Dying to Know: Ram Dass and Timothy Leary
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Dying to Know: Ram Dass and Timothy Leary

In the 1960s, two Harvard psychology professors collaborated on experiments with psychedelics: one led the movement for mind-altering drugs and landed in prison (Timothy Leary), the other transformed into spiritual leader Ram Dass. Some 50 years later, the camera is there to record a final conversation between the two old friends as they envision how expanded thinking shapes their concepts of dying. Robert Redford narrates this intimate film that incorporates more than 80 years of rare footage and interviews. (2014, DCP, 95 minutes)