Flight from Death: The Quest for Immortality (2003)
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...
Cast
- Sam Keen - Himself
- Gabriel Byrne - Narrator
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- What is Flight from Death: The Quest for Immortality about?
- 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...
- Who directed Flight from Death: The Quest for Immortality?
- Flight from Death: The Quest for Immortality was directed by Patrick Shen.
- Who stars in Flight from Death: The Quest for Immortality?
- Flight from Death: The Quest for Immortality stars Sam Keen, Gabriel Byrne.
- How long is Flight from Death: The Quest for Immortality?
- Flight from Death: The Quest for Immortality has a runtime of 1h 30m (90 minutes).
- What genre is Flight from Death: The Quest for Immortality?
- Flight from Death: The Quest for Immortality is a Documentary film.