Browse films, documentaries, conversations and teachings by path and format. 66 videos.
66 videos
A film on Rabbi Israel ben Eliezer, the elusive figure at the beginning of Hasidism, directed by Chuck Davis and Netanel Miles-Yépez.
The Inayati-Maimuni Order
Darshan in Switzerland, filmed by her own team. Mother Meera gives darshan in silence.
Mother Meera Team
Anna Breytenbach demonstrates interspecies communication with a great white shark.
Dean Jefferys
A short film of the climb up Wudang Mountain with his teacher Master Gu.
George Thompson
Pilot episode for a planned series on Awakening, telling the stories of spiritual luminaries, featuring John Prendergast.
John Prendergast - Listening from Silence
An introduction in English to the Bali Usada health meditation Merta Ada teaches.
Usada Bali
A 2005 journey into Tibet's remote Nangchen region, following Tsoknyi Rinpoche III and a handful of Western students among the thousands of nuns preserving an ancient yogic lineage.
Pundarika Foundation (producer)
A full-length film about Papaji, built from footage of his satsangs in Lucknow and the accounts of people who sat with him.
H.W.L. Poonja - Papaji
A film about Mother Meera, from the channel her own team keeps.
A portrait of Garchen Rinpoche's life, from decades in a Chinese labor camp to his teaching on compassion as the heart of practice.
Garchen Buddhist Institute (official channel)
A short documentary portrait of the AWARË music project, filmed around live performances and sacred landscapes.
AWARË
An hour on Guru Nanak's life, his travels and his thinking on unity and human dignity, with an English subtitle track.
Oneness In Diversity
A journey through religion, nationalism and music from India to Pakistan via the 15th-century mystic poet Kabir, following folk singers, qawwals and thinkers along the way. Part of the award-winning Kabir Project series (National Film Award, Special Jury Prize 2011).
The Kabir Project / Shabnam Virmani
Filmed along the Hildegard pilgrimage route in Germany, with Annette Esser speaking Hildegard's own words from her book Saint Hildegard Speaks.
The Unruly Mystics
The Gaia series in which Matías De Stefano describes the civilisation of Atlantis as he says he remembers it.
Gaia
The opening chapter of a wide-ranging visual essay connecting ancient cosmology, sacred geometry and consciousness across traditions.
Awaken the World (official, free release; continues in further parts on the same channel)
The full feature documentary on Krishnamurti's life, from the Theosophical boyhood to his mid-eighties, built from rare film and photographs with an actor reading his words, and returning throughout to one question: why don't I change?
Krishnamurti Foundation
Part one of a two-part documentary on the lives of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, and the circumstances that led to the founding of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram in Pondicherry.
Sri Aurobindo Ashram
Shabnam Virmani's feature documentary from the Kabir Project, travelling with the folk singers who carry Kabir through Malwa and beyond, and asking what happens to a mystic's words when they are claimed by the sacred and the secular at once. It won the Special Jury Prize at the National Film Awards.
Ajab Shahar, the Kabir Project
The life of Vivekananda, from his years with Ramakrishna to Chicago and back, made for the 150th anniversary of his birth.
Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture
A record of a pilgrimage through Kutch led by Bhaishree with seekers from the Raj Saubhag ashram.
Niraj Sanghvi
A narrated biographical sketch of Lahiri Mahasaya, founder of the modern Kriya Yoga lineage and disciple of Mahavatar Babaji.
Samaneri Jayasāra - Wisdom of the Masters
A narrated reading drawn from The Peaceful Stillness of the Silent Mind, covering Lama Thubten Yeshe's life from Sera Monastery through his 1959 exile to co-founding FPMT.
The foundation's own film about Ram Dass, his teacher Neem Karoli Baba, and the three words he kept returning to.
Baba Ram Dass
An episode from the documentary film Had Anhad in which Mukhtiyar Ali talks about his Sufi and Kabir singing tradition and performs.
ajab shahar - kabir project
A portrait of the Zen calligraphic painter Alok Hsu Kwang-han, who teaches students to paint from the silence before thought.
Kino Lorber
The full film Music For Mushrooms, East Forest's award-winning documentary on music and psychedelic practice, presented here with his real-time director commentary.
East Forest
Documentary on Lama Zopa Rinpoche's life and his connection to Tibetan Buddhist culture, with interviews.
Mystic Tibet (2002)
An award-winning 1997 documentary on three women of the Carnatic tradition, M.S. Subbulakshmi, D.K. Pattammal and Tanjore Brinda, built around interviews filmed with all three during their lifetimes and around the devotional songs of Tyagaraja.
Indian Diplomacy
Documentary exploring Neem Karoli Baba's life and legacy through devotee interviews and pilgrimage to places associated with him.
Windfall Grace
A short documentary built around a conversation with Linda Clair on happiness.
