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Naked Pilgrim, The: Road to Santiago (2004)

Subject

Architecture; Art; Religious studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 180 minutes), £19.99

Art critic Brian Sewell undertakes a personal pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela in Spain for one of the world’s largest religious festivals, in pursuit of a greater understanding of the relationship...

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To Find Our Life: The Peyote Hunt of the Huichols of Mexico (1969 Film)

Director

Peter T Furst

Subject

Anthropology

Distribution

Film (16mm)

About a pivotal event of Huichol religious and ritual life, a pilgrimage led by a Shaman to obtain peyote, a hallucinogenic drug used for religious purposes which is present in a particular type of cactus....

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In Search of Chopin (2015)

Director

Phil Grabsky

Subject

Music

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 115 minutes), £15.99

Chopin’s grave in Paris remains a place of pilgrimage and his music continues to sell out concert halls worldwide, but who exactly was this composer? He was terrified of public performance; he fled his...

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One Way Street: Fragments for Walter Benjamin (1992)

Director

John Hughes (2)

Subject

History; Philosophy

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 54 minutes), £65.00

Walter Benjamin is one of the most influential thinkers of the 20th century, yet his work remains relatively unknown. Born into a wealthy Jewish family, Benjamin was a writer and broadcaster in pre-Hitler...

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Rigby Graham’s Irish Voyage (2003)

Director

Charles Mapleston

Subject

Arts and Humanities

Distribution

Sale, DVD (PAL, 53 minutes (main film)), £10.00

This documentary follows painter, printmaker, muralist, illustrator, writer and teacher Rigby Graham as he visits many of his old haunts in Ireland and creates new work along the way. Graham has a dry sense...

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Once Upon a Time in Iran (2006)

aka: Pilgrimage to Karbala

Director

Kevin Sim

Producer

Rebecca Dobbs

Subject

Politics & government; Religious studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 90 minutes), £12.99

In the summer of 2006,a bus full of pilgrims left Tehran in Iran on the dangerous journey to Karbala in Iraq. ONCE UPON A TIME IN IRAN follows this breath-taking journey - a spiritual and emotional...

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Indian Pilgrimage, An: Village Man, City Man (1975 Film)

Subject

Anthropology

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Deals with the way in which one man, Shripal, views his life as a city man whose kinship ties and duties still bind him to his natal village. Shripal now works in a New Delhi cloth factory, 400 miles west of...

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Byron (2 Parts) (2003)

Subject

English language and literature

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 150 minutes), £19.99

A television dramatisation of the life of George Gordon Byron in two parts.

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Queen of the Sun: What Are the Bees Telling Us? (2012)

Director

Taggart Siegel; John Betz

Subject

Biology; Environmental science

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC), $25.00 (home); $295.00 (HE)

In 1923, Rudolf Steiner, a scientist, philosopher & social innovator, predicted that in 80 to 100 years honeybees would collapse. His prediction has come true with Colony Collapse Disorder where bees are...

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Mind of a Leader I: The Prince (2012)

Director

Benjamin Holk Henriksen; Fredrik Lassenius

Subject

Business studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 728 minutes), £1,495.00

THE MIND OF A LEADER is an international leadership project led by Benjamin Holk Henriksen and Fredrik Lassenius. In 2005 they set out on a ‘pilgrimage’ with their camera, to interview modern leaders on...

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