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Journey Films Journey Films has produced more than 35 award-winning documentary films on faith and spirituality It premiered on PBS in 2006.

Journey Films was founded in 1983 by award-winning filmmaker Martin Doblmeier as a television and film production company specializing in religion, faith and spirituality. Journey has produced more than 25 major documentary films that have aired on PBS, ABC, NBC, the BBC, The History Channel and other networks in the United States and abroad. Journey's first theatrical release, BONHOEFFER, opened

in cities across the US in 2003 and internationally to wide critical acclaim. Later that spring public television aired ALBERT SCHWEITZER: Called to Africa, a docu-drama that won the prestigious Gabriel Award. To date, Journey has won five Gabriel Awards. In 2008 Journey released The POWER of FORGIVENESS, a film that won the Sun Valley Film Festival and the International Film and Video Festival. The Washington National Cathedral began airing on PBS stations in 2009 and won a regional EMMY Award for best cultural documentary. The ADVENTISTS was released spring of 2010 to PBS stations and became an Amazon best-selling documentary.

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08/04/2025

We're back! We had some issues with our video rental page but all the Journey films are back up and available to watch! Check out our Journey On Demand page.

  Journey on Demand    Prophetic Voices SERIES revolution of the heart: the dorothy day story the power of forgiveness Taize: That little Springtime Thomas Jefferson: A view from the Mountain SPIRITUAL AUDACITY: the abraham joshua heschel story backs Against the wall: the howard thurman story An ...

Today, America honors one of its most remarkable icons – global humanitarian, Nobel Peace Laureate, tireless public serv...
09/01/2025

Today, America honors one of its most remarkable icons – global humanitarian, Nobel Peace Laureate, tireless public servant, and 39th President – Jimmy Carter. I had the privilege of meeting President Carter several times – the last meeting by far the most meaningful.

In 2016 I invited the former president to be interviewed for a documentary film we were producing on Reinhold Niebuhr – often considered America’s great public theologian. President Carter read Niebuhr and admired him. He often spoke of Niebuhr publicly. So with some confidence we extended Carter the invitation to be interviewed for what became "An American Conscience: The Reinhold Niebuhr Story." To our great surprise, he accepted.

The interview took place at his Carter Center in Atlanta, hallowed ground for those of us who admire the vexing work of peacemaking in our volatile world. I was joined that day by our small crew, and Andrew Finstuen and Jeremy Sabella who served as producers and consultants on the film.

There was something immediately authentic yet almost self-effacing about Mr. Carter. Despite being in his 90s and round-shouldered, he entered the room with confidence, shook hands with a firm grip, looked me in the eyes and sat in the pre-lit interview chair. He was focused and graciousthroughout our 40-minute conversation. He didn’t use the moment to advance his own legacy as most aging public figures are often prone to do. Instead he was honest and forthcoming about his struggles in the White House and the role Niebuhr played.

“Niebuhr was always present in my mind in a very practical way,” as he said in that famous Carter drawl. “Particularly when I was President and facing the constant threat of a nuclear war which would have destroyed the world.”

The Carter obituaries will highlight how during his presidential years the nation suffered under crippling inflation, how his Camp David Accords proved short lived, and how he was vexed for over a year by the Iran hostage crisis. We will be reminded how he was soundly defeated for re-election by Ronald Reagan – launching a new era of Christian conservatism in politics.

But we cannot ignore how the man who rose from Plains, GA, who taught Sunday School his entire life, may be our greatest example of what an ex-President is capable of accomplishing. His marriage to Rosalynn was rock steady, his faith in a loving God ever present. But he was also keenly aware of our human capacity to disappoint. In religious language - to sin. And that insight is pure Reinhold Niebuhr.

In our interview Mr. Carter added: “One of the things Niebuhr thought was the greatest origin of sinfulness was pride, self-ego and absence of consideration of your own fallibilities and potential for mistakes.” Carter made mistakes and those mistakes cost him politically. But he dedicated his 40+ post-presidency years to making the world a better, safer place and proving there is a difference between power and authority. While president, Carter had power and historians will debate how effective he was at wielding it. In later years, his personal character and sense of Christian virtue engendered an undeniable authority and that he used for good.

In November 1980 Carter suffered a humiliating defeat in his bid for re-election. Democracy spoke. But he turned defeat into an entirely new chapter through his Carter Center where among his many efforts, he helped over 40 countries overcome corruption, prioritize basic human rights and find a path toward genuine democracy. Through that newly created initiative he flourished in a way that will stand the test of time – earning him a Nobel Prize for Peace. In an ironic twist of fate, President Carter proved in a global sense Niebuhr’s classic saying;

“Man’s capacity for justice makes democracy possible.
Man’s capacity for injustice makes democracy necessary.”

