Yann-Arthus Bertrand's "Home" - MUST SEE Free Film on why we only have a decade to save the Earth

By Blizz
Filed under Documentary, Movies, Video

"Home" by Yann-Arthus Bertrand is a visually stunning and thought-provoking documentary about the damage humans have inflicted on the planet Earth. It is a collection of amazing aerial photos and videos from 54 countries all over the world, showcasing the vast beauty as well as the terrible scars that we left our home during the development of our civilization in the past 200,000 years. The impact of homo sapiens - wise humans - is nearing the critical point when it cannot be reversed anymore. "Home" shows us what we've done and what we stand to lose.

The film was shot from a helicopter using an HD camera. It took 217 days of shooting and 488 hours of footage to create the documentary. The movie is the first one of its kind to be released simultaneously to five continents across the world in different formats: DVD, television, and YouTube. It broke the world record for the biggest film release of all time as it opened in 181 countries on June 5, 2009. PPR, a multinational company based in France, sponsored "Home".

Here's the trailer of the film:

Equipped with a well-written script and persuasive storytelling, the message of the documentary is clear: now is not the time to be a pessimist and give up on our planet. There is still time, even though it's running out, to fix things. Bertrand suggests ways on how to reverse or at least slow the damage, such as turning to renewable energy, building of more national parks, fostering international cooperation between states, and providing more education on the problem. Bertrand quotes Theodore Monod, "We've tried everything, except love." It's about time.

The film is carbon offset, meaning all the C02 emissions produced in making it is offset by equivalent sums of money to be spent on providing clean energy to people who don't have it. All of Yann-Arthus Bertrand's works in the past decade has been carbon offset, which says a lot about his dedication to his own cause.

Message from Yann Arthus-Bertrand

We are living in exceptional times. Scientists tell us that we have 10 years to change the way we live, avert the depletion of natural resources and the catastrophic evolution of the Earth's climate.

The stakes are high for us and our children. Everyone should take part in the effort, and HOME has been conceived to take a message of mobilization out to every human being.

For this purpose, HOME needs to be free. A patron, the PPR Group, made this possible. EuropaCorp, the distributor, also pledged not to make any profit because Home is a non-profit film.

HOME has been made for you : share it! And act for the planet.

Wikipedia reports that "Home" has "received a large response upon release, receiving over 400,000 combined views within the first 24 hours on YouTube. It was shown to high ratings on channels around the world including the international network National Geographic. France débuted the film to over 8.3 million viewers in France alone. In India, Home was shown exclusively via the STAR World cable network."

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Posted on July 24, 2009 at 8:00 AM

turu - July 24, 2009 at 12:17 PM

This is "must have" movie for those who suffered from insomnia *period*

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Gubatron - July 24, 2009 at 12:49 PM

@turu: I guess you didn't go past the first 2 minutes in the film. It's pretty amazing actually.

I'll spoil a little. One of the parts that really shocked me was the cost of producing beef. Cows are fed industrial amounts of Soy, not grass. To produce (irrigation, pesticides, fertilizers) and transport all the soy beans it takes to produce 1 kilogram of beef, it takes approximately over 13,000 liters of water. That's ridiculously shocking.

There's a lot more interesting facts presented in a very nice way in this film.

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Hollis Marcelle - July 25, 2009 at 11:10 AM

I found the film to be very moving and informative.

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Brandon - July 25, 2009 at 1:27 PM

This video just wont download over here. It says "Remaining Time : 163 days 11 hours 13 minutes 58 seconds" at 0.1 KB/s my network speed is 54 Mbps. Enough to download at around 500 KB/s in FrostWire.

Help!

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Glacius - July 25, 2009 at 1:40 PM

@Brandon:
Right now there should be even more sources (and there will be more as the day goes by), for now, just "Pause" the download, wait a while and then resume. If it's still slow, shutdown frostwire, and open it again. You should get faster speeds. When we have hundreds of seeds the download will be blazing fast, we just gotta keep on seeding it to make this content available at a faster download rate for everyone, the more the merrier.

Also, if you're not downloading anything atm on Gnutella, tell FrostWire to "Disconnect" this won't stop your torrent download, it'll only stop all the gnutella connections and messages going in and out of your FrostWire thus releasing more bandwidth.

To make the download even faster, Go to Tools > Options > BitTorrent > Advanced and raise the number of Uploads per Torrent. The more you share, the more you will download.

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Mike - July 25, 2009 at 6:56 PM

Im having the same problem as Brandon even after following the above suggestions. Im connected to 80 hosts and still only downloading 1kbps. everything else I download is 200kbps od better. Whats the deal?

Reply - Comment # 6

Brandon - July 25, 2009 at 7:30 PM

@Glacius:

THANK YOU. Now it's only 4 hours.

