Tag: Arts & Tradition

Legend’s End: The Loch Ness Monster Story | Documentary

A passionate community, devoted to the world’s greatest monster myth, is disrupted when a determined scientist begins the final, definitive search for the Loch Ness Monster. * Click the “Save” button below the video to access it later on “My List.” – Feature Films: Cinema collection: epochcinema.com Epoch Original content: epochoriginal.com Feature Films: www.theepochtimes.com/featured-films Follow…


The Last King of Poland’s Summer Retreat: Royal Lazienki Palace

WARSAW, Poland—In 1764, King Stanislaw August Poniatowski bought a baroque bathhouse pavilion along with a surrounding estate to build his summer retreat, in Warsaw. Dutch architect Tylman van Gamerenhad had designed the original bathhouse. The king had the bathhouse extended to make his neoclassical style summer retreat, the Royal Lazienki Palace, more commonly known as The…


The Stone Listener | Documentary

At the age of 75, Gabriel Pitteloud is one of the few chimney masons who create handcrafted fireplaces in cut stones. For the man who, for 40 years, has been making the stones sing, the profession has distilled into a philosophy of life. * Click the “Save” button below the video to access it later…


Giotto’s Frescoes Foretell Scientific Breakthroughs

The Middle Ages were coming to an end. Its art presented holy beings in a golden, heavenly realm. The Renaissance then burst onto the scene, and it was time for great art to appear on earth, followed by exciting discoveries in science. Renaissance artists depicted spiritual figures, but they placed them in natural settings and…


Liquid Gold: From the Mediterranean to the Midwest | Documentary

A group of Midwesterners travels to Greece, the cradle of Western civilization, to learn life-changing lessons from olive oil maker Eugene Ladopoulos about slowing down, eating for pleasure, and connecting with others. * Click the “Save” button below the video to access it later on “My List.” – Feature Films: Cinema collection: epochcinema.com Epoch Original…


A Day in the Life: The Medici Academy

The Italian Renaissance was an exemplary period for the free exchange of ideas coupled with the pursuit of excellence. The discovery of classical Greek texts and works of art helped fuel a greater discussion around our purpose and potential as human beings. The Medici Academy was an intellectual and artistic haven in Renaissance Italy. Also…


What Happened to Holly Bartlett? | Documentary

This film is only available in the United States, the UK, New Zealand, Mexico, Ireland, Canada, and Australia because of territorial licensing. Police quickly ruled Holly’s death accidental. Now almost a decade later, investigators return to her story, reviewing old evidence and uncovering new. * Click the “Save” button below the video to access it…


Film Review: ‘Sextortion: The Hidden Pandemic’: A Skin-Crawling Look at Cyber Child Stalking

NR | 1h 25min | Documentary, Docudrama, True Crime | 4 October 2022 (USA) The new documentary “Sextortion: the Hidden Pandemic” (“STHP”) opens with this ancient text, attributed to St. Augustine: “Hope has two beautiful daughters; their names are anger and courage. Anger at the way things are, and the courage to see that they do not remain as they are.”…


Celebrating Donatello, One of the Fathers of the Early Italian Renaissance

BERLIN—Two Davids greet visitors at the entrance to the exhibition “Donatello: The Inventor of the Renaissance” in Berlin’s Gemäldegalerie, and they couldn’t be more different. Having left Florence, Italy, for the first time, Donatello’s triumphant marble sculpture “David” dons classical drapery and a crown of wine grapes normally seen on Bacchus, the Roman god of…


My Friend Raymond | Documentary

Documentary filmmaker Frank Panico had often seen a mysterious 57-year-old handicapped man limping into church using his walker. Without knowing anyone was watching, the downtrodden man would quietly take a seat in the back of the Church. This man’s demeanor touched Frank’s heart, since it appeared as if he had hit rock bottom. After church,…