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- A Week Away. A troubled teenage boy finds faith, hope and romance when he attends a Christian summer camp. The film is a Disney-like musical that features some of the top Christian tunes from the past two decades – as well as a few new ones.
- Blue Miracle. A financially strapped orphanage is given new life when its residents team up with a washed-up fisherman to enter the lucrative Bisbee’s Black & Blue Fishing Tournament.
- The Jesus Music. It’s a landmark documentary about contemporary Christian music (CCM), beginning with the hippie movement of the 1960s and 1970s and continuing up to the modern-day.
- Show Me the Father. It’s a life-changing documentary that examines the biblical roles of fathers while weaving in biblical truths about the Fatherhood of God.
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- Ten Honorable Mentions
- Ten Excellent Documentaries
1.Belfast
Few films gave me more joy this year than Kenneth Branagh’s semi-autobiographical film about a working class family in 1960s Belfast. Though The Troublesof Protestant-Catholic conflict are in the background in important ways—the foreground here is family: three generations of a Northern Irish Protestant family who have called Belfast home for ages. I love so much about this movie: its depictions of traditional married love; the awe and innocence of 9-year-old Buddy; the beautiful embrace of m...
2.Dune
I went into Dune with zero context, having never read Frank Herbert’s novel or seen the 1984 movie version. I worried I’d be lost in such a complex sci-fi universe—and I was, a little. But it’s a testament to director Denis Villeneuve’s command of the cinematic language that tracking with the intricacies of plot didn’t matter as much as the big-canvas power of awesome visuals, sound design, and deep immersion into a well-established world. Villeneuve doesn’t spoon-feed audiences with tiresome...
3.Nine Days
When it released in July, I called Edson Oda’s Nine Days “2021’s most spiritually curious film.” I’d still stand by that. A Spike Jonze-esque surrealist drama about “soul candidates” vying for a chance at life, the indie film explores the most fundamental questions of existence. Why do we exist when we didn’t have to? If an omnipotent God has the power to create life, why doesn’t he intervene when life goes so excruciatingly awry? Even if not all of the film’s ideas are logical or sound, enou...
Drive MyCar, Encanto, The Green Knight, Mass(TGC review), Licorice Pizza, The Most Reluctant Convert (TGC review), Our Friend(TGC review), Spiderman: Far From Home, Swan Song, West Side Story.
Here are 10 of my favorite documentaries or docuseries released in 2021 (listed in alphabetical order), along with where you can watch them.
Jesus' followers are hunted and leaderless in the aftermath of the Crucifixion. When Jesus rises from death, they discover hope lives on in them and prepare to spread the Gospel.
- (2)
- Juan Pablo Di Pace
- PG-13
- Faith & Spirituality
With Greta Scacchi, Vincent Regan, Joanne Whalley, Jóhannes Haukur Jóhannesson. Jesus followers are hunted, leaderless and desperately searching for understanding, but when Jesus rises from death, they realize that hope didn't die on the cross. It lives on in them.
- (121)
- Biography, Drama, History
- Ciaran Donnelly
- 2021-03-27
Mar 22, 2021 · While the fearful apostles tremble for their lives, Jesus' Resurrection brings light, hope and redemption in a new Easter movie presented by "The Bible" series producers Mark Burnett and Roma Downey.
Aug 20, 2024 · A modern musical retelling of the first Christian story ever told, that of Mary and Joseph and the birth of Jesus Christ, ‘Journey to Bethlehem’ is directed by Adam Anders. ‘Journey to Bethlehem’ incorporates Christmas melodies, faith, and humor to provide us with a whole new rendition of a feeling that we all carry within ourselves.
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Feb 25, 2021 · While the film does include some violent moments, Fatima revolves around its deep sense of faith and invites us to believe in miracles. I Still Believe (PG): When Christian singer Jeremy Camp’s soon-to-be wife was diagnosed with ovarian cancer, everyone around her prayed for her to be healed— and that prayer was answered .
