Product Details

• Format: Color, NTSC
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Goldhill Home Media
• VHS Release Date: January 18, 2000
• Run Time: 46 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00000DHGA
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #265,629 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Puritan New England, December 28, 2000

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This review is from: Puritan New England (Landmarks of Faith: A Travelogue of American Spirituality) [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Landmarks of Faith: Puritan New England will teach you things you never learned in school. Here you will learn the story of Anne Hutchinson, America's first female preacher; Roger Williams, the dissident who founded Rhode Island; and Mary Dyer, the Quaker believer who was hanged in Boston Commons for her religious beliefs. There is also a short section featuring the more commonly known Salem Withcraft trials. This is a fascinating video by a master storyteller, and I reccomend it to those interested in colonial history as well as to those interested in the subject of religion in America.

1.0 out of 5 stars Creative & entertaining, but big-picture history sacrificed., April 24, 2002

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This review is from: Puritan New England (Landmarks of Faith: A Travelogue of American Spirituality) [VHS] (VHS Tape)

If creative entertainment and technical production proficiency are your primary standards for selecting a videotape, try this one. But, if you are seeking a balanced and representative big-picture review of the cultural history of Puritan New England's real-world history, by-pass this one. The most unrepresentative characters receive disproportionate attention; -- the most impacting contributions of mainstream Puritan New England lives, literature, industrial and cultural heroes (e.g., Winthrop, Mather, Bradstreet, Bradford, Adams, cod-fishermen, etc.) are too quickly sacrificed for limelighting the quasi-exotic. The video should be re-named to fit this historical imbalance.