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Life After People (History Channel) 
Actors : Life After People Dv
Director : David de Vries
Studio : A&E HOME VIDEO
by A&E HOME VIDEO
Brand : A&E
Release Date : 2008-03-18
Publisher : A&E HOME VIDEO
Availability : Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Number of Items : 1
EAN : 0733961110906
UPC : 733961110906
Avg. Customer Rating: (based on 22 reviews)
List Price : $19.95
Our Price : $9.90
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Product Description |
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THE HISTORY CHANNEL and Academy Award-winning special effects studio Industrial Light and Magic (Star Wars Harry Potter) join forces to imagine the state of planet Earth years after humans disappear. Stunning visual effects show how the environment will change as dams overflow buildings crumble and fires engulf once-mighty cities. Domestic animal life will die out and new species will claim their territory. Books and photographs will be reduced to faded scraps while other signs of our existence may remain for eternity standing as the tombstones of human civilization.Through striking movie-quality special effects coupled with interviews with experts in the fields of engineering botany ecology biology geology climatology and archeology LIFE AFTER PEOPLE sheds light on the state of the world days weeks and years after humans cease to exist.System Requirements:Running Time: 94 minutesFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: TELEVISION/SERIES & SEQUELS Rating: NR UPC: 733961110906 Manufacturer No: AAAE110900 |
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Americancivilwar.com |
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The very notion is deliciously ghoulish: What happens to earth if--or when--people suddenly vanished? The History Channel presents a dramatic, fascinating what-if scenario, part science fiction and part true natural science. "Welcome to Earth, Population: 0" is the catchy tagline, Life After People's 94 minutes are so gripping you nearly forget while you watch that you, yourself, will be gone too. It turns out that earth can go along very nicely without us. The hardest part of the special is probably in the first 15 minutes, when pet owners confront what likely will happen to their dogs (thankfully, the show follows those dogs who break out of their houses, and the prognosis for them to survive as scavengers is good). As the fictional days and weeks tick by, the process of nature's reclaiming the planet becomes less grim and more fascinating. The impact of the lack of people will be noticed right away, as most power grids shut down around the planet. The one holdout: Hoover Dam, whose hydro power lights up the American Southwest. Scientists say the dam can continue to operate on its own for months, maybe years, keeping the Vegas Strip alight. Only the eventual accumulation of quagga mussels, an invasive species, in the cooling pipes of the power plant--currently being cleaned by humans--will shut down the dam. Elsewhere, critters and plants will have their run of Manhattan and every other previously "civilized" spot. Inventive photography shows bears clambering out of subway stations, and vines pulling down brownstones, then skyscrapers. It may not be a surprise when the Eiffel Tower and Space Needle meet their eventual fates, but the scenes nonetheless provide a pleasant sting of shock. Life After People is humbling, yet exhilarating. -- A.T. Hurley |
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basically about corrosion |
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I had high hopes for this video but in the end it was essentially all about how the lack of maintenance will affect the corrosion and decay of various types of structures - concrete, steel, etc. etc. I guess the feel was less apocalyptic than I had hoped. In defense I suppose this would have come off as too political if the film dealt more directly with long term environmental impacts from a scientific peerspective. They did visit a town abandoned in the aftermath of Chernobyl and talked about the dogs and cats (avoided discussion of what domestication does to plants and animals), but the film would have had more impact if it dealt with these issues. |
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Not as good as it could have been |
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The computer simulations of NYC etc in 100 years after people are interesting, even if the buildings falling remind you of the WTC on 9/11. The speculation is about what it would like if people disappeared, a very pleasant thought, indeed. Evidently, house cats would take over, the film posits. |
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Facinating and thought provoking |
I really enjoyed this video. I found it very plausable and the effects were very well done. It doesn't go into so much technical detail as, say, the book, "World Without Us" but this is a plus if you're looking for a short trip into the possible, this is a marvelous video.
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Cutlural snuff porn |
This production is an excuse to show off computer graphics of stuff "blowin' up real good!" Which they do ad nauseum in slow motion. Understand, if they didn't have those simulations... no video would be produced. Nada. It's cultural snuff porn. Other themes for these "science" producers:
1)What if Godzilla smushed a bunch of buildings? What would THAT look like? Whut? It's been done!?
2)Okay ,what if the sun turned into a big marshmallow or no... flamed up so bright that all the peoples were blinded! Holy Jesus!
3)Robots gone mad. Oh...yeah...
It offers zero conjecture on its necessary underpinnng, the bizarrely immacuate unconception of humans, because science...need not apply, only computer programmers: "Uh, you ever made a video where somethin' blowed up...? Uh huh, good. Okay, same thing, only it gotta crash down, and real good!"
The "demise of humans" scenario satisfies sadomachoistic cravings that are common enough to turn a profit for the production-- just like most pornography. But that doesn't make it laudable. Or interesting. |
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Life After People... |
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As the title suggests, this documentary isn't about HOW we leave (though there are bonus features suggesting possible scenarios for our disappearance) but HOW life continues. I didn't find the movie depressing or eerie...I found it both amazing and heartening that should our interferring and encroaching stop, things will continue quite nicely...OK, with the possible exception of some specifically bred brachycephalic canines who won't fare so well...but, then again...that's OUR doing...not nature's doing. This movie was well thought out and well supported in it's content by interviews with engineers, ecologists, biologists, et al. This is one great work!! |
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