American Experience: The Mormons Documentarian Helen Whitney directs this fascinating PBS presentation exploring the history and influence of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, one of the fastest-growing religions in the United States whose reach extends...
American Mormon In the spirit of the classic Mormon movie From the Mouths of Babes, filmmakers Daryn Tufts and Jed Knudsen prod the minds of everyday men and women on the street, asking them to share their perceptions — and misconceptions — about Mormons....
My Girlfriend’s Boyfriend My Girlfriend’s Boyfriend written by Daryn Tufts, a Mormon, and also the director of An American Mormon in Europe. My Girlfriend’s Boyfriend also received positive critical reviews from several local critics, including The...
Forever Strong Rick (Sean Faris) is a star player on his dad’s rugby team until a DUI lands him in a reformatory. While he’s serving his sentence, tough rival coach Larry Gelwix (Gary Cole) allows him to play for his team, which helps Rick straighten up...
Brigham City The sleepy Utah town of Brigham is shaken to its core when local sheriff and Mormon bishop Wes Clayton (Richard Dutcher, who also wrote and directed) finds a California woman dead by her car. With the help of his young deputy (Matthew A. Brown), his...
Brigham Young This Henry Hathaway-directed drama examines how the Mormons settled in what would become Salt Lake City, now the home base of their church. Tyrone Power and Linda Darnell play two of the faithful who leave Illinois at the urging of Mormon Church founder...
Gordon B. Hinckley: Honoring the Life and Legacy of a Prophet Filled with interviews, historic photos and archival footage, this documentary pays tribute to the late Gordon B. Hinckley, who served as president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from...
17 Miracles As part of the Willie Handcart Company, Levi Savage (Jasen Wade) feared that leaving late in the season would lead to despair and death. What he came to find out is that for every tragedy, there is a multitude of miracles. Based on unbelievable actual...
The Saratov Approach The Saratov Approach is a 2013 dramatic thriller film about a 1998 kidnapping of two Mormon missionaries in Russia. It entered a limited release on October 9, 2013, in Utah. The success of the film meant that it was released in the entire Mormon...
Granite Flats Granite Flats BYUTV …. Young Arthur and his mother arrive in a small town that quickly becomes a hotbed of mysteries that the boy and his new friends try to...
Pharmacist’s Mate Second Class George Wahlen US Navy On February 26, 1945, he was wounded at Iwo Jima. He remained on the battlefield, advancing forward of the frontlines to help a wounded Marine and carry him back to safety. When an adjacent platoon suffered...
Colonel Walter T. Stewart USAF (retired) During World War II, he piloted a B-24 bomber named the “Utah Man.” He led a crew of ten men on the surprise bombing of Hitler’s oil fields in Romania. One hundred sixty planes participated in that raid,...
Colonel Richard A. Searfoss USAF (retired) He commanded a seven-person crew aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia. The space shuttle was launched on 17 Apr 1998 and after 256 orbits, landed at Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on 03 May 1998. He is the first Mormon to ever...
John R. (Roger) Lasater Air Force general (retired) Not since Joseph Smith was lieutenant general of the Nauvoo Legion has there been a General Authority of the Church who was actually a general. Elder John R. Lasater, sustained in April conference 1987 to the First...
General Robert Oaks USAF (retired) The first LDS four-star general, he retired from the US Air Force in 1994, after serving on the Pentagon staff, as commander of the 86th Tactical Fighter Wing and later US Air Forces Europe at Ramstein AFB in Germany, and allied NATO...
Pfc. Aaron Thomas Nemelka Thirteen people were killed when an Army psychiatrist allegedly opened fire on soldiers at the Fort Hood Army base, including Pfc. Aaron Thomas Nemelka. Here is a short profile: The family of one of the victims of the Ft. Hood shooting spoke...
Dr. Ellis Miner Astronomer Dr. Ellis Miner, an astronomer at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory since 1965, has worked on missions to Saturn and six other planets. “Whenever we investigate a planet in detail,” he says, “we discover answers to a lot of...
Commander Don Lind U.S. Naval Reserve He was a mission specialist on STS-51B (29 Apr 1985 to 06 May 1985) and has logged over 168 hours in space. He left NASA in 1986. He is currently a professor of physics at Utah State University. biographical data from NASA...
Lieutenant General James King U.S. Army (retired) Commander of the United States Army, Lt. General King is an acknowledged expert in developing intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance, and intelligence on operations concepts, architectures, requirements, and system...
Chief Warrant Officer Jared Kimber U.S. Army (active) His primary duty as part of the 82nd Medical Company in Iraq was flying a Blackhawk helicopter into combat zones, then transporting injured soldiers to safety. One day in April 2004 he and his crew were flying...
Lance Corporal Jason Johnson USMC (discharged) He is from Long Beach, California. He served a full-time mission in Texas. While serving with a counter-terrorism unit providing security to US citizens in Bahrain in 1999, he met and fell in love with Meriam Al-Khalifa,...
Captain Bill Jacobsen U.S. Army (1973-2004) Recently serving in Iraq as part of the Army’s 1st Battalion, 24th Infantry Regiment. While helping to secure the city of Mosul, one of his roles was to stand a top an armored vehicle and dispense seemingly random...
