Every time history repeats itself the price goes up. Surviving Progress presents the story of human advancement as awe-inspiring and double-edged. It reveals the grave risk of running the 21st century ...

There will be no shortage of noisy apocalyptic movies vying for our attention as 2012 moves along. Surviving Progress is something else entirely — a globe-spanning documentary that carefully addresses ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. A chimp at the Cognitive Evolution Group research center, New Iberia, La., in "Surviving Progress." First Run Features photo The ...

Surviving Progress opened with a bit of chimp-teasing, one of our primate cousins having been trained to prop two L-shaped blocks upright in order to earn a piece of fruit. On this occasion, though, ...

When Neanderthal hunters learned to drive one or two mastodons off a cliff, the tribe ate well for weeks. When they stampeded the whole herd over a cliff, the tribe's own survival was threatened. That ...

DESPITE the title, Steven Spielberg’s multi-Oscar nominated Lincoln isn’t a wide-ranging, all-encompassing biopic of America’s 16th president. Instead it’s a stately account of the behind-the-scenes ...

Film about the risks we pose to our own survival in the name of progress, connecting financial collapse, growing inequality and global oligarchy with the sustainability of mankind. Show more ...

Right from the start, the documentary Surviving Progress lets viewers know that there will be no easy answers to the questions it’s posing, as the opening query, “What is progress?” leaves some of the ...