The First Hymn

Live laugh love John Dickson.  This movie was super enjoyable and genuinely fascinating. Music, history, theology?? Doesn’t get much better than this. I really appreciated the effort to include such a diverse range of scholarly voices. I learned heaps and came away with a…

sienna_kate_

It’s a solid documentary. The history stuff is pretty interesting and I liked that part. But I feel like they could have cut down like 30 minutes of it. It does go on for a little bit too long. The song producing parts didn’t exactly feel needed. But I did like the shots of…

Does Movie Things Guy

coulda been a 20min youtube vid tbh

Chloe Rogers

John Dickson is one of my favourite theologians and Christian historians, so I jumped at the chance to check this out. Generally speaking, it's a very standard historical documentary that's presented really well. I especially liked the efforts to resurrect this hymn with a…

Mitch C

An amazing look at Christian history and how music doesn't just connect generations of believers, but millenia of believers!

AT645371

But they didn't really resurrect the ancient hymn. They just gave it a terrible Hillsong makeover. It was awful.

Ian Casocot

Really interesting to learn about the history of the hymn and then to watch the process of music production unfold!

Nathan C

A pretty good documentary

Tyler Jewell

Felt a bit like a kid in the candy store, unsure where to place the focus, but still attempting to fit it all in, but none of the ideas feel fully completed, perhaps there were deadlines to meet. It essentially felt like 2 or 3 documentary ideas rolled into one. The first…

Dante Alexander Wilcox