Episode 1
Water World
44m8.0 / 10
In a world without humans, water turns from life-giver to destroyer-flooding cities, collapsing dams, and triggering ancient forces long kept at bay.
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Life After People: The Series
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Population Zero.
Life After People is a television series on which scientists, structural engineers, and other experts speculate about what might become of Earth should humanity instantly disappear. The featured experts also talk about the impact of human extinction on the environment, and the vestiges of civilization thus left behind.
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Checked Jul 22, 2026
Life After People: The Series is available to stream on DirecTV On Demand, Disney+, Hulu, Philo, Prime Video, Hoopla, and Spectrum On Demand in United States. You can also buy it from Amazon and Apple TV. Use the direct links below to open the provider.
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Life After People is a television series on which scientists, structural engineers, and other experts speculate about what might become of Earth should humanity instantly disappear. The featured experts also talk about the impact of human extinction on the environment, and the vestiges of civilization thus left behind.
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Episode 2
Shop 'Til You Drop
44m8.0 / 10
When humanity disappears, the global retail machine collapses--malls rot, shipping lanes turn explosive, and ghostly grocery stores become battlefields for rodents, predators, and time. Yet from gold objects to jars of honey, some remnants of consumer culture might outlast civilization itself.
Where to watch Life After People: The SeriesEpisode 3
Urban Jungles
44m8.0 / 10
In the absence of humanity, the world's most iconic cities—from New York, to Orlando, to Rio de Janeiro—are reclaimed by nature, as forests rise, animals roam free, and fire and flood undo centuries of construction.
Where to watch Life After People: The SeriesEpisode 4
Sands Of Time
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In a world without humans, the deserts we once tamed rise to reclaim our greatest triumphs—from the glittering lights of Las Vegas to the soaring heights of Dubai's Burj Khalifa.
Where to watch Life After People: The SeriesEpisode 5
Home On The Strange
41m8.0 / 10
After humanity ceases to exist, the homes we built—from suburban mansions and Miami condos to rural farmhouses—face a relentless siege by fire, flood, wildlife, and time.
Where to watch Life After People: The SeriesEpisode 6
The Underground Rises
41m8.0 / 10
When humanity vanishes, the vast and fragile infrastructure hidden underground—from subways and pipelines to one of the biggest coal seams in the United States—begins to unravel.
Where to watch Life After People: The SeriesEpisode 7
Built To Last
44m8.0 / 10
Humanity's strongest structures were engineered to defy disaster—but in a world without people, even the mightiest begin to crack.
Where to watch Life After People: The SeriesEpisode 8
Ticking Time Bombs
44m8.0 / 10
Hidden dangers once held at bay by humans erupt with catastrophic force—from everyday objects ready to explode to chemical plants and locust plagues—as nature and human legacy collide, these ticking time bombs threaten to send the world up in smoke.
Where to watch Life After People: The SeriesEpisode information updated Jul 23, 2026
More about Life After People: The Series
Cast
James LurieSelf - Narrator
Hakeem Muata OluseyiSelf - Astrophysicist/Author
Don WildmanSelf - TV Host/HistorianAndrew Patrick NelsonSelf - Historian
Dan RiskinSelf - Evolutionary BiologistCredits
- Created by
- David De Vries
- Written by
- Douglas Cohen, David De Vries, Sam Dolan
Production details
- Status
- Returning Series
- Series type
- Scripted
- Episodes
- 28
- Original language
- English
Networks & production
HistoryUnited States- Flight 33 ProductionsUnited States
Themes
changeextinctionnaturespeculativetime
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