Breakpoint: A Counter History of Progress

Breakpoint: A Counter History of Progress

Directed by Jean-Robert Viallet

Produced by ARTE, Cinéphage Productions

201999 min7.7 / 10

A sweeping, archive-driven indictment of industrial civilization's two-century trajectory toward ecological and social collapse, framed as a counter-history of human progress.

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.

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