Marjoe
Jul 24, 1972 | IMDB 7.7
88 min Watch NowDocumentary
Part documentary, part expose, this film follows one-time child evangelist Marjoe Gortner on the "church tent" Revivalist circuit, commenting on the showmanship of Evangelism and "the religion business", prior to the start of "televangelism". Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2005.
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Dominguinhos
Lots's wife
Plains: Testimony of an Ethnocide
The American Nurse
Microcosmos
Manzanar
Is Genesis History? Mountains After the Flood
Pocahontas: Beyond the Myth
Agnes Martin Before the Grid
My Enemy, My Brother
Standed
Jesus Camp
Islam and the Future of Tolerance
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
How to Cook Your Life
Sacred
Dixie Chicks: Shut Up and Sing
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IMDB 0 | Dec , 1990
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IMDB 0 | Dec , 1993
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IMDB 5.6 | Nov , 2014
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IMDB 7.2 | May , 2014
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IMDB 0 | Dec , 1990
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IMDB 5 | Jun , 1971
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IMDB 6 | May , 2014
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IMDB 0 | Jan , 1972
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IMDB 0 | Apr , 2017
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IMDB 0 | Oct , 2019
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IMDB 7 | Sep , 2006
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IMDB 5.6 | May , 2007
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IMDB 6.7 | Oct , 2006
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