The Pergamon Altar: a marvel of the Ancient World

Unearthed in the 19th century in what is now Turkey, the Altar of Pergamon has been on display in Berlin since 1901. This documentary traces the eventful history of this masterpiece of antiquity.

Los Resucitados 2: El Altar de la Luz

Second part of the film Los resucitados (The Resurrected), in which the veteran Flanders tercios who once fought for Christianity in a thousand crusades in the name of the Faith want to prevent the fall of God's kingdom

Chikara Never Kneel At The Altar Of Conformity

Friday, July 31st, 2009 :: Rayna VonTash faces her trainer, Daizee Haze in a ladies bout. Gen 1 Originals return in a very special attraction, when Dragonfly wrestles Rorschach! In the main event, Green Ant makes his off

The Story of St. Mary's Altar

St. Mary's Altar, stolen by the German occupier during the Second World War and hidden in Nuremberg, returned to Cracow in 1946. Thanks to conservators and filmmakers, we can see the beauty and majesty of the story of th

Altar Gang Skiff and AJ's Fantastic Voyage

What’s better than being an explorer, or being a captain of your very own spaceship? Not much, according to AJ! AJ, an aspergillum bored by everything but his own daydreams, is taken on an unexpected journey by his frien

earth altars

sofía returns to the site of her kidnapping. Amid the darkness and silence, her hands search underground for traces of a buried memory. Others replicate this chimerical gesture. The earth is an immutable witness that r

The Four Altars

The intensity of Ana's life, a Spanish journalist, has reached its climax. On a trip to the Amazon that begins as an investigation into deforestation and illegal gold, she meets Don Abel, a man initiated into an ancient

Secrets of the Ghent Altarpiece

A documentary about the "The Mystic Lamb" painted at the beginning of the 15th century by the Van Eyck brothers.

Altares

The altar ceases to be ceremonial and ostentatious, becoming—apparently—earthly and everyday. Most people carry these small altars without realizing it.

Altars of Desire

Mae Murray plays a willful American lass whose wealthy dad (Robert Edeson) sends her to Paris so that she may pick up some "refinement." Instead, she picks up a fortune-hunting nobleman, played as a frivolous fop by a mo

Altarpiece Artists

The art of votive offerings is fading, and with it, its creators, the retableros. We will witness the work of some of these last artisans, masters of a craft deeply rooted in tradition, religious and social identity in M

Un altare per la madre

Altars of the World

This is the last film to ever win the Golden Globe as best Documentary, now an extinct category in the Globes.

Dhiaab ealaa altariq

Salem, an assistant director, believes that the famous actress Nagwa loves him. So he steals a large sum of money from the studio where he works to spend on her, and confesses his love and his crime to her. He hears her

The Road

The second Libyan feature-length film.

Idols Behind Altars: A Poetic Reverie for Anita Brenner

Famed Russian revolutionary film director Sergei Eisenstein traveled to Mexico in December 1930 to experience firsthand its “geographical, ethnological, cultural and historical diversity” and to make the feature film kno

Maganeen Ala Al-Tareeq

On the Cairo-Suez desert road, a car suddenly stops and its driver calls for help from passersby after suffering a heart attack. Some of the car passengers gather around him and he confesses to them that he buried a trea

Shrines

Using performative movements, the camera celebrates small shrines and affirms traditions of ritual and dance.

Abandoned Altars

A film about migrant workers in the Drimkol region of Macedonia, when the people of this region, known as masons, made their own and their families' livelihoods by working all over the world. The tradition of migrant wor

O Segredo das Pedras Vivas

In an isolated village of the Alentejo region, a conflict arises. José Vitorino, one of the landowners of the region, rich in prehistoric monuments, wants to build a luxurious solarium in lands filled with ancient rocks,