This is a documentary from British filmmaker Antony James, originally in two parts. The first half deals with the rise of evangelical Christianity, televangelists, and the church's entry into secular politics in the 1980's. Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker come in for the most damning scrutiny, and their extravagant construction of Christian theme park/shopping center/residential subdivision Heritage USA. The second half focuses in on the First Baptist Church of Dallas, Texas. It was one of the first megachurches in the US, and an early proponent of so-called "prosperity theology" that teaches that material wealth is God's reward, and that the sick and poor are being righteously punished for moral transgressions. There's also a lot of uncomfortable racial issues addressed in the second half, with the purposeful segregation of churches, and some commentary from lead pastor W. A. Criswell that would get him quick public condemnation in today's world.At times uncomfortably funny, at other times baffling, saddening, and enraging, this film is fair and impartial in its presentation, and any incendiary remarks come straight from the subject's mouths and not through selective editing. Of course, viewing will be colored by your own personal inclinations. It's amazing that so much of this film, though made thirty years ago - with the exceptions of the big hair and fashions - could be made today on the same subject with most of the same observations.