Mankind: The Story of All of Us (2012) s01e12 Episode Script
New Frontiers
1 rise above nature team fun two years bar clamp now we harness the force of the universe claiming powers that could destroy but still report for freedom truth new beginning claiming powers that could destroy but still report for freedom truth new beginning is mankind turns towards the front tears a few amidst the chaos have an unforgiving planet most recent for want all the pieces will fall into place and a set of q-school unlock path for mankind to try for want all the pieces will fall into place and a set of q-school unlock path for mankind to try this is our story the story all today over seven billion humans on planet Earth in just four generations our population has grown by five William faster in the first 50 years of the 20th century than the previous 50,000 and is mankind expands in an ever more crowded world we face the ultimate challenge abusing the power of the plan to propel us into the future the midwest 1935 giant dust storms raft American formalized the worst drought US history raft American formalized the worst drought US history two and a half million people abandon the Great Plains families driven off their farms heading in hope for California them him life in rural america owes absolutely horrendous dust storms could happen that could obliterate everything was nearly impossible to prove food in that soil in pimp but one man plans to revive in pimp but one man plans to revive this barren land roswell cars born and bred former instinctive launch nor he sells his comp morgan's on that's everything on a wonder crop that'll become a key to mankind's future hybrid corn its crossbred to resist drought disease so we can still grow in the scorched earth Midwest drives 2000 miles a week promoting as hybrid seed slogan an astonishing product produces Daanish in results but the sea cost fifty times more than ordinary help like you help like you your life wanna Garst colleagues know you would say six or seven dollars a bushel your life wanna Garst colleagues know you would say six or seven dollars a bushel and you could almost see them reaching around to their hip pocket to get the gun answer board I'm not interested get okay get off my lawn I just wanted to give you a chance get of it's a hard sell when a third of US forms are being abandoned we had to sell corn I didn't read the Koran for money we would need or sleep Gorst gambles every he gives farmers the seed for free in return for sure their profits gives a chance picture across 50 counties in two states in the worst drought ever miraculous growth for cars isn't finished he sells another revolutionary product taken from nature's chemistry set nitrogen fertilizer spew from volcanoes during the birth or plan nitrogen makes up 70 eight-percent Earth's atmosphere it's invisible odorless and inner and when scientists learn to isolate nitrogen and turn the gas into my tree a nutrient essential for the growth compliance they uncover the key to feeding the world's growing population %uh 0 cars to markets the new product the salesman's player sewn into feel cars to markets the new product the salesman's player sewn into feel in a distinct power and per night written into the grass in the midwest clear message for the future written into the grass in the midwest clear message for the future today almost every industrial farm uses nitrogen fertilizer Garst becomes an international farming consultant and one of the largest seed suppliers in the world we found out that the food supply is not finite that we can actually continued to increase it to match the increase in population in 30 years the world's population grows from to bill you $2.
3 billion ok fifteen years later four billion and rising but with new crops in fertilizers we've grown more in the last 100 years and in the previous ten thousand fertilizer allowed us to grow more faster more productively could win crease for food supply I'm as our numbers explode so does the scale and reach you human on mankind's first truly global war in Europe Nazi Germany dominant in Europe Nazi Germany dominant in the pacific Imperial Japan the largest state in the US alaska dangerously close to Asian and isolate ready hand go now eleven thousand american soldiers lazy impossible trial the Alcan Highway to link alaska to West Coast Canada and the rest United States in engineering challenge welcome back to calm in command General William home decorated war hero engineering genius battling some of the most rugged terrain on the planet on lock a building boom with the Alcan Highway shows is it modern civilization can project itself into the wilderness with incredible speed me the challenge ahead 1500 miles forest and tundra of 200 rivers I'll in the highest mountains in North America and this but hoax greatest obstacle time up just eight months to complete the hard way