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Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
1994.
Language
English
Description
A conversation with Father Thomas Berry, who was born in the hill country of North Carolina and educated as a Catholic Priest. A historian, environmental activist, and poet, Berry wrote the highly respected The Dream of the Earth.
2) Out of Order
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In Out of Order six former Catholic nuns tell why they entered and why they left religious life. The women (filmmaker Diane Christian is one of them) describe their years in the convent and their return to the secular world.
3) Uncle Poison
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Español
Description
A healer on healing, medicine & religion...Filmed in the modern city of Caracas, capitol of Venezuela, Uncle Poison is an intimate portrait of a traditional faith healer, set against the backdrop of his community's Easter celebrations. Every day Benito Reyes receives people at his house looking for all sorts of cures.
Series
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Every year, in the colonial city of Antigua, Guatemala, the "sorrowful way" of Good Friday is recreated by a path of colored sawdust and flower petals. Along this road several hundred people take turns carrying a ponderous mahoganybier. Indians from the surrounding countryside come to observe the spectacle of townspeople garbed in Biblical and Roman military uniforms.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Portuguese
Description
In the Portuguese village of Senhora Aparecida, an industrial area near Oporto, the annual festival that takes place every 15th of August is being prepared. The biers that reach fifteen meters high and which are carried by 70 men are being erected and decorated.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Español
Description
Semana Santa in Seville documents the Spanish city's annual celebration of Holy Week - a tradition that dates back more than five centuries. Lifelike images of Christ and the Virgin, and scenes of the Passion, are carried in procession through the city, escorted by long files of hooded penitents. Throngs of onlookers from all over the world gather to view the spectacle.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Portuguese
Description
The Feast of the Blessed Sacrament is a four-day extravaganza that attracts crowds of up to 200,000 to the city of New Bedford, Massachusetts. This documentary film takes viewers on a journey from the excitement of the modern feast to the very roots of the Catholic celebration on the beautiful Portuguese island of Madeira.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon discovers evidence of the resurgence of the most powerful underground organization in history, the Illuminati. Upon learning of an unstoppable terrorist act against the Vatican, Langdon travels to Rome and joins forces with Italian scientist Vittoria Vetra and together they will follow the 400-year-old Path of Illumination that leads to the Vatican's only chance for survival.
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