The Goodman Family - Fortress of Love (Rare Out-of-Print DVD)

Overview
The Goodmans were a singing Christian-based family (not to be confused with The Happy Goodman Family, which happens to hog all the top results on Google). The Goodman Family toured the world, performing at UN conferences and even privately for Pope John Paul II, in hopes of being "a voice for the family" worldwide. On Sunday, December 8th, 1996, father Steve Goodman and five of his children were in a car accident that resulted in the death of sons David (age 12) and Peter (age 11) and daughter LeAnne (age 10). They were buried together on December 14.

Steve, and daughters Aimee and Andrea were on life support and had various complications, but eventually recovered. They resumed their worldwide touring with a new mission, to speak of their personal experiences rebuilding their family after the devastation of the accident. On December 20th the following year, the story was aired on TV as a musically charged documentary called Fortress of Love. The special was integrated into their subsequent concerts, including a conference held in July 1998 in Hawai'i, which was attended by the original poster when he was 4-and-a-half.



For the sake of thoroughness, here are other related webpages:

Info about the special.

Old official website, captured through Wayback machine.

Article elaborating on the accident, Dec 9th.

An autobiography by Claudia Goodman--Parting the Red Sea One Bucket at a Time.

Articles written by parents Steve and Claudia Goodman.

A current business set up by The Goodman Family, in the line of reflexology, of all things.



Availability
Assuming one is still interested in this schmaltzy, corny, esoteric piece of work after the context provided, the special itself is out-of-print, and was primarily available on VHS. Even the VHS tapes seem to have disappeared entirely from online listings on eBay.

An entire copy of the last live concert from 2000 (albeit in very warped form) is available here on YouTube.

About 15 minutes of the VHS tape (in very strange resolution) is available online currently and hasn't been touched since February 2013.



However, there also appears to have been an even more obscure DVD printing of the special. It was available on Amazon at one point this summer for over 100 dollars.



The original poster was able to buy a more reasonable copy off eBay and plans to make it publicly available the moment it arrives.

Also, as a final note, the music FROM Fortress of Love is publicly available to purchase on iTunes, currently.