2010s films
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AnimatedThe Pirates Who Don’t Do Anything
Animated / Family2008 / 86 minutesRating: 8/10 A pirate movie for kids? A pirate movie where no one has arms? A pirate movie where everyone’s…
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DramaBeyond the blackboard
Drama / true story 2011 / 95 minutes RATING: 8/10 This is different sort of Hallmark – no royalty, no baking of any kind, and…
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FamilyThe InBESTigators
Children’s show / TV 2019-2020 / 15 minutes x 40 episodes RATING: 9/10 Ava, Maudie, Ezra, and Kyle are four fifth graders with a knack…
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DocumentaryThe Long Goodbye: The Kara Tippetts Story
Documentary 2019 / 88 minutes Rating: 10/10 “I feel like I’m a little girl at a party whose Dad is asking her to leave early,…
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DocumentaryKeep and Bear: the movie
Documentary 2017 / 77 minutes RATING: 7/10 Darren Doane is best known for Collision, about debates between pastor Douglas Wilson and atheist Christopher Hitchens, and…
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AnimatedThe George Müller Story
Animated / Biography / Drama 2019 / 30 minutes Rating: 8/10 In his day, I’d imagine George Müller (1805-1898) was accused of being irresponsible, or…
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DramaLove on a limb
Drama / Romance 2016, 84 minutes RATING: 7/10 Amy Roarke knows just about everyone in Ample Hills because she’s gotten them all to sign her…
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AnimatedCurious George: the TV series
Animated / TV / Children 2006-2022 / 24 min x 198 episodes Rating: 8/10 Curious George is a monkey – or is he? As I…
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FamilyBelle and Sebastian
Drama 2013 / 99 minutes Rating: 8/10 In the middle of World War II, Sebastian, a seven-year-old orphan, lives with a grandfather figure, César, high…
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AnimatedThe Corrie ten Boom Story
Animated / Biography / Drama 2013 / 34 minutes Rating: 7/10 What’s an appropriate age to expose our children to the truth about Nazis, concentration…
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AnimatedTangled
Animated / Family 2010 / 100 min RATING: 9/10 In the original Rapunzel tale, her hair is very long, but still just hair. In Tangled, these…
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FamilyTwelve
Family / Sports 2019 / 92 minutes RATING: 7/10 Kyle Cooke is an 11-year-old baseball prodigy who’s always the best kid on the field. When…
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DramaUnleashing Mr. Darcy
Drama / Romance 2016 / 84 minutes Rating: 7/10 My favorite movie of all time is a modern-day Mormon-produced Pride and Prejudice update. So, I…
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DramaGrace Unplugged
Drama 2013 / 102 minutes RATING: 7/10 This is a story about two prodigals. The first, Johnny Trey, was a one-hit wonder pop star who…
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FamilyMercy Rule
Family / Drama 2014 / 118 minutes Rating: 7/10 There’s a lot of baseball in it, but the moral of Mercy Rule is more along…
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FamilyGood Sam
Drama / Family / Romance 2019 / 89 minutes RATING: 8/10 Kate Bradley is a TV news reporter following the “bummer beat” in New York…
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FamilyThe Legend of 5 Mile Cave
Western / Family 2019 / 90 minutes RATING: 7/10 The Legend of 5 Mile Cave begins with a bang, a fleeing cowboy being shot right…
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DocumentaryThe Pursuit
Documentary 77 minutes / 2019 RATING: 7/10 “From 1970 until today the percentage of people living at starvation’s door has decreased by 80%. Two billion…
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AnimatedLong Way North
Animated / Family 81 minutes / 2015 RATING: 7/10 It’s the 1880s, the North Pole has yet to be reached, and a Russian explorer dreams…
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DramaCourageous
Drama 2011 / 129 minutes Rating: 8/10 Like Fireproof, Facing the Giants and Flywheel before it, Courageous is a sermon wrapped up as a film….
