The Work and the Glory: American Zion is the sequel to the 2004

2004 in film

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 film The Work and the Glory

The Work and The Glory (film)

The Work and the Glory is a 2004 historical fiction drama film directed by Russell Holt. It tells the story of the fictional Steed family in the 1820s and their struggles trying to adopt the then new Mormon religion and explores their relationship with their community, with its founder, Joseph...

and continues the struggle of the Steed's family's conversion to the then new Mormon

Mormon

The term Mormon most commonly denotes an adherent, practitioner, follower, or constituent of Mormonism, which is the largest branch of the Latter Day Saint movement in restorationist Christianity...

 religion

Religion

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. The film also explores the family's relationship with their community and its founder, Joseph Smith.

This movie is based on Like a Fire Is Burning, the second novel

Novel

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 by Gerald N. Lund in the nine-part Work and the Glory

The Work and the Glory

The Work and the Glory is a nine-part novel series by Gerald N. Lund chronicling the birth and early growth of Mormonism through the lives of the fictional Steed family. The Steeds, throughout the series, meet and come to know well many of the prominent early Church members...

series.

Summary

The date is November 1833, the state of Missouri has turned a blind eye as hundreds of its peaceful inhabitants were hunted down and driven from their homes in the dead of night. Against this impending strife, a young man that has a divine vision leads a people against the aggression of an anti-hero with a vulnerable past.

Cast

• Sam Hennings
  Sam Hennings
  Sam Hennings is an American actor with German, English and Scotch-Irish ancestry. Hennings was born in Macon, Georgia, United States and spent most of his youth in Athens, Georgia...
  
   : Benjamin Steed
• Brenda Strong
  Brenda Strong
  Brenda Lee Strong is an American actress and yoga instructor, known for her roles as as Capt. Deladier in the 1997 hit movie Starship Troopers and Mary Alice Young on the television show Desperate Housewives....
  
   : Mary Ann Steed
• Eric Johnson
  Eric Johnson (actor)
  Eric Johann Johnson is a Canadian actor best known for playing the role of Whitney Fordman on the television series Smallville...
  
   : Joshua Steed
• Alexander Carroll : Nathan Steed
• Brighton Hertford : Melissa Steed
• Kimberly Varadi : Becca Steed
• Colin Ford
  Colin Ford
  Colin Ford is an American child actor and voice actor. He is best known for his role as young Sam Winchester in the 2005 TV Series, Supernatural.-Biography:...
  
   : Matthew Steed
• Sera Bastian : Lydia Steed
• Emily Podleski : Jessica Roundy
• Jim Grimshaw : Josiah McBride
• Jonathan Scarfe
  Jonathan Scarfe
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   : Joseph Smith
• Melanie Hawkins : Emma Smith
• Frank Ashmore
  Frank Ashmore
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   : Martin Harris
• Curtis Andersen : Carl Rogers
• Jeff Ham : Obadiah Cornwell

Trivia

• Larry H. Miller
  Larry H. Miller
  Lawrence Horne "Larry H." Miller was a Utah businessman and philanthropist who was well known as the owner of the NBA's Utah Jazz and the of Triple-A baseball team, the Salt Lake Bees, 41 automotive dealerships throughout the Western United States , and a variety of other business ventures...
  
  was an executive producer of this film and was responsible for much of the financial cost of all movies in The Work and the Glory series.