Link to Flight from the death, the quest from immortality documentary
Documentary Description
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, specifically
aggression and violence.
Flight from Death features an all-star cast of scholars,
authors, philosophers, and researchers including Sam Keen, Robert Jay
Lifton, Irvin Yalom, and Sheldon Solomon culminating in a film that is
"not only thought-provoking but also entertaining and put together with
a lot of class" (Eric Campos, Film Threat). Three years in the making
and beautifully photographed in eight different countries, Flight from
Death is "a stimulating, ultimately life-affirming film, filled with
big ideas and revelatory footage" (Jeff Shannon, Seattle Times).
