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Flight from Death: The Quest for Immortality (2003)

TV Documentary  -  90 min  -  Documentary
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Flight from Death is the first film to investigate the psychological The effects of death anxiety are embedded within everything we do across Flight from Death is the culmination of many years of research and

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Flight from Death: The Quest for Immortality -- Narrated by Gabriel Byrne, Flight from Death, is a seven-time Best Documentary award-winning film which uncovers death anxiety as a possible root cause of many of our behaviors on a psychological, spiritual, and cultural level.
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Credited cast:
Gabriel Byrne ...
Narrator
Sam Keen Sam Keen ...
Himself - Author and philosopher
Ron Leifer Ron Leifer ...
Himself - Psychiatrist
Robert Jay Lifton Robert Jay Lifton ...
Himself
Merlyn Mowrey Merlyn Mowrey ...
Herself - Professor of Philosophy and Religion, Central Michigan University
Sheldon Solomon Sheldon Solomon ...
Himself - Professor of Psychology, Skidmore College
Perrin Sprecace Perrin Sprecace ...
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Irvin D. Yalom Irvin D. Yalom ...
Himself - Existential Psychotherapist
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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... Written by Anonymous  

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