Movie Description
Flight from Death: The Quest for Immortality
(2003)Overview
Narrated by Gabriel Byrne (Usual Suspects, Vanity Fair, Miller's Crossing), this seven-time Best Documentary award-winning film (Silver Lake Film Festival, Beverly Hills Film Festival) is the most comprehensive and mind-blowing investigation of humankind's relationship with death ever captured on film. Hailed by many viewers as a "life-transformational film," Flight from Death uncovers death anxiety as a possible root cause of many of our behaviors on a psychological, spiritual, and cultural level. Following the work of the late cultural anthropologist, Ernest Becker, and his Pulitzer Prize-winning book Denial of Death, this documentary explores the ongoing research of a group of social psychologists that may forever change the way we look at ourselves and the world. Over the last twenty-five years, this team of researchers has conducted over 300 laboratory studies, which substantiate Becker's claim that death anxiety is a primary motivator of human behavior...
Featured Crew
- Director : Patrick Shen
- Cast : Sam Keen,Gabriel Byrne
Cast
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Facts
Original TitleFlight from Death: The Quest for Immortality
Status Released
Release Information
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2003-01-01
Original Language
Runtime 01h 30m
Genres
- Documentary























