Soul Searching: The Journey of Thomas Merton
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1hr
8mins
Directed by
Morgan Atkinson,
Starring
William McNulty,
This documentary focuses on the journey of Merton, a bohemian who went from communism to Catholicism before finding his calling as a monk cloistered in eastern Kentucky for 27 years. It also covers his writing career which examined spirituality, the Cold War, the civil rights movement and being an individual in a post-modern world