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DramaI Can Only Imagine 2
Drama / Biographical 2026 / 110 minutes Rating: 9/10 This is… wonderful. In the original, MercyMe singer Bart Millard shared the true story of how…
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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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AssortedDominee’s friend
There is style and there is class. Dominee may not have had much style, as the world considers style, but he had class. Dominee had…
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DramaSight
Drama 2024 / 103 minutes RATING: 8/10 Sight is the remarkable true story of driven doctor Ming Wang, who has used his exceptional talents to…
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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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DramaThe Miracle Worker
Drama / Biography 1962 / 106 min Rating: 9/10 The one-sentence synopsis is: seven-year-old Helen Keller, blind and deaf, learns to communicate through the discipline…
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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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DramaUnsung Hero
Drama / Christian 2024 / 112 minutes Rating: 8/10 This is a bio-pic on the Smallbone family, and if you haven’t heard of them, you’ve…
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DramaSound of Freedom
Drama 2023 / 131 minutes Rating: 8/10 Roberto Aguilar has two beautiful children. The charming woman at his door, Giselle, knows it too. In fact,…
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FamilyNever Give Up
Family / Sports 2023 / 79 minutes RATING: 6/10 This is great family viewing for the peek it offers into the very different world of…
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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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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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DramaFinal Solution
Drama 2001 / 102 minutes Rating: 8/10 This is the true story of Gerrit Wolfaardt, a church-going, Mein Kampf-reading young man who was taught from the…
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Book excerpts“I used to beat him”
What follows is an excerpt from Todd Nettleton’s “When Faith is Forbidden: 40 Days on the frontlines with persecuted Christians” and took place near Allawa,…
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Book ReviewsFinding Winnie
by Lindsay Mattick 56 pages / 2015 Rating: Good/GREAT/Give It turns out that Winnie the Pooh, a teddy bear who had fantastic and entirely fanciful…
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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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DramaEnd of the Spear
Drama 2005 / 108 minutes Rating: 7/10 This review first appeared in the January 2006 issue How does a Christian group succeed in presenting a…
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DramaThe Jackie Robinson Story
Drama 1950 / 77 minutes Rating 7/10 This is the true story of the first black man to play Major League Baseball, made all the…
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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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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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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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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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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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DramaThe Spirit of St. Louis
Family / Biography 1957 / 135 minutes RATING: 7/10 Charles Lindbergh’s 1927 flight wasn’t the first to cross the North Atlantic. That was accomplished 8…
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DramaThe Case for Christ
Drama 112 minutes / 2017 RATING: 7/10 On a Saturday morning in May, I found myself in an unusual place: seated in the Hoyts cinema,…