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.
Editing
Brutal archival juxtapositions that rewrite your history classes.
Direction
Viallet's cold fury burns through every measured frame.
Director
Jean-Robert Viallet
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)
Ronald Reagan
Self (archive footage)
Jane Wyman
Self (archive footage)
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Self (archive footage)
Lino Ventura
Self (archive footage)
Louis de Funès
Self (archive footage)
Walter Cronkite
Self (archive footage)
John F. Kennedy
Self (archive footage)
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
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