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Frontline and American Experience join forces to provide a searching portrait of this fascinating but often misunderstood religion. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has 12 million members today and over half of them live outside the U.S. Yet the birth of Mormonism and its history is one of America's great neglected narratives.

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