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DocumentaryWings of an Eagle – A Musician’s Journey into America
Documentary 98 minutes / 2017 RATING: 8/10 Winnipeg’s favorite singer-songwriter Steve Bell gets his own documentary. Bell’s been a traveling man for decades, crisscrossing the…
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DocumentaryJericho Unearthed
Documentary 34 minutes/2010 Rating: 8/10 The claim has been made that the biblical account of the fall of Jericho’s walls cannot be true because, archeological…
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DocumentaryRescued: the heart of adoption and caring for orphans
Documentary 62 min / 2012 RATING: 7/10 There is something a little unsettling about watching a documentary that passionately encourages adoption. RC Sproul Jr. and…
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Drama2081: Everyone will finally be equal
Drama 2009 / 25 minutes RATING: 8/10 “The year is 2081, and everybody was finally equal. They weren’t only equal before God and the law…
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AnimatedJungle Beat – fun for the kids that will have the adults laughing too
Family / Animated 750+ min RATING: 10/10 I’m always on the hunt for films or shows my kids will enjoy that I’ll enjoy too. There…
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DramaA Royal Christmas
Drama / Romance 87 minutes / 2014 RATING: 7/10 How would you react if you found out that the wonderful, thoughtful, fun, quiet someone you…
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DocumentaryThe Master Designer: The Song
Documentary 2014 / 76 minutes RATING: 8/10 What I most appreciated about The Master Designer was this nature documentary’s patience, showing us just a half dozen…
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FamilyThe Jensen Project
Family 95 minutes / 2010 Rating: 8/10 Claire and Matt Thomspon seem like a couple of average parents, who, along with their 15-year-old son are…
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DocumentaryMount St. Helens: Modern day evidence for the world wide Flood
Documentary 2012 / 36 minutes Rating: 7/10 Thirty-four years ago Washington State’s Mount St. Helens blew its top. The eruption on the morning of May…
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DocumentaryIncredible Creatures That Define Design
Documentary 62 min / 2011 Rating: 7/10 The folks who brought us the 3-film series Incredible Creatures That Defy Evolution are back, and with a fun…
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DramaTo save a life
Drama 120 minutes; 2010 Rating: 7/10 To Save a Life is about teen suicide… and also premarital sex, abortion, underage drinking, cutting, bullying, divorce, divorce’s impact…
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Documentary180: from pro-choice to pro-life in minutes
Documentary 2011, 33 minutes Rating: 7/10 The trailer for 180 showed people being interviewed on the street declaring their support for “a woman’s right to choose.”…
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DramaThe Hobbit: the film trilogy
AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY 2012 / 169 min (also a 182-min version) Rating: 8/10 THE DESOLATION OF SMAUG 2013 / 161 min (also a 186-min version) Rating: 8/10…
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DocumentaryAmerican Gospel: Christ Crucified
Documentary 2019 / 176 minutes Rating: 9/10 In the early 1600’s, our forefathers assembled at Dordrecht to clearly correct the errors of the Remonstrants, publishing…
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DocumentaryEvolution’s Achilles’ Heels
Documentary 2014 / 96 minutes Rating: 10/10 I’ve watched this at least 5 times now, and many sections many more times than that. This is…
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DocumentaryMetamorphosis: the beauty and design of butterflies
Documentary 2011 / 64 minutes Rating: 8/10 Did you ever stop to reflect that beauty is not essential to the survival of creatures, that it…
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AnimatedFree film: The Harriet Tubman Story
Animated / Family 2018 / 30 minutes Rating: 7/10 This is an action-packed overview of the life of Harriet Tubman (c. 1822-1913), an escaped former…
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DocumentaryWaiting for Superman
Documentary 111 minutes / 2010 Rating: 8/10 “One of the saddest days of my life was when my mother told me ‘Superman’ did not exist….
