Episode
Life After People: The Series: Sands Of Time
Overview
In a world without humans, the deserts we once tamed rise to reclaim our greatest triumphs—from the glittering lights of Las Vegas to the soaring heights of Dubai's Burj Khalifa.
Details
- Series
- Life After People: The Series
- Season
- Season 3
- Episode
- Episode 4
- Air date
- 2025-08-04
- Runtime
- 44 min
Episode context
Sands Of Time is Episode 4 in Season 3 of Life After People: The Series. It aired on 2025-08-04. The runtime is 44 min.
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Episode 3: Urban Jungles
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.
Episode 5: Home On The Strange
After humanity ceases to exist, the homes we built—from suburban mansions and Miami condos to rural farmhouses—face a relentless siege by fire, flood, wildlife, and time.
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When humanity disappears, the global retail machine collapses--malls rot, shipping lanes turn explosive, and ghostly grocery stores become battlefields for rodents, predators, and time. Yet from gold objects to jars of honey, some remnants of consumer culture might outlast civilization itself.
Episode 6: The Underground Rises
When humanity vanishes, the vast and fragile infrastructure hidden underground—from subways and pipelines to one of the biggest coal seams in the United States—begins to unravel.
Episode 1: Water World
In a world without humans, water turns from life-giver to destroyer-flooding cities, collapsing dams, and triggering ancient forces long kept at bay.
Episode 7: Built To Last
Humanity's strongest structures were engineered to defy disaster—but in a world without people, even the mightiest begin to crack.
Episode 8: Ticking Time Bombs
Hidden dangers once held at bay by humans erupt with catastrophic force—from everyday objects ready to explode to chemical plants and locust plagues—as nature and human legacy collide, these ticking time bombs threaten to send the world up in smoke.