7 Billion Others

Series of videos by Yann Arthus-Bertrand

Florent Gilard
Ulla Lohmann

StarringCristina Frias

Release date

2003 (2003)

Running time

78 minutesCountriesFrance, Bangladesh, among many other locationsLanguageEnglish

7 billion Others (French: 7 milliards d'autres) is a series of videos by Yann Arthus-Bertrand. Each of the videos feature a single person telling the viewer about their life, often in their native language. The project's homepage states that since the project's beginning in 2003, over 5000 individuals have had their testimonials recorded for the project. According to Arthus-Bertrand, the project's aim is to help different people to understand each other through listening.^[1] The project was previously called 6 billion Others, but is meanwhile renamed to 7 billion others.