

Premieres on PBS starting May 1, 2025
Aging in America: Survive or Thrive celebrates the promise of increased longevity while addressing crucial and unprecedented public policy challenges. The film explores critical topics such as ageism, healthcare, economic insecurity, and Alzheimer’s disease, using Dr. Robert Butler’s Pulitzer Prize-winning book Why Survive? as a guide.

Narrated by Martin Sheen

Topics

Dr. Robert Butler
“Today’s children will one day be older people – and today’s older people were once children, there’s a unity and a continuity to life, which we must bear in mind. When we are negative towards old age, we’re slashing our own tires. This is really our own future we are talking about.”


Filmmakers

Neil Steinberg
Director, Executive Producer
Neil, the founder and president of Generation Entertainment, Inc., has a diversified career in documentary, motion picture, and television productions. He has produced and directed documentaries for the TNT network, Lionsgate and several projects for PBS including the acclaimed documentary The Boomer Century: 1946-2046. He also produced nine films and two series starring teen stars Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen.

Mark Harris
Producer
Mark is a 3-time Academy Award-winning documentary filmmaker and Emeritus Distinguished Professor in the School of Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California, where he ran the documentary program for many years. In 2021, Asian Americans, a 5-part series for PBS for which he was Consulting Producer, received a Peabody Award.
