Constantine's Sword

Name: Constantine's Sword
Genre: Documentary
Released: TODO_MISSING
Rating: 87

2007, Documentary, 1h 35m

31 Reviews 500+ Ratings

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Exceptional research elevates Constantine's Sword from a talking heads documentary to a resonant and thought-provoking expose of the church's dark history. Read critic reviews

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Movie Info

Author and former priest James Carroll explores his past and confronts religion's history of violence committed in the name of God.

Genre:

Documentary
Original Language:

English
Director:

Oren Jacoby
Producer:

Oren Jacoby, Michael Solomon, Betsy West
Writer:

James Carroll, Oren Jacoby
Release Date (Theaters):

Apr 18, 2008 limited
Release Date (Streaming):

Sep 16, 2008
Box Office (Gross USA):

$179.5K
Runtime:

1h 35m
Distributor:

First Run

Cast & Crew

Oren Jacoby
Director

James Carroll
Writer

Oren Jacoby
Writer

Oren Jacoby
Producer

Michael Solomon
Producer

Betsy West
Producer

Critic Reviews for Constantine's Sword

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Audience Reviews for Constantine's Sword

Oct 12, 2011

James Carrol's theory that the Cross is a violent rather than peaceful symbol is intriguing, as is the connections he makes between the Antisemitism from the formation of the Church, to the Holocaust, and finally the disquieting merge between Evangelical Christianity and the American Military. Carrol makes some bold, possibly true, statements but his arguments are too thinly drawn for my taste. Its also hard for me to connect the Catholics with Evangelicals because of how much the latter dislikes the former.

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