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BBC Documentary: American Muslim - Freedom, Faith, Fear

Posted by Admin Wednesday, 24 July 2013 0 comments

American Muslim: Freedom, Faith, Fear: In this video two journalists travel across America to see how Muslims are being treated ten years after 9/11. They start in NYC, then go to Carni, Indiana, Houston & Dallas, Texas, and Orange County, California.

BBC Documentary: Science and Islam

Posted by Admin Monday, 22 July 2013 0 comments

Physicist Jim Al-Khalili travels through Syria, Iran, Tunisia and Spain to tell the story of the great leap in scientific knowledge that took place in the Islamic world between the 8th and 14th centuries.

Its legacy is tangible, with terms like algebra, algorithm and alkali all being Arabic in origin and at the very heart of modern science - there would be no modern mathematics or physics without algebra, no computers without algorithms and no chemistry without alkalis.

BBC Documentary: Jesus Was A Buddhist Monk

Posted by Admin Sunday, 21 July 2013 0 comments

This BBC 4 documentary examines the question "Did Jesus Die?". It looks at a bunch of ideas around this question until minute 25, where this examination of ideas takes a very logical and grounded turn with surprising conclusions that demonstrate...

BBC Documentary: Timewatch - The Myth of the Spanish Inquisition

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This BBC documentary from 1994 verifies that the tale of the darkest hour of the Church was greatly fabricated. "The Myth of the Spanish Inquisition" provides only an overview of the origins and debunking of the myths of torture and genocide. The documentary definitely succeeds in leaving the viewer hungry to know more. The long-held beliefs of the audience are sufficiently weakened by the testimony of experts and the expose of the making of the myth.

BBC Documentary: The Quran and The Kalashnikov

Posted by Admin Saturday, 20 July 2013 0 comments

A Brilliant BBC Documentary on the History of Islam and the armed conflicts it has fought around the world with initially the backing of the western countries around the world to the situation we are in now where Islam is demonised throughout the world.

BBC Documentary: The Life of Buddha

Posted by Admin Friday, 19 July 2013 0 comments

The Buddha. The history of Buddhism is the story of one man’s spiritual journey to Enlightenment, and of the teachings and ways of living that developed from it. Siddhartha Gautama – The Buddha. By finding the path to Enlightenment, Siddhartha was led from the pain of suffering and rebirth towards the path of Enlightenment and became known as the Buddha or ‘awakened one’.

BBC Documentary: When God Was a Girl - Women and Religion

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Historian Bettany Hughes. visits a world where goddesses ruled the heavens and earth, and reveals why our ancestors thought of the divine as female. Travelling across the Mediterranean and the Near East, Bettany goes to remote places, where she encounters fearsome goddesses who controlled life and death. And she ends up in modern-day India, where the goddess is still a powerful force for thousands of Hindus. Immersing herself in the excitement of the Durga Puja festival, Bettany experiences goddess worship first-hand, and finds out what the goddess means to her devotees.

BBC Documentary: The Secrets of Scientology

Posted by Admin Tuesday, 16 July 2013 0 comments

The Secrets of Scientology is a documentary follow up of John Sweeney’s 2007 investigation into the Church of Scientology and features interviews with former high-ranking members of the organization.

In 2007, while investigating the Church of Scientology for Panorama, reporter John Sweeney had a dramatic on-camera confrontation with a church spokesman named Tommy Davis.