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Breakpoint: A Counter History of Progress ( 2019 )

★7.7 /10 _(24.0)

99 min ● Jul 14, 2019 ● French

Overview

An account of the last two centuries of the Anthropocene, the Age of Man. How human beings have progressed so much in such a short time through war and the selfish interests of a few, belligerent politicians and captains of industry, damaging the welfare of the majority of mankind, impoverishing the weakest, greedily devouring the limited resources of the Earth.

Top Cast

Jacques Bonnaffé

Jacques Bonnaffé

Self - Narrator (voice)

John D. Rockefeller

John D. Rockefeller

Self (archive footage)

Woodrow Wilson

Self (archive footage)

Adolf Hitler

Self (archive footage)

J. Robert Oppenheimer

J. Robert Oppenheimer

Self (archive footage)

Van Heflin

Self (archive footage)

Lewis Strauss

Self (archive footage)

Mária Telkes

Self (archive footage)

Ronald Reagan

Self (archive footage)

Jane Wyman

Self (archive footage)

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Self (archive footage)

Lino Ventura

Self (archive footage)

Louis de Funès

Self (archive footage)

Walter Cronkite

Walter Cronkite

Self (archive footage)

John F. Kennedy

John F. Kennedy

Self (archive footage)

Jimmy Carter

Self (archive footage)

Margaret Thatcher

Margaret Thatcher

Self (archive footage)