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DramaCitizen Kane
Drama 1941 / 119 minutes Rating: 7/10 It’s a mystery with a moral. Often called the greatest film ever made, Citizen Kane is a story told…
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DramaHarlem Globetrotters
Drama 1951 / 77 minutes Rating: 7/10 This won’t appeal to most of Reformed Perspective‘s readers. But for the right audience, this will be an…
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DramaAnastasia
Drama / Mystery 1956 / 105 min Rating: 7/10 In 1918 Communist revolutionaries murdered the Czar and his family, and for years afterwards rumors persisted…
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DramaSands of Iwo Jima
Drama / War 1949 / 100 minutes RATING: 7/10 John Wayne stars in this loosely accurate recounting of the lead-up to, and battle for, Iwo…
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AnimatedChristmas Carol: the movie
Animated 2001 / 81 minutes Rating: 7/10 Dickens’ classic tale gets a child-friendly brush up, with a couple of cute mice companions added to the…
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FamilyThe Forge
Family / Christian drama 2024 / 125 minutes Rating: 7/10 Isaiah is a high school graduate, unemployed, still living with his mom, and spending his…
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DramaThey were expendable
Drama / War 1945 / 135 minutes RATING: 7/10 John Wayne stars as one of the WWII naval officers intent on proving that small, fast…
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DramaThe Count of Monte Cristo
Drama 1934 / 107 minutes RATING: 8/10 This is based on the story by Alexander Dumas (who also authored The Three Musketeers), and while it…
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DramaSeasons of the Heart
Drama / Tearjerker 2003 / 99 min RATING: 7/10 On the trek west to settle their own section of the American plains, Jed and Martha…
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FamilyThe Black Arrow
Drama / Family 1948 / 76 minutes Rating: 7/10 Sir Richard Shelton is a young knight returning from three years away fighting in the latest…
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DramaChildren of Heaven
Iranian / Drama 1997 / 88 minutes RATING: 7/10 When nine-year-old Ali loses his little sister Zahra’s shoes, the two siblings decide to keep the…
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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 Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (1979)
Animated / Children 1979 / 95 minutes RATING: 7/10 This is the oldest surviving film version of C.S. Lewis’s famous classic. It is absolutely fascinating…
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AnimatedHorton Hears a Who! (1970)
Animated / Family 1970 / 30 minutes Rating: 7/10 Based on the Dr. Seuss classic picture book of the same name, this is the story…
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DramaFacing the Giants
Sports / Drama 2006 / 111 minutes Rating: 7/10 Grant Taylor doesn’t have a lot going his way. His car runs only sometimes, he’s not…
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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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DramaGold Rush
Comedy / Silent (sort of) 1925 / 96 min RATING: 7/10 It’s been 100 years now since Charlie Chaplin crafted his most famous film. He…
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AnimatedAnne of Green Gables: the Animated Series
Animated / TV 2003 / 26 episodes x 25 minutes each Rating: 7/10 It’s an animated Anne brought to you by Sullivan Entertainment, the same…
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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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DramaSaboteur
Drama / Mystery 1942 / 109 minutes RATING: 7/10 This is World War II as seen from the other side of the ocean. Barry Kane…
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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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DocumentaryMountains after the Flood
Documentary 2023 / 102 minutes Rating: 7/10 The folks who brought us Is Genesis History, have crafted a sequel of sorts. Host Del Tackett is…
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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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DocumentaryFoundations
Docudrama 24 minutes / 2020 Rating: 7/10 Foundations is the story of Parker, or rather the story of 3 different Parkers. All three stories start…
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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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AnimatedAnimal Farm (1954)
Animated / Drama 1954 / 72 minutes RATING: 7/10 This is George Orwell’s classic dystopian tale brought to the big screen. A farm setting is…
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DramaLove’s Long Journey
Drama / Family 2005 / 88 minutes Rating: 7/10 Missie LaHaye isn’t quite the perfect wife – she’s an impossibly bad cook – but she…
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DramaThe Ultimate Gift
Romance / Christian 2006 / 114 minutes RATING: 7/10 Jason, a spoilt rich kid, is given an inheritance by his billionaire grandfather… but it comes…
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DramaAn American in Austen
Drama / Romance 2024 / 84 minutes Rating: 7/10 In the opening scene, we discover that Harriet-the-aspiring-author is struggling with writer’s block, but her alter…
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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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FamilyMy friend Flicka
Family 1943 / 89 minutes Rating: 7/10 All Ken wants is a colt of his own, and seeing as his dad raises horses, that doesn’t…
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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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DocumentaryInto the Light: a teaching documentary on freedom from pornography
Documentary 81 minutes / 2023 Rating: 8/10 Are you someone who doesn’t take quickly to reading? Are you looking for a more accessible resource for…
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FamilySesame Street’s 25th Birthday: a musical celebration!
