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AnimatedThe Super Mario Galaxy Movie
Animated / Family 2026 / 97 minutes Rating: 6/10 What they say about sequels never being as good as the original bears out here. Plumbers…
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AnimatedUp
Family 2009 / 96 min Rating: 9/10 Boy meets girl, they fall in love, get married, make plans for an adventurous trip, life gets in…
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AnimatedWall-E
Animated / Dystopian / Family 2008 / 98 min Rating: 9/10 Wall-E is a small robot with a big job – he has to tidy…
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AnimatedFinding Nemo
Animated / Family 2003 / 100 minutes RATING: 8/10 This is an ocean-crossing epic, with a father willing to travel to the ends of the…
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Movie lists300 movies Christians can love
Great minds think alike, and the same month I was first compiling this article two of those great minds belonged to a missionary in Brazil…
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AnimatedChicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget
Animated 2023 / 101 minutes RATING: 8/10 Twenty-three years ago, Rocky and Ginger were trying to break out – they had to get off their…
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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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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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AnimatedChicken Run
Animated 2000 / 84 minutes RATING: 8/10 Sometimes whether you love or hate a film can be entirely about the expectations you come to it…
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AnimatedWallace and Gromit: vengeance most fowl
Animated 2024 / 79 minutes RATING: 8/10 The penguin is back! Feathers McGraw has been sent to jail – or, rather, the Zoo – as…
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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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AnimatedThe Fox and the Hound
Family 1981 / 83 minutes Rating: 8/10 This one begins with an emotional punch to the gut – we watch a fox mother, holding her…
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AnimatedMany Adventures of Winnie the Pooh
Children 1977 / 74 MIN RATING 9/10 It all starts with A.A. Milne’s “bear of very little brain” using all of his thinking to think…
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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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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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AnimatedPAW Patrol: The Mighty Movie
Animated / Children 2023 / 87 minutes Rating: 8/10 This sequel to 2021’s PAW Patrol: The Movie is bigger, maybe better, and certainly more intense. This…
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AnimatedThe William Tyndale Story
Animated 32 min. / 2005 Rating: 6/10 “The Torchlighters” is a series of animated films created by Voice of the Martyrs to teach children from…
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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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AnimatedThe Way Things Work
Animated / TV series / Family 2001 / 300+ minutes (26 episodes) RATING: 9/10 This educational series takes place on a small island in which…
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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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AnimatedLeo Da Vinci: Mission Mona Lisa
Animated / Children 2020 / 82 minutes Rating: 8/10 What would history’s most inventive mind have been like as a kid? In Leo Da Vinci we…
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AnimatedAn American Tail
Animated / Family 1986 / 80 minutes RATING: 9/10 This is the immigrant experience, set to music, and seen through the eyes of a 19th-century…
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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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Culture ClashesPeppa Pig propagandizes preschoolers
During the COVID lockdowns, some North American children began developing a British accent, and started using words like “mummy” and “water closet.” This development was…
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AnimatedThe Jim Elliot Story
Animated / Family 30 min / 2005 Rating: 6/10 This is a half-hour animated version of a true story your grandparents might still remember hearing…
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AnimatedCurious George
Animated / Family 86 min / 2006 Rating: 8/10 George is a monkey whose curiosity always gets the best of him. And in this, the…
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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 John Bunyan Story
Animated 2006 / 29 minutes RATING: 8/10 What is likely the most influential novel of all time was written by a man of little education,…
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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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AnimatedLife at the Pond
Life at the Pond is a series of five videos that have a lot in common with VeggieTales. Both combine simple animation with sophisticated humor…
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AnimatedPAW Patrol: The movie
Animated / Children / Family 2021 / 86 min Rating: 8/10 While our kids had never seen the TV series this is based on, we’d…
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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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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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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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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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AnimatedTorchlighters: the Eric Liddell Story
Animated / Family 2007 / 31 minutes Rating: 6/10 Eric Liddell is best known for the stand he took to not compete in the 1924…
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AnimatedThe Wright Brothers (Animated Hero Classics)
Animated 27 minutes / 1996 Rating: 7/10 As an educational tool, this is amazing, and it’s a pretty solid family movie too. In just the…
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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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AnimatedTwo Martin Luther animated shorts
If you’re looking for some longer Martin Luther-related films, check out our “Martin at the movies” post on three films that are all currently available…
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AnimatedLarryboy and the Fib from Outerspace
Children’s / Animated 30 min / 1999 RATING: 7/10 Larry-Boy is no ordinary hero: first off, he’s a cucumber, and secondly he’s got super suction…
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AnimatedWallace and Gromit: four short films
Animated / Comedy 1989-2008 / 114 minutes RATING: 8/10 It’s been 35 years now, since student filmmaker Nick Park crafted his leading man out of…
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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 Gruffalo
Animated / Family 27 min / 2009 Rating: 8/10 How can a mouse meet up with a hungry fox, snake, and owl, and live to…
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Movie Reviews4 fun family-friendly films
Don’t know what to watch with the family tonight? If you have some younger children, here’s four possibilities that might just fit the bill. (And…
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Movie listsMartin at the movies
All four of these films can be viewed, for free at RedeemTV.com (you will have to sign up for a free account and provide your…
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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…
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AnimatedThe Peanuts Movie
Animated 88 min/2015 RATING: 9/10 The comic strip Peanuts was always a little hit and miss for me. I liked Linus and Snoopy and PigPen…