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Happy Thanksgiving!  I'm posting this on the night before Thanksgiving , so anyone who can get BYUtv will be able to either watch it tomorrow, on Thanksgiving at 6 p.m. Mountain Standard Time, or record it. BYUtv’s Thanksgiving Special: A Very Different Kind of World War II Film By Mariah Proctor  · November 19, 2017 Sign up for Meridian’s Free Newsletter, please  CLICK HERE Instrument of War,  a new film from BYUtv set to premiere on Thanksgiving day ,  is inspired by the true story of WWII bomber pilot Clair Cline who was shot down and taken as a prisoner of war in a German prison camp. The story follows him and the other surviving members of his mission as they struggle to remain psychologically sound while in the captivity of a hardhearted commandant. And how does Cline choose to cope with this helpless and hopeless situation? By building a violin from only what he can find in their dingy, meager captivity. It is, in ...

The first viewing of this new Documentary of the Prophet Joseph Smith comes tonight on PBS in Utah!   I remember we were on our mission in Connecticut in the year 2000 when the first version of it came out.  This is a new and revised version, with new information.  It should be good! New Docu-drama on Joseph Smith may now Reach Millions on PBS Stations By Maurine Proctor  · September 28, 2017 In the late 1820s, the mayor of Boston, Massachusetts, Josiah Quincy III, said about Joseph Smith, “Born in the lowest ranks of poverty, without book-learning and with the homeliest of all human names, he had made himself at the age of thirty-nine a power upon earth…. His influence, whether for good or for evil, is potent today, and the end is not yet.” As Latter-day Saints we are captivated by the influence of Joseph Smith, but now in a stunning, new docu-drama,  Joseph Smith, American Prophet  produced and directed by Lee Gro...