The Shakers - Hands to Work, Hearts to God
 
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  This hour long multiple award-winning film tells the history of the enduring and unusually inventive American religious sect which, despite its severe vow of celibacy, thrived for decades in exquisitely laid out villages from Maine toto Kentucky and who produced some of the most beautiful architecture and graceful furniture and crafts in the world.  
   
   
 

 

Honors

 

- CINE Golden Eagle, 1984
- American Film Festival, Blue Ribbon
- One of Year's Best, John Corry, New York Times, 1985
- National PBS Broadcast, August 7, 1985