Back in September the conservative publisher Regnery pulled 2,000 Mules, the book version of Dinesh D’Souza’s election fraud documentary. (You may recall that D’Souza called Bill Barr an “overweight,” “largely immobile,” “fatso” after the former attorney general panned the documentary)....
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Four Seasons Total Landscaping: The documentary
Yes, you read that correctly. There will be a documentary about the Philadelphia site of Rudy Giuliani’s infamous election fraud press conference. Here is Tom Grater at Deadline: Four Seasons Total Landscaping, the innocuous small business in Pennsylvania that shot...
“Postcards from Babylon” premieres on January 21
Learn more about how to watch it here. The documentary film features Brian Zahnd, Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Shane Claiborne, Peter Wehner, Lisa Sharon Harper, Scott Hancock, and some loudmouth history professor from Messiah University. 🙂 Watch the trailer:...
Some quick thoughts on the CNN documentary “Jimmy Carter: Rock and Roll President”
I’ve always been a Jimmy Carter fan, so I was eager to watch Mary Wharton‘s documentary “Jimmy Carter: Rock and Roll President” last Sunday night. On one level, it did not disappoint. I knew very little about Carter’s relationship with...
Court evangelicals rally around a new pro-Trump documentary titled “Trump 2024: The World After Trump”
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_ZLk8DYrU4&w=560&h=315] The documentary will appear in September. Court evangelicals Paula White, Robert Jeffress, Franklin Graham, Mike Huckabee, Jack Hibbs, Eric Metaxas, Tony Perkins, Samuel Rodriguez, and Jack Graham are involved. This trailer is so over-the-top that some of it...
Episode 69: Be Like Mike?
Did you watch “The Last Dance,” the ESPN documentary on Michael Jordan and the 1990s Chicago Bulls? In this episode of the podcast, Baylor University sports historian Paul Putz helps us make sense of it. Join us for a conversation...
The Last Dance
This looks amazing. Watch the last 45 seconds for the star-studded lineup. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Peh9Yqf1GXc&w=560&h=315]...
Out of the Zoo: “American Gospel”
Annie Thorn is a sophomore history major from Kalamazoo, Michigan and our intern here at The Way of Improvement Leads Home. As part of her internship she is writing a weekly column titled “Out of the Zoo.” It focuses on life as...
“The Excavation of Rachel H. Flowers”
Check out my Messiah College history colleague Bernardo Michael and Messiah history alum Christina Thomas in this short documentary on Christina’s work on Rachel Flowers, the first African American student to graduate from Messiah. Christina is currently a doctoral candidate...
The *Western Stars* Documentary is Coming
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IXzAAKrsFE&w=560&h=315] Springsteen’s most recent album, Western Stars, will be the subject of a music documentary that Warner Brothers will release this Fall. Here is Variety: Warner Bros. has nabbed global rights to “Western Stars,” the upcoming music documentary co-directed...
Support the Making of This Documentary on Trump and Evangelicals
Don Johnson is putting together a must-see documentary. He needs your support to finish the project. Watch a teaser and support him by clicking here....
The Death of a Church
Watch Bobby Moser‘s short documentary about a dying church in rural Texas: [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kY_I7XEnE2I&w=560&h=315] Learn more here....
When Journalists Used the “tools of a novelist to tell a news story”
I need to see the HBO documentary Breslin and Hamill: Deadline Artists. I grew up reading Jimmy Breslin’s columns in the New York Daily News and his writing was one of the reasons I wanted to grow-up to become a journalist....
*In God We Trump*
This is the name of filmmaker Chris Maloney’s new documentary. Over at VOX, Tara Isabella Burton talks with Maloney. Here is a taste of the interview: Tara Isabella Burton So we’ve established that white evangelicals were willing to vote for...
“Same God”: A Documentary on the Larycia Hawkins Controversy at Wheaton College
Remember the Larycia Hawkins controversy at Wheaton College? If not, get caught-up here. It now looks as if the controversy is the subject of a documentary that will appear later this month at the Los Angeles Film Festival. Read all...
Teaching African American History with Documentaries
Over at Black Perspectives, Joshua Clark Davis of the University of Baltimore suggests some documentaries that he uses in teaching post-1865 African American history. The list includes documentaries on Jack Johnson, the Tulsa Race Riots, segregation, debates over Black History Month,...
More Reviews of Ken Burns and Lynn Novick’s “The Vietnam War”
See our original list of reviews here. A conservative State Department veteran says the documentary is “no profile in courage.” Tim O’Brien, author of The Things They Carried reflects on the documentary. Salar Mohandesi says the documentary “seeks a premature...
Reviews of Ken Burns’s “The Vietnam War”
I am not an expert on the Vietnam War. I have not taught this subject in nearly sixteen years. As a result, I am no position to offer a critique or review of Ken Burns and Lynn Novick’s PBS documentary, The...
The Daring Women of Philadelphia
I am in Philadelphia today. This morning I was interviewed for a documentary film on women, religion, and anti-slavery in the early American Republic (1789-1848) titled “The Daring Women of Philadelphia.” The Emmy Award-winning documentary filmmakers at History Making Productions...
Trailer for the Forthcoming Reinhold Niebuhr Movie
[vimeo 192202247 w=640 h=360] <p><a href=”https://vimeo.com/192202247″>Trailer: An American Conscience: The Reinhold Niebuhr Story</a> from <a href=”https://vimeo.com/jenquintana”>Jen Quintana</a> on <a href=”https://vimeo.com”>Vimeo</a>.</p> More info here....