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Pilgrim’s Gift, The (1996 Video)

Director

Barbie Campbell Cole

Subject

Anthropology

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 1997 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Follows a elderly, devout couple as they endure blistering heat, bitter cold and unforgiving terrain on a pilgrimage to the shrine of their saint and idol, the 13th-century Sheikh Husein. They make to...

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Jerusalem: The Making of a Holy City (2012)

Subject

History; Religious studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 173 minutes), £19.99

Author and historian Simon Sebag Montefiore explores the history of Jerusalem, one of the oldest cities in the world, in this three-part documentary series, exploring how the holiness of the city was...

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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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Axing of the Himalayas, The (1982 Video)

Subject

Environmental science

Distribution

OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min.

The forests on the hill slopes of the Himalayas are disappearing and it is no longer possible for the hill people to find enough firewood or fodder for their animals. Discusses the conflict between...

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Wages of Action, The: Religion in a Hindu Village (1988 Video)

Producer

Charles Cooper

Subject

Religious studies

Distribution

OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min.

Looks at a rage of Hindu activities in a North India village: rituals performed by different castes, an exorcism sequence, a wedding ritual, a Sattya Narain puja, a pilgrimage to the Ganges, and a variety of...

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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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