In his lifetime, Thomas Merton was hailed as a prophet and censured for his outspoken social criticism. For nearly 27 years he was a monk of the austere Trappist order, where he became an eloquent spiritual writer and mystic as well as an anti-war advocate and witness to peace. Merton: A Film Biography provides the first comprehensive look at this remarkable 20th century religious philosopher who wrote, in addition to his immensely popular autobiography The Seven Storey Mountain, over 60 books on some of the most pressing social issues of our time, some of which are excerpted here. Merton offers an engaging profile of a man whose presence in the world touched millions of people and whose words and thoughts continue to have a profound impact and relevance today.
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BBC TV movie about the life of the late Francesco Forgione, widely known as Padre Pio.
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Robert Burns was well aware of the revolution taking place across the Atlantic as he grew up. The po...
A celebration of Dr. Maya Angelou by weaving her words with rare and intimate archival photographs a...
The Patti Smith Group's Rockpalast performance in 1979 was a live concert broadcast as part of the G...
Commentator-comic Bill Maher plays devil's advocate with religion as he talks to believers about the...
A cinematic portrait of farmer and writer Wendell Berry. Through his eyes, we see both the changing ...
How do you reconcile a commitment to non-violence when faced with violence? Why do the poor often se...
A documentary about film noir films made in Los Angeles.
An intimate portrayal of the everyday lives of Carthusian monks of the Grande Chartreuse, high in th...
Once upon a time there was a garden, a refuge, a safe haven - 'The Garden of the Finzi Continis'. It...
This is a story of a seemingly quiet and unobtrusive man, author of a colossal and partly unfinished...
An attempt to create a bridge between the different political positions that coexist, sometimes viol...
The film tells of the radical life-search by the Swiss writer Paul Nizon, born 1929 in Bern, Switzer...
A fragmented biography, inconclusive, partial, of the brilliant Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges...
In celebration of his ninetieth birthday, Sir David Attenborough shares extraordinary highlights of ...
This film is a documentary portrait of the great Bulgarian Writer and poet Valeri Petrov.
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