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1) Sacred
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Multiple
Description
A documentary film that draws on the work of filmmakers around the world to explore religious experiences and rituals as they relate to the life cycle: birth, adolescence, marriage, old age, death and other key passages of life.
Drawing on the works of filmmakers around the world, explores religious experiences in various cultures as they relate to the milestones of human life.
3) Walkabout
Series
Criterion collection volume 10
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet ([24] pages : color illustrations ; 19 cm).
Language
English
Description
A young sister and brother are abandoned in the harsh Australian outback and must learn to exist in the natural world, without their usual comforts, in this hypnotic masterpiece. Along the way, they met a young aborigine on his 'walkabout, ' a rite of passage in which adolescent boys are initiated into manhood by journeying into the wilderness alone.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"J.H. "Billy" Williams always had an affinity for animals. So, when he responded to job offer with the East India Company to work with logging elephants his family wasn't surprised, though worried that he had already come back from World War I in one piece, would he be so lucky with India? Not only did he find his calling with the elephants in India, Billy and his elephants became war heroes. At the onset of World War II, Williams formed Elephant...
Author
Physical Desc
xii, 476 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1858, a German princess, recently inducted into the convent of Sant'Ambrogio in Rome, wrote a frantic letter to her cousin, a confidant of the Pope, claiming that she was being abused and feared for her life. The subsequent investigation by the Church's Inquisition uncovered illicit behavior of the convent's beautiful young mistress, Maria Luisa. Having convinced those under her charge that she was having regular visions and heavenly visitations,...
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