Movie

Surviving Progress

“Every time history repeats itself, the price goes up.”

★ 7.4(47)20111h 26m

Surviving Progress is available to rent or buy on Apple TV Store in Japan. It isn't on a subscription streaming service there yet. Availability checked 11 June 2026.

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Director: Mathieu Roy, Harold Crooks
Release date: 2011-11-04
Runtime: 1h 26m
Language: English
Box office: $108,640
Status: Released
Country: Canada
Studio: Big Picture Media Corporation

Surviving Progress — trailer

About Surviving Progress

Surviving Progress is a 2011 movie in the Documentary genre, directed by Mathieu Roy and Harold Crooks, starring Stephen Hawking, David Suzuki and Jane Goodall. It has a runtime of 1 hour 26 minutes. It holds an average rating of 7.4/10 from 47 viewers. Below you can see where to watch Surviving Progress in Japan — across streaming, rental and purchase options — along with the full cast, trailer and viewer reviews.

Synopsis

Humanity’s ascent is often measured by the speed of progress. But what if progress is actually spiraling us downwards, towards collapse? Ronald Wright, whose best-seller, “A Short History Of Progress” inspired “Surviving Progress”, shows how past civilizations were destroyed by “progress traps”—alluring technologies and belief systems that serve immediate needs, but ransom the future. As pressure on the world’s resources accelerates and financial elites bankrupt nations, can our globally-entwined civilization escape a final, catastrophic progress trap? With potent images and illuminating insights from thinkers who have probed our genes, our brains, and our social behaviour, this requiem to progress-as-usual also poses a challenge: to prove that making apes smarter isn’t an evolutionary dead-end.

Cast

Stephen Hawking

Self

David Suzuki

Self

Jane Goodall

Self

Themes & keywords

chinabased on novel or booktechnologychimpanzeeoverpopulationeconomybusinesseconomicsecologysouth americaenvironmentalenvironmentenvironmentalismdeforestationrainforest