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DocumentaryLiving Waters
Documentary 69 minutes / 2015 Rating 8/10 This is one part nature documentary and one part evolutionary takedown. Illustra Media understands that a great way…
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FamilyUnitards
Family / Comedy 2010 / 107 minutes Rating: 8/10 The producers bill this as “High School Musical meets Napoleon Dynamite” but I’ll have to take their…
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AnimatedThe Toy Story franchise is for adults
Animated / Drama 1995, 1999, 2010, and 2019 / 81, 92, 103, and 100 minutes Rating: 8/10 Animation is usually for kids. And a story…
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DramaExtraordinary
Comedy / Drama 2017 / 88 minutes Rating: 6/10 If you’re looking for a quiet Hallmark-ish film to watch with your spouse, the two of…
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AnimatedPeppa Pig: The balloon ride
Animated / Children’s 52 minutes/ 2014 Rating: 7/10 UPDATE: PEPPA HAS BOWED THE KNEE TO THE LGBT LOBBY Peppa Pig is a lovable little pig,…
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FamilyOdd Squad: The movie
Children’s / Family 65 minutes / 2016 Rating: 7/10 Odd Squad is an organization founded to correct the “strange, the weird, and most especially the…
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DocumentaryCaptivated: finding freedom in a media captive culture
Documentary 107 minutes / 2011 Rating: 7/10 A highlight in Captivated is an epic rant by Professor Mark Bauerlein, author of The Dumbest Generation: How…
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DramaFreedom
Drama 2014 / 94 minutes Rating: 7/10 Like many a film “inspired by true events,” this isn’t good history but it is pretty decent cinema….
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AnimatedBatman as a cucumber? The best of VeggieTales…
The VeggieTales phenomenon began back in 1993 with the release of their first video, Where’s God When I’m Scared? which, like all that would follow, starred Bob…
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DocumentaryIs Genesis History?
Documentary 100 min / 2017 RATING: 8/10 We live and breathe and move in an atmosphere that is full of assumptions. We assume that what…
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DocumentaryA Return to Grace: Luther’s life and legacy
Docudrama 2017 / 106 minutes Rating: 8/10 What makes this a must-see is its unique mix of drama and documentary. Other great Luther documentaries exist,…
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DocumentaryNotes from the Tilt-A-Whirl
Documentary 51 minutes / 2011 Rating: 11/10 You are going to like this. I haven’t met anyone yet who has seen this and hasn’t been…
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DocumentaryFacing darkness
Documentary 99 minutes / 2017 Rating 8/10 In early 2020, when New York was hit with a surge of serious Covid-19 cases, Samaritan’s Purse set…
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DocumentaryThe Free Speech Apocalypse
Documentary 89 minutes / 2015 Rating: 8/10 In 2012 Pastor Douglas Wilson gave a public lecture on the contentious topic of sexuality God’s way. But…
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DocumentaryLogic on Fire
Documentary 2015 / 102 minutes RATING: 7/10 Even if you don’t know Dr. Martyn Lloyd Jones (1899-1981) you likely do know some of the people…
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DramaThe Song
Drama / Musical 2014 / 116 minutes RATING: 9/10 The Song destroys all the expectations we have for Christian films. It has great acting, a…
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DramaAlleged
Drama 93 minutes/ 2011 Rating: 7/10 The year is 1925, and Charlie Anderson’s goal is to quit his job, leave his hometown of Dayton, Tennessee…
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DramaWoodlawn
Drama 123 minutes / 2015 Rating: 10/10 Sports movies have their own formula. The orchestral music swells, mud spatters, bodies get thrown to the turf,…
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AnimatedLost and Found
Animated / Family 24 minutes / 2013 Rating: 8/10 This short film made my girls cry and that’s okay. It is a classic boy meets…
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DocumentaryFREE: Flight of the Butterflies
Documentary 2012 / 44 minutes RATING: 7/10 Equal parts detective story and nature documentary, Flight of the Butterflies tells the story of “Dana” and her offspring,…
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DocumentaryLong Shot: The Kevin Laue Story
Documentary 91 minutes / 2012 Rating: 7/10 This is the amazing story of how a one-armed young man beats the odds to make it onto…
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DocumentaryA Lego brickumentary
