Breakpoint: A Counter History of Progress (2019)

07/14/2019 (BE) • 1h 39m

Documentary, History

Overview

An account of the last two centuries of the Anthropocene, the Age of Man. How human beings have progressed so much in such a short time through war and the selfish interests of a few, belligerent politicians and captains of industry, damaging the welfare of the majority of mankind, impoverishing the weakest, greedily devouring the limited resources of the Earth.

Top Billed Cast

Jacques Bonnaffé

Self - Narrator (voice)

John D. Rockefeller

Self (archive footage)

Woodrow Wilson

Self (archive footage)

Adolf Hitler

Self (archive footage)

J. Robert Oppenheimer

Self (archive footage)

Van Heflin

Self (archive footage)

Lewis Strauss

Self (archive footage)

Mária Telkes

Self (archive footage)

Ronald Reagan

Self (archive footage)


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Status

Released

Original Language

English

Budget

-

Revenue

-

Keywords

destruction of a civilization

based on novel or book

industrial unrest

world war i

self-destruction

cold war

world war ii

greed

damage

global warming

industrial revolution

industrial society

post world war i

mankind annihilated

destruction of planet

destruction

weapon of mass destruction

oil industry

archive footage

post world war ii

social documentary

coal mining

earth in peril

environmental destruction

deforestation

mankind

industrial heritage

19th century

atomic energy

mass destruction

old footage

destruction of earth

ecological footprint

history of mankind

plastic contamination

chemical industry

social and industrial development

industrial pollution

observational documentary

environmental documentary

documentary

post-anthropocene

industrial documentary

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