The footage was edited into three one-hour films under the generic title The Nature of Russia.
It consists of ten one-hour films, inspired by the Ten Commandments.
The one-hour film is not coy about this.
She then showed a one-hour film about a Montreal hospice's work with dying cancer patients.
It took five years to make a one-hour film.
The remaining one-hour films, he said, should end up "going off into turf that has been neglected" in previous treatments of the subject.
The one-hour film is in Italian with English subtitles.
The one-hour film was shown nationally in the United States on December 18, 2006.
The project had been rejected by several producers that had not believed that a one-hour film could become a commercial success.
The number of films per series fell over the years, from eighteen one-hour films a year originally to twelve by the late 1990s.