Documentary 93 minutes / 2015 Rating: 7/10 If you have kids who are too young to watch anything with tension then that limits your viewing…
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FamilyThe Defense of New Haven
Children’s 2016 / 82 minutes RATING: 8/10 This is a wonderfully bizarre adventure: a steampunk Christian allegoric comedy adventure, with every character played by a child…
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AnimatedThe Secret World of Arrietty
Animated / Family 2012 / 94 minutes RATING: 8/10 This is a Japanese animated adaptation of the much loved English book series, The Borrowers. Arrietty is…
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AnimatedThe Boxcar Children
Animated / Children’s 2013 / 81 minutes Rating: 7/10 The Boxcar Children is the first title in a popular and still expanding children’s series of…
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AnimatedCurious George 3: Back to the Jungle
Animated / Children 81 Minutes / 2015 Rating: 7/10 We might wonder why it hadn’t happened sooner. The third film begins with the unflappable man…
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AnimatedWinnie the Pooh
Animated / Children / Family 63 min, 2011 Rating: 8/10 Our favorite silly little bear starts his newest adventure in bed, waking up only at…
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DocumentaryAmerican Gospel: Christ alone
Documentary 2018 / 139 minutes RATING: 8/10 In one of the documentary’s many memorable moments Costi Hinn, the nephew of televangelist and faith healer Benny Hinn,…
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DocumentaryMovie Review: Spirit & Truth
How does God want to be worshipped? Documentary 2019 / 87 minutes RATING: 8/10 How should we worship God? It’s one of the most important…
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FamilyBeyond the Mask
Christian / Action / Drama / Family 103 minutes / 2015 RATING: 8/10 William Reynolds is an 18th-century assassin and the righthand man to the…
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DocumentaryThe Fool – the true “banana man” story
Documentary 60 min. / 2019 RATING: 7/10 The Fool is the true story of how evangelist Ray Comfort was mocked and ridiculed by atheists the…
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DocumentaryBy what standard? God’s World…God’s rules
Documentary 2019 / 110 minutes RATING: 8/10 The Southern Baptist Convention is the largest Protestant denomination in the United States, and has a generally Calvinist…
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DocumentaryAs We Forgive
Documentary 2010 / 54 min. RATING: 8/10 In Rwanda, in 1994, the unimaginable happened: approximately one million Tutsi Rwandans were killed by their friends, neighbors…
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DramaTortured for Christ
Historical drama 77 minutes / 2018 RATING: 8/10 Tortured for Christ is a must-see film about Richard Wurmbrand’s courageous and faithful stand against the Soviets…
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DocumentaryThe Missing Project
Documentary 2019 / 75 minutes RATING: 8/10 2019 was the 50th anniversary since Pierre Trudeau’s government first legalized abortion in Canada. To mark the occasion…
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DocumentaryWait till it’s free
Documentary 2014 / 82 minutes Rating: 9/10 Why would Canadians be interested in watching a Scotsman take a look at the American healthcare system? Because…
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AnimatedCurious George: Royal Monkey
Animated / Children’s 2019 / 86 minutes RATING: 7/10 In this homage to The Prince and the Pauper, our monkey friend George accidentally switches places with his…
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DocumentaryIndoctrination: Public Schools and the Decline of Christianity in America
Documentary 102 minutes; 2011 Rating 9/10 Two interviews with public school teacher Sarah LaVerdiere serve as stunning bookends for Colin Gunn’s investigation into the anti-Christian…
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DocumentaryScarred Earth (The Grand Canyon)
This half-hour video is divided into two parts. The opening 15-minute are an investigation into how the Grand Canyon was, and was not formed. Presenter…
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DocumentaryFearfully and Wonderfully Made
Illustrated lecture 49 or 85 min; 2015/2012 RATING: 7/10 While this is little more than a powerpoint lecture, it was, for years, among Answers In…
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DocumentaryBabies are murdered here
Documentary 2014 / 54 minutes Rating: 8/10 This must-see is first and foremost an encouragement for anyone sitting on the sidelines to get active and…
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DocumentaryThe Riot and The Dance
