| The Burning Times | |
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| Directed by | Donna Read |
| Written by | Erna Buffie |
| Produced by | Mary Armstrong Margaret Pettigrew Studio D, National Film Board of Canada |
| Starring | Starhawk Matthew Fox Margot Adler Irving Smith Thea Jensen Barbara Roberts |
| Music by | Loreena McKennitt |
| Distributed by | National Film Board of Canada |
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Running time | 56 min., 13 sec. |
| Country | Canada |
| Language | English |
| Part of the series on the film trilogy |
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The Burning Times is a 1990 Canadian documentary, presenting a feminist account of the Early Modern European witchcraft trials.[1] It was directed by Donna Read and written by Erna Buffie, and features interviews with feminist and Neopagan notables, such as Starhawk, Margot Adler, and Matthew Fox. The Burning Times is the second film in the National Film Board of Canada's Women and Spirituality series, following Goddess Remembered (1989) and preceding Full Circle (1993).
The opening and closing theme music, composed by Loreena McKennitt, was released as the track titled "Tango to Evora" on her 1991 album The Visit.
- ^ Toronto Globe and Mail, June 12, 1991 "Religion" by Jack Kapica, "Review of The Burning Times" transcribed at http://www.debunker.com/texts/burning_times.html retrieved on August 24, 2006