Best Aging
Paul T. Costa Jr. is an American psychologist known for research on personality traits, adult development, and aging. In a long collaboration with Robert R. McCrae, he helped develop the five-factor model of personality and the NEO Personality Inventory, which measures neuroticism, extraversion, ope...
Three Tall Women is a play by American dramatist Edward Albee, first produced in 1991. It examines aging, memory, family conflict, and mortality through three female figures identified as A, B, and C, who come to represent different stages or perspectives within one woman's life. The drama shifts fr...
The Eternal Memory explores the profound impact of Alzheimer’s disease through the experiences of journalist Augusto Gongora and actress Paulina Urrutia in Chile. This documentary offers a sensitive portrait of aging and cognitive decline, focusing on their daily lives, memories, and relationships a...
"The Mole Agent" is a 2020 Chilean documentary directed by Maite Alberdi that blends observational filmmaking with spy genre tropes. The film follows Sergio Chamy, an 83-year-old man hired by a private investigator to go undercover as a resident in a Chilean nursing home to investigate claims of eld...
Elizabeth Blackburn is a pioneering Australian-American biologist renowned for her groundbreaking research on telomeres. Her work, alongside Carol Greider, revealed the function of telomerase, an enzyme vital to chromosome stability. This discovery significantly advanced our understanding of cellula...
Young@Heart is a 2007 documentary directed by Stephen Walker about the Young@Heart Chorus, a senior citizens' singing group based in Northampton, Massachusetts. The chorus, whose members range from 73 to 92 years old, performs rock and punk songs by artists including The Clash, Sonic Youth, and Cold...
Old Holmes is an A Bit of Fry & Laurie sketch with Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie portraying an elderly Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson.
Will Penny is a 1967 American Western film written and directed by Tom Gries, starring Charlton Heston as an aging cowboy who takes work as a winter line rider on a remote mountain cattle range. The film co-stars Joan Hackett as a widow traveling west who shelters in Penny's line cabin with her son....
Tomas Lindahl is a Swedish-British scientist whose research fundamentally changed our understanding of aging. He demonstrated that cellular damage to DNA, specifically telomeres, directly contributes to age-related decline. His work revealed mechanisms for slowing this process and earned him the 201...
The Miracle Club is a 2023 Irish drama film directed by Thaddeus O'Sullivan. Set in 1967, the story follows four working-class women from Dublin who embark on a pilgrimage to the sacred town of Lourdes, France, hoping for spiritual and physical miracles. The film stars Laura Linney, Kathy Bates, and...
