Mass Extinction: Life at the Brink

Nov 30, 2014

0h 46m

★ 7.0

The clues to the future lie in the past

Overview

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.

Genres

Documentary

TV Movie

Production Companies

Tangled Bank Studios

Smithsonian Channel

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Cast

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Elizabeth Hadly

Narrator (voice)

Jeffrey Wright

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Kirk Johnson

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