# Did I hallucinate this speculative future doc? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 17, 2008, 12:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-hallucinate-this-speculative-future-doc/456814 "2008-07-17T12:16:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/half_man_half_wit/32/21766_2.png) [@Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Half_Man_Half_Wit)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2008, 12:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-hallucinate-this-speculative-future-doc/456814/1 "2008-07-17T12:16:48Z")
So, I’ve just watched ‘The Future is Wild’, a documentary-style film exploring a hypothetical evolution after the disappearance of humanity, five, 100, and 200 million years in the future. I did like it fairly well, and thought I might want to check out similar ‘hypothetical’ documentaries (however you’d want to call them), and I distinctly remember reading about one that dealt with the near(er) future, more specifically, with how what remains of human civilization is being re-claimed by nature, what would last how long, and things like that. However, neither IMDb nor google was any help in tracking down the film, and by now I wonder whether I’m not just confusing something else with ‘I Am Legend’, or something like that. So, does this film exist, or am I just making things up again? And further, are their other pseudo-documentaries done in a similar vein? I remember one that dealt with hypothetical ecosystems on three different planets, I think, which I saw and liked, and then there’s also ‘Walking With Dinosaurs’, which I think I have seen but can’t recall much from. ---
**Author:** ![Alive\_At\_Both\_Ends](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/73ab20/32.png) [@Alive\_At\_Both\_Ends](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alive_At_Both_Ends)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2008, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-hallucinate-this-speculative-future-doc/456814/2 "2008-07-17T12:48:45Z")
[QUOTE=Half Man Half Wit] So, I’ve just watched ‘The Future is Wild’, a documentary-style film exploring a hypothetical evolution after the disappearance of humanity, five, 100, and 200 million years in the future. I did like it fairly well, and thought I might want to check out similar ‘hypothetical’ documentaries (however you’d want to call them), and I distinctly remember reading about one that dealt with the near(er) future, more specifically, with how what remains of human civilization is being re-claimed by nature, what would last how long, and things like that. However, neither IMDb nor google was any help in tracking down the film, and by now I wonder whether I’m not just confusing something else with ‘I Am Legend’, or something like that. So, does this film exist, or am I just making things up again? [/QUOTE] I think you’re thinking of [Life After People](http://www.history.com/minisite.do?content_type=Minisite_Generic&content_type_id=57578&display_order=2&mini_id=57517) from the History Channel. ---
**Author:** ![Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/half_man_half_wit/32/21766_2.png) [@Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Half_Man_Half_Wit)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2008, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-hallucinate-this-speculative-future-doc/456814/3 "2008-07-17T13:32:37Z")
Yes! That’s exactly it. Many thanks! I’d been under the impression that it was called something like ‘The Future Without Us’, but all that turned up was a flic called ‘The World Without U.S.’, which apparently tries to paint a picture of the world as it would be if the USA suddenly disappeared… Has anybody seen that one? Is it worth watching?