Limit search to available items
Streaming video

Title Lost Worlds: Secret Files Of The Inquisition: Root Out Heretics - Ep 1 Of 4 / Director: Gallo, Elvira Sanchez
Published Australia : SBS 2, 2006
Online access available from:
Informit EduTV    View Resource Record  

Copies

Description 1 online resource (streaming video file) (50 min. 1 sec.) ; 302610832 bytes
Summary For centuries, the historical records of the Inquisition have been locked away to become the subject of myth and legend. In 1998, after years of pressure from historians, scholars and critics in search of the truth, the Vatican opened some of these archives for the first time.This four part docu-drama series attempts to reveal the incredible yet true story of the western world's most potent religion and its determination to maintain power at any cost. Using previously secret documents, Secret Files Of The Inquisition reveals how the most powerful church on earth created the Inquisition to preserve the unquestioned authority of the Pope. Interviews with church and secular historians as well as dramatic recreations convey how a system of mass terror reigned for over half a millennium. Holy Wars and and thousands of people from all strata of society were subject to secret courts, torture and extermination.Episode 1: Root Out HereticsThe year is 1308 and heresy has taken hold in France. At a time when the Church of Rome proclaims itself the one true religion, the Pope sends the Inquisitors of Heretical Depravity to deal with heretics. Non-believers are hunted down, condemned and burned. The entire village of Montaillou is taken prisoner by the Inquisition. No one is safe, not even the village priest and the chatelaine of Montaillou's castle
Notes Closed captioning in English
Event Broadcast 2010-12-28 at 19:30:00
Notes Classification: PG
Subject Catholic Church.
Church history -- Middle Ages.
Crusades.
Historians.
Inquisition.
Rome.
Form Streaming video
Author Gallo, Elvira Sanchez, director
Grearson, Linda, director