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Automobile: Ride and Fall

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  • Status: Ended
  • First Aired: January 7, 2025
  • Seasons: 1
  • Episodes: 3
  • Networks: ARTE
  • Genres: Documentary
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Automobile: Ride and Fall(2025)

TMDB Rating: 8.0 (1 votes)

Overview

Our cities, transformed a mere century ago to accommodate cars, now want to rid their streets of them. Countries go to war over fuel shortages, and automobiles are at the core of a global ecological crisis. Today, the history of automobile has hit its climax. How did we get here? How did the invention of a single machine reorganize how we work, revolutionize our lifestyles, transform our landscapes, trigger global crises and wreak havoc with the equilibrium of our planet? This documentary series explores the creation and meteoric development of an unprecedented object - the automobile - and its role in mankind’s wild race toward progress.

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Season 1

3 episodes • 2025Avg: 8.0

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1Episode 1Jan 7, 20258.0
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3Episode 3Jan 7, 20250.0

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