The one hour documentary A Machine to Die For: The Quest for Free Energy is about the search for ‘perpetual motion’ and ‘free energy’, which conventional science claims is impossible.

Generations of inventors have been mesmerized by the promise of an engine that powers itself. The world’s reliance on diminishing fossil fuel resources and the associated problems of pollution serve to spur them on. "A Machine to Die For" showcases a number of dedicated, sometimes eccentric, and always obsessive individuals who have devoted their lives to this quest.

The film was produced in 2003, hosted by Chris Wiggins, in association with Eliot Jarvis Productions, Exploration Production Inc. and Film Finance Corporation Australia.

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