Heidi Ewing’s breakout feature film was the Academy Award-nominated Jesus Camp in 2006, a movie that, fifteen years later, plays eerily familiar.

| Jul 28, 2024

Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady deliver a disturbing message about contemporary America through the eyes of children.

| May 12, 2020

After the filmmakers' 200th shot of kids weeping at the words of the lord, the message changes from educational to freak show.

| Feb 3, 2020

The filmmakers are more hands off than your average agitdoc director, but their point is unmistakable.

| Feb 27, 2018

Jesus Camp doesn't just preach to the converted, it bores and frightens them.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Feb 6, 2012

Eye-opening look at the Evangelicals among us.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 1, 2011

A disturbing, unflinching portrait of religion and its effects on children when in the hands of psychotic strangers and bad parents.

| Apr 29, 2009

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 7, 2008

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Dec 7, 2007

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 24, 2007

Why bother with horror films when you can see this?

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 23, 2007

Some lively material - but nothing new.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 23, 2007

Flawed editing and intrusive and irritating commentary hardly detract from the shock value of this disturbing documentary. Compulsory viewing for anyone in the least bit concerned about religious extremism.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 23, 2007

This gripping shock-doc looks inside the Kids on Fire evangelical summer camp in North Dakota, where training starts young for a "new army of God" to "take back America for Christ".

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 23, 2007

This unabashedly liberal documentary tries to redress the balance by giving the rest of America a wake up call: not all scary fundamentalists come strapped with explosives.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 23, 2007

Filmakers Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady don't bother with a polemical voiceover a la Michael Moore but skilfully stitch together the comments of the evangelicals themselves. It doesn't make for a pretty picture.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 23, 2007

A brave, thoughtful documentary.

| Original Score: 4/6 | Nov 22, 2007

Funny, sad and horrifying. Anti-fundamentalist rather than anti-Christian, this deserves to preach to more than just the converted.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 3, 2007

Almost as scary as "Village of the Damned". 12 year olds who aspire to be the next James Dobson!

| Feb 27, 2007

will be viewed as a modern classic in the decades to come.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jan 28, 2007