Lil help?

Power of Myth is excellent. Joseph Campbell is a mythologian and touches on the commonalities between world myths.
 
I third the advice for Joseph Campbell's documentary. It's a whole series and it is great.

I have a good documentary on witchcraft, witch burnings, and ergot poisoning... it was on PBS at one point. I have no idea if it is available elsewhere. I taped it.

I'd be really curious about this topic too. I've seen some good ethnographic films, but most of them are extremely expensive to buy- like $200. I have no idea why, but probably limited sales (though with a price like that, no wonder sales are limited).

There's a cheap good one called Ongka's Big Moka (no, really. LOL A moka is a sort of politically-important party) that isn't focused on religion per se but would show bits and pieces of their belief system and how they handle funerals and such.

The Devil's Playground is pretty good on the Amish rumspringer (the time of adolescence before someone commits to the church and "runs around").

My local Hollywood Video in California had a lot of documentary type films on beliefs on things like faeries. But I do not have a film list. :(
 
I've been meaning to get a copy of documentary The Jew in the Lotus, but that's probably a little obscure. It deals with a delegate of Jewish rabbis who meet with the Dalai Lama in Dharamsala and from the description focuses more on the poet Rodger Kamenetz and his own experiences over the trip.
 
Alex P said:
Looking for educational/informative religious documentarys/tv shows.... history belife and so on of any faith or religion... Any names?
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got a shipping address? I have some VHS tapes you can have. You are welcome to them.
 
Just make sure you don't accidentally send those that you taped over with your wife
 
Quahom1 said:
got a shipping address? I have some VHS tapes you can have. You are welcome to them.
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That is very, very kind of you brother, however I have no facility to play VHS. (all digital here) I do appreicate the offer though seriously I do.


OH and downloaded the power of myth very high quality shall watch it tomorrow.
 
Alex P said:
That is very, very kind of you brother, however I have no facility to play VHS. (all digital here) I do appreicate the offer though seriously I do.


OH and downloaded the power of myth very high quality shall watch it tomorrow.
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Have a VHS player that could go with them...but you'd have to "dum down" the voltage of the unit to play the tapes (220/240 50 hrz to 120 60hrz).
 
Alex P said:
Looking for educational/informative religious documentarys/tv shows.... history belife and so on of any faith or religion... Any names?
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Jehovah’s Witnesses—Their Modern Development and Growth
The modern history of Jehovah’s Witnesses
 
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