Versions:.Series also produced in a French-language version of three one-hour films under the title L'Humanité à l'épreuve.

Producer, Donald Fraser ; executive producer, Nicholas Balla ; writer, Gordon Burwash ; editing, Réjane Charpentier, George Kaczender, Dennis Sawyer ; sound editing, Bernard Bordeleau, Victor Merrill, Michael McKennirey ; re-recording, George Croll, Ted Haley ; animation, René Jodoin, Kaj Pindal.

Narrator, Stanley Burke.

Recorded 1961.

A progress report on efforts to find new ways of feeding the Earth's swelling population. Water control, land redistribution and agricultural advances of all kinds are shown as examples of gains being made to stem the tide of hunger.

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from title screen (National Film Board of Canada, viewed 2023-08-10).