Valaam, l'archipel des moines

Story of the merits of the revered abbot Luang Pho Khoon.

An intimate portrayal of the everyday lives of Carthusian monks of the Grande Chartreuse, high in th...

The Cistercian monks of Austria are holy men who rise at 4:30 a.m., pray for more than four hours a...

This documentary focuses on the journey of Merton, a bohemian who went from communism to Catholicism...

In the last fifty years the culture of Zen has spread far beyond Japan. Zen centers and zen retreats...

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

The plot of the film unfolds in the ancient monastery of Dokhiar on the west coast of Mount Athos, o...

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

The Athos peninsula in Greece is one of Europe's last secrets. Over 2000 monks live on Athos - cut o...

Thich Nhat Hanh, monk, zen teacher, writer and peace activist, born in Vietnam in 1926, was the orga...

Essene is about daily life in a Benedictine monastery and the resolution of conflict between persona...

Schaedler's film tells the fascinating story of Tibetan monk Gendun Choephel whose robes ultimately...

In his own way, Anatoli Ljutuk is a legend of Tallinn's Old Town - a man from Western Ukraine who ha...

Ivan, first tsar of Russia. History will remember him as "the Terrible. Russian people love him for...

The daily life of the Dalai Lama is brought home with remarkable intimacy in SUNRISE/SUNSET. Granted...

Nepal 1950. A mysterious, unexplored country. The Swiss geologist Toni Hagen, was the first European...

A murder in Paris’ Louvre Museum and cryptic clues in some of Leonardo da Vinci’s most famous painti...