Where to Watch Future Shock (1972)

Looking to watch 'Future Shock' in the comfort of your own home? Tracking down a streaming service to buy, rent, download, or view the Alexander Grasshoff-directed movie via subscription can be confusing, so we here at Moviefone want to do right by you.

We've listed a number of streaming and cable services - including rental, purchase, and subscription options - along with the availability of 'Future Shock' on each platform when they are available. Now, before we get into the fundamentals of how you can watch 'Future Shock' right now, here are some finer points about the McGrawHill Films Metromedia Producers Corporation documentary flick.

Released February 22nd, 1972, 'Future Shock' stars Orson Welles, James McGaugh, Alvin Toffler The movie has a runtime of about 43 min, and received a user score of 47 (out of 100) on TMDb, which assembled reviews from 9 top users.

What, so now you want to know what the movie's about? Here's the plot: "Our modern technology has achieved a degree of sophistication beyond our wildest dreams But this technology has exacted a pretty heavy price We live in an age of anxiety a time of stress And with all our sophistication we are in fact the victims of our own technological strength We are the victims of shock of future shock No this isnt a quote from a Huffington Post column on the Facebookization of modern communication Nor is it pulled from an academic treatise on the phenomenologies of postindustrial existence This statement was made by Orson Welles in the 1972 futurist documentary Future Shock and unlike some of the more dated elements of 1970s educational films Future Shock remains shockingly current in verbalizing the concerns and anxieties that come along with rapid societal and technological change Indiana University Libraries Moving Image Archive" .