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1) Luther
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (123 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Regional princes and the powerful Catholic Church wield a fast, firm and merciless grip over 16th-century Germany. But when Martin Luther issues a shocking challenge to their authority, the people declare him their new leader - and hero. Even when threatened with violent death, Luther refused to back down, sparking a bloody religious revolution that shakes the entire continent to its core.
2) Courageous
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1 videodisc (approximately 129 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When a tragedy strikes close to home, four police officers struggle with their faith and their roles as husbands and fathers. Together they make a decision that will change all of their lives.
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1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Documentary containing remarkable footage of the rites and liturgies surrounding and following the death of a Ladakhi elder. The Dalai Lama explains his own feelings about death, while other scenes within a palliative care hospice in San Francisco depict the use of the texts to counsel dying patients.
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1 videodisc (approximately 165 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Many of the world's best-known landmarks have been inspired by faith, and today more worshippers than ever are flocking to these sacred places. For some, they're sanctuaries for quiet contemplation. For others, they're sites for astonishing acts of worship, dangerous challenges, and extraordinary deeds of devotion. Discover what people do for faith in some of the most sacred places on Earth.
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1 videodisc (50 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
New excavations are revealing more than we've ever known about what the Egyptians knew they'd encounter on their afterlife journey. Today, Dr. Zahi Hawass is excavating a mysterious tunnel at the very bottom of Seti's tomb, a perilous tunnel dug far below the surface of the Earth. On a true Indiana Jones-style quest, Dr. Hawass will put his own life in jeopardy for the sake of discovery.
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1 videodisc (104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Do nothing. Stay and fight. Or leave. In 2010, the women of an isolated religious community grapple with reconciling a brutal reality with their faith.
The women of an insular, ultraconservative religious community grapple with reconciling a brutal reality with their faith. Through the backstory, we see a community of women come together in the aftermath of pervasive sexual assault to figure out how they might move forward to build a better world...
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1 videodisc (88 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When a Jew, a Christian, a Muslim, a Hindu, a Buddhist, and an atheist walk onto a stage, what in God's name could possibly go wrong? Viewers will discover the uproarious truth. A hilarious concert movie, as well as a behind-the-scenes documentary, it's one religious service viewers won₂t want to miss. Featuring John Fugelsang, Moshe Kasher, Sammy Obeid, Tapan Trivedi, Tissa Hami, and Keith Lowell Jensen.
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1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, black and white with color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Charles Burnett explores his own childhood being shuttled between a religious mother and a blues-loving uncle. His film combines fiction with documentary footage in the story of a young boy kidnapped to prevent his being saved by a church that viewed blues as the devil's music.
11) Black narcissus
Series
Criterion collection volume 93
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet.
Language
English
Description
A group of Anglican nuns runs into trouble when they try to start a hospital and a school in the Himalayas.
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Language
English
Description
One Man's Journey to Truth is a story about destruction and rebirth, discovery and truth. Denie Hiestand's journey from obscurity as a farmer and family man into the limitless life as a world-renowned energy healer did not come without tremendous sacrifice, personal loss and sorrow.
13) The Overnighters
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Language
English
Description
A modern-day Grapes of Wrath, this award-winning documentary is an intimate portrait of job-seekers desperately chasing the broken American Dream to the tiny oil boom town of Williston, North Dakota, and the local pastor who risks everything to help them.
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1 videodisc (80 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In 2015, Pope Francis wrote Laudato Si', a letter to every single person in the world, confronting the looming calamity of human impact on Earth and ourselves. It is one of the most ambitious and revolutionary papal statements in history since it is directed not just to Catholics, but to everyone on the planet and it outlines the most critical environmental and social issues that we collectively face. There are four 'voices' that Pope Francis calls...
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1 videodisc (95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Ben Stein travels the world on a quest to learn an awe-inspiring truth - that educators and scientists are being ridiculed, denied tenure, and even fired for merely believing that there might be evidence of 'design' in nature, and that perhaps life is not the result of accidental, random chance, but of intelligent design.
16) Sacred
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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.
17) Dead man walking
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1 videodisc (approximately 122 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
Description
Matthew Poncelet is the convicted killer of two teenage lovers, preparing to end his life on death row. In response to a letter, Sister Helen Prejean visits Matthew and finds herself face-to-face with a killer who still pleads his innocence. When the date is set for his execution death by lethal injection, Poncelet asks Sister Helen to be his spiritual advisor and she agrees, little knowing the outrage that will follow her decision.
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1 videodisc (69 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
Description
A contemporary fresh look at what is truly important for the fourteenth Dalai Lama: The ongoing confrontation between Tibetans and China; His Holiness's influence in political and spiritual spheres; his work with educators and neuropsychologists; and his personal feelings on aging, dying and the question: Will there be a fifteenth Dalai Lama, or will he be the last.
19) Samsara
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (approximately 101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Prepare yourself for an unparalleled sensory experience. Filmed over a period of almost five years and in twenty-five countries, it explores the wonders of the world from sacred grounds to industrial sites, looking into the unfathomable reaches of man's spirituality and the human experience. Photographed entirely in 70mm and transferred to 4K digital projection format, its mesmerizing images of unprecedented clarity illuminate the links between humanity...
20) Son of Al Qaeda
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1 videodisc (60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Growing up in the 1990s, Abdurahman Khadr's playmates were the children of his father's longtime friend, Osama bin Laden. How Khadr was raised to be an Al Qaeda terrorist -- and how he ultimately found himself working for the U.S. -- is the focus of FRONTLINE's "Son of Al Qaeda." Through interviews with Khadr as well as his mother and siblings, the documentary recounts his incredible journey from terrorist upbringing to CIA informant, offering a...
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