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Movies and Videos

Here are some of our favorite nontheist movies and videos.  Enjoy.

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Agora
Set in ancient Egypt under Roman rule, "Agora" follows astronomer Hypatia (Rachel Weisz) as she leads a few disciples fighting to save the wisdom of the ancient world. Among these disciples are two men vying for her heart: the privileged Orestes (Oscar Isaac) and a young slave Davus (Max Minghella).
Amadeus (1984)
The life, success and troubles of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, as told by Antonio Salieri, the contemporaneous composer who was insanely jealous of Mozart's talent and claimed to have murdered him.
Atheism 2.0 TED talk
Alain De Botton describes how atheists should pay attention to what religion does well, outside of dogma
Contact (1997)
Contact is a 1997 American science fiction drama film directed by Robert Zemeckis, based on the 1985 novel by Carl Sagan. Sagan and his wife Ann Druyan wrote the story outline for the film. It stars Jodie Foster as Dr. Eleanor "Ellie" Arroway, a SETI scientist who finds evidence of extraterrestrial life and is chosen to make first contact.
Creation (2009)
Torn between faith and science, and suffering hallucinations, English naturalist Charles Darwin struggles to complete 'On the Origin of Species' and maintain his relationship with his wife.
Eddie Griffin: On Religion
Eddie Griffin: On Christians, Muslims, Bible, Jesus and Religion
Elmer Gantry (1960)
Elmer Gantry is a 1960 American drama film about a confidence man and a female evangelist selling religion to small-town America. Adapted by director Richard Brooks, the film is based on the 1927 novel of the same name by Sinclair Lewis, and stars Burt Lancaster, Jean Simmons, Arthur Kennedy, Shirley Jones and Patti Page.
George Carlin - Stand Up About Religion
This is part of George Carlin's "You Are All Diseased" (1999) and other clips of his standup routines. One of funniest skewerings of religion on record, but all true.
God Is Not Great | Christopher Hitchens | Talks at Google
Author Christopher Hitchens discusses his book "God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything" as a part of the Authors@Google series. The author of Why Orwell Matters and Letters to a Young Contrarian, Christopher Hitchens is a Vanity Fair contributing editor, a Slate columnist, and a regular contributor to The Atlantic Monthly.
God is not a Good Theory (Sean Carroll)
Sean Carroll, a physicist at Caltech, explains the how well God works as a theory in the same way as any theory might be evaluated by science. He makes use of some novel arguments, especially in regards to how Christian apologists explain inconsistencies in their theory compared to scientific reality.
Harold and Maude
Young, rich, and obsessed with death, Harold finds himself changed forever when he meets lively septuagenarian Maude at a funeral.
Inherit the Wind
Inspired by the real-life "Monkey Trial" in 1925, where Tennessee schoolteacher John Scopes was arrested for teaching Darwin's theory of evolution in violation of state law. Clarence Darrow is Henry Drummond (Spencer Tracy); William Jennings Bryan is Matthew Harrison Brady (Fredric March).
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