
    • Self - Archaeologist
    • 2021
    Hamza Murtaza Jafri
    Hamza Murtaza Jafri
    • Archaeologist
    • 2021
    Frank Sirocko
    • Self - Head of Climate and Sediment, Johannes Gutenberg University
    • 2021
    Jim Leary
    • Self - Field Archaeologist
    • 2021
    Dora Katsonopoulou
    • Self - Archaeologist
    • 2021
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    10vitezslavbecka

    Watch it and make your own mind up

    Look, honestly it seems that the major pushback to this is just a bunch of whining, while the show honestly stays very grounded. It shows factual developments, great renders, really great writing.

    The animations are a great and inspiring feat. He is not suggesting anything ridiculous, and it is a truly fun ride. Just check it out, then go on to explore on your own. Books like Sapiens or Dawn of Everything are great examples of the general shift in human history perception.

    Let us not get blocked by many old archeologists who cannot let go of their way of seeing the world.

    This is proposing points we must explore further, and then decide, whether they are valid or not. That is all the presenter asks for, after all.
    10mindedifice

    Mind opening

    For any curious mind that wants to know more about our past, this documentary reveals wonderful monuments, much older than well known monuments such as the pyramid of Giza. And not only presents these monuments, but analyzes them in ways that reveal the complexity of those minds that have realized them. It makes the viewer realize how many more hidden treasures are on this Earth, and how little we've explored them.. and how much more we could do to understand them. It truly excites and opens your mind to new possibilities.

    As for the arguments behind his ideas about the ancient civilization, they are all empirical. He collects data from various sites, and in various ways, puts the information together and builds a story out of them. There is nothing extravagant in his methods, quite the contrary, they are quite sensible and rational. For those that criticize him merely because he did not earn a degree in this domain, remember centuries ago, people like Leonardo da Vinci were revolutionizing the world and there was no one to call them a fraud because they had no University diploma. In fact, I am most glad that there are individuals like Graham, who dare to use their whole creativity and imagination to explore and learn about the world, without the invisible chains imposed by our society.
    1onze-kris

    I'm no more a pseudo-scientist than a dolphin is a pseudo-fish

    Yeah you read that right.

    Made it to episode 4 where he discredits himself.

    A dolphin is not a fish. Did he want to say that he isn't a scientist.

    He says earlier that he believes that there is proof of an ancient civilization despite what everyone else says.

    So I get that. But with the claims he makes during the first three episodes he isn't helping himself.

    The narrative is drawn out... and than doesn't really say anything surprising.

    Well he is obsessed with googling himself. And doesn't have issue that the specialists say that you should take in what he says with care.. The series isn't helped with him posing for drone shots. While a narrative is building up to another empty statement/unanswered question

    Finally and I try to watch episode 4... and adjust my rating if there is an improvement... So far it has talked about structures not much more. And while they certainly are baffling... there is almost nothing else shown or talked about.

    Where are all the items from these times??

    How old are they dated?

    Again utterly disappointed in a series about this matter.
    10darthrhodes

    Brilliant

    Follows the theme we are a species with amnesia, that the Younger Dryas event some 12,800 years ago caused a climate catastrophe co-insiding with the end of the last ice age, which saw sea levels rise 400 feet and subsequently wiped out some 50 to 60% of the human race. Each episode is dedicated to an ancient megalithic site, which Graham Hamcock and other experts believe to be much older than present archaeological theory suggests. Each site carries its own myth and folklore, from biblical and other religious stories of great floods, to oral tradition tales of falling stars. If your mind isn't bogged down in the "we were hunter gatherers until 6000 years ago", narrative. Its worth a watch.
    7catmailing

    Fascinating

    Journalist Graham Hancock brings us the compelling idea that advanced civilizations existed on Earth as far back as the last Ice Age and that our technological knowledge was wiped out through apocalyptic events. He acts as a guide, bringing us to ancient ruins and discussing the advanced knowledge it would take to build these structures, along with his theories on why academia is getting our history wrong.

    Unfortunately, this series employs a continuous soundtrack of music and booming sounds, which makes the dialogue difficult to hear and understand. I would much prefer to hear the information Graham has researched so thoroughly rather than cheesy sound effects.

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      • 2021 (Germany)
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      • Germany
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    • Also known as
      • Apocalipsis de la antigüedad
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