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The Measure of All Things

The Measure of All Things

20141h 5m

Status

Released

Release

2014

Runtime

1h 5m

Storyline

Documentarian Sam Green interprets our collective fascination with the Guinness Book of World Records as a profound need to try and make some sense of who we are by calibrating human experience and marveling at its outer contours. Green himself travels to various reaches of the Earth to collect original footage of record-holding people, places, and things-the tallest man, the woman with the longest name, the oldest living thing on the planet. He weaves into these original portraits a rich assembly of archival footage, his own live narration, and an evocative live soundtrack from the chamber group yMusic to create an indelible rumination on fate, human endeavor, and the nature of our existence on Earth.

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Status
Released
Runtime
1h 5m
Jan 20, 2014
Languages
English
Director
Production Countries
United States of America