Documentaries
Films worth the library's readers' time, each linked where its makers put it — never a copy somebody else uploaded — and under each, what these shelves actually hold on its subject. Some are free from their makers or in the public domain; some are sold, and are recommended all the same, with where to find them. A documentary makes an argument from sources; the sources are here, and the counts under each film show which volumes use its terms most, so you can read what the film read and judge it yourself. Where the shelves have nothing on a film's subject, the page says so rather than pretending.
Zeitgeist: The Movie
Three parts: the parallels the film draws between the story of Jesus and older solar and astral myths; the attacks of 11 September 2001; the Federal Reserve and the money system.
- Official watch page (Tubi, Vimeo, Apple, Amazon, Google Play; no player of its own)
- The Companion Source Guide, the film's own citations (PDF)
Streams free with advertising on Tubi in the United States via the official watch page; sold elsewhere. The film's own source guide is a free PDF and names the books its first part rests on, many of which are on these shelves.
On these shelves
Part I is built from the nineteenth-century comparative-mythology school - Massey, Doane, Graves, Higgins - which the library holds in full. Read the sources and judge the film's use of them.
Zeitgeist: Addendum
Fractional-reserve banking and debt; an interview with John Perkins; Jacque Fresco and the Venus Project's resource-based economy.
Streams free with advertising on Tubi in the United States and on Vimeo via the official watch page.
On these shelves
The library is a library of religion and the occult; on money and banking it holds almost nothing, and the counts below say so.
Zeitgeist: Moving Forward
Human nature and environment, the market economy, and a proposed transition to a resource-based economy.
Streams free with advertising on Tubi in the United States and on Vimeo via the official watch page.
On these shelves
Its argument about human nature is one the library's own shelves argue too, from the other side: the mystics and the moralists.
The Choice Is Ours
In the Project's words, it "explores the determinants of behavior to dispel the myth of 'human nature'", and sets out Jacque Fresco's resource-based economy.
- Official full version on thevenusproject.com (embeds the Project's YouTube upload)
- The Project's documentaries page
Released free by the Project. The official page plays it through YouTube; a viewer without YouTube has the DVD from the Project and nothing else the library can vouch for.
On these shelves
As for Moving Forward: the claim that behaviour is made by environment has an older literature here, in the schools that said the opposite.
Paradise or Oblivion
In the Project's words, a short introduction that "advocates a new socio-economic system, which is updated to present-day knowledge", built on Jacque Fresco's work.
Released free by the Project; the official page plays it through YouTube.
On these shelves
Same ground as The Choice Is Ours.
DMT: The Spirit Molecule
Interviews with the volunteers of Strassman's clinical DMT studies and with ayahuasca drinkers, on what the experience is and what it might mean.
A commercial release (Gravitas Ventures). There is no free official stream; it has been on Netflix and is sold on Prime Video and DVD. Strassman's book is in copyright and not on these shelves.
On these shelves
What the library does hold is the older record the film reaches back to: the soma of the Vedas, the visionary plants of the Americas as the early ethnographers described them, and the pineal gland as Descartes and the Theosophists took it.
Kymatica
An essay-film on consciousness and the self: cymatics and vibration, shamanism and the serpent, the reptile brain, the old religions read as psychology, and the claim that the world's crisis is a crisis of the individual psyche.
- The filmmaker's own page for the film (DVD, signed edition)
- Where it is streaming or sold today (JustWatch, United States)
Released free by its maker when it was made and passed hand to hand since; today it streams on Gaia and Amazon, is free through Hoopla with a public-library card in the United States, and is sold by the filmmaker himself.
On these shelves
Its material is the library's: the serpent and the kundalini, the shaman, Hermes, the psyche read out of myth. These are the primary texts the film's argument is built over.
Häxan (Witchcraft Through the Ages)
A silent essay-film on the witch persecutions: the mediaeval picture of the witch, the Inquisition's procedure, and Christensen's argument that the accused were what his own age called hysterics. Half lecture, half staged scenes.
Public domain: the one film here the library can point to without qualification. The Internet Archive copy carries the Public Domain Mark and English subtitles.
On these shelves
Christensen worked from the same books the library publishes: the Malleus Maleficarum's procedure, Scot's Discoverie, the trial records. The Witch-Craft and Witch Hunts shelves are his sources.
How this page is kept
The library hosts no video and links to none it cannot vouch for: a film is linked at its maker's site, at a platform its maker names, or at a public-domain copy that carries the Public Domain Mark. Every link is fetched when the page is built, and the build fails if one has gone. Where the only official free stream is on YouTube the page says so, because some readers cannot use it, and offers what else exists. Nothing on this page was written to recommend a film's argument; the shelf counts are the library's contribution, and they are counts, not opinions.
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