before the Alaska wintom in hopes command corporal refines Sims from Philadelphia one nearly 4,000 african-american soldiers in the last a third the work for we were in Little Miss he saw nothing but treaties pine trees seven teams hundreds of miles apart racing to meet in the middle with the third the road unfinished disaster permafrost a layer of frozen ground Oct 2003 be exposed bible does it melts into sinking my we only found out about the permafrost when it was too late drugs and caterpillar's sink into the muck below outta sight drugs and caterpillar's sink into the muck below outta sight the army's losing the battle against nature its stake the security of the United States time is running out ok alaska army engineers racing to build the Alcan Highway a supply route that'll help launch the greatest road building boom in mankind's history but the project stock and bond this was an extraordinary effort Laskin Road became mired in mind vehicles can move general hold has a radical idea Hey ditched the ball does engineers become tax map the only thing to do with to make a mad timber branch corporal refined Sims leads a team laying a solid foundation corduroy and old Roman technique reinvented but progress comments from fourteen miles a day just one for thousands of years the key to mankind's ambition engineers no longer prisoners and geography rewrite nature we overcome each nuanced by force will com disability sheeps not just our existence but the fact that we are the predominant life form on the planet winter closing in two teams one block 11 battle the web complete the final stretch bitter cold home of a lost 11 battle the web complete the final stretch bitter cold home of a lost while many animals completely untamed wilderness men's down on the side of the road and wept in pain the October 29 1942 temperatures heading from -50 today two wins in a row corporal refined Sims becomes a national hero there was a shining symbol love the fact these men are becomes a national hero there was a shining symbol love the fact these men are equal to the task they were equal to their white counterparts are equal to the task they were equal to their white counterparts dirty Bowman within six years US Army is racially integrate your more the Alcan Highway complete part over sixteen thousand mile road the world's longest drivable round running the length up the American huge step forward and but such demand for more roads we seen roads now literally certain plan within half a century world is wrapped in network rose long enough to stretch to the moon 20 time the awhile warfare on a global scale pushes us to connect the world and reshape it also unleashes a new terrifying sources power that could support human life on Earth for millions of years world literary on August 6 1945 com world literary on August 6 1945 com two miles above the Pacific Ocean am bomber pilot colonel Hall turbines 30 years old a military prodigy on a secret mission in World War two intimate spock 12 Sinai times one for each man on board captured is not an option they know too much the over 5,000 use in 14,500 more up to 3.
5 film have died battling to exert maximum force at maximum dist each new generation a new weapon you talk about to launch races and this has been going on since beginning of time are you could be with us to conclude with a bigger step mankind has never known a weapon like this the ultimate projection of power the atom bomb code name little boy target your regime Japan up first the bomb needs to be on Captain William Parsons one of its designers Captain William Parsons one of its designers mom commander you remove the detonator before takeoff to make it safe to fly mom commander you remove the detonator before takeoff to make it safe to fly now must refitted no churches cora the bong ranged born in a cosmic explosion six billion years ago the bong ranged born in a cosmic explosion six billion years ago before the birth from our plan dorm until scientists split it saddens unleashing an apocalyptic power when I later species or fuel unleashing an apocalyptic power when I later species or fuel our future gone 850 miles from Japan an american B-twenty nine bomb the enola gay carries the most destructive weapon in the history of mankind had been entrusted with the most frightful weapon ever devised I thought yes we're gonna kill a lot of people by God we're gonna save a lot lives we have the power that we have always reserved only for God we know how to to and everything it's inhuman power that pervades every single part of our lives today the men aboard the Enola Gay new every single part of our lives today the men aboard the Enola Gay new what they had to do and they focused on the details at that mission in order to execute no one really knowns what's gonna happen execute no one really knowns what's gonna happen once this bomb believes that aircraft 9:14 a.
m.
