The Shakers: Hands to Work, Hearts to God
The Shakers: Hands to Work, Hearts to God is a 1984 documentary film by Ken Burns.
Ken Burns
Kenneth Lauren Burns( born 1953) is an American filmmaker, known for his style of using archival footage and photographs in documentary films.
His widely known documentary series include" The Civil War"( 1990)," Baseball"( 1994)," Jazz"( 2001)," The War"( 2007),( 2009)," Prohibition"( 2011)," The Roosevelts"( 2014)," The Vietnam War"( 2017), and" Country Music"( 2019).
He was also executive producer of both" The West"( 1996, directed by Stephen Ives), and" Cancer: The Emperor of All Maladies"( 2015, directed by Barak Goodman).
Burns' documentaries have earned two Academy Award nominations( for 1981's" Brooklyn Bridge" and 1985's" The Statue of Liberty") and have won several Emmy Awards, among other honors.
Heroes for Sale (film)
Heroes for Sale( 1933) is an American pre-Code drama film directed by William Wellman, starring Richard Barthelmess, Aline MacMahon, and Loretta Young, and released by Warner Bros. and First National Pictures.
The 76- minute original is considered lost; a 71- minute version is available from Turner Entertainment.
William A. Wellman
William Augustus Wellman( February 29, 1896 – December 9, 1975) was an American film director notable for his work in crime, adventure and action genre films, often focusing on aviation themes, a particular passion.
He also directed several well- regarded satirical comedies.
Beginning his film career as an actor, he went on to direct over 80 films, at times co-credited as producer and consultant.
In 1927, Wellman famously directed" Wings", which became the first film to win an Academy Award for Best Picture at the 1st Academy Awards ceremony.
He also won the Academy Award for Best Story for his film" A Star Is Born".
Matt Corboy
Matt Corboy( born June 4, 1973) is an American actor.
He has appeared in both films and television series.
Satan Town
Satan Town is a 1926 American Western film featuring Harry Carey.
Prints of the film have survived.
Bleddyn Ddu
Bleddyn Ddu( c. 1200) was a Welsh poet.
Some of his works were included in the ‘ Red Book of Hergest ’- to God, and to the abbot of Aberconway.
Yojimbo
Based on the success of" Yojimbo", Kurosawa's next film," Sanjuro"( 1962), was altered to incorporate the lead character of this film.
In both films, the character wears a rather dilapidated dark kimono bearing the same family" mon".
Mary Marshall Dyer
Mary Marshall Dyer (1780-1867), was a voice for the largely forgotten Anti-Shakerism sentiment in rural New Hampshire.
In 1813 she joined the Shakers of Enfield, New Hampshire.
Disappointed in her lack of a leadership role and frustrated by the constraints of Shaker life, Dyer left the community in 1815.
Her husband, Joseph, remained as did all five of the Dyer children.
Mary Dyer accused the Shakers of alienating her from her children.
Fearing for her children's safety and left without any means of financial support, she gave public talks and wrote tracts against the Shakers in an attempt to gain public, and legislative, support for her cause.
Her principal writings included "A Brief Statement of the Sufferings of Mary Dyer" and "A Portraiture of Shakerism" in 1822.
In 1819, she raised a mob to storm the Enfield Shaker Community to take her children back, but this effort failed.
Joseph Dyer remained devoted to the community and criticized her in strong terms, responding in print to his wife's published accusations.
Four of her five children remained Shakers for life.
Her son, Jerrub, left the Shakers late in life, but did not appear to have a close relationship to his mother.
By the 1850s Dyer's anti-Shakerism seemed extreme, in New England at least where the Shakers were now considered "quaint" rather than dangerous.
Mary Dyer died a largely forgotten figure in 1867.
She is the earliest known example of an activist working to counter the practice of what today is commonly known as "parental kidnapping" or "parental child abduction."
However, in the early nineteenth century, a married mother with a living husband had few legal rights over her children; the husband was their legal guardian.
And when he indentured their children to the Shakers, Shakers became the Dyer children's legal guardians.
Thus the Shakers' holding of the children was legal under the law of that time and place.
Given those laws, Mary Dyer was the parent who attempted kidnapping.
Unlike others who also published books on Shaker-related parental kidnappings and lobbied for laws against such practices involving Shaker parents (Capt. Joseph Smith, 1810; Eunice Chapman, 1819), Dyer took an active part in assisting others involved in such cases and in educating the public about what she saw as the anti-family ideology and activities of the Shakers.
Her activism reached from 1815 until her death in 1867.
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Ann Lee
Ann Lee( 29 February 1736 – 8 September 1784), commonly known as Mother Ann Lee, was the founding leader of the United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing, or the Shakers.
After nearly two decades of participation in a religious movement that became the Shakers, in 1774 Ann Lee and a small group of her followers emigrated from England to New York.
After several years, they gathered at Niskayuna, renting land from the Manor of Rensselaerswyck, Albany County, New York( the area now called Colonie).
They worshiped by ecstatic dancing or" shaking", which resulted in them being dubbed the Shakers.
Ann Lee preached to the public and led the Shaker church at a time when few women were religious leaders.

Question: Do both films: The Shakers: Hands To Work, Hearts To God and Heroes For Sale (Film) have the directors from the same country?
Answer: yes