
One Man, Six Wives and 29 Children
A polygamist family living openly in the United States opens its doors to the camera, giving an inside look at daily life with one husband, six wives, and twenty-nine children under a single roof. The film follows the practical logistics of the arrangement: meal schedules, sleeping quarters, finances, and how the wives negotiate time and attention with their husband and each other. Interviews with the wives and some of the older children lay out how each woman came to join the family and how they justify the arrangement against mainstream marriage norms and, in some cases, against the law. The tone stays observational rather than judgmental, letting the family members explain their choices in their own words while the sheer scale of the household, dozens of children moving through shared spaces, does much of the storytelling. Produced in 1999, it offers a time-capsule view of a lifestyle that remains rare and contested, without editorializing on whether it works.