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In seventeenth-century France, Father Urbain Grandier (Oliver Reed), uses his powers to protect the city of Loudun from destruction at the hands of the establishment. Soon, he stands accused of the demonic...
A description of three of the Christian sects of the Shona and Ndebele immigrants from Southern Rhodesia, who came to live in Zambia between 1957 and 1964. It examines their position in 1969, the effects of...
Focuses on four Sadhus (holy men) as a means of portraying the variety of devotional paths open to religious Hindus and examining the Sadhus’ role in present-day Indian society. The bulk of the film...
Part 1: Briefly opens in Calcutta then goes to the South in search of traditional India, of religious piety, of the agricultural problems showing aspects of the daily lives of fishermen and peasants. Some...
A play by Dennis Potter about Jesus, the man, as well as the religious, political and military climate he lived in. [90 minutes]
This release brings together both London Weekend Television productions of Johnny Speight’s bleakly comic allegorical play, from 1968 and 1974, whose overarching theme - as with so much of his work - is...
HOMO HOMINI is an animated film which shows Rodin’s "The Thinker" trying to create a better world but each solution creates further problems. A rapid succession of images, showing young people laughing and...
Filmed at the behest of the Pope himself, The GOSPEL ACCORDING TO MATTHEW [Il VANGELO SECONDO MATTEO], won plaudits from the Vatican and the Archbishop of Canterbury, despite its director’s avowed atheism....
The material was recorded by Maya Deren when she went to Haiti on four trips to make a film of Haitian dance. Having become increasingly involved with the voodoo experience she abandoned her original...
Carl Th. Dreyer’s 1928 film follows the final days of the eponymous heroine as she undergoes the debasement and interrogation that accompanies her trial for charges of heresy, followed by imprisonment and...
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