a 60-second morning Tom below them the city of 350,000 people okay bud I'm tibbetts has 43 seconds to escape the blast cool I'm no I'm an explosion 10,000 times harder in the service at the song bomb kills more than 60,000 instead I'm no three days later a second atom bomb I'm what japan surrendered and it's the most fear something this world can unleash that's why we've only seen to history of the world since 1945 mankind has been living in the Atomic Age today there over 19,000 nuclear warheads able to destroy our species twenty times over and with atomic weapons we finally at that point I love service spiritual crisis have we gone too far and what does it mean that we can control this most elemental at that point I love service spiritual crisis have we gone too far and what does it mean that we can control this most elemental of forces with such awesome destructive power my the with the terrible weapon on also calms revolutionary source of energy the my the with the terrible weapon on also calms revolutionary source of energy the the them nuclear power now the third largest generator of electricity the man with the potential to power our planet for billions in years when 0 miss in the 20th century technology in science are the key to enhancing our world I human life takes a giant leap forward I in a hospital in South Africa 1967 capetown christiane born on a medical pioneer with 20 years experience apparent to reengineer the human body the patient Louis which can skew former boxer an hour killed I without born arts ground-breaking surgery the world's first heart transplant it was the central moment that showed everybody that technology and science Mary together could accomplish the unimaginable improving human life in key to the operation a new technology in the life support machine the apex up human ingenuity technology has always improved arlyne enabling us to bypass the limits of our bodies in advance for them fast than any other species I'll now man and machine United to reengineer life cell bernard has done fifty heart transplants on dogs but never on human I'm not ready for this the dogs didn't survive for long enough what right do I have to experiment on a humid the pivotal wash can skews had three previous heart attacks his critically ill a fist-sized muscle vital to the live every person on the planet them the human heart beach two and a half billion times in an average life one missed be beach two and a half billion times in an average life one missed be can be fatal first step remove the dying heart and hook up wash can ski to a life support machine it will do the work the heart good home ought never seen a chest like this before a human without the heart kept alive by machine some so seekers the human heart organ a bar ports into a metronome our bodies thought they could be removed replaced and the patience to live unimaginable 3 hours into the operation with the patient's blood mechanically pumped through his body Bonnard must attach the donor heart before it dies be mechanically pumped through his body Bonnard must attach the donor heart before it dies be in born are jump starts the new heart to the table go ahead and shocked shop the heartbeats but it still powered by a machine it has to be on its own wash can ski but it still powered by a machine it has to be on its own wash can ski will die home the first ever heart transplant an operation like revolutionized modern medicine at a critical stage after three heart attacks Louis which can ski has a new horns still powered by a life support machine the but when Christian Bernard turns the machine of newhart falters the blood pressure drums it's failing the blood pressure drums it's failing wash hands his heart spent im his life hangs in the balance with it the future of medicine Christian Bernard risk was not just his career lost tourist dreams have many who believe we could do organ transplantation successfully it was just a gimmick to save wash can skis life Bonnard puts him back on life support and tries again newhart beats and keeps beating without the machine the most complex operation in history a success mechanical hearts trapping other organs a success mechanical hearts trapping other organs the thought we could regenerate tissue all this came about because one brave man was able to accomplish when im unimaginable feet short was all possible bernard's procedure has saved over 75,000 lives in the United States alone surgeons perform over 2,500 heart transplants a year our organs replaceable reengineer new body parts new technology a new mankind but is science and technology free us from the limits of our bodies across the world they are also key to a new victory in the struggle for individual rights in just cellmark Alabama 1965 600 african-americans demand change inspiring and global fight for freedom amelia boynton 53 years old civil rights activist since high school risk-taker absolutely committed to change absolutely hero absolute marching for the right to vote blocking her way centuries of discrimination racism rules in the south but only 25 percent to flax and southern states are registered voters volunteer Boynton helps them sign up X X useful mine %um this section useful mine %um this section can you write hit the gym I can help these go to the back line X wide authorities blocked their path with red tape and police intimidation my on all ok my why up the only option protest people up the only option protest people new like she did that you protest in the south new risk life and limb they do use dangers but they also were driven for this struggle for equality it's very hard to bottle up the notion of freedom once it's been on court sadly as long as there's been humankind as long as we're around