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Magical death.
Salt Lake City: Utah State University.
28 min., color.
Shows curing and killing ceremonies by a Yanomamö shaman and documents the political use of ritual.

Falasha: Agony of the Black Jews.
College Town, PA: Pennsylvania State University.
27 min., color.
The Falashas of Ethiopia had to become refugees because of governmental persecution. This film initiated Operation Moses, an Israeli operation that helped some of the Falashas to survive.

Jolo serpent handlers.
College Town, PA: Pennsylvania State University.
40 min., color.
Portrays a U.S. Pentecostal religion in which snake handling is performed as a sacrament in its broader social context.

Spiritual India: A guide to Jainism, Islam, Buddhism, and Hinduism.
Films for the Humanities & Sciences.
50 min., color.
Provides an overview of four of India's prominent religions.

The goddess and the computer.
Insight Media.
58 min., color.
Shows the use of a computer program to demonstrate that Balinese farmers' rituals have coordinated the planting schedules of hundreds of villages.

Afghanistan: The state of the Taliban.
Insight Media.
50 min., color. Traces the history of the Taliban from its rise to power in 1996 to its dominance over the Afghan population in 2001.

Introduction to women in religion.
Insight Media.
60 min., color.
Introduces the history and contemporary position of women in some of the major world religions.