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Dying to Know: Ram Dass & Timothy Leary

Summary: 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 pr...

Release Date: August 26, 2016

Genres: Documentary, Biography, History

Director: Gay Dillingham

Writer: David Leach

Runtime: 1 h 35 min

Production: CNS Communications

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 16,397

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