This TV series, originally broadcast in the UK in 2010, "chart[s] design's evolution from the birth of industrial design, through to the plastics invented in the 50s and 60s and, finally, the 'designer decades' of the 80s and 90s and the digital revolution" (Azure blog http://azuremagazine.com/newsviews/blog_content.php?id=2054).

"Planned Obsolescence" focuses on cradle-to-cradle design (rather than cradle-to-grave).