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Forgotten Planet

5.0 / 10

2011

1 season

6 episodes

Documentary

Explore the cast-offs of humanity - buildings, compounds and even entire cities abandoned by humans for years.

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Cast

James Lurie

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Fogotten Planet takes you to places forgotten by time eerie locations that once hummed with activity and now are desolate. Enter the eerie emptiness of the city of Chernobyl, walk the halls and streets of abandoned Hashima Island, the Old West ghost town of Bodie, the transplanted German village of Kolmanskop - abandoned in the Namibian desert. What happens when humans abandon a place?

Ep 1
1.Pripyat/Picher
13-02-2011
The story of two cities abandoned by the industrial disasters. Pripyat, Ukraine, is the closest city to Chernobyl, the world's worst nuclear disaster. Picher, Oklahoma, a center fo...
Ep 2
2.Bodie/Namibia
02-03-2011
Diamonds and gold lured people to very inhospitable places. In Africa's Namibian desert, German miners built European towns in a sand-blasted hell. On the treeless high Sierras of...
Ep 3
3.Balestrino/Hunters Point
01-04-2011
As it fell apart around them, the residents of Balestrino abandoned their homes in the medieval town once ruled by a murderous Marquis. At Hunters Point, San Francisco, the massiv...
Ep 4
4.Salton Sea/Weston
08-04-2011
Once hailed it as the next Palm Springs, Salton Sea is now populated only with decaying vacation homes and dead fish carcasses. West Virginia’s Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum stan...
Ep 5
5.Chile/Detroit
15-04-2011
High in Chile’s Altacama Desert, the eerie remains of Humberstone and Santa Laura evoke the glory days of South America’s nitrate mining era, while Detroit’s shattered factories an...
Ep 6
6.Hashima/Gary
22-04-2011
Hashima, Japan, is a coal-mining island that was once the most populated city on Earth and is now a decaying hulk filled with rubble in the middle of the sea. Gary, Indiana was bui...

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