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Martha Carrier was one of the first women to be accused, tried and hanged as a witch in Salem, Massachusetts. Like her mother, young Sarah Carrier is bright and willful, openly challenging the small, brutal world in which they live. Often at odds with one another, mother and daughter are forced to stand together against the escalating hysteria of the trials and the superstitious tyranny that led to the torture and imprisonment of more than 200 people...
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[2022]
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Jeanna Kadlec knew what it meant to be faithful--in her marriage to a pastor's son, in the comfortable life ahead of her, in her God--but there was no denying the truth that lived under that conviction: she was queer and, if she wanted to survive, she would need to leave behind the church and every foundational building block she knew. Heretic is a memoir of rebirth. Within, Kadlec reckons with religious trauma and Midwestern values, as a means of...
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[2003]
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A documentary revealing a very different Isaac Newton from that of popular myth - a much more fascinating and complex man than the powder-wigged puritan of the history books. Everyone knows the story of the apple falling from the tree, but almost everything people think they know about Newton is a lie. At the heart of this documentary is an amazing paradox: How could a man driven by religious heresy and zealotry go on to develop our rational notions...
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