Creating Freedom: The Lottery of Birth

(2013)

★ 7.2 IMDb · 8 votes

Genres: Documentary

Year: 2013

Runtime: 77 мин

Country: United Kingdom, United States of America

Director: Joshua van Praag, Raoul Martinez

Cast: Howard Zinn, Vandana Shiva, Daniel C. Dennett, Steven Pinker, Tony Benn

Plot

THE LOTTERY OF BIRTH is the first in a three-part documentary series entitled 'Creating Freedom' exploring the relationship between freedom, power and control in Western democracies. The series draws together interviews with some of the world's leading intellectuals, journalists and activists to offer an alternative perspective on today's society and the future we're creating. We do not choose to exist, or the environment we grow up in. Our starting point in life is one of passive reliance on forces over which we have no control. THE LOTTERY OF BIRTH shows that from birth onwards our minds are a battleground of competing forces: familial, educational, cultural, and professional. The outcome of this battle not only determines who we become, but the society that we create.