Martin Doblmeier

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30/12/2024

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This Special Collection of 5 award-winning documentary films includes: "BONHOEFFER" - profiling the young German theologian who joined the plots to kill Adolf Hi**er; "An American Conscience - The Reinhold Niebuhr Story" about America's great public theologian, "Backs Agains

Today we remember Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel, who passed away on this date in 1972. To learn more about Rabbi Heschel ...
23/12/2024

Today we remember Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel, who passed away on this date in 1972. To learn more about Rabbi Heschel and his fascinating life, you can check out our documentary at https://vimeo.com/ondemand/abrahamheschel

This holiday give the gift of inspiring stories...Five award-winning feature length documentary films from filmmaker Mar...
28/11/2024

This holiday give the gift of inspiring stories...
Five award-winning feature length documentary films
from filmmaker Martin Doblmeier in a single DVD collection

FOR A LIMITED TIME ONLY: RECEIVE 2 COMPLETE PROPHETIC VOICES COLLECTIONS - ONE TO KEEP AND ONE TO GIVE AWAY FOR ONLY $19.95 and FREE SHIPPING for the holidays on ALL US orders!

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Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Howard Thurman, Reinhold Niebuhr, Dorothy Day and Abraham Joshua Heschel - names that embody the prophetic voice and moral courage needed in a time of conflict and uncertainty - a time much like our own.

All five films have aired nationwide on PBS stations to great acclaim. All five films have won major awards and continue to be widely discussed. All five films belong in your family, school, congregation or seminary collection.

Order today at https://www.journeyfilms.com/store/p/prophetic-voices-dvd-set-1

SAN BERNARDINO, CA - Join San Bernardino Community SDA Church THIS WEEKEND (August 23-24) for the next Festival of Sabba...
20/08/2024

SAN BERNARDINO, CA - Join San Bernardino Community SDA Church THIS WEEKEND (August 23-24) for the next Festival of Sabbath! Check out the video below for more information.

The Sabbath is Made for Me

Happy 4th! Check out this conversation between historian Thomas Kidd and filmmaker Martin Doblmeier.
04/07/2024

Happy 4th! Check out this conversation between historian Thomas Kidd and filmmaker Martin Doblmeier.

The Declaration of Independence - voted on by the Continental Congress on July 2, 1776 and signed July 4th, was the boldest statement of human rights and ind...

Now available on YouTube! Watch Creativity: Touching the Divine in its entirety for FREE! Featuring author Madeleine L'E...
17/06/2024

Now available on YouTube! Watch Creativity: Touching the Divine in its entirety for FREE! Featuring author Madeleine L'Engle, sculptor Frederick Hart and glass harpist Jamey Turner.

Creativity: Touching the Divine (1996) brings together artists and non-artists who have experienced the joyful tandem of spirituality and creativity. Viewers...

Missed any of the Sabbath interviews from our newsletter? Follow our YouTube channel  for conversations with Brian McLar...
22/05/2024

Missed any of the Sabbath interviews from our newsletter? Follow our YouTube channel for conversations with Brian McLaren, Eboo Patel, Shai Held and more!

Brian McLaren is a best selling author, popular speaker and a leading figure in the emerging church movement. He is affiliated with the Center for Action and...

Journey Films is pleased to announce that SABBATH has won two awards.First is the 2024 Wilbur Award for the Best in Broa...
17/04/2024

Journey Films is pleased to announce that SABBATH has won two awards.

First is the 2024 Wilbur Award for the Best in Broadcast Television (Long Form). The Wilbur Award is given annually by the Religion Communicators Council and honors the best in secular media in "communicating faith and religion – with fairness and professionalism, honesty and respect."

The Christopher Award, now in its 75th year, celebrates "resilience, faith and our 'better angels.' The well known motto of The Christophers is: "It's better to light one candle than to curse the darkness." SABBATH won for Best in TV, Cable and Streaming.

We are grateful to the Religion Communicators Council and The Christophers for the recognition!

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Journey Films was founded in 1983 by award-winning filmmaker Martin Doblmeier as a television and film production company specializing in religion, faith and spirituality. Journey has produced more than 30 documentary films that have aired on PBS, ABC, NBC, the BBC and have been translated into more than a dozen languages for broadcast outlets around the world. Journey’s most recent film An American Conscience: The Reinhold Niebuhr Story is now broadcasting on PBS, along with our second most recent documentary -- CHAPLAINS. Journey Films is also known for other award-winning films, like the biographical documentary on celebrated German theologian and N**i resister Dietrich Bonhoeffer, followed by The Power of Forgiveness which won many top awards and inspired a companion book. In all, Journey’s films have won a total eight Gabriel Awards for the nation’s best film on a topic of religion, three awards at the US International Film and Television Festival, the Sun Valley Film Festival and many others.