CHAPTERS
00:00 Every empire burned
00:48 The connected world
01:11 The tin problem
02:56 The fires begin
03:35 Ugarit: the last letter
04:12 Who were the Sea Peoples?
04:53 The drought in the mud
05:40 The cascade
06:24 The last great pharaoh
07:58 Egypt wins — and pays
08:43 The first strike in history
09:37 The empire lets go
10:57 What really ended the world
11:41 The mirror
12:28 The third death
Around 1200 BC, every superpower of the Bronze Age burned within a single lifetime. The Hittite Empire vanished. Mycenaean Greece collapsed so hard it forgot how to write. The richest port of the age fell before its king’s last letter could even be sent. The survivors kept writing down the same words: they came from the sea.
In this documentary, we follow history’s first recorded apocalypse: the mysterious Sea Peoples, the drought revealed by pollen cores under the Sea of Galilee, the tin supply line that connected — and doomed — the ancient world, and the last great pharaoh, Ramesses III, who turned the Nile delta into a trap and stopped the wave that had swallowed every other empire. Victory came with a price: the first labor strike in human history, a palace conspiracy, and a throat cut to the bone.
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