The Pilgrims, who founded Plymouth, Massachusetts in 1620, came to New England to worship the Lord in peace and freedom. A massive wave of like-minded Puritans came ten years later and founded Boston, Massachusetts. Their leader, Rev. John Winthrop, used Jesus? phrase, "a city on a hill," to describe what the Puritans were striving to create. In time, that phrase became a powerful metaphor for what America could become. A City on a Hill presents stories of the Puritans who settled New England, the Catholics who settled Maryland, the Quakers who settled Pennsylvania, and more. Woven into this documentary is the profound role Christianity played in the settlement of so many colonies that were to become the United States of America.