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  1. Cathedrals: Wakefield, Wells and Southwark (2013)

    Director
    Richard Alwyn
    Producer
    Richard Alwyn
    Subject
    Architecture; Religious studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 3 x 60 minutes), £40.00

    Documentary series. In this series of three films, documentary film maker, Richard Alwyn, goes behind the scenes in three of England’s Church of England Cathedrals - Wakefield, Wells and Southwark. Each...

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  2. Making of a Holy City, The (2012)

    Subject
    History; Religious studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 180 minutes), £19.92

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

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  3. Sex, Death and the Meaning of Life (2012)

    Subject
    Religious studies; Science
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 150 minutes), £585.00

    Ideas about the soul and the afterlife, of sin and God’s purpose have shaped human thinking for thousands of years. Religious rituals remain embedded in the major events of our lives. In this...

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  4. There is Nothing Wrong with My Uncle (2012)

    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 62 minutes), £50.00

    Nigerian writer Dul Johnson returns to the land of the Tarok people in Nigeria to observe the local death rituals and the Tarok ways of dealing with grief and honouring the departed. This film provides a...

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  5. Catholics (2012)

    Director
    Richard Alwyn
    Producer
    Richard Alwyn
    Subject
    Religious studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 3 x 60 minutes), £20.00

    Documentary series. In a new series of three films, the acclaimed documentary film maker Richard Alwyn goes behind the headlines that have come to define the Catholic Church to explore what it is actually...

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  6. Euthanasia (2011)

    Subject
    Law; Medical sciences; Philosophy; Religious studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 25 minutes), £39.00

    Do people have the right to die? Should the state condone the deliberate killing of a person? This film investigates the various religious, moral and philosophical arguments surrounding euthanasia and...

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  7. IVF (2011)

    Subject
    Medical sciences; Philosophy; Religious studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 20 minutes), £49.00 (DVD), £20.00 (1 Year Digital Licence), £49.00 (3 Year Digital Licence)

    It is estimated that 3 million people worldwide have been conceived via in vitro fertilization, or IVF. Having this still relatively recent technology has led us to question who ‘deserves’ it, and the...

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  8. Genetic Engineering (2011)

    Subject
    Philosophy; Religious studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 20 minutes), £49.00 (DVD), £20.00 (1 Year Digital Licence), £49.00 (3 Year Digital Licence)

    Genetic engineering may be one of the greatest breakthroughs in recent history, however, with scientific advancements new ethical issues are raised, forcing us to ask not how, but if we should push genetic...

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  9. Al-Ghazali - The Alchemist of Happiness (2011)

    Director
    Ovidio Salazar
    Producer
    Ovidio Salazar
    Subject
    Philosophy; Religious studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 80 minutes), £19.95

    Born in 1058 in Tus, Khorasan, in present-day Iran, Abu Hamid al-Ghazali was one of the most original thinkers the world has known. Besides being a major influence in the Muslim world, the West has also felt...

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  10. Cut: Slicing Through the Myths of Circumcision (2011)

    Director
    Eliyahu Ungar-Sargon
    Subject
    Medical sciences; Religious studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 70 minutes), $34.95

    CUT is a documentary that examines the subject of male circumcision from a religious, scientific and ethical perspective. Using cutting-edge research, in addition to interview footage of rabbis,...

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