The Work and the Glory III: A House Divided

Great movie without problems.

As it says, this is part three of three well done movies.If you want to get out of this movie all that there is in it, before you watch part three, go out and get part One and Two and watch them first.I am hard pressed to see where they could have improved on what was done in telling a very important part of America's history in it's context of the early 1800's.When I first heard of this movie I thought. OK, another stylistic caricature of "The Mormons". Like some horrible B&W movie I saw many years ago with some horror movie star (Can't remember his name. Boris Karloff of someone like him.)Anyway this guy who portrays Joseph Smith is truly believable as God's Prophet. He is truly the kind of man I would love to sit down and share a beer with and even follow to the Rocky Mountains.Brigham Young, although not much time spent on him, was shown as a man wholly devoted to who he truly believed to be God's Prophet.This movie helps you to understand why a few renegade Mormons would even want to get even with a few travelers from the Missouri area coming through Utah's Mountain Meadows. Not the kind of behavior Christians should take part in but people sometimes do carry a grudge, Christian or not, when loved ones have been persecuted and murdered as a matter of political convenience.This is no reason for the attack at Mountain Meadows just the way it was.People traveled through Utah all the time unmolested and the story is totally false that says the reason for the attack on them was that they did not like strangers passing through their country.This movie is informative and fun for the whole family.Even young people need to know that just like chickens in the chicken yard or children on the school ground, we are many times not much different we we "grow up".Watch and enjoy Parts One through Three of this movie and then write every one you can who can see to it that Part 4, Across the River to Nauvoo, (or some title like it) gets into production as soon as possible.

I got it New because previous was used in a 3 movie set and it doesn't work in my DVD player in tell I got it new

Wow - I was surprised at how well this movie took us back in time. We really learned a lot from it!

Great movie, super sad the series has come to an end! We are so grateful for the many people who come together to make these happen! Well done.

I really liked this third movie in the series as it filled in a great deal of history of the Mormon issues that people faced in the early to mid 1800's. As followers moved west into wild territory they faced overwhelming hostility not unlike so much of the intolerance that is going on in this country today.I found that I was continually pausing and going to Wikipedia to gain more information of the timeline and settlements that the travelling Mormons took with this series ending up just north east of Kansas City. It was sad to learn how much of this story is true and the movie really did a good job at showing facts more than romanced versions of history.The actors owned their rolls in this movie and combined with the high production value this is an incredible story to watch.

An abbreviated depiction of Gerald N. Lund's The Work and the Glory book series.

This is a good series. I wish they would do the rest of the books in the series. I have enjoyed the first three a lot. It hits your heart even though it was over a century and a half ago. The things these people endured are a sad statement to part of our history and their courage and enduring is a statement to faith.

I'm not religious and purchased the DVD to see Eric Johnson's acting performance. And what a performance it is! Is acting is solide and touching. You can actually feel him hurting. AWESOME ACTING from Eric Jonhson!!!

We have seen this DVD before, so wanted to add to the Vol. no. 1 which we have. We will hold the whole story for our Christmas present to ourselves. We are members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and have enjoyed the history brought to us of our pioneers back in 19th Century!

Good quality original dvd.

fine

As above