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List Price: $14.98Now Price: $14.75Studio: Pbs Home VideoRunning time: 106Release date: 1996-09-10Formats: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
Billy Graham has supposedly preached to more people than any other man in history. Raised on a dairy farm in North Carolina, he grew up to become the most famous and influential preacher of the 20th century, a friend and confidante to kings and presidents. Through interviews with close friends and associates, vintage and recent footage, and exploration of the historical record, the documentary, although by no means a probing exposé, paints a cogent and reasonably evenhanded portrait of the man born William Franklin Graham. He appears as the end of a long line of American evangelical preachers, from George Whitfield of the first Christian Awakening though the vaudeville antics of Billy Sunday. Graham taught himself preaching working as a Fuller Brush salesman, giving away the gospel along with the mops and brooms. With the evangelical team he assembled in the 1940s--Cliff Barrows and George Beverly Shea--Graham built a worldwide empire. A revival for 60,000 people in Portland, Oregon, is followed from inception to completion. Graham's politics are explored--H.R. Haldeman speaks about Graham's relationship with President Nixon; Jesse Jackson is candid on Graham and civil rights--and an in-depth interview with Graham follows the documentary, covering everything from his break with the fundamentalism of Bob Jones to his relationships with powerful media figures. --Laura Mirsky
Billy Graham has supposedly preached to more people than any other man in history. Raised on a dairy farm in North Carolina, he grew up to become the most famous and influential preacher of the 20th century, a friend and confidante to kings and presidents. Through interviews with close friends and associates, vintage and recent footage, and exploration of the historical record, the documentary, although by no means a probing exposé, paints a cogent and reasonably evenhanded portrait of the man born William Franklin Graham. He appears as the end of a long line of American evangelical preachers, from George Whitfield of the first Christian Awakening though the vaudeville antics of Billy Sunday. Graham taught himself preaching working as a Fuller Brush salesman, giving away the gospel along with the mops and brooms. With the evangelical team he assembled in the 1940s--Cliff Barrows and George Beverly Shea--Graham built a worldwide empire. A revival for 60,000 people in Portland, Oregon, is followed from inception to completion. Graham's politics are explored--H.R. Haldeman speaks about Graham's relationship with President Nixon; Jesse Jackson is candid on Graham and civil rights--and an in-depth interview with Graham follows the documentary, covering everything from his break with the fundamentalism of Bob Jones to his relationships with powerful media figures. --Laura Mirsky
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