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Anthropocene: The Human Epoch
Anthropocene: The Human Epoch
NAME OF FILM: ANTHROPOCENE: THE HUMAN EPOCH
DIRECTOR(S): Jennifer Baichwal, Nicholas de Pencier, Edward Burtynsky
STARRING: Alicia Vikander
GENRE: Documentary Film
SYNOPSIS: It’s hard to disagree with the idea that humans aren’t the driving force behind the planet’s changing natural order when you’re presented with the imagery in this startling documentary. From the world’s largest excavating machines devouring farmland in Germany, to the flaming pyres of ivory tusks seized from poachers who slaughtered thousands of endangered elephants and rhinos in Nairobi, the human desire for conquest and acquisition has never been laid bare in such a visually stunning way before.