For over a year, Redbrick Filmworks and the Interpreter Foundation have collaborated on a not-for-profit series of mini-documentaries titled Becoming Brigham. The first episode was published yesterday. Further installments will appear on successive Mondays. Each of the 70-75 episodes are about 15 minutes long.

The episodes are hosted by Camrey Bagley Fox (who portrayed Emma Smith in the Interpreter Foundation’s films Witnesses and Six Days in August), John Wilson (who played Brigham Young in Six Days in August), and Daniel C. Peterson (president of the Interpreter Foundation and retired BYU professor of Islamic studies and Arabic). Each episode features footage shot on location in New York, Ohio, Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska, and Utah, as well as extensive interviews with Latter-day Saint historians who are experts on the subjects being discussed.

Why this docuseries? Many people are aware of Brigham Young as a pivotal figure in American religious and frontier history, but Brigham is also often misunderstood, seen as a larger-than-life caricature rather than as a man. Who actually was Brigham as a man, a father, a husband, and a prophet? The video web series Becoming Brigham debunks fictions and provides surprising new insights into the real Brigham Young. Learn more in the article “Becoming Brigham: The Video Series Premieres.”

In Episode 1, the hosts visit the Carthage Jail to discuss a theory by some that Brigham Young was behind the death of Joseph Smith. Watch episode 1 below. If you want to be notified when new episodes are published, just click Subscribe on the Becoming Brigham YouTube channel.