60 minutes / Color
Release: 1982
Copyright: 1982
COMMUNITY OF PRAISE examines faith at work in the lives of a family. Their fundamentalist beliefs shape their encounters with the emergencies and the ordinary problems of daily life.
Inspired by the studies of Robert and Helen Lynd in 1929 and 1935, MIDDLETOWN, a classic six-part documentary series by Academy Award and Emmy winner Peter Davis (HEARTS AND MINDS), explores both the continuity and the change embodied in the people and institutions of one Midwestern community: Muncie, Indiana. In intimate detail, the six films that comprise MIDDLETOWN demonstrate how the society and culture of Muncie, perhaps of the entire American social fabric, have changed less than one might think in the six decades since the Lynds' studies.