there's going to be this tug-of-war between democracy and repression their destination there's going to be this tug-of-war between democracy and repression their destination state capital Montgomery home on had determined to stop them Jim Clark world war two aircraft goner selma share deputize is every white male over 21 world war two aircraft goner selma share deputize is every white male over 21 joining 200 state troopers 1 but this confrontation won't go 1c I'll on the ground his local cameramen Lauren Spierer's news hungrier committed tough as nails the journalist with the biggest story of his life up the journalist with the biggest story of his life up new technologies will harness the power of mass communication information it will travel further and faster than ever before a three minute warning disburse go home a three minute warning disburse go home but the protesters won't back down or ninety seconds later the police attack 40 Kansas tear a use largely on the receiving end 40 Kansas tear a use largely on the receiving end activist Amelia pointed a matching the courage and the fear the day have to confront as club a matching the courage and the fear the day have to confront as club and foot and hand is smashed upon then in till they're driven into the ground point left for dead should be unconscious for Tuesday world news watch Selma Alabama police attack a nonviolent protest civil rights activist million point is 150 were injured by key to any protest movement in the modern age tell 'em up journalist Lawrence peers russians film to New York 15 minutes raw footage russians film to New York 15 minutes raw footage in Iraq's ABC's sunday nite moves the bird breaking TV news by 1965 nine out of 10 American families own a television the bird breaking TV news by 1965 nine out of 10 American families own a television over seventy percent of the adult population watch the TV news every evening all three networks show the Selma violence 45 million viewers television main har watch the TV news every evening all three networks show the Selma violence 45 million viewers television main har and brutality local so local it was in your living that had never happened before in history nice X nation couldn't look away people were amazed however grainy however black and white at the immediacy of those images the people were beaten to within an inch of their lives you didn't have to be in them movement to believe in civil rights the people were beaten to within an inch of their lives you didn't have to be in them movement to believe in civil rights but those pictures you couldn't turn off within 15 days but those pictures you couldn't turn off within 15 days President Lyndon Johnson proposes the Voting Rights Act out mowing voter discrimination landmark legislation a turning point for civil rights in america media for the masses means repression won't go one seem in a world of instant communication everyone has a voice the new communication helps too row the concept and understanding a civilization in the human race on the the new communication helps too row the concept and understanding a civilization in the human race on the air equalizing the classes equalizing cultures the greater the numbers the stronger the bombs in the world cultures the greater the numbers the stronger the bombs in the world connection we are the product of our history a hundred thousand years ago the emergence have an extraordinary species one thing that defines humanity is skill anything that you learn to do that nature did program skill anything that you learn to do that nature did program a hunger to survive fuels to power to invent me innovator survive the innovators had success or thirst for knowledge to invent me innovator survive the innovators had success or thirst for knowledge a quest to explore this is what we do never content with where we are we're always looking over there and over there may mean this is what we do never content with where we are we're always looking over there and over there may mean oceans or mountains or continents away we forge connections contact can bring calm wanna striking things like humans is there's never any human society that hasn't had war maybe its necessary to our evolution mankind's most enduring enemy disease I'm confident in our lifetime will ex-president pandemic that a similar in scope to double by play now we have an advantage now we know what's possible we know what we can do to stop it we know we can do to cure people back to will you signs be back things we fear the most yet in our darkest moments fine be back things we fear the most yet in our darkest moments fine like with all we've learned we face the future history is the world map and without it there is no way to navigate the future it's not possible now a new journey into inner space most important place for us to investigate the body now is the brain more to enter the next well I'll longevity and wealth and health among them that same instinct to discover ourselves will fuel the exploration over are your numbers what unlock the power the Sun in reach out into space there's a human me to investigate to explore to to see new lands and I think that drive will eventually lead us to other planets the next step new home there's no question humans will be going to mars probably within the lifetime people rely the mine that by that by on story mankind is only just beginning I'm
