‘The Mormons’ on PBS takes aim at stereotypes
“I hope that most of the stereotypes — ideally, all of them — will be blown away,” award-winning filmmaker Helen Whitney told the Deseret Morning News on Saturday. “Because so many of them are just based on ignorance. Ignorance about Mormon history, ignorance about Mormon theology. Ignorance.”The two-part, four-hour documentary, is to air nationally on April 30 and May 1.
”The Mormons” will no doubt displease anyone who doesn’t want to hear a negative word about the LDS Church. At the same time, it’s going to anger those who don’t want to hear anything good about it.The LDS (Mormon) Church was “absolutely cooperative” in the making of the film, said Whitney, an Emmy and Peabody Award winner who profiled monks in “The Monastery,” profiled John Paul II in “The Millennial Pope” and looked at religion in the wake of terrorism in “Faith and Doubt at Ground Zero.”