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Some that we have enjoyed that I haven’t seen mentioned are Beyond The Next Mountain, No Greater Love, & God’s Outlaw: The Story of William Tyndale.
For the grown-ups, a good war movie (if you like that sort of thing) is Saints and Soldiers which was based on actual events and was very inspiring. Another is To End All Wars. This one was hard to watch at times. It’s about POW’s in a Japanese labor camp who are forced to build the Burma Railway. It’s based on the autobiography of one of the men and shows how Christianity truly changes people.
I would like to recommend “The Secret of Roan Inish: Island of the Seals”. It’s a tale based on a book that brings out the Irish Legend of the Selkies-poeple who change from seals to people and back again. It has beautiful scenery in the Celtic regions and the storyline is nicely woven. The child is the main character.
I don’t recommend for children under 9, since it requires attention and a certain maturity for appreciating the storyline. No sexual material or bad language; just a little naked toddler running (which is always so cute). My ten yr. old and 9 yr. old and I enjoyed it immensely.
Rachel
One of my all-time favorites is “Return to Me,” with Minnie Driver and David Duchovny. It’s not a Christian film per se, but it’s extremely sweet and wholesome, IMHO (apart from a couple of bad words uttered by a secondary character — nothing awful).
Wow, there are some great ideas here. We just watched “Facing the Giants” a few weeks ago with our kids age 4 and 6. But otherwise our family movies may be too young for your crew.
Some other movies I have seen and liked more recently, my husband and I watched after the kids were in bed. I’m not sure what age I’d let them watch, due to violence, but we liked: “Blindside” and the HBO mini-series “John Adams” which is a set of 4 or 5 dvd’s we checked out from the library. The Adams marriage holds up through many trials and is a great love story as well as learning some American history. I was surprised at how much I enjoyed it. But please be warned that they do show a man being tarred and feathered and some other scenes that you may not want your children to watch, or at least be ready to talk about it.
We recently watched The Widow’s Might, which was excellent! Another one we enjoyed was The Secrets of Jonathan Sperry.
Ramona and Beezus if you like comedies. It is a very touching story about how a family works together during a crisis (dad looses job).
I just wanted to give the heads up about Fly away home – while I personally love that movie, it does have some language and shows a grown man in his underwear. If only they had left the language and put some clothes on him, it would have been perfect!!!
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