Countdown to Doomsday (2006 film)

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Release date 2006 (2006) Initial release 29 January 2008 (Germany) Narrated by Matt Lauer		Country United States Music director Neil Michael Goldberg Executive producer Jon Schriber
Producers Gretchen Eisele, Daniel Bregman, Peter Reiss Cast Al Gore, Matt Lauer, Michio Kaku, Daniel H Wilson, Dana Rohrabacher Similar Michael Jackson: Life of a S, The Forest, Runaway, The Necktie, Destination Unknown

Countdown to Doomsday is an American documentary television film that originally aired in 2006 on the Sci Fi Channel. The program features various risks to civilization, humans and planet Earth. Hosted by Matt Lauer, the documentary features 10 different scenarios that could bring an end to all life on Earth with interviews by Al Gore, Michio Kaku, Daniel H. Wilson, and others, and clips from various films and television programs.

Scenarios

The ten doomsday scenarios considered in the film include:

Supervolcano: Mount Vesuvius, Italy, Cumbre Vieja, Canary Islands, Yellowstone, USA; interviews with Bill McGuire (Benfield Hazard Research Centre, London), Jake Lowenstern (USGS); clips from Dante's Peak

Asteroid impact: interviews with Clark R. Chapman, Ed Lu, David Morrison, Dana Rohrabacher; clips from Deep Impact

Global pandemic: avian bird flu

Mass extinction

Giant Solar flare

Nuclear terrorism

Global warming: interviews with Al Gore

Gamma-ray burst

Machine rebellion: interviews with Daniel H. Wilson and Kevin Warwick; clips from The Terminator and I, Robot

Alien invasion: interviews with Michio Kaku, Seth Shostak; clips from Battlestar Galactica

References

Countdown to Doomsday (2006 film) Wikipedia

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