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The landmark film that captured the awakening of the Civil Rights Movement. "A Glowing Beauty" (The New York Times), "A Time For Burning" is a classic touchstone, which poignantly captures the mood of the times as the Civil Rights Movement challenged the nation to change its ways. This classic cinema verite film from Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Bill Jersey captures an all-white Lutheran Church in Omaha, Nebraska as their earnest pastor tries to get the congregation to reach out to their fellow black Lutherans only to find a well of resistance among his flock. Unsparingly honest, the film relives the anguish and awakenings of the civil rights era through the words and actions of real people.

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