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We, featuring the words of Arundhati Roy

Posted on September 10, 2011October 20, 2023 by Dharma Documentaries

This is a ‘must see’ 64 minute documentary film. The film examines the widely unregarded worlds of Anthropology and Geopolitics in a very dynamic manner, and is probably stylistically quite unlike any documentary that you have previously seen.

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The Genius of Photography 2: Documents for Artists

Posted on September 9, 2011March 20, 2022 by Dharma Documentaries

The second documentary in this BBC series examines the various movements that arose in photography in the first half of the 20th century by focusing on some of the representative workers in the field.

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The Genius of Photography 1: Fixing the Shadows

Posted on September 2, 2011March 19, 2022 by Dharma Documentaries

This is the first in a series of documentaries tracing the evolution and the various uses of photography, and how it has changed the way we see the world, with some wonderful early examples of the technique.

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First Earth – Uncompromising Ecological Architecture – 2

Posted on August 26, 2011October 21, 2013 by Dharma Documentaries

In the second series of films about radical ecological architecture we move from the States to see how it is being implemented around the world.

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Buddha With A Thousand Hands (2008)

Posted on August 20, 2011March 4, 2025 by Dharma Documentaries

Video of the China Disabled Peoples Performance Art Troupe, with their lead dancer, Tai Lihua, performing the famous Buddha with a Thousand Hands dance, recorded for German TV in 2008.

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First Earth – Uncompromising Ecological Architecture – 1

Posted on August 19, 2011October 21, 2013 by Dharma Documentaries

A series of radical films made all over the world about new ideas in building and community, and how we move away from the mess we have only recently created.

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The Day India Burned: Partition

Posted on August 12, 2011March 4, 2025 by Dharma Documentaries

This documentary is about the partition of India, one of the greatest humanitarian disasters in modern times, as peoples were divided along communal and religious lines, and turned against each other in a fury of violence.

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The Life of the Buddha Animation Film

Posted on August 7, 2011August 21, 2015 by Dharma Documentaries

In a very short compass this animated Life of the Buddha tells more of the significant stories from the Buddha’s life than a lot of other films do. It concentrates on getting across the meaning of the teaching, rather than the heroics of the endeavour.

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The Bombing of Germany

Posted on August 5, 2011October 21, 2013 by Dharma Documentaries

How America changed its wartime policy of not bombing civilian targets and was eventually involved in the bombing of the population at the centre of Berlin is the theme of this documentary.

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Samsara – Cambodia

Posted on July 30, 2011July 23, 2014 by Dharma Documentaries

This is another impressionistic film about Cambodia, but it is much more solemn and haunting. It was filmed by Ellen Bruno in 1989, 10 years after the Vietnamese overthrew Pol Pot and set up their own government.

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