Dying to Know: Ram Dass & Timothy Leary (2014)
Dying to Know is an intimate portrait celebrating two very complex controversial characters in an epic friendship that shaped a generation. In the early 1960s Harvard psychology professors Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert began probing the edges of consciousness through their experiments with psychedelics. Leary became the LSD guru, asking us to think for ourselves, igniting a global counter-cultural movement and landing in prison after Nixon called him 'the most dangerous man in America'. Alpert journeyed to the East becoming Ram Dass, a spiritual teacher for an entire generation who continues in his 80s teaching service through compassion. With interviews spanning 50 years the film invites us into the future encouraging us to ponder questions about life, drugs & the biggest mystery of all: death.
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Domestic DistributorGathrFilms
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Earliest Release DateJanuary 23, 2017
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Running Time1 hr 35 min
GenresBiography
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| Filmmakers | Role |
|---|---|
| Gay Dillingham | Director |
| David Leach | Writer |
| Gay Dillingham | Producer |
| Tao Ruspoli | Producer |
| Steve Postell | Composer |
| David Aubrey | Cinematographer |
| Alan Kozlowski | Cinematographer |
| Tao Ruspoli | Cinematographer |
| Dyanna Taylor | Cinematographer |
| Ethan Boehme | Editor |
| David Leach | Editor |
| Cast | Role |
|---|---|
| John Perry Barlow | |
| Dean Chamberlain | |
| Ram Dass | |
| Peggy Mellon Hitchcock |
