Salem: Unmasking the Devil

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Salem: Unmasking the Devil (2011)

Directed by David Lee

Documentary, History · 44m

1692, Salem, Massachusetts; 162 people are arrested on charges of witchcraft. Five die in jail, one is crushed to death and 19 die on the gallows. The Salem witch trials have long been regarded as the textbook example of what happens when people are overwhelmed by hysteria. Now, author and historian, Katherine Howe, returns to the site of her ancestor's execution to discover how the very latest research has unearthed a chilling possibility that the most famous witch trial in the English speaking world was actually the result of a cynical plot by Salem's embattled Puritan Minister: Samuel Parris.

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Cast

T
Tad Emerson Baker
M
Mario Burns Jason Alan Carvell
K
Katherine Bygrave Howe Elizabeth Peterson
J
Judy Proctor
B
Benjamin Ray
E
Erik Rodenhiser
R
Richard B. Trask

Crew

Director
David Lee
Writer
Alex Réval

Details

Release date
2011-01-01
Runtime
44m
Genres
Documentary, History
Original language
EN
Spoken languages
English