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Mankind The Story of All of Us is an epic 12-hour television event about the greatest adventure of all time—the history of the human race.
It takes 10 billion years for the ideal planet to form and 3 billion more for the right conditions to emerge before it finally happens: mankind begins. From there unfolds a fast-paced story told here through key turning points—stepping stones in our journey from hunter-gatherer to global citizen. It’s a tale of connections—why some ideas take hold and spread around the globe, and how the lives of people in one part of the world are shaped by events in another.
Episodes covered throughout the series include the ice age, the advent of farming, the sacking of Rome, the discovery of the New World, the fall of the Aztec empire, the Industrial Revolution and so much more. This is our story—a story of triumph and overcoming, of survival on a harsh and brutal planet. It is the story of all of—and how, against the odds, we survived.
Mankind is the first television series in a generation to tackle the history of the human race through the ages. Embracing groundbreaking storytelling methods, it features jaw-dropping imagery and dramatic reconstructions of the most critical events in human history.
Original Release
11/13/2012 on HIST
US Release
11/13/2012
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Cast
Name | Character |
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Josh Brolin | Self - Narrator |
Richard Machowicz | Self - Military Expert & Former Navy Seal |
James Meigs | Self - Editor-in-Chief, Popular Mechanics |
George Wunderlich | Self - National Museum of Civil War Medicine |
Mike Loades | Self - Military Historian |
Brian Williams | Self - NBC Nightly News |
Henry Louis Gates Jr. | Self - Harvard University |
Mehmet Öz | Self - New York Presbyterian Hospital |
Sam Sheridan | Self - Writer |
H.M. Agnes Hsu | Self - China Institute & UNESCO |
# | Title | Air Date |
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1 | Inventors | Monday, 26 November 2012 |
2 | Iron Men | Tuesday, 13 November 2012 |
3 | Empires | Tuesday, 20 November 2012 |
4 | Warriors | Tuesday, 20 November 2012 |
5 | Plague | Tuesday, 27 November 2012 |
6 | Survivors | Tuesday, 27 November 2012 |
7 | New World | Sunday, 18 November 2012 |
8 | Treasure | Monday, 17 December 2012 |
9 | Pioneers | Monday, 24 December 2012 |
10 | Revolutions | Monday, 24 December 2012 |
11 | Speed | Monday, 31 December 2012 |
12 | New Frontiers | Monday, 31 December 2012 |
Directors
Dan Clifton, Virginia Quinn, Hugh Ballantyne, Nick Brown, Louise Hooper, Nick Green
Writers
Ed Fields, David Dachpian, Hugh Ballantyne
Cast
Name | Character |
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Josh Brolin | Self - Narrator |
Richard Machowicz | Self - Military Expert & Former Navy Seal |
James Meigs | Self - Editor-in-Chief, Popular Mechanics |
George Wunderlich | Self - National Museum of Civil War Medicine |
Mike Loades | Self - Military Historian |
Brian Williams | Self - NBC Nightly News |
Henry Louis Gates Jr. | Self - Harvard University |
Mehmet Öz | Self - New York Presbyterian Hospital |
Sam Sheridan | Self - Writer |
H.M. Agnes Hsu | Self - China Institute & UNESCO |
Judith Lindbergh | Self - Writer |
Anthony Bourdain | Self - Chef & Writer |
John Shea | Self - Stony Brook University |
Kara Cooney | Self - University of California, Los Angeles |
Sylvester James Gates Jr. | Self - University of Maryland |
Timothy Brook | Self - University of British Columbia |
Charles Mann | Self - Writer |
Sabine Hyland | Self - St. Norbert College |
Alberto Camarillo | Self - Stanford University |
Peter Aicher | Self - University of Southern Maine |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Jane Root | Executive Producer |
Ben Goold | Executive Producer |
Julian P. Hobbs | Executive Producer |
Paul Cabana | Executive Producer |
David Wicht | Producer |
Theuns De Wet | Producer |
Lucy van Beek | Producer |
Jacqui Edwards | Producer |
Laura Franses | Producer |
Tim Lambert | Producer |
Mark Hubbard | Producer |
Alice Dawson | Producer |
Jimmy Abounouom | Producer |
Magie Tan | Producer |
Penny Woo | Producer |
Steffan Boje | Producer |
Helen Docherty | Producer |
Octavia Hartland | Producer |
Simon Willgoss | Producer |
John Fothergill | Producer |
Andrew Saunders | Producer |
Jemila Twinch | Producer |
Lee McNulty | Producer |
Dan Kendall | Producer |
Jeremy Hall | Producer |
Gabriella Polletta | Producer |
Vlokkie Gordon | Producer |
Shaun Trevisick | Producer |
Jane Higgs | Producer |
Michael Webster | Producer |
Jamie Crawford | Producer |
Dai Richards | Producer |
Paul Nelson | Producer |
Peter McAleese | Producer |
Mick Conefrey | Producer |
Celia Lowenstein | Producer |
Lorne Townend | Producer |
Sabine Pusch | Producer |
Clive Maltby | Producer |