Protestantism (Documentaries)

Directed by John L. Ruth.
54 minutes; released 2000.
Mennonite historian John Ruth looks at Amish origins, farm life, childhood, school, worship, recreation, courtship, barn-raising, horse-transportation, tourism, land pressures, and new cottage industries.

Directed by Burton Buller.
46 minutes; released 2007.
Buller documents the lives of the Amish, Hutterites, and Mennonites in Pennsylvania.

Directed by Michael Merriman.
122 minutes; released 2006.
An authorized documentary about evangelist Billy Graham's life and ministry.

Directed by Martin Doblmeier.
90 minutes; released 2003.
A documentary about Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a Lutheran pastor who opposed the Nazis.

Produced by the Eternal Word Television Network.
30 minutes; released 2008.
The story of John Henry Newman's work as an Anglican clergyman in the village of Littlemore.

Directed by Don Murray.
105 minutes; released 1970.
A feature-length movie adaptation of David Wilkerson's autobiography about his ministry among gang members in New York City.

Directed by Alexandra Pelosi.
56 minutes; released 2007.
Pelosi takes a roadtrip meeting a cross-section of evangelical Americans.

Produced by the Public Broadcasting Service.
210 minutes; released 1987.
A series hosted by Bill Moyers. The Kingdom Divided looks at Christianity, and liberation theology, in Central America. The Battle for the Bible examines Southern Baptists' beliefs about the Bible. On Earth as it is in Heaven explores Christian Reconstructionism, a movement urging believers to be politically active to create a world where the Bible is the basis for government, law and economy.

Produced by the Teaching Company.
30-minute lectures; released 2001.
Professor Brad S. Gregory explores a watershed period in history, introducing the people, ideas, and events that transformed Western Christianity at the dawn of the modern age. This course is designed to give you a balanced, historical overview of the Reformation era during the epoch-making years that separated Luther's Ninety-five Theses (1517) from the end of the Thirty Years' War (1648).

Directed by Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady.
84 minutes; released 2006.
A visit to an evangelical children's summer camp in North Dakota where children are encouraged to become active in advocating the causes of their religious movement.

Directed by Raney Aronson.
60 minutes; released 2004.
An examination of the role of Evangelical Christianity in American politics.

Directed by Bob O'Donnell.
60 minutes; released 1979.
A documentary about the life of C.S. Lewis with visits to his birthplace, school, and home at Oxford University.

Produced by the Teaching Company.
30-minute lectures; released 2004.
He was only a humble monk and Bible professor, yet he sparked a religious rebellion that changed history. This 24-lecture course explores Martin Luther's theology and the Reformation after he posted his famous 95 theses on the church door in Wittenberg, Germany in 1517.

Directed by Richard Attenborough.
133 minutes; released 1993.
A feature-length movie based on the true story of C.S. Lewis, a world-renowned writer and professor who remains untouched by any great passion until he meets and falls in love with Joy Gresham, a feisty, abrasive New York divorce.

Produced by the Teaching Company.
30-minute lectures; released 2002.
This set of 24 lectures examines aspects of elite and popular culture in late medieval and early modern Western Europe, focusing on the way in which men and women seeking to explain, order, and escape the terrors of their lives embraced transcendental religious experiences, dreamed of and worked for the coming of the apocalypse, and seized on a widespread belief in witchcraft and Satanism.