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Year Million (2017)

Year Million poster
Genre
drama, documentary, sci-fi & fantasy
Country
United States
Length
1 season, 6 episodes
Rated
TV-14
Rating
8.4 of 10 from 19 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A documentary series that mixes real science interviews with a fictional story about a family living one million years in the future. It explores what human life and technology might be like at that distant time.

thought-provokingspeculativeeducationalfuturisticcontemplativeinformativesci-fi

What happens

Year Million is a six-part documentary and science fiction television series produced by National Geographic, which premiered on May 15, 2017, on their channel. The series received two Emmy Award nominations, including a Primetime Emmy for its narrator Laurence Fishburne. The series is based on the 2008 book Year Million: Science at the Far Edge of Knowledge by Damien Broderick. The narrative alternates between a story set in the future about a family of three and 2016 interviews that explain the events unfolding in the story. The series was filmed in Budapest. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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