60 minutes / Color
Release: 1996
Copyright: 1996
Seizing the "pro-family" agenda, New Right conservative strategists midwife a brood of new Christian political organizations, most notably Jerry Falwell's Moral Majority. These groups experience a heady overnight success, registering millions of evangelical voters and helping sweep Ronald Reagan into office. Yet once in the White House, his mainline Republican advisors actively suppress the traditional-values issues. Evangelical leaders are forced to choose between "speaking truth to power" like Biblical prophets, or "going along to get along" in the political realm.
A comprehensive six-hour series treating one of the most important political and cultural stories in contemporary America: the rising power of the Religious Right from 1950 through the 1990s.
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Conservative Christians rise up in Anaheim, California, to launch a nationwide revolt against sex education.
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The symbiotic alliance between Billy Graham and Richard Nixon foreshadows the coming union of religion and politics
Calvin Skaggs and David Van Taylor | 1996 | 60 minutes | Color | English
Carter's election heralds a new era of evangelical engagement in every area of modern life, from broadcasting to basketball. But modern life also means divorce, feminism, and gay rights...
Calvin Skaggs and David Van Taylor | 1996 | 60 minutes | Color | English
Calls for renewed patriotism and fierce attacks on liberalism set the agenda for George H.W. Bush's victory over Michael Dukakis.
Calvin Skaggs and David Van Taylor | 1996 | 60 minutes | Color | English
The Christian Coalition becomes one of the most politically adept membership organizations ever. Yet many inside the movement question if, in gaining power in the secular world, conservative Christians have lost their evangelical soul.
Calvin Skaggs and David Van Taylor | 1996 | 60 minutes | Color | English
