The Amish: A People of Preservation - An award-winning PBS documentary, the Amish keep surprising their technology-programmed neighbors by keeping alive ways and beliefs that many modern Americans wish they could recapture. In this colorful, updated documentary, Mennonite historian John Ruth takes us sympathetically into the Amish mindset.
http://www.visionvideo.com/111-1111111-1111111_3221.vhtml

Devil’s Playground - This Sundance Festival sensation has attracted attention because of its jarring images of Amish kids immersed in debauchery: plain-dressed girls in white bonnets slugging back beers and flicking ashes from their cigarettes, boys passing out in the back of pickups after all-night parties, even Amish teens in bed together. But like a good drama, it's the characters themselves and their heartbreaking dilemma that linger in the mind.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00007GVM0/qid=1127072518/sr=8-1/ref=pd_
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Reflections of Amish Life – You’ll be inspired by this close up look into the Amish way of life. You will discover all there is to know about the Amish from their early beginnings, their home life, their religious values, and their simple habits and lifestyles. “Reflections of Amish Life” offers hundreds of spontaneous scenes coupled with authoritative narration by Amish, Mennonite and English historians.
http://www.education2000i.com/cart//item-detail.cfm?ID=754309012553&storeid=16&webname
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The Akha Way - For a thousand years, the Akha people have inhabited the hills of Asia--mainly Southern China, Burma and Northern Thailand. The Akha Way, or Akhazaunh, is the code by which they live. This documentary describes their origins and their culture. It contains extraordinary footage of a shaman healing ceremony; a funeral, with the ritual sacrifice of a water buffalo; the reading of a pig's liver after a new house is built.
http://www.yellowcat.com/akha.html

Tidikawa: At the Edge of Heaven - This film captures the poignancy of a native people undergoing cultural change. When Susan Cornwell first encountered the Bedamini in Papua, New Guinea in 1971, they were aggressive and practiced cannibalism as part of their religion. She was able to befriend them and make a landmark film, Tidikawa and Friends.
http://www.filmakers.com/indivs/Tidikawa.htm

Man, God and Africa - While the media has focused on the violent history of South Africa, it has paid little attention to a social phenomenon of great importance. Some nine-million South African blacks live with a strong commitment to their religion, Pentecostal Christianity. Their faith has enabled them to survive appalling hardship and deprivation. Their religion is a blend of deep-rooted African traditions and the imported values of Christianity. This commitment could be a stabilizing force in the new South Africa.
http://www.filmakers.com/indivs/ManGodAfrica.htm

Flowers for Guadalupe - Flowers for Guadalupe/Flores para Guadalupe explores the importance of the Virgin of Guadalupe as a liberating symbol for Mexican women today. In the course of this richly textured treatment of an evolving symbol, twenty-three women speak out, in traditional testimonio format. This unusual "contata" of women's voices representing urban, small-town, and rural communities, is intercut with scenes of daily women's work and celebration of the Virgin of Guadalupe in various contexts, including festivities organized by the Comite Guadalupano in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn, N. Y.
http://www.filmakers.com/indivs/FlowersGuadalupe.htm

Hail Umbanda - Umbanda, the animistic religion of a large and growing portion of Brazil's population, is a syncretism of Christianity, with African and indigenous religions. Begun in Brazil in 1908among African slaves, native Indians and Portuguese, the religion has grown in popularity with the urban poor and oppressed groups. This tape contains profiles of a spiritual leader and a converted believer.
Check school library or the following site:
http://www.latinamericanvideo.org/

The King Does Not Lie: The Initiation of A Shango Priest - This film shows the Afro-Cuban religion, Santeria, whose New World practitioners have too often been maligned out of ignorance and prejudice and even harassed by authorities. In this intimate documentary we see a contemporary Puerto Rican community of "santeros" gather for the initiation of a priest of Shango, the "Thundergod" of the traditional Yoruba religion.
http://www.filmakers.com/indivs/KingDoesNotLie.htm

Yo soy hechicero: I am a Sorcerer - What can an outsider ever hope to understand about "Santería," the widespread but little known constellation of Afro-Caribbean religions and cults which are mysterious by their very nature? In an attempt to unlock the mysteries of this mixture of Christianity, Yoruba religion, and spiritism (and others as well) the producers are drawn to Juan Eduardo Núñez, a Cuban refugee who came to the US in the 1980 Mariel boatlift.
http://www.hechicero.com/videoenglish.html

Healer on the Street - During the day, Isnar is a community paramedic who works in the local clinic and runs an arts and drugs rehabilitation centre for young people in Fortaleza on the coast of Northeast Brazil. But by night, he is a priest of the Umbanda Afro-Brazilian religious cult. Then he comes flying over the trees and the streets, down to the beach. When the spells are strong, only he can break them.
http://www.socialsciences.manchester.ac.uk/visualanthropology/film/sales/americas.htm#healer

Saints and Spirits - Through Aisha bint Muhammad, Saints and Spirits explores the personal dimensions of Islam during three religious events in Morocco: the festive annual renewal of contact with spirits in Marrakech; the pilgrimage to the shrine of Sidi Chamharouch, high in the Atlas Mountains; and the veneration of a new saint's shrine.
http://www.frif.com/cat97/p-s/saints_a.html