Reviews:

"This gorgeous, inspired and gutsy film...opens up new ideological vistas on religion, technology and globalization.   It dares viewers not to be surprised by it."
-Virginia Heffernan, The New York Times

"A haunting documentary about Christian missionaries who have been traveling the world since 1939 to record and spread Bible stories in every language."
-Nancy Dewolf Smith, The Wall Street Journal            

"With a visual clarity equal to her intellectual discourse, Horne explores the myriad contrasts offered by her subject, alive to many epiphanies and ironies along the way."
-Ronnie Scheib, Variety

"A bewitchingly artful connect-the-dots achievement...A movie about no less than sound and our world, it is by turns ghostly, raw, beautiful and perplexing, like the ingeniously handmade record players and tape machines GRN invents, or the visualization of sonic ripples."
-Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times  

"The more specific the focus, the more interesting the documentary. 'The Tailenders' on P.O.V. takes a look at phenomenon few of us have ever heard of, yet raises questions that are profound, spiritual and truly global in scope."
-Kevin McDonough, United Features Syndicate

"A fascinating documentary."
-Newsday

"A fascinating film that uses a good story as a springboard to raise larger issues, this is highly recommended."
-F. Swietek, Video Librarian

"Evangelicals call them hand-crank: Tape players powered by turning a handle, and LPs that play on the cardboard boxes they come in. This clear-eyed PBS documentary contemplates lo-fi systems that deliver the Gospel, in more than 5,000 languages, to remote communities-whether they want it or not."
-Jason Silverman, Wired Magazine

"Engaging ethnography"
-Steven G. Kellman, San Antonio Current

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-The Advocate Magazine