The Work and the Glory - American Zion
by Sterling Van Wagenen
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Actor: Alexander Carroll, Brenda Strong, Brighton Hertford, Eric Johnson, Sam HenningsDirector: Sterling Van Wagenen
Brand: Paramount
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; English (Subtitled)
Format: Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.66:1
Running Time: 99 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-05-09
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Paramount
DVD Reviews of The Work and the Glory - American Zion
DVD Review: It was good
Summary: 3 Stars
I didn't read the book, so I can't compare the two. As a movie I thought it was a little confusing. It was still nice to watch a clean movie.DVD Review: Another Eye Opening view of America's Past
Summary: 5 Stars
You must first view "The Work and the Glory" Part One to enjoy the context of this movie which is Part Two.
When I first heard of these movies I thought. OK, another stylistic caricature of "The Mormons". Like some horrible B&W movie I saw many years ago with some horror movie star (Can't remember his name. Boris Karloff of someone like him.)
Anyway this guy who portrays Joseph Smith is truly believable as God's Prophet. He is truly the kind of man I would love to sit down and share a beer with and even follow to the Rocky Mountains.
This movie helps you to understand why a few renegade Mormons would even want to get even with a few travelers from the Missouri area coming through Utah's Mountain Meadows. Not the kind of behavior Christians should take part in but people sometimes do carry a grudge, Christian or not, when loved ones have been persecuted and murdered as a matter of political convenience.
This movie is informative and fun for the whole family.
Even young people need to know that just like chickens in the chicken yard or children on the school ground, we are many times not much different we we "grow up".
Watch and enjoy Part one and this movie which is Part Two.
Then go out and find Part three.
DVD Review: Civil War
Summary: 5 Stars
A diabolical mob mentality is bringing Civil War to Missouri and a group of evil villians are criminally persecuting the Mormons. Fear is the driving force, these individuals are afraid of Mormon prosperity and increasing political influence wielded by the Mormons. Political animosity and jealousy fuel their intense suspension and jealousy as the Saints increased in numbers, political influence, commerce, and wealth.
Mormons represent many of the best minds of Europe: craftsmen, scientist, engineers, farmers, and businessmen to America. The seemingly abundant prosperity has created a new emerging American culture of innovation (The American Religion), ingenuity (Kirkland and Nauvoo), and resourcefuliness.
This communistic, anti-American, and unitarian force of old ideas resented the new Mormon freedom of Religion and free enterprise. The Mormons believe they are protected by the constitutional law, but the criminals have secretly combined and released their evil plot against the saints, as they form unconstitutional laws and a militia. The end result is an anti-American sentiment generating a historical injustice, unsurpassed level of cruelity, property theft, and signficant economic disruptions to Missouri businesses. However, the illusion of control by this evil force could not contain the human spirit and the self determination of the early saints.
DVD Review: A Mormon History Support
Summary: 4 Stars
I have read all the books and this movie did a fairly good job of staying true to the original writings of Mr. Lund.DVD Review: A moving tale!
Summary: 5 Stars
This movie is based on real-life events, and I think that's what adds to it's power. It ripped at my heart to see and somewhat really experience what the early Saints went through to have their right to worship as others are free to worship as they choose.
The movie was amazing, powerful, and moving. The only thing I would change is the ending. It left me with a cliff-hanger-feeling, wanting to know how did that happen? What happened between then and now? What about so-and-so? It was a powerful ending, but left me wanting more information.
I hope to see a third movie in the making very soon!
Description of The Work and the Glory - American Zion
In November of 1833, the state of Missouri turned a blind eye as hundreds of its peaceful inhabitants were hunted down and driven from their homes in the dead of night. Against this impending strife, a young man with a divine vision leads a people against the aggression of an anti-hero with a vulnerable past. With more than two million copies sold, the second volume of Gerald N. Lund's epic series The Work and the Glory now brings a pivotal moment in American history to the big screen. "The Work and The Glory: American Zion" sets the story of the fictional Steed family against the historically factual backdrop of the Mormon people's move into the West. Divided by their diverse reactions to a nascent ideology, the Steeds struggle to hold together as the strength of their convictions and their filial bonds are tested. The stirring narrative of the faith that led a persecuted people to Missouri and beyond is one of the most poignant untold tales of American history. It is the account of a valiant struggle to exercise the rights promised by a fledgling nation. "The Work and the Glory: American Zion" unearths the story of the passion behind the movement which eventually launched the largest American migration and the colonization of the West: the vision of a promised land in America.The second in a series of epic films about the beginnings of the Mormon church (preceded by The Work and the Glory and followed by The Work and the Glory: A House Divided), The Work and the Glory: American Zion chronicles the struggles of church founder Joseph Smith (Jonathan Scarfe, Into the West) to found the promised land--Zion--that God has promised him and his followers. The movie blends historical events (such as the destruction of the printing press used to publish Joseph Smith's visions) with the fictional story of the Steed family: The father, Benjamin (Sam Hennings, Seasons of the Heart), doesn't believe in Smith but labors to support his family, even as his two sons are sent in different directions: Nathan (Alexander Carroll) and his wife follow Smith devoutly, while Joshua (Eric Johnson, Smallville) joins a Missouri militia that drives the Mormons from the state. Members of the Church of Latter Day Saints will undoubtedly find this dramatization of their history compelling; for others, it may feel like a religious soap opera trying to encompass so much history that the characters never develop beyond types. Based on the nine-volume series by Gerald N. Lund; also featuring Brenda Strong (Desperate Housewives). --Bret Fetzer
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