Forgotten Planet

Explore the cast-offs of humanity - buildings, compounds and even entire cities abandoned by humans for years.

Documentary

Forgotten Planet

Explore the cast-offs of humanity - buildings, compounds and even entire cities abandoned by humans for years.

Documentary

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First Aired on: Feb 13, 2011
Popularity: 1.1783: 1 votes
Networks: (US)
Production: Flight 33 Productions (US)
Status: Ended: Show Ended

Seasons & episodes

Total 1 seasons, 6 episodes

Season 1

Fogotten Planet takes you to places forgotten by time eerie locations that once hummed with activity and now are desolate. Enter the eerie emptiness of the city of Chernobyl, walk the halls and streets of abandoned Hashima Island, the Old West ghost town of Bodie, the transplanted German village of Kolmanskop - abandoned in the Namibian desert. What happens when humans abandon a place?

Aired 14 years ago

6 Episodes

Episode 1Pripyat/Picher min
The story of two cities abandoned by the industrial disasters. Pripyat, Ukraine, is the closest city to Chernobyl, the world's worst nuclear disaster. Picher, Oklahoma, a center for lead and zinc mining, is one the most toxic towns in America.
Episode 2Bodie/Namibia min
Diamonds and gold lured people to very inhospitable places. In Africa's Namibian desert, German miners built European towns in a sand-blasted hell. On the treeless high Sierras of California, gold-rush era miners carved a city miles from civilization.
Episode 3Balestrino/Hunters Point min
As it fell apart around them, the residents of Balestrino abandoned their homes in the medieval town once ruled by a murderous Marquis. At Hunters Point, San Francisco, the massive industrial spaces succumb to an invasion by the forces of nature.
Episode 4Salton Sea/Weston min
Once hailed it as the next Palm Springs, Salton Sea is now populated only with decaying vacation homes and dead fish carcasses. West Virginia’s Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum stands empty – but it’s filled with dark secrets.
Episode 5Chile/Detroit min
High in Chile’s Altacama Desert, the eerie remains of Humberstone and Santa Laura evoke the glory days of South America’s nitrate mining era, while Detroit’s shattered factories and abandoned neighborhoods stand a stark warning for post-industrial man.