The Journey of the Universe is an Emmy Award-winning documentary and companion book project by cosmologist and evolutionary philosopher Brian Thomas Swimme and religious historian Mary Evelyn Tucker. The 2011 film traces the history of the cosmos—from the original “flaring forth” (“the Big Bang”), through the creation of galaxies and of a planet (Earth) that could support life, through the emergence of humans and their amplification of consciousness through the […]
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Ancient wisdom | Movies you might’ve missed (but shouldn’t)
The Kogi are the last surviving civilization from the time of the Inca and Aztec. They inhabit a mountain in the remote Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta Mountains of Colombia, an isolated triangular pyramid climbing more than 18,000 feet from the sea. The highest coastal mountain on Earth, the mountain and its watershed form a unique microcosm of the planet, representing most ecological zones and including habitats in which most […]
War no more | Movies You Might’ve Missed
Threads This pioneering 1984 BBC film tells the fictional story of several British families before, during, and after an all-out nuclear exchange between the United States and the then-Soviet Union. Worried about the complacency with which the public seems to view nuclear war, the filmmakers intended to scare people and they were very successful. Reviewers have called it “the most disturbing film” they’ve ever seen, as they watch the slow […]
Healing our collective soul
I am not your negro This emotional powerhouse of a film features Samuel L. Jackson reading James Baldwin’s writings and pairs the two with heartbreaking archival footage to show us how and why white America’s “negro problem” is actually an urgent call for white Americans to reclaim their own shriveled souls. Against footage of beatings, lynchings, white adults spitting on black schoolchildren, and so on, we hear Baldwin’s words, I’m […]
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