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Film / 2019
Breakpoint: A Counter History of Progress
Directed by
Jean-Robert Viallet
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.
The story
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.
Cast
Jacques BonnafféSelf - Narrator (voice)
John D. RockefellerSelf (archive footage)
Woodrow WilsonSelf (archive footage)
Adolf HitlerSelf (archive footage)
J. Robert OppenheimerSelf (archive footage)
Van HeflinSelf (archive footage)
Lewis StraussSelf (archive footage)
Mária TelkesSelf (archive footage)
Ronald ReaganSelf (archive footage)
Jane WymanSelf (archive footage)
Dwight D. EisenhowerSelf (archive footage)
Lino VenturaSelf (archive footage)
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