A range of documentary films.
Fatal Flaws: Legalising Assisted Death is a thought-provoking journey through Europe and North America to ask one of the most fundamental philosophical questions of our time: should we be giving doctors the right inlaw to end the life of others by euthanasia or assisted suicide
Source: Life Institute via YouTube ‘We were making her die. Because it suited us & her family’. Nurse’s experience with assisted suicide. Kristina Hodgetts is a Canadian nurse who worked at both a large Ontario hospital as well as a rural nursing home. As a professional nurse, she fell prey…
Source: johnniejukebox via YouTube Amazing insight into poverty in 1960’s Ireland. While no one needed to die of hunger, some just existed in a state of hopelessness. Radharc, a groundbreaking Catholic documentary series which aired on RTE, the Irish state broadcaster. The programme tackled some of the most pressing social…
Source: johnniejukebox via YouTube Amazing insight into poverty in 1960’s Ireland. While no one needed to die of hunger, some just existed in a state of hopelessness. Radharc, a groundbreaking Catholic documentary series which aired on RTE, the Irish state broadcaster. The programme tackled some of the most pressing social…
Source: Rebecca Abbott via YouTube Why did over a million people Irish people die of starvation and disease, and more than two million leave that country during roughly six years in the mid-1800s? The label “potato famine” doesn’t begin to explain a crisis that was hundreds of years in the…
Source: StoryTel via YouTube Released in 2008 The true story of a dying parish miraculously restored to life. ON ASSIGNMENT investigates how a decaying old church in Chicago became a thriving religious and cultural treasure. Once an integral part of Chicago’s Northwest-side, Saint John Cantius Parish fell victim to the…
More than a half century ago, famed writer C.S. Lewis warned about how science (a good thing) could be twisted in order to attack religion, undermine ethics, and limit human freedom. In this documentary “The Magician’s Twin: C.S. Lewis and the Case Against Scientism,” leading scholars explore Lewis’s prophetic warnings about the abuse of science and how Lewis’s concerns are increasingly relevant for us today
Saint David was a Welsh bishop of Mynyw (now St David’s) during the 6th century. He is the patron saint of Wales. He is traditionally believed to be the son of Saint Non and the grandson of Ceredig ap Cunedda, king of Ceredigion. The Welsh annals placed his death 569 years after the birth of Christ, but Phillimore’s dating revised this to 601.
As we know, random changes and unguided natural processes routinely succeed in assembling functional equipment for a range of uses. Wait…it doesn’t work that way?
Over the last 50 years, we have witnessed an explosion of Eastern philosophy and martial arts in Western culture. What has been their influence upon the last 2 generations? And where does this path we have set our feet upon lead? Does the study of Martial Arts, Tai-Chi and Yoga really lead to a more disciplined way of life, as is being promoted by the media today?
Source: EWTN 2017 made for TV film on YouTube The Fifth Apparition of Our Lady of Fatima. Editor’s comment: while lacking the budget and visual effects of a Hollywood production (but see note below), indeed all vfx were produced by one person, that should not deter viewers from understanding the…
Source: Mary’s Meals on YouTube As of 2017 we are feeding 1.2 million children every school day. Watch the most recent version of Child 31: https://youtu.be/62vtyz2E3os Donate to Mary’s Meals: http://www.marysmeals.org Hear the voices of Child 31: http://www.child31film.com Child 31 is a powerful documentary film which tells the story of…