Originally Aired August 9, 2011
Rural Missouri is the location for this episode in which Morgan Spurlock cruises past the farms and fields on his way to meet Levi O’Brien, young preacher and star of Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady’s controversial hit "Jesus Camp."
The film examined the hysterical (in several senses) antics at Pastor Becky Fisher’s evangelical children’s summer camp where the kids were encouraged to speak in tongues and told that Harry Potter was the devil. Fisher was widely criticized in the aftermath and the camp (temporarily) closed. But what about the kids? The documentary is now five years old and Levi in his late-teens. Morgan ventures into the world of Christian fundamentalism to find out.
Notable interviewees include Penelope Spheeris; Alex Gibney; Joe Berlinger & Bruce Sinofsky; Al Gore; Stacy Peralta; Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady; Nick Broomfield; Luc Jacquet; Tony Hawk; Jared Leto; and Aisha Tyler.
List
40. When We Were Kings (1996)
39. Biggie and Tupac (2002)
38. March of the Penguins (2005)
37. Inside Job (2010)
36. Taxi to the Dark Side (2007)
35. Paragraph 175 (2000)
34. Brother’s Keeper (1992)
33. Tongues Untied (1989)
32. Dogtown and Z-Boys (2001)
31. Jesus Camp (2006)
Blogs
• Directors Bruce Sinofsky and Alex Gibney list their favorite documentaries
Video
• 'Jesus Camp' directors call their film "a trippy journey into a parallel universe"
• ‘When We Were Kings’ celebrates the greatest boxing match of all-time
• ‘Biggie and Tupac’ gives leads into the still-unsolved murders
• 'Dogtown and Z-Boys': an essential primer on skateboarding culture
• Stacy Peralta and friends made 'Dogtown and Z-Boys' for themselves
• Nick Broomfield led to 'Biggie and Tupac' by Rick Rubin
• Tony Hawk on getting to be a part of 'Dogtown and Z-Boys'
• Morgan Spurlock interviews Levi O'Brien of 'Jesus Camp' five years later
