Flight From Death: The Quest for Immortality

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Flight From Death: The Quest for Immortality (2005)

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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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Flight From Death: The Quest for Immortality

Title	Flight From Death: The Quest for Immortality (2005)
Runtime	1 hr. 25 min.
Studio	The Orchard
Genres	News and Information
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). Noted author of Guerrilla PR, Michael Levine, called it "One of the best films of the year. Period."

about 1 month ago

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The first 30 minutes of this is basically the narrator reminding us that no matter how hard anyone tries, everyone will eventually have to face death, with gory music... I kept holding out waiting for the point to come. I couldn't take it anymore and had to turn it off. Even if it does eventually say what the point is I don't think anyone should have to wait a half hour into a documentary to get to it .

2 months ago

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haha, Tony P you yourself are the most a-hole I've ever seen post a comment here.. You couldn't be any more pompously trite. See 3 other replies

2 months ago

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Clearly you haven't been to college Joe. There are conservative professors. Agree or disagree with the video, it doesn't matter to anyone else.

Do you realize that by responding in the manner that you have, you give credence to their "liberal" study. You are lashing out in anger because they have threatened your immortality ideology. And now I will do the same to you because you have threatened mine. You are a good example of happens when you give red necks access to beer and the internet.

p.s. I don't mean that last bit. It's just there to show how much of an a** hole you sounded like. See 3 other replies

3 months ago

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If you like Flight From Death, you may be interested to know that The Ernest Becker Foundation has a channel on YouTube featuring further talks by many of the people in this documentary. Visit http://www.youtube.com/user/ernestbecker
for more!

9 months ago

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I think you and looking at who is speaking not what is being said. I spent 6 years as a Recon Marine and I am from Alaska and see my self as conservative but I feel they have very good points. No where did they say we should not fight back to protect our selves. They are stating that our culture lashes out at other cultures in order to justify our beliefs over their beliefs. This idea is scalable from the whole, our nation fights yours, to an individual, me vs you. I think the greatest observation is that our culture has lost a station in our society that hold wisdom and venture, without wealth, as something to be valued. See 3 other replies

11 months ago

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The message the doc makers wanted to make that we do what we do out of fear of death. That's just like those psychs. who think everything we do has to do with sex. Good arguement, but in my opinion lacks much. They never touched why knowledgeable people continue to kill themselves daily with addictions or those who do crazy things to defy death. How about those who choose not to have children or have no desire to have them or be around them? Some find an expiration date on their lives welcoming. I personally have more fear of my death being painful than actually dying and I know I am not alone in this statement. Humans are complex. Why we do the things we do is just as confusing. We cannot simply generalize the ALL.

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