FLIGHT FROM DEATH: QUEST FOR IMMORTALITY - DVD-DOCUMENTARY

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• Release Year: 2003
• Genre: Documentary
• Plot: 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: Gabriel Byrne, Sam Keen, Ron Leifer, Merlyn Mowrey, Sheldon Solomon, Perrin Sprecace, Irvin D. Yalom, Patrick Shen, Greg Bennick
• Director: Patrick Shen
• Runtime: 1:26
• Company: Transcendental Media
• Media Format: Movie