Baraka (PG)

Award-winning documentary, which surveys planet earth in all of its glory and squalor, admiring beautiful landscapes and people during their day-to-day existences. Images of indigenous peoples dancing with joy or applying body paint are juxtaposed with the urban decay of major cities and the devastation wrought by strip mining. As pilgrims bathe in a sacred river and monks ring a huge bell, stars twinkle in the sky and earth prepares for a new day.