They called themselves the United Society of Believers in Christs Second Appearing, but because of their ecstatic dancing, the world called them Shakers. Ken Burns creates a moving portrait of this particularly American movement, and in the process, offers us a new and unusually moving way to understand the Shakers.

1984 HD 57min NR United States English
religion 19th century

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