About this product: Throughout the world, mankind is joined - but sometimes divided - by the depth and passion of his religious devotion. This film investigates the fascinating range of major religions from all over the globe and explores their differences and similarities. Features All new location footage • Expert comment and analysis • Stylish reconstructions • Period images • The religions and people.
About this product: Based on karen armstrongs best-selling book this feature length film guides viewers along one of humanitys most elusive quests. Studio: A&e Home Video Release Date: 04/26/2005
About this product: EMPIRES: GREAT RELIGIONS is a compilation of five outstanding stories of some of history’s greatest religions and religious figures. This DVD collection includes: Islam: Empire of Faith, Martin Luther, Kingdom of David: The Saga of the Israelites, Peter & Paul: The Making of the Christian Revolution and Warriors.
About this product: Bill Maher incurs the wrath of multiple religious zealots of myriad faiths in Religulous, a snarky but unexpectedly powerful documentary. Maher bluntly disputes the value of religion in a world made increasingly dangerous, on the one hand, by fanaticism of all kinds and the human race's environmental self-destructiveness on the other. No one is immune from Maher's dogged questions about the illogic and negative fallout of doctrines that advocate violence or shun scientific evidence or marginalize minorities or punish anyone who disagrees with any religion's extreme tenets. Maher takes his inquiries to the Vatican; to small, evangelical Christian churches; to Jerusalem; to Amsterdam (where elements of an increasingly vocal Muslim community have shown violence toward critics); to a large, African-American church in a big city; and to several bizarre theme parks celebrating creationism and the life of Jesus. Wherever he goes, Maher seeks to demonstrate that many of the world's major religions are rife with hypocrisy, completely self-referential, and destructive to the collective good. The fast-moving, globe-trotting film is full of highlights, including a great scene where Maher, in disguise, argues for the core beliefs of Scientology to a bemused crowd at Speaker's Corner in London's Hyde Park. There's also a wonderful moment where Maher, just having been thrown out of the Vatican, gets a terrific interview with a maverick priest. Raised Catholic but in reality half-Jewish, Maher also spends time with his mother and sister trying to reconcile the role of religion in his childhood. Everything is really leading toward Maher's major point that atheists and agnostics are in a sizable minority but are afraid to speak out in these days of zealotry. If that minority stays in the background, Maher says, we may very well be heading toward catastrophe. --Tom Keogh
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About this product: Bowling for Columbine did it to the gun culture. Super Size Me did it to fast food. Now The God Who Wasn't There does it to religion.
Holding modern Christianity up to a bright spotlight, this eye-opening documentary asks the questions few dare to ask. "Did Jesus even exist?" is just the beginning for The God Who Wasn't There. Your guide through the world of Christendom is former fundamentalist Brian Flemming, joined by such luminaries as Jesus Seminar fellow Robert M. Price, author Sam Harris and historian Richard Carrier.
In addition to the film, which won the Best Documentary award at the 2005 Grassroots Cinema Film Festival, this feature-packed DVD includes:
-Special commentary tracks with Richard Dawkins and Earl Doherty -Over one hour of compelling additional interview footage -An in-depth Web-enabled slide show -Music from the soundtrack -Bios of all participants
This provocative DVD takes off the gloves and gives religion an unprecedented, no-holds-barred examination. So hold on to your faith. It's in for a bumpy ride.
About this product: Since 1980, Bad Religion have been stunning the music world by mixing melody, thought, attitude, speed and ability. Live at the Palladium, filmed over two soldout nights at Hollywood's legendary Palladium last fall, serves as a career retrospective for one of the most beloved and respected punk rock bands in the history of a the genre. Track Listings: Sinister Rouge, All There Is, No Control, Supersonic, Social Suicide, Los Angeles is Burning, Modern Man, Kyoto Now, Stranger Than Fiction, Struck A Nerve, Let Them Eat War, Suffer, Change of Ideas, God's Love, Recipe for Hate, Atomic Garden, 10 in 2010, You, Come Join Us, I Want to Conquer the World, 21st Century Digital Boy, Generator, F**k Armageddon, Anesthesia, Infected, Cease, American Jesus, Along the Way, Do What You Want, Only Gonna Die, Sorrow
About this product: Language: Chinese with English and Simplified Chinese subtitles. Taoism, a combination of many traditional Chinese beliefs and health preserving practices, is a native religion of China with Lao Tse as its founder. This DVD program is about the origin, evolvement of Taoism as well as its great impacts upon China s traditional literature, philosophy, medicine, chemistry and health preservation. Special efforts have been made to trace Taoism in modern Chinese people s everyday life. All Titles in the Chinese Religions Series: Chinese Religions: Chinese Taoism; Chinese Religions: China's Buddhism; Chinese Religions: China's Tibetan Buddhist; Chinese Religions: China's Islam; Chinese Religions: China's Christianity; Chinese Religions: China's Catholicism
About this product: Bad Religion: Along the Way is a vigorous account of the seminal punk band's swing through Germany during its acclaimed, 1989 Suffer Tour. Interspersing low-definition video footage from multiple dates (often within the same song, thus explaining lead vocalist Greg Graffin's many changes of shirts), Along the Way showcases the then-10-year-old, ever-changing group at a creative peak and featuring at least three original members. Guitarist (and founder of Epitaph Records) Brett Gurewitz leads the charge on an ironically bright-eyed "Suffer," and thrusts the playful, smart "Doing Time" into an impressive feedback maw. While stage-diving fans bop around an unflappable Graffin, the band rolls out some of its most impressive, if lyrically ponderous, material, including the epic "Latch Key Kids" and the pop-laced "Along the Way." This DVD works in three short breaks between songs for quickie interviews, including one in which Graffin, on his Ph.D track at the time, compares performing to teaching. --Tom Keogh
About this product: What roles do race and religion play in the current election, and what do they say about America today? How do these roles affect the key issues concerning our country? The Class of 1943 Professor at Princeton University, Cornel West is one of America's most provocative public intellectuals and the author of Hope on a Tightrope. Philosopher Susan Neiman is the director of the Einstein Forum in Berlin and the author of Moral Clarity: A Guide for Grown-Up Idealists.
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