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1) Billy Graham
Language
English
Formats
Description
Explore the life of one of the best-known and most influential religious leaders of the 20th century. An international celebrity by age 30, BILLY GRAHAM built a media empire, preached to millions worldwide, and had the ear of tycoons, presidents and royalty.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
With God Loves Uganda, Academy Award-winning filmmaker Roger Ross Williams (Music by Prudence) explores the role of the American Evangelical movement in fueling Uganda's terrifying turn towards biblical law and the proposed death penalty for homosexuality. Thanks to charismatic religious leaders and a well-financed campaign, these draconian new laws and the politicians that peddle them are winning over the Ugandan public. But these dangerous policies...
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Pharoah Amenhotep IV takes on a new name - Akhenaten - and shifts Egypt's capital to the fascinating city of Amarna. See how his worship of the sun disk defined an era built on temple crops, sacrifices, and complete subservience to the pharaoh. Also learn how relocating his seat of power helped Akhenaten wrestle authority away from religious leaders.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is widely viewed in the US as one of the most complicated geopolitical disputes in the world. But there are also signs that Americans are unfamiliar with one of the core flashpoints of the conflict: the exact nature of Israeĺs ongoing military occupation of Palestinian land. Occupation 101 lays out the basic facts of the occupation in vivid and heart-wrenching detail, offering a crystal-clear and myth-shattering...
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
It picks up where the smash hit, "The Bible", left off, continuing the greatest story ever told and exploring the exciting and inspiring events that followed the Crucifixion of Christ. As most of the world knows, the Crucifixion was only the beginning of the story. The immediate aftermath of Christ's death had a massive impact on his disciples, his mother Mary, and key political and religious leaders of the era, completely altering the entire world...
6) Renewal
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Undetermined
Description
Renewal is the first feature-length documentary film to capture the vitality and diversity of today's religious-environmental activists. From within their Christian, Jewish, Buddhist and Muslim traditions, Americans are becoming caretakers of the Earth. With great courage, these women and men are re-examining what it means to be human and how we live on this planet. Their stories of combating global warming and the devastation of mountaintop removal,...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Caodaists worship the left eye as an Asian synthesis of eastern and western traditions. In this film, they tell their stories of exile, anti-colonial struggle, and building immigrant congregations in California. Footage of rituals and temples, and archival images combine to provide a personal perspective on a largely unknown mystical tradition. Older religious leaders tell how this new faith emerged in colonial Saigon in the 1920s and was soon followed...
Publisher
GoodTimes Entertainment
Pub. Date
©2005
Language
Español
Description
Religious leaders in Jerusalem gather in a shadowy room, trying to decide what to do about a trouble-maker known as Jesus. Knowing that His days on Earth are numbered, Jesus gathers His disciples together for the Last Supper, reassuring them that He will be with them in spirit. Jesus retires to a garden to pray, but is captured by soldiers before dawn, having been betrayed by Judas, one of His disciples. Within a short time He is crucified, but does...
Author
Publisher
Teaching Co
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Introduces the remarkable story of Darwin's ideas, how scientists and religious leaders reacted to them, and the sea of change in human thought that resulted. Perhaps more than any other idea in science, Darwin's theory of natural selection shows how a strikingly original concept can break the bounds of its discipline to influence society at large -- in religion, politics, philosophy, and other spheres--From publisher's website.
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