A Lamp in the Dark: Untold History of the Bible
Christian J. Pinto, USA, 2009, 180 min

A Lamp in the Dark is a (…) documentary that shows the intriguing history of the Bible. Enter into a world of saints and martyrs battling against spies, assassins, and wolves in sheep’s clothing. Through the Middle Ages, the popes and Inquisition forbade biblical translation, threatening imprisonment and death to those who disobeyed. Learn the lives of men like John Wycliffe, Martin Luther, William Tyndale, Myles Coverdale and others, who hazarded their lives to communicate the Bible in languages people could understand. With the Fall of Constantinople, ancient Greek manuscripts came into Europe, and with them, the clear streams of understanding that would bring about the Protestant Reformation. But what is little known is that Rome launched a Counter Reformation with the intent of destroying all the works of the Reformers. Could this be the key to the « untold » history of the Bible? And is it possible that this ancient war on the Word of God continues to this day?

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Andrei Rublev, also known as The Passion According to Andrei
Andrei Tarkovsky, Soviet Union, 1966, 205 min

The story of the 15th century Russian icon painter, Andrei Rublev (born in the 1360s, died 1427 or 29 January 1430). He’s considered to be the greatest medieval Russian painter of Orthodox icons and frescoes.

The Witches’ Cradle
Maya Deren & Marcel Duchamp, USA, 1943, 12 min

In 1943, DEREN began making a film with Marcel Duchamp, The Witches’ Cradle, which was never completed.

Meshes of the Afternoon
Maya Deren, USA, 1943, 14 min

A short experimental film directed by wife and husband team, MAYA DEREN and ALEXANDER HAMMID. The film’s narrative is circular, and repeats a number of psychologically symbolic images, including a flower on a long driveway, a key falling, a door unlocked, a knife in a loaf of bread, a mysterious Grim Reaper-like cloaked figure with a mirror for a face, a phone off the hook and an ocean. Through creative editing, distinct camera angles, and slow motion, the surrealist film depicts a world in which it is more and more difficult to catch reality.

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Marjoe
Howard Smith & Sarah Kernochan, USA, 1972, 88 min

Marjoe was a precocious child preacher with extraordinary talents, who was immensely popular in the American South. His parents earned large sums of money off him up until the point he outgrew his novelty. Marjoe rejoined the ministry as a young adult solely as a means of earning a living, and not as a believer; he spent the next several years using his fame and status as an evangelist to defraud a small fortune out of individuals both through tent revivals and televangelism.

Eventually, Gortner suffered a crisis of conscience and decided to renounce his ways, offering the documentary film crew unrestricted access to him during his final revival tour. The film contains scenes from genuine revival meetings showing Gortner preaching and praying for people, interspersed with footage of Gortner admitting on camera that he was a non-believer and revealing the tactics used by himself and other evangelists to manipulate people. – WIKI