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Sister Aimee
Film / 2007

Sister Aimee

Directed by Linda Garmon
DocumentaryTV movie

★ 10.0/10Audience rating

At the peak of her immense popularity in the 1920s, evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson was drawing larger crowds to her revivals than those of P.T. Barnum or Harry Houdini. This chapter of "American Experience" paints a vivid portrait of the controversial and charismatic religious figure. Credited with mainstreaming religion in American culture, Sister Aimee created one of the country's first Christian radio stations, among other accomplishments.

The story

At the peak of her immense popularity in the 1920s, evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson was drawing larger crowds to her revivals than those of P.T. Barnum or Harry Houdini. This chapter of "American Experience" paints a vivid portrait of the controversial and charismatic religious figure. Credited with mainstreaming religion in American culture, Sister Aimee created one of the country's first Christian radio stations, among other accomplishments.

Cast

Blair BrownNarrator (voice) Anthea ButlerSelf - Historian Daniel Mark EpsteinSelf - Biographer Matthew Avery SuttonSelf - Biographer Randall BalmerSelf - Historian Edith BlumhoferSelf - Biographer Tona HangenSelf - Historian David DanielsSelf - Historian Aimee Semple McPhersonSelf (archive footage) Robert OrsiSelf - Historian Stephen ProtheroSelf - Historian Wendell St. ClairSelf - Historian
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Matthew BalluffRevival Participant Olivia RizzoRevival Participant John HandlerRevival Participant Warren O'ReillyRevival Participant

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