One Hundred Years of Mormonism

Summary

A sepia-tinted fever dream unfurls as a farm-boy necromancer unearths a third testament scrawled on thin golden plates; persecuted sectarians burn printing presses, tar prophets, and are finally driven like cattle across the Mississippi frost while polygamous patriarchs measure Zion by the ox-cart load; prairie torches mark the exodus, handcart wheels grind bones, and at the salt-caked rim of the Great Basin the camera halts on a desolate grid of adobe that will one day metastasize into a white-marble theocracy.

Synopsis

The founding of the Latter-day Saints Church by Joseph Smith, and the westward trek of his followers led by Brigham Young, are portrayed.