The Shakers: Hands to Work, Hearts to God(1984)

🎬60 min
📅1984-11-01
🎭Documentary
6.8/10

Overview

They called themselves the United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing, but because of their ecstatic dancing, the world called them Shakers. Ken Burns creates a moving portrait of this particularly American movement, and in the process, offers us a new and unusually moving way to understand the Shakers.

Production

Florentine Films, The TV Lab at WNET/13

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Cast

David McCullough
as Narrator (voice)
Paul Roebling
as (voice)
Julie Harris
as (voice)
Olga Bellin
as (voice)
Wendy Tilghman
as (voice)
I. Tucker Burr
as (voice)
Steven Pudenz
as (voice)
Jesse Carr
as (voice)