3 billion ok fifteen years later four billion and rising but with new crops in fertilizers we've grown more in the last 100 years and in the previous ten thousand fertilizer allowed us to grow more faster more productively could win crease for food supply I'm as our numbers explode so does the scale and reach you human on mankind's first truly global war in Europe Nazi Germany dominant in Europe Nazi Germany dominant in the pacific Imperial Japan the largest state in the US alaska dangerously close to Asian and isolate ready hand go now eleven thousand american soldiers lazy impossible trial the Alcan Highway to link alaska to West Coast Canada and the rest United States in engineering challenge welcome back to calm in command General William home decorated war hero engineering genius battling some of the most rugged terrain on the planet on lock a building boom with the Alcan Highway shows is it modern civilization can project itself into the wilderness with incredible speed me the challenge ahead 1500 miles forest and tundra of 200 rivers I'll in the highest mountains in North America and this but hoax greatest obstacle time up just eight months to complete the hard way before the Alaska wintom in hopes command corporal refines Sims from Philadelphia one nearly 4,000 african-american soldiers in the last a third the work for we were in Little Miss he saw nothing but treaties pine trees seven teams hundreds of miles apart racing to meet in the middle with the third the road unfinished disaster permafrost a layer of frozen ground Oct 2003 be exposed bible does it melts into sinking my we only found out about the permafrost when it was too late drugs and caterpillar's sink into the muck below outta sight drugs and caterpillar's sink into the muck below outta sight the army's losing the battle against nature its stake the security of the United States time is running out ok alaska army engineers racing to build the Alcan Highway a supply route that'll help launch the greatest road building boom in mankind's history but the project stock and bond this was an extraordinary effort Laskin Road became mired in mind vehicles can move general hold has a radical idea Hey ditched the ball does engineers become tax map the only thing to do with to make a mad timber branch corporal refined Sims leads a team laying a solid foundation corduroy and old Roman technique reinvented but progress comments from fourteen miles a day just one for thousands of years the key to mankind's ambition engineers no longer prisoners and geography rewrite nature we overcome each nuanced by force will com disability sheeps not just our existence but the fact that we are the predominant life form on the planet winter closing in two teams one block 11 battle the web complete the final stretch bitter cold home of a lost 11 battle the web complete the final stretch bitter cold home of a lost while many animals completely untamed wilderness men's down on the side of the road and wept in pain the October 29 1942 temperatures heading from -50 today two wins in a row corporal refined Sims becomes a national hero there was a shining symbol love the fact these men are becomes a national hero there was a shining symbol love the fact these men are equal to the task they were equal to their white counterparts are equal to the task they were equal to their white counterparts dirty Bowman within six years US Army is racially integrate your more the Alcan Highway complete part over sixteen thousand mile road the world's longest drivable round running the length up the American huge step forward and but such demand for more roads we seen roads now literally certain plan within half a century world is wrapped in network rose long enough to stretch to the moon 20 time the awhile warfare on a global scale pushes us to connect the world and reshape it also unleashes a new terrifying sources power that could support human life on Earth for millions of years world literary on August 6 1945 com world literary on August 6 1945 com two miles above the Pacific Ocean am bomber pilot colonel Hall turbines 30 years old a military prodigy on a secret mission in World War two intimate spock 12 Sinai times one for each man on board captured is not an option they know too much the over 5,000 use in 14,500 more up to 3.
5 film have died battling to exert maximum force at maximum dist each new generation a new weapon you talk about to launch races and this has been going on since beginning of time are you could be with us to conclude with a bigger step mankind has never known a weapon like this the ultimate projection of power the atom bomb code name little boy target your regime Japan up first the bomb needs to be on Captain William Parsons one of its designers Captain William Parsons one of its designers mom commander you remove the detonator before takeoff to make it safe to fly mom commander you remove the detonator before takeoff to make it safe to fly now must refitted no churches cora the bong ranged born in a cosmic explosion six billion years ago the bong ranged born in a cosmic explosion six billion years ago before the birth from our plan dorm until scientists split it saddens unleashing an apocalyptic power when I later species or fuel unleashing an apocalyptic power when I later species or fuel our future gone 850 miles from Japan an american B-twenty nine bomb the enola gay carries the most destructive weapon in the history of mankind had been entrusted with the most frightful weapon ever devised I thought yes we're gonna kill a lot of people by God we're gonna save a lot lives we have the power that we have always reserved only for God we know how to to and everything it's inhuman power that pervades every single part of our lives today the men aboard the Enola Gay new every single part of our lives today the men aboard the Enola Gay new what they had to do and they focused on the details at that mission in order to execute no one really knowns what's gonna happen execute no one really knowns what's gonna happen once this bomb believes that aircraft 9:14 a.
