History Movie: The Shakers

They believed in pacifism and feminism, freedom from prejudice, natural health and hygiene and for more than 200 years insisted that their followers should strive for simplicity and perfection in everything that they did.  The  Shakers put their “Hands to work and their hearts to God”. Ken Burns creates a portrait of this particularly American movement and in the process offers us a new and unusually moving way to understand the Shakers.