Anthropocene: The Human Epoch
Nature in Focus: Films for Earth Month
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1h 26m
Directed by Jennifer Baichwal, Edward Burtynsky, Nicholas de Pencier • Documentary • 2019 • Canada • English, Russian, Italian, German, Mandarin, Cantonese with English subtitles
Featuring Alicia Vikander
Narrated by Alicia Vikander, this stunning sensory experience and cinematic meditation on humanity’s massive reengineering of the planet follows the research of an international body of scientists, the Anthropocene Working Group, who argue that the Holocene Epoch gave way to the Anthropocene Epoch in the mid-twentieth century as a result of profound and lasting human changes to the Earth.
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