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Supersized Earth

Supersized Earth

Description: This documentary series traces the story of how humans have changed the world during the course of a single generation. Presenter Dallas Campbell travels the globe to visit some of the world's largest and most ambitious engineering projects to explore the power of human ingenuity and the making of the modern world. Over the course of the past generation, humans changed the face of the planet on a previously unimaginable scale, with many of the extraordinary feats - from the world's tallest building in Dubai to a cosmodrome in Kazakhstan that features a new age of space travel - showcased on `Supersized Earth'.
Year Released: 2012
First episode air date: November 21, 2012
Network: BBC One
Cast: Dallas Campbell
Nominations: British Academy Television Craft Award for Photography - Factual

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