Opening with a journalist's startling statement that the Islamic revolution is the first since the Renaissance, 400 years ago, to take place outside the sphere of Western thought, RECORDING THE TRUTH goes on to allow Iran's intellectuals, religious leaders, and photojournalists to express their views on the fundamentalist movement.

With testimony from supporters of the revolution and from those who oppose it at great personal risk, this program provides remarkable insight into a belief system where intellectualism is frowned on, where a free press is considered to be the mark of a weak government, and where Einstein, regardless of his contributions to physics and mathematics, cannot be lauded simply because he is a westerner.

With scores of haunting and often graphic photos taken during the early days of the revolution, the hostage crisis, and the war with Iraq, RECORDING THE TRUTH is an extremely revealing look at a value system which remains largely incomprehensible to most westerners.