In 2004 Sheldon Oberman, a Jewish storyteller from Winnipeg, passed away. At his funeral the presiding Rabbi said that Sheldon’s spirit was with the congregants in the sanctuary. For filmmaker Saul Henteleff this was a revelation that began a personal and spiritual journey into the meaning of Jewish death. My Jewish Death is the result of this journey.
Thomas Haemmerli is about to celebrate his fortieth birthday when he learns of his mother's death. A...
Commentator-comic Bill Maher plays devil's advocate with religion as he talks to believers about the...
Germany in Autumn does not have a plot per se; it mixes documentary footage, along with standard mov...
Yamamoto Senji fought against the Peace Preservation Law in the Diet. On March 5, 1929 he was assass...
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Darrell Scott tells stories of his daughter, high school student, Rachel Joy Scott. Also included is...
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William Wolff is nearly 90 and perhaps the most unconventional rabbi in the world. As the State Rab...
An intimate portrait of Matthew Shepard, the gay young man murdered in one of the most notorious hat...
Stacey tackles the subject of death by immersing herself in the world of undertaking at a century-ol...
Coverage of the State Funeral of HM the Queen, including the service from Westminster Abbey and the ...
The story of Robert Flanagan, a man who was born with cystic fibrosis and told he wouldn't live past...
Searching for the root of generational trauma, the director takes a camera into his estranged grandf...
Two days in the life of priest Father Fred Stadtmuller whose New Mexico parish is so large he can on...
Poignant postwar appeal for Britain’s Jewry to support orphaned Jewish children rescued from Europe.
This controversial film from director Glauber Rocha records the funeral of his friend, major Brazili...
Robert Drew shows the sights and sounds from the funeral of President John F. Kennedy in November, 1...
For most of us a funeral is traditionally a modest, somber affair, but there are some families who a...
The first woman rabbi in the world, Regina Jonas, comes to light, courtesy of Rachel Weisz – who pla...
On 28 January 1901 the great musician Giuseppe Verdi died from the consequences of a stroke that had...