Movies and TvShows featuring "sacred-ground" theme.

Tarzan and His Mate is a captivating movie set in Africa, following an exciting expedition that leads to encounters with dangerous wildlife, treachery, and acts of revenge. Tarzan, the iconic jungle hero, is faced with challenges of greed, deception, and the desire for vindication as he fights against ruthless ivory hunters and navigates through the dangers of the wild. This pre-code film showcases thrilling action sequences including an epic elephant stampede and a suspenseful crocodile attack. Will Tarzan and his mate triumph over their enemies and protect the wildlife they hold dear?

In the 1920s, a tracker is hired to find an aborigine boy who has gone missing in the outback. As he embarks on a journey through the Australian wilderness, he must confront racism, violence, and the dark secrets of his own past.

When a construction site disrupts a Native American tribe's sacred ground, a powerful evil spirit is awakened. The small town sheriff must team up with an archaeologist to stop the sorcery from unleashing the terrifying Bone Eater.

In Tarzan's Hidden Jungle, Tarzan must rescue a damsel in distress who has been captured by an impostor. Along the way, he confronts hostility, treachery, and danger as he navigates the African wilderness. With the help of his animal friends and his jungle skills, Tarzan fights to save the day.

In the poverty-stricken Louisiana swamp, a male descendant of a man wrongly executed for witchcraft seeks revenge on the descendants of those who framed his grandfather. As he sets out on his mission, he discovers the sacred ground and uncovers the truth behind the death of an innocent person.

Foxfire is a movie set in the Arizona Territory in 1955. It tells the story of a sexually-aroused woman who manipulates those around her and causes trouble in a small mining town.

In emblematic places around the world, Frédéric Lenoir, philosopher, sociologist and writer, goes to meet those who experience a spiritual quest, both religious and secular. A pilgrimage that mixes the voices of anonymous witnesses and personalities such as the Buddhist monk Matthieu Ricard, the apneist Guillaume Néry and the astrophysicist Hubert Reeves.

Teens of Kangaloola High are visited by a skull-faced Aboriginal apparition in their nightmares, and one by one they meet a violent end.

Far North Queensland, 1955. Deep in the untamed frontier tough rancher Lance Dillon and his sensual, but bored wife, battle inhospitable nature to eke out a living from their cattle herd. When the aborigines kill the Dillon's prize bull a chase begins that will culminate in bloody tragedy with Lance pitted against Mandaru - an aborigine struggling to maintain his cultural way of life

Raghu, an atheist archaeologist, and his father goes to an isolated village for research, his father disappears mysteriously and Raghu finds out a strange prophecy : God will come to earth on Purnima day at the Nagakali Amman temple and the people who will submerge completely under the waterfall near the temple will be cured of any disease. His colleague Pathma informs her blind Journalist friend Divya and the news reaches the public. Pathma is in love with Naveen, in the final stages of cancer. Soon, an atheist terrorist group, led by Saravanan, try to destroy the temple. Saravanan's sister and brother-in-law were brutally killed by the temple's donor. Police officer Hari, Divya's brother, is charged with eradicating the terrorist group. Pathma believes in this prophecy, gets married to Naveen and takes him to the temple. Divya compels Hari to come with him to restore her sight and he agrees. A race against the clock starts.

Although the mountain volcano Mauna Kea last erupted around 4,000 years ago, it is still hot today, the center of a burning controversy over whether its summit should be used for astronomical observatories or preserved as a cultural landscape sacred to the Hawaiian people. For five years the documentary production team Nā Maka o ka 'Āina ("the eyes of the land") captured on video the seasonal moods of Mauna Kea's unique 14,000-foot summit, the richly varied ecosystems that extend from sea level to alpine zone, the legends and stories that reveal the mountain's geologic and cultural history, and the political turbulence surrounding the efforts to protect the most significant temple in the islands: the mountain itself.

Five friends travel onto sacred tribal land while searching for a good place to party. Their lack of respect for the land and locals awakens an ancient, violent guardian who won't let them leave unpunished.

Death is an intimate experience, and how we lay our loved ones to rest, varies between cultures. KAPU: Sacred Hawaiian Burials sheds light on the ongoing battle by Native Hawaiians to protect burial sites across the state and the iwi, or sacred bones, that are within them.

A multi disciplinary film and photographic art project created by Yankunytjatjara artist Derik Lynch and Australian artist Matthew Thorne that explores (in dream and memory) Derik's childhood growing up in the heart of central Australia. The story follows his road trip from the oppression of white city life in Adelaide back to country - Aputula - to perform Drag on sacred Inma ground, while memories from his youth return. Inma is a 60,000+ year old form of storytelling using the visual, verbal and physical. As a place of storytelling it is also the place where the history and stories of the past are written and shared in the present.