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A brief introduction to the history of the Church up to the production date of the film. Lowell Thomas narrates the prologue, and Richard L. Evans tells the story of the Church. Music by the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. No More a Stranger: 1964 The story focuses on the reception of a new family into a ward. Man's Search for Happiness: 1964 13 min.
Legacy: A Mormon Journey is a 53-minute film produced by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Legacy depicts the life of two recent converts from the 1830s to the 1890s. The characters are fictional, though the events they experience are historical.
LDS Motion Picture Studios (MPS) is a film studio based in Provo, Utah, and is a directly-managed division of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). The MPS is part of the LDS Church's media production division, which includes producers, editors, animators, sound stages, editing bays, and a collection of 19th-century ...
Jesus Christ Superstar: 1973 August 15 Norman Jewison: Godspell: 1973 August 24 David Greene A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving: 1973 November 20 Bill Melendez, Phil Roman: Jesus: 1973 December 21 P. A. Thomas: Luther: 1974 January 21 Guy Green The Abdication: 1974 October 3 Anthony Harvey Thomasleeha: 1975 July 19 P. A. Thomas: Rooster Cogburn: 1975 ...
Mormon filmmakers have continued to produce movies centered around LDS missionaries, but often from new perspectives; The Saratov Approach (2013) was a thriller set in Russia, [21] The Errand of Angels (2008) focused on female missionaries, [33] and Freetown (2015) told the story of African missionaries escaping the First Liberian Civil War. [34]
Willy Krueger is a widowed apartment janitor who lives in a basement flat with his cat George. On a cold Christmas Eve, he daydreams to escape his lonely life: he muses about being a man of culture and means, an ice dance at Temple Square, a sleigh ride, as well as the conductor of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, and also imagines himself in the stable with Mary, Joseph and the infant Jesus.
In March 2011, the church released a revised cut of the film, which is available to watch in select visitors' centers and online. [2] Additionally, the church has released the film in several languages including ASL, Spanish, French, German, and Japanese. The film is available for free on YouTube, on the LDS Church's official channel. [3]
The Big Fisherman is a 1959 American historical drama film directed by Frank Borzage about the life of Simon Peter, one of the disciples of Jesus.Starring Howard Keel, Susan Kohner and John Saxon, the production is adapted from the 1948 novel of the same name by Lloyd C. Douglas.