The Shakers: Hands to Work, Hearts to God

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The Shakers: Hands to Work, Hearts to God^[1] is a 1984 documentary film by Ken Burns.

Summary

Narrated by David McCullough, this hour-long documentary^[2] features interviews with several living Shakers and with historians and philosophers.^[3]

Inspiration

Ken Burns has said that he chose the topic of the Shakers in large part because his first project, the Oscar-nominated Brooklyn Bridge, was devoted to urban American history; Shakerism offered him an opportunity to explore rural American history.^[4]

Availability

It was released part of Ken Burns' America DVD set on September 28, 2004.^[5]

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v t e Works of David McCullough
Books	The Johnstown Flood (1968) The Great Bridge (1972) The Path Between the Seas (1977) Mornings on Horseback (1981) Brave Companions (1991) Truman (1992) John Adams. (2001) 1776 (2005) The Greater Journey (2011) The Wright Brothers (2015)
Films presented or narrated	Brooklyn Bridge (1981) Smithsonian World (5 episodes, 1984–1988) The Shakers: Hands to Work, Hearts to God (1984) The Statue of Liberty (1985) Huey Long (1985) The Congress (1988) The Civil War (9 episodes, 1990) American Experience (23 episodes, 1991–2006) Coney Island (1991) D-Day Remembered (1994) Seabiscuit (2003)
Adaptations	Truman (1995) John Adams (miniseries) (2008)

Ken Burns

Documentaries

As director	Brooklyn Bridge (1981) The Shakers: Hands to Work, Hearts to God (1984) The Statue of Liberty (1985) Huey Long (1985) The Congress (1988) Thomas Hart Benton (1988) The Civil War (1990) Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio (1991) Baseball (1994) Thomas Jefferson (1997) Lewis & Clark: The Journey of the Corps of Discovery (1997) Frank Lloyd Wright (1998) Not for Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Susan B. Anthony (1999) Jazz (2001) Mark Twain (2001) Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip (2003) Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson (2004) The War (2007) The National Parks: America's Best Idea (2009) The Tenth Inning (2010) Prohibition (2011) The Dust Bowl (2012) The Central Park Five (2012) Yosemite: A Gathering of Spirit (2013) The Address (2014) The Roosevelts: An Intimate History (2014) Jackie Robinson (2016) Defying the Nazis: The Sharps' War (2016) The Vietnam War (2017) The Mayo Clinic: Faith – Hope – Science (2018) Country Music (2019) Hemingway (2021) Muhammad Ali (2021) Benjamin Franklin (2022) The U.S. and the Holocaust (2022) The American Buffalo (2023) Leonardo da Vinci (2024)
As writer	Cancer: The Emperor of All Maladies (2015)
As producer	The West (1996)

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