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Thich Nhat Hanh - Peace is every Step (1998)
Running time: 51 minutes

"Centered around the quiet words and serene presence of Thich Nhat Hanh. His words resonate long after the film stops." 

Leading Vietnamese Zen teacher and author of many books (including the bestsellers Being Peace, Living Buddha/Living Christ, The Miracle of Mindfulness and Peace Is Every Step), Thich Nhat Hanh has had a profound impact on contemporary thinking and, importantly, social action. His efforts to achieve an early peaceful end to the American war in Vietnam earned him a nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and a forty-year exile from his homeland. 
Peace Is Every Step is an intimate and direct portrait of of a monk who has lived through war and fought back with meditation, love and grace under fire, testimony to the faith that simple practices and insights drawn from (but not by any means limited to) the Buddhist meditative tradition can help change conditions for the better: on a personal level, in the family, in the community, in a nation and in the world. 

Narrated by Ben Kingsley Produced and Directed by Gaetano Kazuo Maida 

Filmed on location in Plum Village, France; Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Washington, D.C.; and at retreats around the U.S. • Plus: rare archival footage from Vietnam in the 1960s 


Thich Nhat Hanh is a Vietnamese Buddhist monk, scholar, poet, and peace 
activist. During the war in Vietnam, he worked tirelessly for reconciliation 
between North and South Vietnam. His lifelong efforts to generate peace moved 
Martin Luther King Jr. to nominate him for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1967. He 
lives in a small community in France where he teaches, writes, gardens, and 
works to help refugees worldwide. Thich Nhat Hanh has conducted many mindfulness 
retreats in Europe and North America helping veterans, children, 
environmentalists, psychotherapists, artists and many thousands of individuals 
seeking peace in their hearts, and in their world. 

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