Underland: documentary explores humanity beneath the surface

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“Are we being good ancestors”? - the existential question posed by renowned nature writer Robert Macfarlane in his iconic work “Underland”. His quest below the earth’s surface to answer some of humanity’s most ancient questions has now been made into a documentary. [Subscribe to our Substack newsletter: https://channel4news.substack.com/subscribe] Underland explores nuclear waste sites in the Arctic, vast underground scientific experiments searching for elusive “dark matter”, and much much more as it tries to unravel our legacy as a species. Producer: Freya Pickford Camera operator: Leon Troth ------- Get more news at our site - https://www.channel4.com/news/ Subscribe to our Substack newsletter: https://channel4news.substack.com/subscribe Follow us: TikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@c4news Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/channel4news/ Twitter - https://twitter.com/Channel4News Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/Channel4News/

Published 2026-03-27 · Watch on YouTube ↗
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