“Ten Meter Tower”, Award-Winning Doc About Fear • Discoverology

“Ten Meter Tower”, Award-Winning Doc About Fear

To jump or not to jump? The premise at the heart of Axel Danielson and Maximilien van Aertryck’s “Ten Meter Tower” might seem simple, but the award-winning documentary is a deceivingly smart portrait of human behavior in the face of fear. 

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