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Kirk Cameron's documentary 'Monumental' retraces pilgrim's footsteps to understand what drove them
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Welcome back to a lot of foxnews.com what there is a new documentary out on dvd right now which you might wanna check out its gold monumental.
-- -- directed may even -- would do everything -- produced all those things -- all that stuff up this gentleman -- Cameron -- with -- here in the -- great to have you can't -- I'll tell us the basis of the documentary festival.
Well the bases of the documentary is hi approach this not even so much as an actor or a politician as a father who has six children.
Us sixty installations thank you they're 151413.
1211 and nine mind -- -- -- walking into a world where they're going to be out there on their own and I'm concerned with what I see economically morally spiritually and when I turn on the news I find most people -- -- your fault -- it's their fault in the right splitting the left the left of blaming the right and I'm thinking.
It's easy to get confused in midst of all of this stuff and I think if I only had a time machine if I can go back and talk to the men and women who built this country.
Perhaps they would tell me here's what you're doing wrong I can fix it look at what we did it lasted this long.
And try this again.
So I spent two years retracing the escape route of the separatists.
Out of England.
He became known as the pilgrims follow them to Holland.
Where they stayed for twelve years.
Really I did not know that in light in under the under the care of their pastor John Robinson who talked in the nation building principles that they carried on the mayflower.
To the new world team and they've left us what I like to called the reset button.
They left us the recipe for the secret sauce that made it all work and created the freest most secure and blessed nation in the world.
So that if we ever got off track we would be able to finally I -- you all of the view that we are off track now -- Presumably you -- yes I would like to see us return to the -- that has produced such sweet fruit for so long.
What what would then the as as you see it and you found a new research -- the key ingredients of that secret -- Well first let me tell you that I could never do justice to.
What has already been done to display the secret sauce and the largest granite monument in the USA.
Is sitting -- in there.
On a hill in Massachusetts behind a forest of trees in a residential area overlooking the Plymouth harbor and it spells out.
Their strategy for building and sustaining a free and just society.
I bet you've never heard of it I never have most historians have not heard of it it is fascinating disseminating -- yes it is called.
The monument to the fore fathers paid for by the state of Massachusetts.
I it's 81 feet tall -- 180 tons of granite.
And it lays out a strategy on building.
A society from the bottom up and the inside out.
Because remember they came from a top down the right church run state government controlled those young -- And -- got out of that and they want and freedom of religion and more freedom to worship god they -- freedom for their families economic and political freedom.
And they.
Encapsulated there recipe in this monument and then you can walk there today and see it fascinating all right let's take a quick -- -- look this evening to let's take a quick look at a clip.
Of monumental.
It's a 180 tons.
Of solid granite it's the largest granite monument in America.
And it's hit it on a Hilltop overlooking limit.
In a residential neighborhood and never that is hardly anybody in America knows about it and yet the people of America put this together over seventy year period.
-- before school starts.
If you were just saying wonderful thing to show families to -- -- tells -- why why so well it it is because so many kids than seventh grade eighth grader learning American history you and the story that they're being told does not include this monument and the real story of the pilgrims.
That they were not these little religious -- -- in gray suits with Paul black captain belt buckles on issues like we think of the cartoon characters in school.
These are the out of the box thinkers the geniuses the brilliant men and women who sacrificed their lives for freedom.
And that they've got an amazing story to tell also show the dvd to your kids and show them the true story of the roots of this nation and its blessings all right.
And the the dvd is available in the ever Amazon.com Amazon.com monumental movie dot com monumental movie dot com.
Anywhere else every way but again doing -- my dvds you can find it all right Kirk Cameron as a filmmaker behind the monumental.
Great to have you here and -- Take a look out there it is on screen after you go take a look at it get the dvd.
-- and see what do you make of middle perhaps it will be an inspiration view -- it obviously is.
Two Kara great to see Kurt thank you very much thank you -- quite all right we're gonna take a short break here on the.
