The Sufi and the Scientist is the collective story of Sufi healer Sayyid Arif Hussain, the medieval Sufi Sheikh Haji Ali, and Dr. Thornton Streeter, a scientist working in the realm of human consciousness.
The Sufi and the Scientist is the collective story of Sufi healer Sayyid Arif Hussain, the medieval Sufi Sheikh Haji Ali, and Dr. Thornton Streeter, a scientist working in the realm of human consciousness.
2006-04-09
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"Fascinating India" spreads an impressive panorama of India’s historical and contemporary world. The film presents the most important cities, royal residences and temple precincts. It follows the trail of different religious denominations, which have influenced India up to the present day. Simon Busch and Alexander Sass travelled for months through the north of the Indian subcontinent to discover what is hidden under India’s exotic and enigmatic surface, and to show what is rarely revealed to foreigners. The film deals with daily life in India. In Varanasi, people burn their dead to ashes. At the Kumbh Mela, the biggest religious gathering of the world, 35 million pilgrims bathe in holy River Ganges. This is the first time India is presented in such an alluring and engaging fashion on screen.
In India, in the region of Gujarat, a man whose face is never shown travels through the large city of Vadodara by night and distributes a mysterious illustrated newspaper. It provokes an irresistable desire in all the street merchants and craftsmen to tell stories of ghosts and ghouls.
Amanda is a divorced woman who makes a living as a photographer. During the Fall of the year Amanda begins to see the world in new and different ways when she begins to question her role in life, her relationships with her career and men and what it all means. As the layers to her everyday experiences fall away insertions in the story with scientists, and philosophers and religious leaders impart information directly to an off-screen interviewer about academic issues, and Amanda begins to understand the basis to the quantum world beneath. During her epiphany as she considers the Great Questions raised by the host of inserted thinkers, she slowly comprehends the various inspirations and begins to see the world in a new way.
A look at the enduring relationship between the nomadic shepherds and the Indian wolf, who both defy the pressures of the modern world, in the south central plains of India.
Aristocracy, army, elephants and more mark the start of the 1903 Durbar.
A documentary exploring the "respectable" and "immoral" stereotypes of women in Indian society told from the point of view of 2 strip-tease dancers in a cabaret house in Bombay.
The Governor of Bengal and family - on and off duty.
The future Edward VIII visits Malakand, Kapurthala and opens the Royal Military College at Dehra Dun
The future Edward VIII visits his Empire, with Indian royalty, elephants, palaces and temples.
The future Edward VIII enjoys receptions, playing polo and hunting tigers on his royal tour.
The future Edward VIII enjoys stunning mountain scenery on a visit to the Khyber Pass during his royal tour
Indian elephants in action as working animals and in hunting.
Tigers in the Himalayan foothills, filmed by famous hunter and conservationist Jim Corbett.
The future Edward VIII opens a durbar and enjoys a day at the races before inspecting the fire brigade in Calcutta.
Richly detailed record of the Prince of Wales' Indian tour.
This official travelogue of a royal tour follows the Prince on a series of regimental displays and a tiger hunt.
PHI is a documentary about the evolution of consciousness. Take a journey with some of the world’s most renowned experts in spirituality, psychology, and philosophy as we unravel the ego, embark on a journey of self-discovery, and ultimately find and share a path to mindful existence. The film itself is an experience. One that’ll help you uncover the deepest, truest you.
A Suitable Girl follows three young women in India struggling to maintain their identities and follow their dreams amid intense pressure to get married. The film examines the women's complex relationship with marriage, family, and society.