The Hare Krishna chant. As you walk the streets of some of America's larger cities you will occasionally come upon a group of people garbed in apparel which makes you think of India. The heads of the men will be shaven with just one streame
An African Safari preaching program organized by ISKCON Festivals in 1998. Tribhuvanatha Prabhu. Tribhuvananta was a Prabhupada disciple particularly instructed to spread Krishna consciousness by public festivals. He you see a 1998 Africa
Television interview of Prahlada presenting a letter to the Russian Embassy to be delivered to Mikhail Gorbachev asking the Russians to free the Hare Krishna devotees they had imprisoned and in psychiatric hospitals.
Ecstatic footage of Srila Prabhupada and his disciples preaching Krishna consciousness in New York City during October and November of 1966. This is the beginning of the Hare Krishna Movement in the USA
Ramai Swami's Australian Hare Krishna Band Live in 1992 performing at Gaura Purnima Festival at ISKCON North Sydney Temple.
For many years the Adelaide City Council banned the chanting of Hare Krishna in the city. When the Traveling Temple visited Adelaide to collect signitures for the petition to free the Russian Hare Krishna devotees the Adelaide Hare Krishna
Prahlada and the Krishna Kids appear on Australian National Television singing Please Mr. Gorbachev Let Our Friends be Free and explaining the plight of the Russian devotees imprisoned for practicing their religion.
As a result of the massive nation-wide attention brought on the Adelaide City Council by the Hare Krishna Traveling Temple the ban on chanting Hare Krishna in Adelaide that had been in place for many years was lifted.
Television coverage of Gaura Gopal meeting the Adelaide (South Australia) City Mayor in an attempt to convince him to allow the Hare Krishnas to chant on the streets of Adelaide again.
Good Morning Australia, a national breakfast television program, covers the opening of the Gopals takeaway burger shop in Melbourne in 1985.
Australian television program This Week Tonight covers Hare Krishna World , the Hare Krishna New Govardhan Farm in Northern New South Wales, Australia. A bus group of tourists arrives at the farm and has a good time there.
National breakfast television program Good Morning Australia covers the Hare Krishna Traveling Temple program to collect a million signatures on a petition to free the Russian Hare Krishna devotees who had been imprisoned for following thei
1983 television interview with Cita Hari, the Sydney Temple President, and his wife. Very interesting to see the mood in ISKCON at that time.
In the 1980s the Hare Krishna movement was so prominent and newsworthy that Television stations were announcing the Gaura Purnima Festival.
At the beginning of the 1983 Sydney Rathayatra festival an Indian lady fell in front of Lord Jagannatha's cart and the wheel ran over her head and killed her. This is one of the many television news reports of the sad incident.
Even the television test patterns in Australia in the 1980s were accompanied with the chanting of the Hare Krishna mantra. In those days TV was not broadcast 24 hours a day, so when there was no program they would broadcast a test pattern,
Seven National News coverage of the Adelaide Hare Krishna Chanting Ban Australia in the 1980s.
In his effort to get the Russian Hare Krishna devotees freed from prisons and mental hospitals Prahlada, after the success of his song aimed at Mikhail Gorbachev, the President of Russia, produced this song aimed at Ronald Regan, the Presid
In 1986 EMI Records in Australia signed up a new group for their record label to take its place among their other artists like AC/DC, Queen, The Beatles... Prahlada and the Krishna Kids...
Prahlada interviewed by State Affair in Brisbane, Australia in 1985.
Australian Traveling Temple Kirtan party banned from chanting Hare Krishna in North Queensland 1985.
A documentary on the deprogramming of Hare Krishna devotees by people like Ted Patrick. It contains a lot of clips from the Lou Grant show on the subject and also clips from television news.
A rather irreverent presentation of the 'old days' in ISKCON with enthusiastic devotees transforming into old blooped ISKCON devotees. Making fun of the mood of pure devotional service that permeated ISKCON when Srila Prabhupada was persona
Travel through ten countries to Europe's Hare Krishna temples in 1987. Narrated by Suhotra Swami. The activities of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness, or ISKCON as it is commonly known, in ten European lands beginning with
Documentary covering the activities of the ISKCON Hare Krishna Temple in Amsterdam, Holland in 1987. This is just after the devotees moved into a very large new temple building, which they were only able to keep for a year or two, but in th
ISKCON UK's famous preacher Tribhuvanatha Prabhu organizes the Message of Godhead traveling bus preaching program in East Africa in the 1980s. It is a spiritual revival festival tour. A traveling safari in Africa. Organized by Tribuvanath
Hare Krishna Transcendence Band show in Europe.
“Krishna consciousness is the real sweet water. Ordinary water can put out an ordinary fire. But the nectar of Krishna consciousness is so sweet that as soon as you taste it, the whole blazing fire of material existence is immediately extin
Documentary covering the situation of devotees in the Soviet Union and Ukraine living under the communist regime. Some devotees were put in prison. They used insulin and shock therapy on them. These were heavily oppressive times for the Har
Boy George performing his hit song Bow Down Mister along with some of George Harrison's hits including My Sweet Lord in Moscow, Russia 1992. This is a section of a show put on by ISKCON's Gouranga Bhajan Band. There is a recording avai
With thoughts and well wishes for the people of Ukraine and Russia we present this newly discovered footage of Hare Krishna devotees and temples in the Ukraine. This was taken around the year 2000.
Documentation of the Dedication Ceremony of ISKCON Bangalore Center For Advancement of Culture when it was still an ISKCON temple. Features the President of India, Dr Shanker Dayal Sharma to the cause of promotion of Vedic culture and spi
In 1971, under the pretext of meeting with Professor Kotovisk, an Indologist from Moscow’s U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences, Srila Prabhupada accompanied by two of his disciples, Syamasundara and Aravinda, embarked into a dangerous mission to s
The ISCKON Foundation was launched by the GBC in 1992 when they saw the Western devotees were loosing interest. So it was an attempt by the GBC to convert Srila Prabhupada's ISKCON, which is supposed to be spreading Krishna consciousness al
Documentary on ISKCON's distribution of Srila Prabhuapda's transcendental books in Europe in 1986 in the countries: Holland,Germany,Switzerland,Belgium and Norway. Very interesting. Catches the mood of the European ISKCON book distributors
One of the hit singles from the Radha Krishna Temple album recorded by the ISKCON London devotees with George Harrison at Apple studios in 1969. This song, Govinda is the first few verses from the Brahma Samhita, a prayer by the principa
George Harrison had a long relationship with Krishna. He and John Lennon got the first Hare Krishna mantra record produced by the Founder-Acharya of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON), His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktiv
George Harrison and the London Hare Krishna devotees recorded the Hare Krishna mantra in 1969 and released it as a single. A 45 RPM record. That record rocketed to the top of the music charts worldwide. In July of 1969 George invited th
Documentary following the lives of three new Hare Krishna devotees, two boys and a girl, for one year, from shaving up to initiation. A unique film capturing the mood and preaching methods of ISKCON in the years immediately following the di
In Following Srila Prabhupada Part 8 we see Prabhupada's at the Krishna Balarama temple opening and deity installation in Vrindavan. In a very short time, in less than two years, Srila Prabhupada was able to acquire the land for constructin