Carbon: The Unauthorised Biography (2022): Cast, Box Office & Where to Watch

This unconventional documentary explores the complex and often misunderstood element, carbon. Narrated in the first person by Sarah Snook, the film details carbon's origins in the core of an exploding star and its journey through Earth's evolving landscape. Featuring insights from celebrated scientists, unique animations, and a captivating orchestral score, the film reveals the paradoxical nature of an element essential for all life, while also possessing the potential to cause its end. It's a reminder of humanity’s small part in the universe’s most extraordinary story.

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• NT Co-director Niobe Thompson
• DO Co-director Daniella Ortega

• Sarah Snook as Voice of Carbon (voice)
• Neil deGrasse Tyson as themselves
• MM Mark Miodownik as themselves
• RH Robert Hazen as themselves

Also known as

• L'Histoire secrète du carbone
• Kohlenstoff - Eine Geschichte von Leben und Tod
• Carbono: La verdad oculta
• Ugljik - neautorizirana biografija
• Carbono: la biografia no autorizada