Flight from Death: The Quest for Immortality

Narrated by Gabriel Byrne

Flight from Death is the first film to investigate the psychological effects of death anxiety, or fear of death. This 90-minute documentary the effects that our reactions to death anxiety have on a psychological, spiritual, and cultural level reveals convincingly that death denial is root cause of human behavior and more importantly, violence and the effects of death anxiety are embedded within everything we do across the globe. Our architecture, our careers, the children we raise, and the wars we wage, are all manifestations of our desire to gain a sense of permanence in defiance of our mortality. Drawing from the work of the cultural anthropologist, social theorist and Pulitzer-Prize winning Ernest Becker, this film is a cinematic approach to these theories, them in a modern context and portraying them in ways that are both stimulating as well as reflective of the importance and magnitude of implications. Flight from Death is the culmination of many years of shooting all over the world in locations such as Egypt, Israel, Guyana, Greece, Canada, Afghanistan and China. It features interviews with scholars, philosophers, researchers and authors such as Robert Jay Irvin Yalom, Sam Keen, and Sheldon Solomon culminating in the most comprehensive, multidisciplinary, and mind-blowing investigation of humankind's relationship with death ever captured on film.