Super Comet: After The Impact is a 2007 speculative documentary

Documentary film

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 produced by the Discovery Channel

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. It was directed by Stefan Schneider

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The two-hour production hypothesizes the effects on modern-day earth of a large comet

Comet

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 impacting in Mexico

Mexico

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 near the same location of the K/T extinction event, the ancient impact of a comet or meteor

METEOR

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 that is believed to have triggered the mass extinction of the dinosaur

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The film alternates between interviews with climatologists and researchers and dramatized scenes following several groups of people as they attempt to survive in the days and months after the disaster: a separated family in France

France

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, a pair of scientists in Hawaii

Hawaii

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, a man who manages to survive for a period of time near the ground zero impact in Mexico, and a tribe in Cameroon

Cameroon

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DVD release

Discovery Channel released the film to DVD in North America

North America

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 on Dec.4, 2007.http://www.amazon.com/Super-Comet-Stefan-Schneider/dp/B000W8OM8G

External links

• "Super Comet: After the Impact" at the IMDb
• Discovery Channel Canada program details.
• Review in The New York Times
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• Review in The Hindu
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• DVD review at Digitally Obsessed