Up From The Ape

  • Genre: Documentary
  • Run time: 84 min
  • Premiere: 1975. January 29.

A documentary based on Robert Ardrey's books that presents 15 million years of human evolution. The author believes that man began killing systematically 30,000 years ago when the Cro-Magnon Man killed off the Neanderthal Man because the latter was different. Man has been killing ever since. This very rare and most unusual docudrama with a cast made up entirely of men in ape suits is based on the work of the impossibly pompous anthropologist/ screenwriter Robert Ardrey, who attempts to unpack the origins and evolution of the killer instinct.

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Paula Crist

Earthling Throwback

Directing

Walon Green

Director

Sound

Writing

Robert Ardrey

Screenplay

Directing

Walon Green

Director

Sound

Writing

Robert Ardrey

Screenplay