Children’s TV 1993 / 57 minutes Rating: 7/10 This begins with a bang, with a huge crowd having all sorts of fun on a brilliantly…
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AnimatedThe Super Mario Bros. Movie
Animated / Family 92 minutes / 2023 Rating 7/10 80’s nostalgia for mom and me, and a couple of animated American Italian heroes and their…
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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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FamilyThe 3 worlds of Gulliver
Family / Children’s 1960 / 99 minutes Rating: 7/10 The film manages one upgrade on the book. In the original Gulliver’s Travels, Dr. Lemuel Gulliver is all…
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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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DramaForeign Correspondent
Thriller / Mystery / Drama 1940 / 120 minutes RATING: 7/10 In 1939 rumors of war were constant, but real news, the real facts, were hard to…
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DramaSabina: Tortured for Christ, the Nazi Years
Drama 2022 / 115 minutes RATING: 7/10 The opening scene shows Nazi soldiers at the end of World War II fleeing for their lives, and…
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FamilyThe Three Investigators in The Secret of Skeleton Island
Family / Drama 91 minutes / 2007 Rating: 7/10 The Three Investigators started as a book series that ran from 1964-1987 and included more than…
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DramaForever Strong
Drama 109 min / 2008 Rating: 7/10 This one begins with a fall from grace: teen rugby star Rick Penning crashes his car, injuring his…
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DocumentaryDemographic Winter: the decline of the human family
Documentary 56 min / 2008 Rating: 7/10 This is not a Christian film; it’s just a film that argues everything Christians have been saying about…
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DramaNot One Less
Chinese / Drama 106 min / 2000 Rating: 7/10 13-year-old Wei Minzhi is left in charge of a one-classroom elementary school in rural China and…
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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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FamilyThe Newtons’ Workshop
Children’s TV series 1997 / 226 minutes Rating: 7/10 The stars of this children’s “edutainment” show are most certainly Grandma and Grandpa Newton, who have…
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FamilyThe Horse in the Gray Flannel Suit
Family / Romance 113 minutes / 1968 Rating: 7/10 Horses, humor, and a little romance will make this one a favorite among the preteen girls…
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DramaBasil Rathbone’s classic 14-film (1939-1946) go as Sherlock Holmes
If there’s any one film that deserves credit as the inspiration for the innumerable cinematic Holmesian interpretations that followed, it’d be Basil Rathbone’s 1939 performance…
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AnimatedA Show About Anthem Lights
TV series / Comedy / Animated 2022- / 12 min x 20 episodes RATING: 7/10 Anthem Lights is a real-life Christian pop group – vocal…
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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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DocumentaryLife’s Story: the one that hasn’t been told
Documentary 2004 / 58 minutes Rating: 7/10 This is a gorgeous investigation of how Creation evidences its Creator. Life’s Story was filmed in more than ten…
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AnimatedFree film: The John Newton Story
Animated / Drama 2021 / 30 minutes Rating: 7/10 We know John Newton (1725-1807) as the former slave ship captain who repented and then wrote…
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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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AnimatedThe Phantom Tollbooth
Animated 1970 / 89 minutes Rating: 7/10 This is a peculiar movie based on a peculiar book, and as such, will have only peculiar appeal…
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AnimatedBalto
Family /Animated 1995 / 78 minutes Rating: 7/10 In 1925, the city of Nome, Alaska was hit by an outbreak of diphtheria, a coughing sickness…
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AnimatedAdventures in Odyssey: The Knight Travellers
Animated / Children’s 17 x 27 min episodes / 1991-2003 Rating: 7/10 Back in 1987, Focus on the Family started a radio drama series for…
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DocumentaryThe Story of the Weeping Camel
Foreign film / Docudrama 2003 / 87 minutes RATING: 7/10 This is as much drama as documentary because, as film critic Roger Ebert described it,…
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FamilyHangman’s Curse
Teen Suspense / Mystery 2003 / 106 minutes RATING: 7/10 Bullies at Rogers High School are all getting deathly sick. Is this the work of…
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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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FamilyJohnny Tremain
Historical drama / Family 80 min / 1957 RATING: 7/10 Walt Disney clearly loved American history, and Johnny Tremain is another of his homages to…
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AnimatedThe Lord of the Rings animated “trilogy”
Peter Jackson wasn’t the first to put J.R.R. Tolkien’s books on film. Two decades before the first of Jackson’s live-action/CGI films hit theaters, three animated versions were…
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Family20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Family / Classic 127 minutes / 1954 RATING 7/10 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea is a childhood favorite that I’ve been looking forward to sharing…
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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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DramaSahara
Drama / War 1943 / 98 minutes Rating: 8/10 Tanks need gas and people need water, and American tank commander Joe Gunn (Humphrey Bogart) needs…
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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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FamilyMisty
Family / Drama 1961 / 91 minutes RATING: 7/10 If you have girls in your home there’s a good chance you’ve already heard of Marguerite…
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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…