Breakpoint: A Counter History of Progress
- Documentary
- History
7/14/2019
99
Storyline
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.
- Director:
- 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