Six Days in August

This is a wonderful movie to show what Brigham Young was really like, according to so many different people's journal entries from back in the 1800s. This movie even touches on the difficulty that people have accepting polygamy, and gave us a peek into many other lives we here less about like Heber c Kimball, George A. Smith, and wives like Violate Kimball and Mary Ann Young.

It does flip or forward and backward in time a little. As long as you pay attention to the dates printed on the screen it should not be hard to follow.

As for the other review that said polygamy was "enthusiasticly accepted by the women", they must have not seen the movie, or at least not the scene where Emma was crying saying that she is being tested beyond what she can handle, and Joseph said he would not choose this.

My family and I saw this fim over the weekend. I knew most of the history protrayed in this film. My family members did not know the history protrayed. We all enjoyed this film! On the way home we all talked about the movie, and what we liked about it. Even though the movie did some jumping back and forth between time periods, no one was confused. This film deplicts a crucial time in the history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and a time in US history. The cimenatography was beautiful! I would recommend this to everyone! You may want to watch Witnesses first (which is also a great film), just to understand the history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints a little better.

Beautiful cinematography and music pulled the viewer into this historical story of the early LDS church. It told the story of a defining moment in time as the church grappled with Joseph Smith's successor. We learned several things that we had not known before. The casting was excellent. The music was powerful in its subtle use of hymns recognizable to church members. The use of 'Praise to the Man' at the end underscored the film's theme of Joseph Smith as the Prophet. The actual run time of the film was longer than we thought as we never looked at our watches during it.

We enjoyed the movie and definitely would recommend it.

The fact that there is no middle ground here should indicate that your bias going into the theater will determine whether you like it or not. The film is beautiful, well acted and uses actual dialogue right from many journals. Many of the 1star reviews somehow claim they know more than anyone else about history. Some even write like they actually lived through events. The truth is that many know more about Joseph's and Brigham's sex life than they know about their own parents sex life. Go figure.

The movie will help many to appreciate those who came before. The sacrifices made by the early saints are incomprehensible. If you are a striving faithful saint the movie will be excellent. If however, you have an ax to grind you should stay away and as for those Brigham haters- thinking you have any credentials to Judge any of the early saints will only reveal the fool you are when it's time for your own judgement.

It tells the story of the martyrdom of Joseph Smith and Brigham Young's succession to the leadership. The story is very complicated with a lot of characters and the writer/director, Mark Goodman, does a fantastic job of making the story engaging and easy to follow. It was a well-written, well-acted film with beautiful cinematography and a great soundtrack. You may never have heard of any of these actors. But they were all great and I hope to see them in other films for years to come. It is worth staying for the closing credits to hear the song O Give Me Back My Prophet Dear, with lyrics by John Taylor, music by Rob Gardner, and sung by Casey Elliott. It is a great film that tells an important story in Church history.