Animated Films
Ten-minute animated films about strange and remarkable moments in the history of religions, each told again as an illustrated story.
Narrated in English, with subtitles. The films play from our YouTube channel when you press play; nothing is loaded before that.
9:43 1946–1956 · The Judaean Desert, Bethlehem, Jerusalem and New York The Shepherd, the Scrolls and the Secret Sale A stone thrown into a desert cave breaks an ancient jar, and seven scrolls begin a journey through a war, a newspaper advertisement and a secret sale. Watch the film and read its story -
9:45 c. 1120–1314 Friday the Thirteenth: The Fall of the Templars On one Friday morning in 1307, the king of France had the Templars arrested, and an order born on the road to Jerusalem began to die. -
9:03 1945–1977 The Jar Beneath the Cliffs: How the Nag Hammadi Library Was Found A farmer digging for fertiliser breaks open a sealed jar, hoping for gold, and finds instead a lost library of early Christian books that took 30 years to reach readers. -
9:15 891–897 The Pope Put on Trial After Death In the winter of 897, a pope dead for nine months was dressed in his vestments, seated on a throne and put on trial by his successor. -
9:26 July–September 1518 The Summer Strasbourg Could Not Stop Dancing In the hungry summer of 1518, a woman began to dance in a Strasbourg street, and soon dozens could not stop, while their city tried music, then prayer.