In 1609, Henry IV sent Inquisition judge Pierre de Lancre to the French Basque Country to investigate witchcraft. In the trials, 80 people were sentenced to death at the stake. Between the 15th and 17th centuries, a total of between 40,000 and 60,000 people fell victim to such waves of persecution in Europe. How can this phenomenon be explained?
Witchcraft is mainstream. The rise of Witchcraft has been steadily rising and for good reason. Hear from practicing Witches on how being a modern day Witch is not what your parents warned you about. For better or worse, Witchcraft is here to stay.
Documenting the Witch Path is a documentary film that is testing the limits of three young documentary filmmakers. They find out about a place called the Witch Path that leads out to the lake known as the Witch Lake. It's where they drowned innocent women in the 17th century because they were accused of witchery. All because the people blindly listened to the priests. Nowadays, the path and the lake is closed off by the township. No one wants to answer why, but these filmmakers will find out the horrifying truth about it.
In this one-hour special, follow the real Amish witches who inspired the Lifetime original movie 'Amish Witches: The True Story of Holmes County'.
Piero Cappuccilli and Shirley Verrett lead Verdi’s sombre masterpiece, drawn from one of Shakespeare’s most celebrated tragedies. Filmed for television at Teatro alla Scala in 1979, Claudio Abbado conductes a night to remember.
In a dark and lonely forest lives Camilla, an old and ugly witch who longs for beauty and love. One morning, she stumbles upon an unfamiliar object and is confronted with her distorted reality. Determined to change, Camilla turns to dark magic-but the price is heavier than she expected. Is beauty worth the cost?
Mary, an audacious fashion photographer, one day takes something that does not belong to her from a cemetery and experiences unnatural events afterward. She assumes that by returning the object to its original place, she can avoid these occurrences, but nothing goes as she imagined.
Touching, growing, caring, dancing. Seedlings climbing around fingertips, birds morphing into humans. But the tender touches slowly fade as the shadows grow and the witches of the forest start to disappear. Rooted in patriarchal violence, history keeps repeating itself.
Four children learn the origins of Halloween customs while trying to save the life of their friend.
Willow and her witch friends are furious: Valentina has to move to Australia with her mother! To stop Valentina's mother from doing this, the witch friends want to use a magic love potion. But the potion accidentally falls into the wrong hands! And then three boys turn up and build a tree house in their forest!
Three over-looked and under-laid young women, a box of matches, and some sage. Can the cult leader rid the coven of their sins before it's too late?
When Arabella, daughter of a vicar falls pregnant out of wedlock, she seeks help from the notorious woman of the woods ‘Hawisia'- who is said to be a witch.
The Message
A short film following a young witch
Snarky grandma accepts her mahjong partner’s invitation to a "women’s self help group"… soon realizes it AIN’T what she signed up for.
In the 17th century, long before modern science and in a time of great fear of the unknown, the villagers of a small coastal community find themselves drawn to, and suspicious of, Morag, a remarkable but mysterious woman who is uniquely connected to the nature that surrounds her. Survival is a daily and all-consuming struggle that is thinly forged from an inclement sea and pushed to the edge of the land by merciless feudal landowners. But it is Morag's passionate relationship with John Tullock, who is unwittingly pledged to marry Sinéad, that threatens to tear the community apart.
A reluctant handy man is pitted against evil when a Sorority house mother opens a gate to hell and gets the whole sorority possessed by demons.
A lonely girl starts hearing people talking behind her bedroom door, every night, when she goes to sleep. She starts obsessing over them because they are her only company. She wants to create a plan to join them.
Súbito
A father-to-be is trying to protect his young family from a strange entity and three dubious midwives.