Frontline - Season 0 Episode 9 : God in America: Soul of a Nation (5)
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Frontline - Season 0 Episode 9 : God in America: Soul of a Nation (5)

Hour Five explores the post-World War II era, when rising evangelist Billy Graham tried to inspire a religious revival that fused faith with patriotism in a Cold War battle with "Godless Communism." As Americans flocked in record numbers to houses of worship, non-believers and religious minorities appealed to the US Supreme Court to test the constitutionality of religious expression in public schools. And civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. emerged as a modern-day prophet, calling upon the nation to honor both biblical teachings and the founders’ democratic ideals of equal justice.

  • Released: 1983-01-17
  • Runtime: 00:55:14 minutes
  • Genre: Documentary, News
  • Network: PBS
  • Stars: Will Lyman

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