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DVD: Region Code 1
Format: Color, NTSC
Running Time: 54 minutes
DVD Release Date: 1991-11-01
Studio: Vision Video

DVD Reviews of The Amish: A People of Preservation

DVD Review: The Amish are coming!
Summary: 3 Stars

This DVD explores the lifestlye of the Amish. Once you get past the superficialality of their lifestyle that the "English" usually see from passing their buggies -- they are deeply spiritual people. Another movie that should be watch with this is "The Stranger Among Us"

DVD Review: Sensitive and wholesome portrait
Summary: 5 Stars

This video was given to me by a friend several years ago as I have been interested in the Amish community, having German farming immigrant ancestors in Kansas. It is not a recent video having been originally done about twenty years ago but the content is not out of date and it will give a very good overview of basic Amish life. It is narrated by two men who grew up in Amish communities and they offer a good and kind insight into the community. There are many different branches of Amish and Mennonite life and practice and belief, which I think the general public does not realize. Aside from the distinctive "plain clothes" there is much that differs. This is a wholesome video and not like some more recent videos that showed the "dark side" of those who chose not to follow the faith. I would recommend this as a wholesome insight into this faith community.

DVD Review: Informative, Respectful Documentary
Summary: 4 Stars

This PBS documentary is well rendered and answers many questions "the English" (non Amish people) may have had about the Amish way of life. Why is it not hypocritical to use a phone or accept a ride in a non Amish person's car when the Amish can not own such items themselves? Is everyone raised as Amish excommunicated from the church for life if they leave the church? How can the Amish continue to support themselves and their large families as modern farming techniques improve and make their family farm way of life obsolete? Why are some modern conveniences once banned now permitted? Why does the government allow special Amish schools that end at grade school and are exempt from most public and private school rules? I've had all these questions and all were answered during the course of this film. The overall message of the film is one of tolerance and gratitude to the Amish for their preservation of all Americans less urban past, their hard work and their love for their community and family. The film focuses on Lancaster, PA but does mention that the largest Amish community is now in Holmes County, Ohio and newer communities are now flourishing throughout many parts of the US.

Description of The Amish: A People of Preservation

An award-winning PBS documentary, the Amish keep surprising their technology-programmed neighbors by keeping alive ways and beliefs that many modern Americans wish they could recapture. In this colorful, updated documentary, Mennonite historian John Ruth takes us sympathetically into the Amish mindset. Dr. John A. Hostetler, author of Amish society, comments on the survival of an alternative to the kind of world we have made. As the Amish increase in numbers, some of them migrate from homesteads in Pennsylvania toward more open farmland. Those staying where the land is too crowded to farm have developed an amazing variety of cottage industries. But all such changes are made very carefully, in order not to sacrifice spiritual covenant and community for the sake of convenience.

DVD Features:
Languages: English
Subtitles: None
Viewing Format: Fullscreen
Bonus Material:
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