A camera crew has spent a year filming a world that few have ever seen. With unprecedented access to the Vatican and the people who live and work there, this is a unique profile of the heart of the Catholic Church and the world’s smallest sovereign state. Archivists reveal the Vatican’s secrets, including the signed [...]
Nestled deep in the postcard-perfect French Alps, the Grande Chartreuse is considered one of the world’s most ascetic monasteries. In 1984, German filmmaker Philip Gröning wrote to the Carthusian order for permission to make a documentary about them. They said they would get back to him. Sixteen years later, they were ready. Gröning, sans crew [...]
A trilogy of Documentary Series on Northern Ireland Conflict – Provos, Loyalists and Brits. BBC documentary series looking at the history of the IRA and Sinn Fein over the past 30 years, an intimate account of the lives of loyalist paramilitaries and the role of the British armed forces in Northern Ireland, made by journalist [...]
The Army of God is a militant anti-abortionist organization whose operational method is one of Leaderless Resistance, a type of cell structured organizing that is designed to be highly difficult to trace and monitor. This structure also makes coordination and cooperation between cells very difficult, minimalizing its ability to plan large operations. The Army of [...]
Presented by former CIA Operative, Robert Baer (George Clooney’s character from Syriana) returns to a former theatre of operations, the Middle East, to trace the origins of the modern day suicide bomber. A two-part series, which focuses on issues from the child martyrs of the Iran-Iraq war, the truck bombers in southern Lebanon, to the [...]
The five Amish teenagers – Jerry, Andrew, Leah, Becky and Leon – bid an emotional farewell to their loved ones, as leaving their closed community for the very first time hits home. Their first challenge is getting to the UK: how will they cope with their first experience on an aeroplane? Over four weeks they [...]
Since the End of World War II, the People of Tanna, a remote island in the south Pacific in the archipelago of Vanuatu, idolize an American prophet. His name is John Frum. (Supposed picture of John) The islanders believe he is an American pilot that returned to the United States after the war, and will [...]
Bob Larson confronts Satanism’s First Family of black magic, Nikolas Schreck and Zeena Schreck. Their philosophy of the occult explain their devotion to Set, the ancient Egyptian Lord of Darkness. This video is an inside look at Satanism in America, the counterpoint to Christianity.
After a highly unconventional childhood in Children of God, a cult that mixed religion with sex, filmmaker Noah Thomson escaped to begin a normal life. But after experiencing years of sexual abuse and neglect, Thomson and other former members of the organization may never know what “normal” is. The documentary follows Thomson as he searches [...]
In the Tibetan Buddhist tradition, it is believed that several years after the death of select religious leaders their reincarnations can be identified as young children. These young children, or tulkus, are immersed in a rigorous 20-year education that facilitates their spiritual growth and transfers the rich knowledge of their spiritual lineage from generation to [...]
This is an on-going Youtubian documentary experience giving a broad insight into one man’s spiritual journey. The YouTube user Evid3nc3 describes in a series of small video clips his explanation as to why he choses to become an atheist. His own thoughts displayed through this description: I explain my life as a born-again Christian, my [...]
Louis Theroux spends time with a small and very committed subculture of ultra-nationalist Jewish settlers. He discovers a group of people who consider it their religious and political obligation to populate some of the most sensitive and disputed areas of the West Bank, especially those with a spiritual significance dating back to the Bible. Throughout [...]
