Special features of this DVD: bonus feature: Remembering Thomas Merton / produced and edited by Morgan Atkinson and Robert G. Toth, 2004 ; scene access.

Originally produced in 1984.

Director of photography, Thomas Hurwitz ; film editor, Zina Voynow ; Thomas Merton readings by Gregory Abels.

Alexander Scourby, narrator.

Examines Merton's life and work through insightful interviews with those who knew him, including the Dalai Lama, poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti, publisher Robert Giroux, musician Joan Baez, monks he lived with and friends with whom he shared his deepest emotions. Interwoven with the interviews are passages from Merton's writing and scenes from significant places of his life, including his birthplace in Prades, France; the Gethsemani monastery in Kentucky; his final journey to the East, and Bangkok, Thailand, where he died.

Not rated.

DVD.