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Life After People

  • TV Series
  • 2009–2025
  • TV-PG
  • 45m
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Life After People (2009)
Life After People
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Scientists explore how Earth would transform if humans vanished, from ecosystem recovery to surviving structures and fastest decay. Based on expert analysis of our industrial world without p... Read allScientists explore how Earth would transform if humans vanished, from ecosystem recovery to surviving structures and fastest decay. Based on expert analysis of our industrial world without people.Scientists explore how Earth would transform if humans vanished, from ecosystem recovery to surviving structures and fastest decay. Based on expert analysis of our industrial world without people.

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    • James Lurie
    • Steven S. Ross
    • Dan Riskin
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    1.8K
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    • Stars
      • James Lurie
      • Steven S. Ross
      • Dan Riskin
    • 12User reviews
    • 2Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • Episodes28

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    Life After People: The Capital Threat
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    Life After People: Promo
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    Life After People: Promo
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    Life After People
    Life After People: Season 2
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    James Lurie
    James Lurie
    • Self - Narrator
    • 2009–2025
    Steven S. Ross
    • Self - Author, 'Construction Disasters'
    • 2009–2010
    Dan Riskin
    • Self - Evolutionary Biologist
    • 2025
    Hakeem Oluseyi
    Hakeem Oluseyi
    • Self - Physicist & Author
    • 2025
    Andrew Patrick Nelson
    • Self - Associate Professor: University of Utah…
    • 2025
    Paul Sutter
    • Self - Physicist & Author
    • 2025
    Don Wildman
    Don Wildman
    • Self - Podcast Host: American History Hit
    • 2025
    Gordon Masterton
    • Self - Royal Academy of Engineering…
    • 2009–2010
    Tanya Wattenburg Komas
    • Self - Historical Concrete Investigator, California State University, Chico
    • 2009–2010
    Jan Zalasiewicz
    • Self - Author, 'The Earth After Us'…
    • 2009–2010
    Daniel Dickrell
    Daniel Dickrell
    • Self - Mechanical Engineer
    • 2025
    Kaiama Glover
    • Self - Professor: Yale University
    • 2025
    Sami Jarroush
    • Self - Historian
    • 2025
    Howard Oliver
    • Self - Forensic Pathologist
    • 2009–2010
    Travis Taylor
    Travis Taylor
    • Self - Engineer & Physicist
    • 2010
    Catherine Anaya
    • Self - Journalist
    • 2025
    Kimberly Adams
    • Self - Journalist
    • 2025
    Amy Shira Teitel
    • Self - Journalist & Science Writer
    • 2025
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    4chileman-140-109345

    Succumbed to AI Slop

    First two seasons were good, CGI was not bad. But the AI slop used in the 3rd season detracts from any narrative or information. Truly awful, distracting and lazzzzy slop. Not sure if this is the way all documentaries are going to go where the show runners just don't care any more. Dont think I'll bother watching the rest of the 3rd season.
    4StantonDrew

    Urban Myth Passed Off As Scientific Fact

    Nine minutes in to the very first episode, one of the experts shares an anecdote about an explorers club in 1950 cooking up the frozen carcass of the long-extinct mammoth. It is presented, without question, as an actual true event to help illustrate how long flesh can survive for in the right conditions.

    Except, this never happened. It was a hoax by the chef. A sample of the meal was subsequently tested and shown to be sea turtle. The myth though, still persists and this show has tried to turn that myth into scientific fact.

    So my question is: if, in the first 9 minutes of a 20 episode show they make this glaring error / lie, then what else that they present as fact is also nonsense?

    It completely destroyed any credibility this show had. Shame, because the subject matter itself is fascinating
    1ndbyjosh

    Same things over and over

    I used to like NGC. However, all of their shows and simulations are the same over and over. They inject CC into everyone of their shows.

    The narrator on this show is also annoying. I think he is similar to many of NGC shows. A narrator is fine... but it shouldn't be involved in 50% of the show... and emphasizing every other word gets really annoying.

    The simulations are awful, even when the shows were made. I think it is more comical than knowledgeable.

    If you watch the shows, you will see repetitive simulations on each show.

    There are much better ways to learn about the universe, science and out planet. NGC always slides CC into the conversation.

    Sad...
    10sarafinata

    First 2 seasons great..season three meh

    Loved first two seasons but the new seasons have lousy CG and AI. It is so fake looking. The dogs don't even look right when they show them eating...how hard could that be to do right? Sad to drop the quality so much from the original. And, they are claiming catastrophic changes in just a couple of weeks. In the first seasons it took years for building collapses. So far I am disappointed in the new version.
    10funnyisbest

    Too short

    I enjoyed watching this because I think that it is very interesting and cool to know about what would happen. I don't like on how this was a very short series.

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    • Trivia
      National Geographic had a similar show called Aftermath followed by a tv special titled Aftermath Population Zero.
    • Connections
      Featured in The Universe: Stopping Armageddon (2009)

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    • Release date
      • April 21, 2009 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Official sites
      • Official site
      • Official site (Colombia)
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • La Tierra Sin Humanos, La Serie
    • Production company
      • Flight 33 Productions
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      • 45m
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      • 1.78 : 1 / (high definition)

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