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FrostClick - July 25, 2009 at 9:19 PM

Help Create Awareness about our planet and share "HOME" a Free Documentary http://bit.ly/CUhMV #home #earth #bittorrent #frostwire

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FrostClick - July 25, 2009 at 9:20 PM

We only have 341 seeds, help us have thousands of seeds for this must see film in HD. http://bit.ly/CUhMV #creativecommons #p2p

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turu - July 26, 2009 at 1:06 AM

I agree with everyone. I am so touched by this movie.
So saving this planet, first I decide to stop using Frostwire. Because it just wastes our precious energy resource.

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JC John SESE Cuneta - July 26, 2009 at 4:02 AM

MUST SEE FREE FILM on why we only have a decade to save the Earth http://bit.ly/fLzO0 - FrostClick.com / FrostWire.com

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christopher carter - July 26, 2009 at 5:42 AM

thank you for opening my eyes on this situation that has sprung into our generation....i am currently out of work and by the looks of it i wont be working anyy time soon maby u should make a film about how hard it is to find a job to actually live on for the generations to come...

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Glacius - July 26, 2009 at 6:38 AM

@turu: (Let's feed you) In fact you should use more FrostWire and P2P. P2P technology is one of the most efficient technologies for information distribution. The fact that you downloaded the film was a lot more efficient in terms of energy consumption than leaving your house and going to a movie theater, or paying for a DVD that had to be manufactured and transported.

P2P is very green

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RichardB - July 26, 2009 at 12:43 PM

I am capping my connection 1,181KB(1.2M) or 10Mbit. at 9% and 20min left. I am looking forward to watching this. Would be nice to see someone else view on global impact than Al Gore, thank you

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Brandon - July 26, 2009 at 4:21 PM

Well, now i'm only at 2-3 Kb/s

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Brandon - July 26, 2009 at 4:59 PM

No good download speed. Please make this faster.

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Brandon - July 26, 2009 at 5:11 PM

Help me!

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Subs - July 27, 2009 at 12:51 PM

@Brandon:
Your modem speed is 54mbits not your internet speed. Telus Hi Speed in Canada is 3-6 Mbits a second. Real world Frostware downloading is usually .01 to.2 MBPS

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Brandon - July 27, 2009 at 12:52 PM

I get huge spikes when i connect to frostclick now im just opening , closing , opening ,closing ...

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Brandon - July 27, 2009 at 1:04 PM

Well, back to slow. Not working, now i celebrate every percent i get of my download. now im at 9

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David - July 27, 2009 at 6:46 PM

Well I'm downloading the movie, but I hope that it isn't a Chicken little story for impressionable dink's, as the movie trailer made it see to be. Before any narrow minded fanatics
start taking shots at me for my observation, I would like to point out a couple facts , the part that was discribing Earth 4,000,000 years ago was filmed with in the last couple years, in a location that covers about 7/10th of the Earth, the next sequence what about 2/10th of the Earth surface is kinda like but just that small section of it that had been stricken with drought conditions in recent years (that is an occurrence of the Earth that has been going on for the last 4,000,000 years all over the 3/10h of this planet that isn't covered in water) Now down to the last 1/10 of the Earth that was there is a few places that have been involved in wars, economical crunches, but for those of you adventurous folks out there that would rather to not have your minds made up for you, try taking a look outside, maybe take a drive, you won't have to go too far before you realize that what this video was showing was the most poverty stricken over crowed parts of the human populated areas on Earth, and is by no means the majority of the say 2/10th of this planet that man occupies. but it as filmed in the last couple years like the rest of that movie trailer. So as I was saying, I hope the movie isn't just another soap box platform for a doomist prophet (another of the background fixtures thats been around since the time of man)

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mike - July 27, 2009 at 7:11 PM

all this has done is screw up my connection to frostwire which will not connect at all now..I appreciate the offer of the video but come here to download toonz, not watch videos that ruin my connections..time to remove it with all the trouble it's causing and try again at another time when they've got the other issues fixed..

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David - July 27, 2009 at 8:43 PM

Okay well I had to turn it off about half way into it, this movie's narrative is got to be the most ridiculous over dramatic play on words recorded, as far as man being the scurge of the Disney movie that the world was before man's existance, I say to the victor goes the spoils! For those of you that totally agree with this film, well then stand by your princibles if you have any! and do your part to save this Earth, Kill yourselves! Oh your not a man from that mankind?!? sure your right. Quack Quack

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Jimmy E - July 27, 2009 at 9:47 PM

Well i love beef so I'm ok with 13,000 liters of water being used to produce 1 kilogram. Anyone who truly believes in this save the planet stuff, have at it, as for me, I'll have the steak, medium rare

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Doug Tait - July 28, 2009 at 4:38 AM

I've heard tell that you cannot destroy matter. Well water is matter and if it is used, and recycled, as it has been since it was formed, we are using water that dripped off the end of a prehistoric animal, and out of the back end of a cow.
If cows use ( and recycle water ) to produce food for humankind they are more efficient than this film would have you believe.
Just a thought from an ordinary non professional guy who went to Torry Academy in Aberdeen Scotland.

