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Author
Language
English
Description
An award-winning journalist follows up his New York Times bestseller American Carnage with this profoundly troubling portrait of the American evangelical movement in which he investigates the ways in which conservative Christians have pursued, exercised and often abused power in the name of securing this earthly kingdom.
2) Prophet's daughter: my life with Elizabeth Clare Prophet inside the Church Universal and Triumphant
Author
Publisher
Lyons Press
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
3) Opeka
Publisher
Cinedigm
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Malagasy
Description
Nobel Peace Prize nominee Father Pedro Opeka, an iron-willed Argentine priest, inspires hope for an entire nation by teaching people living in Madagascar's largest landfill to build a highly functional city in the capital of their failing African country.
Publisher
New Day Films
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
This award-winning documentary examines how portraying Jesus as white has reinforced cultural divides from the colonial era up through our modern period of rampant gentrification, segregated churches, and police violence. Until we de-couple whiteness from America’s dominant religion, we won’t achieve true equality.
Publisher
MVD Entertainment Group
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
In a tale of twisted sex, religion and family, a mother and daughter finally stop fighting and team up - first to overcome their bitter differences; then to try to end a sexual curse that has plagued their family for generations.
Publisher
New Day Films
Pub. Date
1992.
Language
English
Description
A young drummer and dancer guides tourists through a museum, a silver carver/disc jockey talks about his love both of rock and roll and traditional carving, and a Tlingit elder teaches children at a summer fish camp. A MATTER OF RESPECT portrays a diverse group of people expressing their culture and identity and honoring their ancestors' way of life through teaching language, harvesting and preparing traditional foods, restoring community cemeteries...
10) The Rule
Publisher
Bongiorno Productions Inc
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Saint Benedict's Prep, in Newark, New Jersey, is in the heart of one of America's most dangerous cities yet has a near 100% college acceptance rate for its inner city young men. See how the monks' recipe for success follows the Rule of Saint Benedict and how this sixth-century rule can serve as a model for urban schools worldwide.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
In this three-part travelogue, a young Muslim American couple discover America’s Muslim roots on Route 66. From Chicago to St. Louis to Amarillo Texas, and across the Southwest, rap-star Mona Haydar and husband Sebastian Robins enjoy the iconic highway’s well-known roadside attractions, and along the way discover its overlooked Muslim American story.
12) African Exodus
Publisher
Menemsha Films
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Seeking safety and asylum, some 60,000 Africans have fled to Israel over the past decade and a half. The country, founded as a haven for persecuted Jews in the aftermath of the Holocaust, has no policy, infrastructure or political will to handle this wave of migrants. AFRICAN EXODUS explores Israel's other refugee crisis.
Publisher
New Day Films
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
SOMEONE YOU SHOULD MEET focuses on an extended family gathering organized by two filmmakers who only recently discovered they were related through their great-grandparents. As they explore their shared history and evolving Jewish identity over five generations, old wounds surface, and a sense of belonging is found.
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2024.
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, Moyers and Campbell focus on a character or theme found in cultural and religious mythologies. Campbell argues that these timeless archetypes continue to have a powerful influence on the choices we make and the ways we live.Released shortly after Campbell’s death on October...
15) The Mission
Author
Language
English
Description
Every year, over 60,000 young missionaries from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints are sent across the world to preach their gospel. Sundance Film Festival selection THE MISSION follows four Latter-day Saints teenagers from their training in Utah to their missions in Finland, home of Europe’s most private and secular people. Tania Anderson's film tracks these wide-eyed, impassioned teens on their two-year rite of passage, as they struggle...
16) Breaking Habits
Publisher
Good Deed Entertainment
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
In the town of Merced, CA, a commune of activist nuns run an illegal cannabis farm. They use it to make medicine for everything from epilepsy to cancer, fighting against the authorities, the sheriff and local cartels. This is the story of Sister Kate, the Weed-Growing Nun. Nominated for Best Documentary Film at the **Santa Barbara International Film Festival**. *"It's a stirring, unusually inspiring tale." - Gary Goldstein, **Los Angeles Times***
17) Love It Was Not
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?
18) You See Monsters
Publisher
TVF
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Across the world, the demonization of Muslims has taken on monstrous proportions, and Islam is represented as a threat to the Western way of life. But in the bottom right-hand corner of the world, in a country better known for its bikinis than its burqas, a new generation of Australian Muslims are asserting their own agency in the face of anti-Islamic bigotry – not with defensive or apologetic arguments, but on the front foot using the power of...
19) Nomad
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Told in Werner Herzog’s inimitable style and bursting at the seams with unforgettable characters and encounters, NOMAD takes the viewer on a journey through the creative and personal vision Herzog shared with iconic travel writer Bruce Chatwin, the prolific author of In Patagonia and a champion of the nomadic lifestyle.
Publisher
Pragda
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Español
Description
Camilo is a young black man adopted by an indigenous couple in rural Colombia. He is the only Black person in his community and has always felt different. For years, he has been wondering about his biological parents. The indigenous Quillasinga-governor gives him Ayahuasca, a sacred remedy for spiritual guidance. During this transcendent experience, Camilo has visions of his biological mother. Supported by his adoptive father, Camilo embarks on a...
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