m.
a 60-second morning Tom below them the city of 350,000 people okay bud I'm tibbetts has 43 seconds to escape the blast cool I'm no I'm an explosion 10,000 times harder in the service at the song bomb kills more than 60,000 instead I'm no three days later a second atom bomb I'm what japan surrendered and it's the most fear something this world can unleash that's why we've only seen to history of the world since 1945 mankind has been living in the Atomic Age today there over 19,000 nuclear warheads able to destroy our species twenty times over and with atomic weapons we finally at that point I love service spiritual crisis have we gone too far and what does it mean that we can control this most elemental at that point I love service spiritual crisis have we gone too far and what does it mean that we can control this most elemental of forces with such awesome destructive power my the with the terrible weapon on also calms revolutionary source of energy the my the with the terrible weapon on also calms revolutionary source of energy the the them nuclear power now the third largest generator of electricity the man with the potential to power our planet for billions in years when 0 miss in the 20th century technology in science are the key to enhancing our world I human life takes a giant leap forward I in a hospital in South Africa 1967 capetown christiane born on a medical pioneer with 20 years experience apparent to reengineer the human body the patient Louis which can skew former boxer an hour killed I without born arts ground-breaking surgery the world's first heart transplant it was the central moment that showed everybody that technology and science Mary together could accomplish the unimaginable improving human life in key to the operation a new technology in the life support machine the apex up human ingenuity technology has always improved arlyne enabling us to bypass the limits of our bodies in advance for them fast than any other species I'll now man and machine United to reengineer life cell bernard has done fifty heart transplants on dogs but never on human I'm not ready for this the dogs didn't survive for long enough what right do I have to experiment on a humid the pivotal wash can skews had three previous heart attacks his critically ill a fist-sized muscle vital to the live every person on the planet them the human heart beach two and a half billion times in an average life one missed be beach two and a half billion times in an average life one missed be can be fatal first step remove the dying heart and hook up wash can ski to a life support machine it will do the work the heart good home ought never seen a chest like this before a human without the heart kept alive by machine some so seekers the human heart organ a bar ports into a metronome our bodies thought they could be removed replaced and the patience to live unimaginable 3 hours into the operation with the patient's blood mechanically pumped through his body Bonnard must attach the donor heart before it dies be mechanically pumped through his body Bonnard must attach the donor heart before it dies be in born are jump starts the new heart to the table go ahead and shocked shop the heartbeats but it still powered by a machine it has to be on its own wash can ski but it still powered by a machine it has to be on its own wash can ski will die home the first ever heart transplant an operation like revolutionized modern medicine at a critical stage after three heart attacks Louis which can ski has a new horns still powered by a life support machine the but when Christian Bernard turns the machine of newhart falters the blood pressure drums it's failing the blood pressure drums it's failing wash hands his heart spent im his life hangs in the balance with it the future of medicine Christian Bernard risk was not just his career lost tourist dreams have many who believe we could do organ transplantation successfully it was just a gimmick to save wash can skis life Bonnard puts him back on life support and tries again newhart beats and keeps beating without the machine the most complex operation in history a success mechanical hearts trapping other organs a success mechanical hearts trapping other organs the thought we could regenerate tissue all this came about because one brave man was able to accomplish when im unimaginable feet short was all possible bernard's procedure has saved over 75,000 lives in the United States alone surgeons perform over 2,500 heart transplants a year our organs replaceable reengineer new body parts new technology a new mankind but is science and technology free us from the limits of our bodies across the world they are also key to a new victory in the struggle for individual rights in just cellmark Alabama 1965 600 african-americans demand change inspiring and global fight for freedom amelia boynton 53 years old civil rights activist since high school risk-taker absolutely committed to change absolutely hero absolute marching for the right to vote blocking her way centuries of discrimination racism rules in the south but only 25 percent to flax and southern states are registered voters volunteer Boynton helps them sign up X X useful mine %um this section useful mine %um this section can you write hit the gym I can help these go to the back line X wide authorities blocked their path with red tape and police intimidation my on all ok my why up the only option protest people up the only option protest people new like she did that you protest in the south new risk life and limb they do use dangers but they also were driven