A look at the group of people who built the Biosphere 2, a giant replica of the earth's ecosystem, in 1991.
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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Kathelin Gray | ... | Self | |
| Marie Harding | ... | Self - AKA 'Flash' | |
| William Dempster | ... | Self - AKA 'Freddy' | |
| John Allen | ... | Self - AKA 'Johnny Dolphin' | |
| William S. Burroughs | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
| Mark Nelson | ... | Self - AKA 'Horse Shit' | |
| Margret Augustine | ... | Self - AKA 'Firefly' (archive footage) | |
| Thor Heyerdahl | ... | Self - Explorer (archive footage) | |
| Tony Burgess | ... | Self - Desert Ecologist | |
| Ed Bass | ... | Self - Chairman, Space Biosphere Ventures (archive footage) | |
| Jane Poynter | ... | Self - Biospherian (archive footage) | |
| Linda Leigh | ... | Self - Biospherian | |
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Brian Mortenson | ... | Self - Newscaster (archive footage) |
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Mindy Blake | ... | Self - Newscaster (archive footage) |
| Abigail Alling | ... | Self - Biospherian (archive footage) | |
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The true, stranger-than-fiction, adventure of eight visionaries who in 1991 spent two years quarantined inside of a self-engineered replica of Earth's ecosystem called Biosphere 2. The experiment was a worldwide phenomenon, chronicling daily existence in the face of life threatening ecological disaster and a growing criticism that it was nothing more than a cult. The bizarre story is both a cautionary tale and a hopeful lesson of how a small group of dreamers can potentially re-imagine a new world.
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giant | year 1991 | san francisco california | year 1966 | reference to harvard university |Genres:
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Written by John Keen
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Under license from Universal Music Enterprises
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Because as part of a west coast fam vacation- my father TOOK me here to see this (when they were still inside)! Had no idea all this drama went on behind the scenes, and honestly I'm still fascinated by the concept (all of which I didnt really understand as a kid). But to see now that this was really just a glorified science experiment by very smart and financially secure hippy folks wanting to live in a commune...it all made sense.