Survival of Spaceship Earth (1972)

User Rating:

5.4/10   

Director:

Dirk Wayne Summers

Writers:

Rene Dubos (writer)
John Holdren (writer)

Genre:

Documentary

Plot:

Earth's environmental crisis--brought about by uncontrolled technological progress--is endangering life on a global scale...

Plot Keywords:

Pollution | Environmental | Cooperation | Overpopulation | Interview

Cast

Raymond Burr	...	Himself - Narrator
Hugh Downs	...	Himself - Narrator / Host
Maurice Strong	...	Himself
Rene Dubos	...	Himself
Harrison Brown	...	Himself
Barbara Ward	...	Herself
John D. Rockefeller III	...	Himself
Margaret Mead	...	Herself
Walter Orr Roberts	...	Himself
Keith Johnson	...	Himself - Ambassador of Jamaica
Motoo Ogiso	...	Himself - Ambassador of Japan

Runtime:

60 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Sound Mix:

Ultra Stereo

Company:

United Productions Ltd.

The finest Ecological film I have ever seen.

There is no film quite so man-humbling as "Survival of Spaceship Earth," produced for the first ever United Nations Conference on the Human Environment. Director/writer Dirk Summers has created an astonishing film that, even today, must still be the most significant Environmental Documentary ever produced. It should be on the "must see" list for anyone who cares about planet Earth. The New York Times said of this landmark film, "If brains are washed theatrically, we call it propaganda ("JFK"). If minds are cleared of painful debris, we begin to recognize art. "Survival of Spaceship Earth" is art."