Product Details

• Directors: ALEXANDRA PELOSI
• Producers: MICHIEL VOS
• Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: All Regions
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: HBO
• DVD Release Date: January 30, 2009
• Run Time: 44 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B001P829W8
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #121,917 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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10 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Outstanding!!!, April 7, 2010

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Dennis A. Brown (Davenport, FL) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Trials of Ted Haggard (DVD)

Like a couple of other reviwers, I did not like Ted Haggard and the other so-called evangelicals. As a Libertarian I feel the Religous Right is a threat to freedom in America. After seeing Pastor Ted in the excellent "Jesus Camp" my contempt grew. So, naturally, when he was caught in a homosexual liaison including drug use, I found it laughable. Another Religous Right icon goes down. However, after watching this documentary, my feelings completely changed. Please understand, now that Pastor Ted has been exposed, he deserves some amount of critizism for his previous anti-gay doctrine. He was hypocritical and knows it. However, he is not alone. Most people, religous or not, have skeletons in their closet and, in life, we all, at some point, play the hypocrite. Life, by its very nature, is contradictory and is defined by change. While I am not a christian or religous, when I finished watching The Trials of Ted Haggard I felt what can be described as christian compassion. I never thought that someone like Pastor Ted would open the window to his life after such a humiliating downfall. This, to me, is a sign of character. Most so-called conservatives when confronting open secrets will deny, deny, deny (think of Sen. Craig). Pastor Ted opens to the cameras his new life and all its trails, ups and downs. I was shocked. Here is a man shunned by his community, living in hotels, and trying to find gainful employment to support his family. His openness about his feelings about everything that happened is quite moving. You will not be disappointed with this documentary. While I believe there still is some contradiction in how Pastor Ted views his homosexuality even now, as I stated earlier, that's life. I believe this documentary will suprise a lot of people. I hope we will remember, if there is indeed a god, that we all fall short of the glory of God and that those confessing to truly love and follow the teachings of the man known as Jesus of Nazareth, will remember the essence of christian love and for whom the man gave his life. Thank you.

11 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Sad & Beautiful, February 25, 2009

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Christine "There are no secrets, only informa... (Virginia Beach, VA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Trials of Ted Haggard (DVD)

This documentary actually brought me to tears. It was well done and emotionally riveting. I saw an extremely well meaning man living a public life and living in the shadows with a secret that, if found out, would ruin just about everything he had worked for in his life. Before seeing this documentary I really didn't care much about Ted Haggard's trials and tribulations. Being a supporter of Gay & Lesbian Rights (as I am a supporter of all equal human and animal rights) I had been appalled by what I saw as a two-faced fraud doing a lot of harm to a group of people who had never done him any harm. After seeing the documentary, I walked away with a huge dose of respect for him for picking himself up and trying to find his place in life and for his family for sticking by his side when all of his "so-called" friends and Christian community wouldn't.

I'm not sure why Ms. Pelosi decided to do this documentary, but I'm glad she did. It was pure, honest and sincere. I loved it.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good movie, cheap package, September 17, 2010

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S. Combs "VoorhiesAJollyGoodFellow" (California) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Trials of Ted Haggard (DVD)

So the 3 stars is only because in the end, it's an interesting documentary. If the movie was bad i'd give this whole thing zero stars, but it's good so I can't.

The problem is the packaging/selling. It's about $20 after shipping, but it's only a FORTY FIVE MINUTE MOVIE. I dunno about you, but if it's half a movie I expect to pay half the price.

Also, it's not even a legit DVD press from a factory. It's a burned DVD by amazon with the purple bottom, not silver. You could literally do the same thing at your house with the torrent and a blank DVD and it'd be NO different.

So until amazon gets it together, I can't recommend you buy it at this price...