Sam Keen
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Flight from Death: The Quest for Immortality
2003-01-01
Flight from Death: The Quest for Immortality
Overview: 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...
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-01-01
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Faces of the Enemy: Justifying the Inhumanity of War
1987-06-03
Faces of the Enemy: Justifying the Inhumanity of War
Overview: Faces of the Enemy follows social psychologist Sam Keen as he investigates how people dehumanize their enemies. Based on the book of the same name.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-06-03
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All Illusions Must Be Broken
2024-01-10
All Illusions Must Be Broken
Overview: All Illusions Must Be Broken is a cinematic contemporization of the work of American cultural anthropologist Ernest Becker whose book The Denial of Death won the Pulitzer Prize for non-fiction in 1974. Becker’s psychoanalytic exploration of human nature and his own personal testimony challenge us to move beyond our fears and see the beauty that surrounds our fragile lives.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-01-10
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Sleeping Car
1933-06-06
Sleeping Car
Overview: A French sleeping-car attending with an eye for the ladies hooks up with a wealthy widow and they get married. What he doesn't know is that she married him because she wants to stay in France. Complications ensue.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-06-06
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