Witch Hunt

This documentary offers a comprehensive look back at one of the most disturbing incidents in American history: witch hunting and the infamous Salem witch trials of the 1690s. Drawing on diaries and letters preserved from this gruesome moment in time (during which at least 20 innocent townspeople were executed for practicing witchcraft), the political and religious stances of the age are analyzed in hopes of attaining a better understanding of the obsession with ridding Salem of the devil's influence.