Anthropocene: The Human Epoch
Essential Documentaries
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1h 26m
Directed by Jennifer Baichwal | 87 mins | 2019
Inspired by the work of the Anthropocene Working Group, an international organization of scientists committed to the study of humanity’s dangerous transformation of the planet since the mid-20th century, Bachwal’s four-years-in-the-making film is an awe-striking and terrifying record of the scars left on the land by mankind’s rapacity.
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