Philosophy Movies

Always the last to know, filmmaker Jon Beaton learns of his autism late in life – a diagnosis that brings liberation and mourning in equal...

Inspired by The Seven Valleys, the film follows a solitary wayfarer who steps onto a spiritual journey of self-knowledge, guided not by destination...

People are forever using excuses and defending those excuses as if they were actually true. Such statements as 'It would be very difficult for me to...

Richard Feynman was a scientific genius with - in his words - a "limited intelligence". This dichotomy is just one of the characteristics that made...

Between what passes and what remains, he seeks to understand what watches him and what might still be waiting to be remembered.

Experimental meditation on land, consciousness, and artificial intelligence. Shot in the Okanagan and West Kootenays. Original music by Jack...

Alan Watts talks about our perception of the world, and how we derive metaphysics from it. Watts recorded this video in 1971 as a pilot for a public...

The San Francisco scene in 1967-68. Documentary about hippies shot during the height of the movement . Viewpoints from many kinds of people. Music...

This documentary retraces the life of Jacques Maritain (1882 - 1973), French Christian philosopher. In evoking his life, it paints a portrait of the...

A portrait of Jacques Ellul, a French theologian/sociologist & anarchist who first became well-known to American readers with the English...

A look at contemporary Paris through the lens of theories and ideologies of the past two centuries, with a particular focus on the utopian socialist...

In Dr. Wayne Dyer's public television special, taped live in front of a thousand fans in Boston's historic theater district, he transforms...

A personal essay film about the nature of artistic creation and the responsibility that comes along with it.

The stone-cutter, Nasdika, transforms stones into works of art. The labourer, Ivané, harvests wheat in the field. The monk, Béka,...

Edward de Bono literally sketches out the future in a 90 minute lecture filmed in Copenhagen. He explains 2040 as seen by someone frozen...

A woman, Denise, suspects her husband, Mark, of intellectually cheating on her using The Transcendental Call Girl Centre so she hires a private...

An absurd man, feeling hopeless, decides to end his life. The night before, he dreams of a perfect world with no pain. In this dream, he sees how...

Xan García, in search of the meaning of things, interviews 13 classmates to discuss and reflect on life. They talk about death, love,...