It's death on an unimaginable scale, when a majority of Earth's species quickly die out. It's called "mass extinction," and it's happened at least five times before. Cataclysms, such as supervolcanoes or asteroids, are thought to cause these events, but some experts believe a manmade mass extinction could be next. Is our planet in trouble? And if so, is there anything we can do to stop the next catastrophic annihilation? Experts are traveling the world, performing groundbreaking scientific detective work to answer these very questions.
Direction
Sarah Holt makes extinction genuinely cinematic
Writing
Narration that respects your intelligence
Director
Sarah Holt
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Kirk Johnson later became director of Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History—this doc basically filmed a future museum director in his natural habitat.
Released 2014, right before the Paris Agreement—this film's urgency now reads as either prescient or devastatingly ignored, depending on your optimism level.
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