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Publisher
Excel Entertainment Group
Pub. Date
c2007.
Language
English
Description
The story of the fictional Steed family set against the historically factual backdrop of the Mormon people's move into the West. Joshua Steed returns to Missouri a wealthy man, with a beautiful new wife on his arm, but is soon tangled in a web of rumor and deception that threatens to tear his relationship apart.
Publisher
Deseret Books
Pub. Date
c2005.
Language
English
Description
Six episodes focus on aspects and events in the Prophet's life that continue to have a lasting impact on members of the Church today two centuries after his birth. You will see places, artwork, and artifacts that give insight into the life of Joseph Smith, his family, and the world in which he lived. Experience that world virtually firsthand as you view sites and scenes from Churhc history and explore the meaning of numerous events from the Prophet's...
Publisher
Excel Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
When Benjamin Steed and his family move to upstate New York in the early 1800's, they unwittingly settle in a town divided along religious lines. After their new hired help, Joseph Smith, turns out to be at the center of the uproar, each member of the Steed family must come to terms with their own beliefs in the face of heavy persecution.
Publisher
Candlelight Media Group
Pub. Date
c2008.
Language
English
Description
By the side of the founder of a new faith stood an elect lady of undeniable courage. From Emma's point of view, we see the events that molded the wife of the Prophet Joseph Smith (founder of the Mormon faith) into a strong and compassionate woman. The film begins near the end of Emma's life. Her adopted daughter, Julia Murdock Smith, returns home to Emma and shares several hardships she has had. Emma relates to Julia some of her own life's experiences...
Publisher
Scot and Maurine Proctor
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
When you see Witness of the Light suddenly the clock turns back and the present falls away--through breathtaking photographs and film you are transported through time to the world Joseph Smith knew. This is an epic photographic journey into the life of Joseph Smith from Sharon to Carthage, bringing you many stories and details you've never heard before. Loved by more than 100,000 members in presentations across the Church, it is an intimate portrait...
Publisher
Patrick Film Productions
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
In 1857, 120 immigrants from Arkansas were murdered under a white flag by Utah's Mormon settlers--one of the most horrifying events in the history of the American West known as the Mountain Meadows Massacre. Through the recounting of a young girl who survived and the accidental discovery of the victims' remains, this true story exposes a perpetual coverup as descendants from both sides struggle to heal wounds of bitterness.
Series
Publisher
Covenant Communications
Pub. Date
p2011.
Language
English
Description
This acclaimed Church history documentary series chronicles the history of the Church from the martyrdom of the Prophet Joseph Smith in June 1844 to the first Mormon pioneer company's arrival in the Salt Lake valley in July 1847.
Publisher
Covenant Communications
Pub. Date
c2004.
Language
English
Description
Combines vintage photographs and historical art with more current film clips to give you a unique perspective on these Church history sites. The narration for the video is comprised of excerpts from the 23-CD set, "Latter-day history of the Church," which offers dramatic portrayals of key events from the lives of the people and the prophets who came before us.
Series
Publisher
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Pub. Date
c1993.
Language
English
Description
Recounts the forty-year history of the building of the Salt Lake Temple. It begins on the evening before the Temple's dedication as President Wilford Woodruff graciously answers the questions of a young reporter from New York. The reporter's cynicism gradually gives way to admiration for the Saints as he learns of their great devotion and sacrifice in building a holy temple.
Publisher
Nobody Knows
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
"There has been a continuous African American presence in the LDS Church from its earliest days. Until the 1850s, some Black converts were even ordained to the Mormon priesthood. This documentary discusses that little-known legacy. It also confronts the hard issues which surfaced during the 1960s, when the Civil Rights Movement drew attention to the Church's priesthood restriction. That restriction was lifted in 1978, which opened the door for an...
Publisher
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Pub. Date
c2010.
Language
English
Description
Videos, charts, quotations, paintings, and learning activities to assist in studying the Doctrine and Covenants and Church history. Includes the movie, Joseph Smith : the Prophet of the Restoration, shown in the Joseph Smith Memorial Building. Discs 1 and 2 contain over 300 visual resources and study activities tied to the D&C and Church history. Disc 3 contains five additional movies. Disc 4 contains the still pictures and narrated text from the...
20) Savage journey
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007.
Language
English
Description
A band of wagon train pioners struggle to survive as they are driven by angrymobs from one town to another. When they realize that no town will accept them, they brave Indian attacks and the untamed wilderness as they forge new land with their heart, their hands and their faith in God. The true story of the famous Mormon leader Brigham Young and his battle to transport his people across the Rocky Mountains.
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