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Life After People: The Series

  • 2009–
  • 3 seasons
  • Documentary
  • 7.3

Population Zero.

Life After People is a television series on which scientists, structural engineers, and other experts speculate about what might become of Earth should humanity instantly disappear. The featured experts also talk about the impact of human extinction on the environment, and the vestiges of civilization thus left behind.

Episodes

8 episodes
  1. 1Water World

    44 minJul 14, 2025

    In a world without humans, water turns from life-giver to destroyer-flooding cities, collapsing dams, and triggering ancient forces long kept at bay.

  2. 2Shop 'Til You Drop

    44 minJul 21, 2025

    When humanity disappears, the global retail machine collapses--malls rot, shipping lanes turn explosive, and ghostly grocery stores become battlefields for rodents, predators, and time. Yet from gold objects to jars of honey, some remnants of consumer culture might outlast civilization itself.

  3. 3Urban Jungles

    44 minJul 28, 2025

    In the absence of humanity, the world's most iconic cities—from New York, to Orlando, to Rio de Janeiro—are reclaimed by nature, as forests rise, animals roam free, and fire and flood undo centuries of construction.

  4. 4Sands Of Time

    44 minAug 4, 2025

    In a world without humans, the deserts we once tamed rise to reclaim our greatest triumphs—from the glittering lights of Las Vegas to the soaring heights of Dubai's Burj Khalifa.

  5. 5Home On The Strange

    41 minAug 11, 2025

    After humanity ceases to exist, the homes we built—from suburban mansions and Miami condos to rural farmhouses—face a relentless siege by fire, flood, wildlife, and time.

  6. 6The Underground Rises

    41 minAug 18, 2025

    When humanity vanishes, the vast and fragile infrastructure hidden underground—from subways and pipelines to one of the biggest coal seams in the United States—begins to unravel.

  7. 7Built To Last

    44 minAug 25, 2025

    Humanity's strongest structures were engineered to defy disaster—but in a world without people, even the mightiest begin to crack.

  8. 8Ticking Time Bombs

    44 minSep 13, 2025

    Hidden dangers once held at bay by humans erupt with catastrophic force—from everyday objects ready to explode to chemical plants and locust plagues—as nature and human legacy collide, these ticking time bombs threaten to send the world up in smoke.

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Series cast

James LurieSelf - Narrator28 episodes
Hakeem Muata OluseyiSelf - Astrophysicist/Author8 episodes
Don WildmanSelf - TV Host/Historian8 episodes
Andrew Patrick NelsonSelf - Historian8 episodes
Dan RiskinSelf - Evolutionary Biologist8 episodes

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