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Glacius - July 28, 2009 at 6:18 AM

@Doug Tait:

Hi Doug, in regards to water, I'm no scientist but I understand the problem is not really that water is destroyed, nobody ever said that, the problem is that water is in places where it shouldn't be.

You, me and almost every living organism in the planet contains a lot of water, The mass of 96% of a tree also holds water, so imagine a 30ft tree holding about 1800 liters of water, you tear it down and the water it was holding for its surrounding ecosystem is no longer there, causing draughts in the area.

That water as you say, is of course, not destroyed but moved down elsewhere and you end up with rain and floods in places you don't need them. Think Katrina and whatever is going to come this year.

Also not all of the water we use gets recycled, a lot of it is polluded and it when it goes back up you end up with Acid Rain (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acid_rain) which then damages plants and animals.

It's really funny the state of denial some people are (or if people are just trolling) when it comes to how we're screwing the planet.

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turu - July 28, 2009 at 7:33 AM

Hallo again, your savior turu's here !

After seeing several comments about slow download speed for this film on Frostwire, I'm wondering now that actually how many people here know about THIS FILM IS AVAILABLE ON YOUTUBE IN HD FORMAT ??

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqxENMKaeCU

This is official upload from the project, so you don't have to worry about sudden delete by youtube. Additionally, if you want to keep it on your hdd, then you can download it through this kind service.

http://keep-tube.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DjqxENMKaeCU

just chose preferable format from downside, and click the button.
you can download it w good buffer hosted by youtube, so it took 30min w my T1 connection for example. now, case soloved Brandon ?

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tam - July 28, 2009 at 1:23 PM

The file downloaded as a WMPFile that wont play on my windows media player, how can I play the movie?

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Brandon - July 28, 2009 at 2:17 PM

@turu: You should actually use FrostWire more. If you weren't using FrostWire, you would not have known about this movie anytime soon, and then there would be only 8-9 years. This would make it harder for people to adjust to an economically friendly way of life. Also, you would have had to buy it on a Digital Video Disc (DVD), which would have used up plastic, and making plastic requires oil. The oil would have to be mined out of the ground and used up valuable resources. To mine the oil, energy would have to be used, and this energy could have been electricity from a power plant which pollutes the environment and causes more global warming. That would have left us a bit less time to save the planet, and made it even harder for us to change our ways. If you think about it, every small thing WILL turn into something big. An example:(This is based on oceanic oil mining) The first person that discovered the mine-able oil started the oil-mining business. This caused pollution because ships were needed to transport the equipment out to that spot. The exhaust caused pollution of the air and also caused global warming. Just from that one person, millions of arctic animals started suffering from the unintended heat. Is that enough information or do you want more?

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Brandon - July 28, 2009 at 2:18 PM

@Glacius: Like I said to "turu", you're right.

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GayLene - July 28, 2009 at 4:12 PM

I think all should switch over to Frostwire.

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Shawn - July 28, 2009 at 7:42 PM

to the ones that are so negative and so cut throat the film is to open your eyes and make you think. If that is at all possible for you to see past your nimrodded mind set. You are the ones that just shrug your sholders, "too late know" woo is me. If we put in one tenth the effort that you all who put such a negative review the world would change for the better. I know it won't happen over night. It took me a year to convince my own father to recycle his cardboard, and now he has one thenth the waste bill that he had before Instead of poking fun at the doomsday people look in at your self as just see what you can acomplish instead of poking fun at other peoples expence. I would like to see any one come up with a better idea. If you can't put up, then shut up it's that simple. duh and those of you that can't figure out how to down load need to sell your computer and get a passifier.:)

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Hunter - July 29, 2009 at 12:16 AM

yeah evolution is a lie. the earth is only 6000-7000 years old

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D - July 29, 2009 at 9:21 AM

I cant download this? the torrent download is only at 3 percent after days.

Cant we just download the movie file from the web somewhere?

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Brandon - July 29, 2009 at 11:54 AM

@turu: Yes. I'm downloading it here. 3 hours UNinterrupted.

Thank you very much.

FrostWire is not the beat at downloading videos, but impressive at music. Thnak you again

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jared - July 29, 2009 at 2:52 PM

downloaded video took almost all day and it only has audio no video any ideas what went wrong and what i need to do to fix

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tam - July 29, 2009 at 5:29 PM

@tam: I was able to burn the movie to a DVD using DVD Flicks, I can now watch it on my TV;)

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Cookie cutter critic - July 29, 2009 at 7:21 PM

I am going to believe David & that other beef lover, whatever his name is, above empirical evidence. Yes, they are right.

