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Flying Padre, 9minutes
Directed by Stanley Kubrick
Origin USA
Genres Documentary
Themes Films about religion, Transport films, Aviation films, Documentary films about religion, Documentary films about technology

Two days in the life of Reverend Fred Stadtmueller, a Catholic missionary whose New Mexico parish covers 400 square miles. For six years, he has been piloting his Piper Cub, called 'The Spirit of St. Joseph'. The reverend attends the funeral of a farmer, reconciles some children, breeds canaries, practices rifle shooting, then takes his airplane to fly a sick baby and its mother 40 miles away and transport them to an airport where an ambulance is waiting.
Holy Ghost People, 53minutes
Genres Documentary
Themes Films about religion, Documentary films about religion

The documentary begins by showing the audience various images of the church and its night services. After the opening credits, a narrator introduces the Pentecostal community in Scrabble Creek, West Virginia. The narrator presents various activities the church partakes in, such as snake handling, speaking in tongues, and four to six hour long meetings at the church multiples times a week. The narrators explain that while people are commonly bit while handling the snakes, mainly copperheads, they refuse medical help.
Survival 1967, 1h10
Directed by Jules Dassin
Genres Documentary
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about religion, Documentary films about war, Documentary films about historical events, Documentary films about religion, Political films, Films about Jews and Judaism

This film documentary uses the 1967 Six-Day War and its immediate aftermath as its basis. The material primarily presents Israeli sources and perspectives. It has been characterized as an anti-war screed. The film was panned for presenting little footage documenting the war, as well as for conflicting, alternating viewpoints and overall lack of narrative focus.
Salesman
Salesman (1969)
, 1h25
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Documentary
Themes Films about religion, Documentary films about business, Documentaire sur une personnalité, Documentary films about religion, Films based on the Bible

The documentary follows four salesmen as they travel across New England and southeast Florida trying to sell expensive Bibles door-to-door in low-income neighborhoods, and attend a sales meeting in Chicago. The film focuses in particular on salesman Paul Brennan, a middle-aged Irish-American Catholic from Jamaica Plain, Boston, who struggles to maintain his sales.
Marjoe
Marjoe (1972)
, 1h28
Directed by Sarah Kernochan, Howard Smith
Origin USA
Genres Documentary
Themes Films about religion, Documentary films about religion
Actors Marjoe Gortner, Sarah Kernochan

Marjoe est un enfant-prédicateur précoce aux talents extraordinaires, qui était immensément populaire dans le Sud des Etats-Unis. Ses parents gagnent de grosses sommes d'argent grâce à ses dons. Adulte, Marjoe devient ministre du culte uniquement car c'est un moyen facile de gagner sa vie, et non en tant que croyant. Au cours des années suivantes, il utilise sa notoriété et son statut d'évangéliste pour gagner sa vie comme prédicateur itinérant et en faisant du télévangélisme.