Life After People 3, The Underground Rises

S3 E1 • 41m • HDU

In a world without humans, water turns from life-giver to destroyer, flooding cities, collapsing dams and triggering ancient forces long kept at bay.

S3 E2 • 40m • HDU

When humanity disappears, the global retail machine collapses. Malls rot and ghostly grocery stores become battlefields for rodents, predators and time.

S3 E3 • 40m • HDU

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.

S3 E4 • 40m • HDU

From Las Vegas to Dubai's Burj Khalifa, as sand, salt and sun dismantle cities, the wastelands quietly take back the ground borrowed.

S3 E5 • 39m • HDU

After humanity ceases to exist, the homes we built, ranging from suburban mansions and Miami condos to rural farmhouses, face a relentless siege by fire, flood, wildlife and time.

S3 E6 • 40m • HDU

When humanity vanishes, the vast and fragile infrastructure hidden underground, from subways and pipelines to one of the big coal seams in the United States, begins to unravel.

S3 E7 • 40m • HDU

From soaring skyscrapers like One World Trade Centre to impenetrable vaults like Fort Knox, humanity's strongest structures were engineered to defy disaster, but in a world without people, even the mightiest begin to crack.