Thomas D-W
Singers from seven desert communities on the road in the United States, in their own words.
Desert Song Festival
A young boy in northern India discovers he is recognized as the reincarnation of a Tibetan monk, and travels to trace what that means.
Real Stories / Little Dot Studios (licensed distributor)
A documentary following him to Morocco, among the remains of a Jewish world that was.
Steinsaltz Center
1990 documentary on Ramakrishna produced by Swami Chetanananda of the Vedanta Society of St. Louis.
Vedanta Society of St. Louis
Behind-the-scenes footage of East Forest recording the track Nature using Ram Dass's voice recordings, together with a live performance.
A documentary on the friendship between Rumi and Shams of Tabriz, with Omid Safi, Kabir and Camille Helminski and Leili Anvar.
Omid Safi
The first film in the Samadhi series, on how identification with thought constructs a separate sense of self.
Awaken the World (official, free release)
The second film in the Samadhi series, exploring what happens when attention turns from external phenomena toward consciousness itself.
The third film in the Samadhi series, on why the path to Samadhi cannot be walked as a series of steps toward a destination.
A Humanitas Lecture Series panel discussion (UC Santa Barbara) on unusual, intermingled sensory experiences as they appear in the thought and practice of figures within the Jewish, Islamic and Christian mystical traditions, considered comparatively rather than through any one tradition.
University of California Television (UCTV)
The full 2021 documentary on his life, from Warsaw to Selma, posted by the company that made it.
Journey Films
Biographical film on Sri Aurobindo from his 1872 birth through his 1910 arrival in Pondicherry, including his years as a revolutionary leader against British rule.
Olivier Barot
A documentary introduction to Advaita Vedanta philosophy told through the life and teaching of Ramana Maharshi.
Advaita Productions
A restored archival documentary on the life and teaching of Ramana Maharshi: his awakening, his life at Arunachala, and the practice of self-inquiry at the centre of his teaching.
Arunachala Ashrama
A feature-length film following Chungliang Al Huang at WuYi Mountain, where he teaches taiji, calligraphy and the Taoist ideas behind them in the landscape they came from.
Guido Ferrari
A short film portrait of Arvo Part's life and musical language, built from archive footage and conversations with musicians close to his work.
DW Classical Music
A film made at the monastery of St Anthony the Great in Egypt's eastern desert in 1987, introduced by Bishop Gregory.
St. Antony the Great Monastery
A filmed portrait of Alemu Aga with his ten-stringed begena, shot in Ethiopia by Vincent Moon.
Vincent Moon / Petites Planetes
A documentary exploring tai chi, martial arts and Eastern philosophy through the lens of spiritual seekers walking the Daoist path.
Original source
EWTN's own dramatised portrait of the third-century hermits of the Egyptian desert, whose way of life became the basis of Christian monasticism.
EWTN
Overview of the life of Anandamayi Ma and the origin of her honorific title.
Asangoham
A 1970s documentary by Richard Bock exploring the 'Jesus in India' theory about his unrecorded years, a disputed, non-mainstream theory presented here as one perspective among many.
Sri Sathya Sai International Organization
Edward A. Burger's search for his teacher among Chan Buddhist hermits in the Zhongnan Mountains, a reworked, improved version of Burger's earlier film Amongst White Clouds.
Edward A. Burger / One Mind Productions
An intimate portrait of Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche's life and his work preserving Tibetan Buddhist teaching, narrated by Richard Gere.
Shechen/Dilgo Khyentse Fellowship (official channel)
A short film with the group in Tuva on where khöömei comes from and what it is imitating in the land around them.
Far Off Sounds
A film on Hildegard von Bingen's visions, her music and her writing on medicine and the green power of living things.
Documentary profile of animal communicator Anna Breytenbach.
Real Wild
A Tibetan nun's pilgrimage across the plateau in search of teachings on the 'rainbow body,' set against the pressures of modernization and Chinese control.
SLICE (ZED documentary channel)
A short documentary on the Peruvian sound healer and his work with pre-Columbian instruments. In Spanish.
CampusTV
The daily reality of Trappist life, filmed at Mepkin Abbey in South Carolina and set against the long history of Western monasticism, with Thomas Moore and Kathleen Norris.
Vision Video
A cut of one of Uria Tsur's Vocal Freedom workshops, following what happens to a room of people who are asked to use their voice without a score.
Uria Tsur
His own 2008 film: half an hour of moving water, made as a teaching rather than about one.
Zen Mountain Monastery
Eleven minutes from DW on the merchant's son who walked away from his money, his standing and his future, and what he turned to instead.
DW History and Culture
A feature documentary following Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche across several countries as he is pressed on what makes a genuine Buddhist teacher.
ZIJI Film&Television
The lineage behind Yogananda's early years in India, from Lahiri Mahasaya onward, before he left for America in 1920.
Yogananda and the Kriya Yoga Masters
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