An intimate portrayal of the everyday lives of Carthusian monks of the Grande Chartreuse, high in the French Alps (Chartreuse Mountains). The idea for the film was proposed to the monks in 1984, but the Carthusians said they wanted time to think about it. The Carthusians finally contacted Gröning 16 years later to say they were now willing to permit Gröning to shoot the movie, if he was still interested.

Filmmaker Alain Resnais documents the atrocities behind the walls of Hitler's concentration camps.

Max Frisch was the last big Swiss intellectual widely respected as a “voice” in its own right – a ch...

Jesus Camp is a Christian summer camp where children hone their "prophetic gifts" and are schooled i...

The film describes the microcosmos of the small village Wacken and shows the clash of the cultures, ...

'From One Day To The Next' follows four elderly people through their everyday lives, observing how t...

How do we live, knowing we are going to die? In search of answers, we probed the minds of atheists, ...

Bill Nye and Ken Ham debate whether creation is a viable model of origins in today's modern scientif...

On the buckle of the Bible Belt lies the Oklahoman branch of the ISUPK, an ethnic religious group li...

How do you reconcile a commitment to non-violence when faced with violence? Why do the poor often se...

In his lifetime, Thomas Merton was hailed as a prophet and censured for his outspoken social critici...

A filmmaker's lifelong dream quickly becomes his worst nightmare when he attempts to make a low budg...

A strange and mischievous documentary on an archeological site in the Qaytarieh hills in Tehran. Thi...

Chronological look at the fiasco in Iraq, especially decisions made in the spring of 2003 - and the ...

Commentator-comic Bill Maher plays devil's advocate with religion as he talks to believers about the...

Shannon Amen unearths the passionate and pained expressions of a young woman overwhelmed by guilt an...

In 1609, Henry IV sent Inquisition judge Pierre de Lancre to the French Basque Country to investigat...

Dr. Mark Fairchild, world-renowned archaeologist, traces the hidden years of Saint Paul's life in th...

Documentary film about Tony Halme, masculinity and populism. The film follows how Tony Halme created...

A Cow at My Table explores Western attitudes towards farm animals and meat, and the intense battle b...