Religious Studies
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The Burning Times - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB526112This beautifully crafted film is an in-depth look at the witch-hunts that swept through Europe just...
The Chinese Violin - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB525937A young girl and her father leave everything familiar behind when they move to Canada from China...
The Danish Poet - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB537002Can we trace the chain of events that leads to our own birth? Is our existence just coincidence? Do...
The Days Before Christmas - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB523846Montréal readies itself for Christmas, its usual quick tempo accelerated into one last spurt of...
The Egg - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB523897The symbolic value of the egg throughout history is represented in this film in colourful...
The Fairy Faith - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB524351A fairy couple tries to steal a man's shadow. Another takes a man's wife. And yet another, claims a...
The Forbidden Land - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB524876The Forbidden Land examines the growing divisions within the Catholic Church in Brazil. The...
The Gift of Diabetes - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB534259Diabetes has reached epidemic proportions among Indigenous peoples in Canada. Poor dietary habits...
The Gossips - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB524735A small village in the Acadian region of Nova Scotia. A couple living out of wedlock and a...
The Great Energy Waste - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB526838An animated allegory on Canadian people acting as if they were deliberately making a mockery of the...
The Harvest - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB523217A portrayal of the kind of problems a rural clergyman is called upon to solve and how they add...
The Hutterites - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB523601The followers of Jacob Hutter live in farm communities, devoutly holding to the rules their founder...
The India Trip - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB522663Pondicherry, an ancient city near the Southern tip of India, was for several centuries an outpost...
The Kitchen Goddess - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB525524In the chaos of the post-modern world we still need the village psychic. Throughout the Maritime...
The Last Days of Okak - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB525545Only grass-covered ruins remain of the once-thriving town of Okak, an Inuit settlement on the...
The Legend of the Flying Canoe (La Chasse-galerie) - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB525255The time: New Year's Eve, late 1800s. The place: Gatineau Valley, Quebec. A group of loggers...
The Little Sisters - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB559326A privileged view of the convent life of Les Servantes de Jésus-Marie at Hull, Québec, an order...
The Living Stone - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB522061This film shows the inspiration, often related to belief in the supernatural, behind Inuit...
The Longhouse People - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB527912The life and religion of the Longhouse People. The film shows a rain dance, a healing ceremony...
The Memory Merchant - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB540825What happens to our treasured belongings when we die or when we no longer feel attached to them...
The Merry World of Léopold Z - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB528806Christmas Eve in Montréal and, in the midst of the worst blizzard of the year, a man performs that...
The Northern Lights - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB524645Since the beginning of time, people have gazed into the polar skies, spellbound by dancing beams...
The Old Believers - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB520985This extraordinary film introduces us to the Reutov family, part of an isolated northern Alberta...
The Pacifist Who Went to War - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB520861In 1939, as Canada joined World War II, a social crisis pulled apart the Mennonite communities of...
The People at Dipper - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB520674A 1966 film showing life among the Chipewyan from a reserve in northern Saskatchewan, where new...
The People of the Book - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB525358The Book is the Torah, and in this film the people are the Jews of Canada, many of whom live in...
The Purse - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB526897A provocative film about conscience, or the lack of it. An elderly woman "finds" a purse on the...
The Sacred Sundance: The Transfer of a Ceremony - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB545972Under a sweltering July sky, participants in the sacred Sundance ceremony go four days without food...
The Spirit Within - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB528305The Spirit Within looks at Native spirituality programs which have been set up in western Canadian...
The Story of Christmas - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB520594The familiar story, told this time with the glowing, cameo-like zinc cut-outs of film animator...
The Street (1976) - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB521317This award-winning animation film spares no feelings and minces no words. A poignant interpretation...
The Streets of Saigon - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB522212A film about the people of Saigon as seen through the experiences of three young American...
The Tibetan Book of the Dead: A Way of Life - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB523935This two-part series explores ancient teachings on death and dying. It was filmed over a four-month...
The Tibetan Book of the Dead: The Great Liberation - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB524066The Tibetan Book of the Dead is a two-part series that explores ancient teachings on death and...
The Voyage of the St. Louis - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB525785In the summer of 1939, the German luxury liner St. Louis sailed from Hamburg to Cuba, carrying 937...
The Washing of Tears - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB522203In 1903, a unique and magnificent Whaler's shrine was shipped from Friendly Cove, on the far...
This Is Me - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB523569Some of life's most profound questions are tackled by ten children ranging in age from six to...
Through Ignorance or Design: A Discussion of Stereotypes - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB526557How are we affected by often unknowingly held misinterpretations of others' customs and beliefs...
To Be - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB520832Entertaining. Funny. Provocative. Through a rich blend of fantasy and reality, this animation...
To Set Our House in Order - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB520318In coming to grips with previously well-concealed information about the death of her uncle in World...
Totems - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB524478For Indigenous peoples the totem pole is the symbol of life, portraying the relationship between...
Toys - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB521518It begins with the faces of children outside a toy store window at Christmas--but then the war toys...
Tulku - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB548485Gesar Mukpo was three when he became one of the first people born in the West to be recognized as...
Two Dreams of a Nation: The Fortin Family of Quebec and Alberta...
National Film Board Of Canada NFB523144It's the story of two generations and two branches of the Fortin family of Lac St-Jean, Québec...
Ukrainian Winter Holidays - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB528322Ukrainian communities of the Canadian prairies still follow the Julian calendar and celebrate...
Unitas Fratrum: The Moravians in Labrador - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB528797The Moravians, an early Protestant group, founded missions on the Labrador coast in the eighteenth...
Urban Elder - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB522785In the last forty years, Canada has seen a major population shift of Indigenous peoples to urban...
Vendetta Song - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB532556Eylem Kaftan gazes from her hotel window down over the bustling streets of Istanbul. She is...
Vianoce - A Canadian Slovak Christmas - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB521674The mystery and beauty of the old Slovak customs are maintained in the new land. A Slovak community...
Ville-Marie - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB521183Today it is the city of Montréal, but three centuries ago the tiny band of missionary founders...