for this struggle for equality it's very hard to bottle up the notion of freedom once it's been on court sadly as long as there's been humankind as long as we're around there's going to be this tug-of-war between democracy and repression their destination there's going to be this tug-of-war between democracy and repression their destination state capital Montgomery home on had determined to stop them Jim Clark world war two aircraft goner selma share deputize is every white male over 21 world war two aircraft goner selma share deputize is every white male over 21 joining 200 state troopers 1 but this confrontation won't go 1c I'll on the ground his local cameramen Lauren Spierer's news hungrier committed tough as nails the journalist with the biggest story of his life up the journalist with the biggest story of his life up new technologies will harness the power of mass communication information it will travel further and faster than ever before a three minute warning disburse go home a three minute warning disburse go home but the protesters won't back down or ninety seconds later the police attack 40 Kansas tear a use largely on the receiving end 40 Kansas tear a use largely on the receiving end activist Amelia pointed a matching the courage and the fear the day have to confront as club a matching the courage and the fear the day have to confront as club and foot and hand is smashed upon then in till they're driven into the ground point left for dead should be unconscious for Tuesday world news watch Selma Alabama police attack a nonviolent protest civil rights activist million point is 150 were injured by key to any protest movement in the modern age tell 'em up journalist Lawrence peers russians film to New York 15 minutes raw footage russians film to New York 15 minutes raw footage in Iraq's ABC's sunday nite moves the bird breaking TV news by 1965 nine out of 10 American families own a television the bird breaking TV news by 1965 nine out of 10 American families own a television over seventy percent of the adult population watch the TV news every evening all three networks show the Selma violence 45 million viewers television main har watch the TV news every evening all three networks show the Selma violence 45 million viewers television main har and brutality local so local it was in your living that had never happened before in history nice X nation couldn't look away people were amazed however grainy however black and white at the immediacy of those images the people were beaten to within an inch of their lives you didn't have to be in them movement to believe in civil rights the people were beaten to within an inch of their lives you didn't have to be in them movement to believe in civil rights but those pictures you couldn't turn off within 15 days but those pictures you couldn't turn off within 15 days President Lyndon Johnson proposes the Voting Rights Act out mowing voter discrimination landmark legislation a turning point for civil rights in america media for the masses means repression won't go one seem in a world of instant communication everyone has a voice the new communication helps too row the concept and understanding a civilization in the human race on the the new communication helps too row the concept and understanding a civilization in the human race on the air equalizing the classes equalizing cultures the greater the numbers the stronger the bombs in the world cultures the greater the numbers the stronger the bombs in the world connection we are the product of our history a hundred thousand years ago the emergence have an extraordinary species one thing that defines humanity is skill anything that you learn to do that nature did program skill anything that you learn to do that nature did program a hunger to survive fuels to power to invent me innovator survive the innovators had success or thirst for knowledge to invent me innovator survive the innovators had success or thirst for knowledge a quest to explore this is what we do never content with where we are we're always looking over there and over there may mean this is what we do never content with where we are we're always looking over there and over there may mean oceans or mountains or continents away we forge connections contact can bring calm wanna striking things like humans is there's never any human society that hasn't had war maybe its necessary to our evolution mankind's most enduring enemy disease I'm confident in our lifetime will ex-president pandemic that a similar in scope to double by play now we have an advantage now we know what's possible we know what we can do to stop it we know we can do to cure people back to will you signs be back things we fear the most yet in our darkest moments fine be back things we fear the most yet in our darkest moments fine like with all we've learned we face the future history is the world map and without it there is no way to navigate the future it's not possible now a new journey into inner space most important place for us to investigate the body now is the brain more to enter the next well I'll longevity and wealth and health among them that same instinct to discover ourselves will fuel the exploration over are your numbers what unlock the power the Sun in reach out into space there's a human me to investigate to explore to to see new lands and I think that drive will eventually lead us to other planets the next step new home there's no question humans will be going to mars probably within the lifetime people rely the mine that by that by on story mankind is only just beginning I'm