Documentary 2018 / 83 minutes Rating: 8/10 Biologist Gordon Wilson is excited about God’s creation, and it’s catching! In The Riot and the Dance, Wilson explores…
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DramaI can only imagine
Drama 2018 / 110 minutes Rating: 8/10 This is the life story of MercyMe singer Bart Millard, or, more specifically, it’s the story of what…
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AnimatedMinuscule: Valley of the Lost Ants
Animated / Family 2014 / 89 minutes Rating: 8/10 In this utterly unique film, a lost ladybug teams up with a colony of black ants…
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DocumentaryHow do you like me now? When a child, parent, spouse, or sibling says they’re gay
Documentary 2016 / 88 minutes RATING: 7/10 The powerful, aggressive, LGBTQ lobby has been very successful in its efforts to normalize the homosexual lifestyle in…
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DramaAudacity: Love can’t stay silent
Drama 50 minutes / 2015 Rating: 8/10 I once thought that the main flaw with so many Christian movies was that they were sermons disguised…
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DramaUnbroken: Path to Redemption
Drama / Christian 98 minutes / 2018 RATING: 8/10 Unbroken, Laura Hillenbrand’s 2010 best-selling biography of Louis Zamperini was so good two movies have been based…
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DocumentaryHow to Answer the Fool
85 min / 2013 RATING 8/10 Some Christians will try to provide atheists with reasons for why they should believe in the Bible, and for…
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DramaGosnell: the trial of America’s biggest serial killer
Drama 2018 / 93 minutes RATING: 8/10 “Are you going to be the first prosecutor in American history to charge an abortion doctor with murder?”…
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FamilyThe Giver
Drama / Family 97 minutes / 2014 RATING: 8/10 My brother Jeff wrote a review of the book this film is based on that hits…
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DocumentaryThe Green Prince
Documentary 101 minutes/ 2014 Rating: 8/10 Mosab Hassan Yousef is the son of one of the founders of the terrorist group Hamas, and served as…
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DocumentaryIrreplaceable – What is family?
Documentary 104 min / 2015 RATING: 8/10 Everyone knows something is wrong with the family these days. But what? For this Focus on the Family…
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DatingI Survived “I Kissed Dating Goodbye”
Documentary 78 minutes / 2018 RATING: 8/10 Aug 3, 2019 UPDATE: This past month Josh Harris used his Instagram account to announce he was rejecting…
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AnimatedSgt. Stubby: an unlikely hero
Animated / Family 2018 / 84 minutes Rating: 8/10 I read a review by a parent who arrived at the movie theater with his four-year-old…
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FamilySwallows and Amazons
Drama / Family 2016 / 96 minutes RATING: 7/10 I remember my older brother reading Arthur Ransome’s Swallows and Amazons to me when I was very young,…
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AnimatedThe Boxcar Children: Surprise Island
Animated / Children 82 minutes / 2018 RATING: 6/10 My kids loved this – we rented it for two nights, and they asked to watch…
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DocumentaryBeyond Is Genesis History?
Documentary 2017 / 400 minutes In Del Tackett’s 2017 documentary Is Genesis History? he interviewed PhD-holding scientists with various areas of expertise, all of them…
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DocumentaryCalvinist
Documentary 89 minutes / 2017 RATING: 8/10 Calvinist is the story of a generation of young men and women who went searching for answers and found…
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DocumentaryGenesis: Paradise Lost (part 1)
Documentary 109 minutes / 2018 RATING: 8/10 There have been some very good Genesis-related resources coming out in the last few years and this is…
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FamilyStorm and Luther’s forbidden letter
Family / Drama 105 minutes / 2017 RATING: 7/10 Storm Voeten is the 12-year-old son of a printer, living in 1500s Antwerp. Martin Luther has…
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DocumentaryDNA BATTLES: Were Adam & Eve historical?
Documentary 59 minutes / 2018 RATING: 7/10 In 2011 the Christian evolutionary group Biologos made a splash with widely published views that questioned whether Adam…
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AnimatedTorchlighters: the Martin Luther Story
Animated / Family 2016 / 34 minutes Rating: 7/10 The strength of this film is its short length. At just 34 minutes, it can be…