The main theme of the film, composed by Loreena McKennitt, was released as the track "Ancient Pines" on her 1989 album Parallel Dreams.

[1] This poetic documentary is a salute to 35,000 years of "pre-history", to the values of ancestors only recently remembered, and to the goddess-worshipping religions of the ancient past.

Goddess Remembered features Merlin Stone, Carol Christ, Luisah Teish, Starhawk, Charlene Spretnak, and Jean Shinoda Bolen, who link the loss of goddess-centred societies with today's environmental crisis.

Clea Notar of Cinema Canada called Goddess Remembered empowering and energizing, describing it as an "anthropological, sociological, political, and visual treatise which succeeds without being either pedantic or boring".

Griffin says it is significant that the films do not feature any critical voices, such as Naomi Goldenberg, who is a Canadian and one of the first scholars who studied the Goddess movement.