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1000 · 495 mins · English
Directed by
Tim Lambert, Cassian Harrison
Starring
Peter Coyote, Jared Diamond

The PBS series examines Jared Diamond’s argument for why some societies have achieved advanced technology while others remain primitive. Drawing on his Guns, Germs & Steel thesis, the film shows how the spread of firearms, steel tools and epidemic diseases, with geographic advantages, shaped the uneven patterns of human development worldwide.

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