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.

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

Inner peace and self-fulfillment are possible for each of us. Two modern day monks set off on an int...

Firebrand pastors Greg Locke and Mike Signorelli merge condensed versions of their groundbreaking fi...

Nicholas Vreeland walked away from a worldly life of privilege to become a Tibetan Buddhist monk. Gr...

This film describes a psychological state "kin to moonstruck, its images emblems (not quite symbols)...

How do you reconcile a commitment to non-violence when faced with violence? Why do the poor often se...
They are young, all-American girls who enjoy horse riding, karate and Sherlock Holmes. But there's m...

The true story of Joe Simpson and Simon Yates' disastrous and nearly-fatal mountain climb of 6,344m ...

Follow the shocking, yet humorous, journey of an aspiring environmentalist, as he daringly seeks to ...

A trip into grandma's intimate life shows the status of Slovenian women in the first half of the 20t...

Tito del Amo, a passionate 72-year-old researcher, takes the final step to unravel the enigma about ...

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

Mindfulness is the art of simply being present. From Oprah to Phil Jackson to Anderson Cooper, it's...

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

In 1996, electric cars began to appear on roads all over California. They were quiet and fast, produ...

Record high oil prices, global warming, and an insatiable demand for energy: these issues define our...

The story of three Turkish men. They all grew up in Switzerland and all got deported after various c...

A documentary about healers from the Swiss canton of Appenzell.