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Publisher
Vision Films
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
With weapons capable of wiping everything from the face of the globe, the future of the world is at stake. Journey through history, biology, mythology, and fables to discover if violence is in our genes or if it’s a construct of our minds.
Publisher
Collective Eye Films
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
A lyrical and spiritual cinematic essay on THE EXORCIST, LEAP OF FAITH explores the uncharted depths of William Friedkin’s mind’s eye, the nuances of his filmmaking process, and the mysteries of faith and fate that have shaped his life and filmography.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Likened by Buddhists to the Vatican City, Ganden is considered the most influential monastery of Tibetan Buddhism. Monks lived in the monastery for more than 500 years before a brutal invasion drove them to India. Ganden: A Joyful Land is a look at the lives and remembrances of the remaining generation of monks to have studied at the monastery in Tibet where the Dalai Lama’s lineage began.
Publisher
Greenwich Entertainment
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
A young Jewish woman named Helena Citron is taken to Auschwitz, where she develops an unlikely romantic relationship with Franz Wunsch, a high-ranking SS officer. Thirty years later, a letter arrives from Wunsch's wife asking Helena to testify on Wunsch's behalf. Faced with an impossible decision, Helena must choose. Will she help the man who brutalized so many lives, but saved hers?
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
In this beloved 1988 PBS series, mythologist and storyteller Joseph Campbell joins Bill Moyers to explore what enduring myths can tell us about our lives. In each of six episodes –“The Hero’s Adventure,” “The Message of the Myth,” “The First Storytellers,” “Sacrifice and Bliss,” “Love and the Goddess,” and “Masks of Eternity” — Moyers and Campbell focus on a character or theme found in cultural and religious mythologies....
Publisher
Planet Group Entertainment
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
During the Middle Ages, the Christian pilgrims of Europe would seek grace by “Walking the Way of Saint James” to Santiago de Compostela, Spain, a legendary pilgrimage, to the resting place of Jesus’s disciple James the Greater, said to have been the son of Mary Magdalene. This so-called “walk” was well over 800 miles, requiring weeks and months of overnight rests in forested hostels, cities, monasteries and mountain villages along the ancient...
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