Praise God! I welcome the apocalypse because my soul is saved! I am strong because I say so and the weak shall perish!

~ The typical Criticism of this film in a nutshell

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turu - July 30, 2009 at 3:31 AM

Errr...Brandon, so think about an order of comments, you criticized me before watching actual film ?!

Anyway, if you faced slow connection issue when you download contents from legaltorrents.com, then it's probably not problems of lack of enough seeders, but problem on client itself.

Try wellknown bittorrent client, such as utorrent. Legaltorrents.com offer decent connection for their contents, and it took about 10min to download 1GB content from there w utorrent for me.

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Abraham - July 30, 2009 at 4:00 AM

@Hunter: Hunter, dont be making up crap, earth is way older than 6k, cause if it was, then we would be under developed humans wit dinosaurs roaming around still ontop of a mass of lava that cooloed down and eventually became the only planet with water we call EARTH. GOT IT PUNK! OR DO I HAVE TO PUT A CAP IN YOU!? lol jk, but yeah, earth is WAYYYY older

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Jonathan - July 30, 2009 at 7:10 AM

@Brandon:

I can not wait to view this film/video, but I started downloading this yesterday. I work at a local ISP and I am doing this on my laptop on there network. I have had as much as 17 host and right now I am doing 13 hosts and my average rate is 4Kb/s. Something is wrong here...hmmmm Can someone host this on a site so that the dl speed will be better. I will be downloading this when thanksgiving rolls around.

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Jonathan - July 30, 2009 at 7:14 AM

@Abraham:
"Hunter, dont be making up crap, earth is way older than 6k, cause if it was, then we would be under developed humans wit dinosaurs roaming around still ontop of a mass of lava that cooloed down and eventually became the only planet with water we call EARTH. GOT IT PUNK! OR DO I HAVE TO PUT A CAP IN YOU!? lol jk, but yeah, earth is WAYYYY older"

Hey, don't worry about it. He was only off by 5 plus Billion years. Maybe he is one of those religious nuts. LOL/jk about the nuts part. Or to paraphrase a woman's joke about

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Jonathan - July 30, 2009 at 7:16 AM

Opp. hit the send button to quick.

Or to paraphrase a woman's joke about guys. Maybe he counts Billion years like we count inches. A thousand years equals a Billion.

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turu - July 30, 2009 at 10:47 AM

@Jonathan:

Have you read my comment Jonathan ?

http://www.frostclick.com/wp/index.php/2009/07/24/yann-arthus-bertrands-home-must-see-free-film-on-why-we-only-have-a-decade-to-save-the-earth/#comment-1305

there are door to fast download.

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Brandon - July 31, 2009 at 1:24 PM

********************************** WOW IM DOWNLOADING AT 215 KB/s STEADY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING THIS MOVIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Brandon - July 31, 2009 at 5:37 PM

Now i'm at 71%. I donloaded the non-HD to see if its any good, it's great so now im getting the HD to burn to DVD

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Brandon - July 31, 2009 at 6:26 PM

81%

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Brandon - July 31, 2009 at 6:34 PM

83% - 102 Hosts - 128 KB/s

Thank You!

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jotfdan - July 31, 2009 at 7:26 PM

Beautiful film full of stunning images and a well-written narrative. Thanks to everyone involved in the making of this film!

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Abraham - August 1, 2009 at 9:04 PM

lol got that right

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Abraham - August 1, 2009 at 9:05 PM

lol

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Brandon - August 2, 2009 at 2:46 PM

EEEK! I'm at 99%!
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Brandon - August 3, 2009 at 12:15 PM

Hooray !!!

I'm at 100% !!!
Burning on a DVD.
Burning on a DVD..
Burning on a DVD...
Burning on a DVD
Burning on a DVD.
Burning on a DVD..
Burning on a DVD...

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Tracy - August 4, 2009 at 5:11 AM

Ive downloaded this film, Its uploaded into windows movie maker and I cant see it....I can only hear it? Have I done something wrong? can anyone help me? Thanx Tracy x

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Tracy - August 4, 2009 at 5:12 AM

Is it because Im in the UK?

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Liz Lanuzo - August 4, 2009 at 8:41 PM

so i wrote about this documentary in this website, and it got 15k downloads. http://tinyurl.com/mgdrvw http://plurk.com/p/1h0yhe

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turu - August 5, 2009 at 5:38 AM

It's because you don't have appropriate media player on your pc, not because of you are in the U.K. Try SMPlayer or VLC (my recommend is SM player, btw). Both media players can handle this film without any problems.