This video documents a group of senior citizens in Galveston, Texas, who gather twice a month to “re-member” their lives through poems and stories. We come to know and love these ordinary people who become elder guides for us. With honesty and poignancy, they model the art of accepting the…
In sub Saharan Africa, AIDS is wiping out a generation of parents, leaving 13 million orphans behind. Many of the grandmothers, impoverished by the epidemic, have rescued these children from the streets and are struggling to raise them. A similar thing is happening in cities all across America. AIDS,…
Originally broadcast on ABC-TV as a special presentation, this documentary journey across America takes us on the spiritual paths of people who feel the pinch of just being alive–people committed to a more complete understanding of themselves in relation to the larger mystery of being, whether…
In this film, six women—two Jews, two Muslims, and two Christians—challenge current justifications of war as a righteous undertaking. They remind us that the great monotheisms teach peace rather than violence. In explaining how their own work in the world is inspired by their faith traditions,…
Humorous, tender, and generous in spirit, this affectionate biography of Janie Spahr and her family is laid out against the background of our deep cultural prejudices. It proves that acceptance and love trump alienation and intolerance any day. This honest portrait of a family’s journey of acceptance…
Maybe We’re Talking About A Different God is the story of the Reverend Jane Adams Spahr, a Presbyterian minister and a lesbian, who was called to serve as pastor of a large metropolitan church in Rochester, New York. Although ninety percent of the congregation voted to approve her as their minister,…
This documentary portrays five women—a painter, a writer, a performance artist, a teacher, and a massage therapist—who use their arts to heal the split between sexuality and spirituality as they struggle with being openly (and joyously) lesbian. In warning us to “beware of Eve the…
Arms for the Poor goes beyond politics and economics to ask whether the arms trade might be killing America’s national soul. While the poor need housing, education, and health care, U.S. taxpayers support an already-immense military budget that is growing larger deal by deal. The film presents…
An inspiring examination of the folk who use and defend treating cancer and other illnesses with Cannabis.
Der Kleinbauer Gonzalo lebt mit seiner Familie in einem Dorf im Hochland von Kastilien. Die alte und weise Tradition der Selbstversorgung - vom Schweineschlachten bis zum eigenen Wein - kommt ihm sehr zu Gute in Zeiten der Krise, die Spanien gerade durchlebt. Denn auch sein Dorf ist von Firmenschließungen…
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High on the Tibetan Plateau, the old way of life is on the decline. We follow the nomads of Ritoma as they navigate the collision of tradition and modernity.
