50 Movies That Focus on Faith & Family While Teaching

Hollywood and I are not on the best of terms.  
Let's just say we split up over religious differences.  
Hollywood thought it was God, I disagreed!  

Need more proof, read my letter to Hollywood - it's all about our long-term relationship breakup. 

I enjoy a good, clean family movie that has a message and a purpose.  I am a total home educator, I don't want you to "entertain" me, I want a film to enjoy and make me think!  Look my time is valuable, kindly stop wasting it Mr. Director!  

In lieu of the upcoming yearly celebrated Hollywood event that I purposely miss, I submit to you my readers the anti-mainstream roll-my-eyes-at-typical-Hollywood-trash Top 50 Movie List! (You may be surprised . . . I actually have a Scorsese film in the line-up!)

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FROM FAITH-FILLED FILM MAKERS:

• Amazing Grace
• Fireproof
• Facing the Giants
• Courageous *Mature themes: parental guidance suggested*
• October Baby *Mature themes: parental guidance suggested*
• Grace Card
• The Shunning
• Saving Sarah Cain
• Amish Grace *Mature themes: parental guidance suggested*
• Love Comes Softly (series)
• The Ultimate Gift
• Anne of Green Gables
• Expelled
• The Nativity Story

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GOOD FROM HOLLYWOOD:

• Dolphin Tale
• Iron Will
• The Blind Side *Mature themes: parental guidance suggested*
• Remembering the Titans
• Sense & Sensibility
• Emma (typically I like the BBC version, but Gweneth Paltrow is okay)
• Pride & Prejudice (BBC with Colin Firth, THE BEST)
• It's a Wonderful Life
• To Kill A Mockingbird *Mature themes: parental guidance suggested*

• White Christmas
• Singing in the Rain
• Pollyanna
• My Fair Lady
• The Sound of Music
• Seven Brides for Seven Brothers

• Fiddler on the Roof
• The Quiet Man
• The Searchers
• Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
• Harvey

• The Adventures of Robin Hood
• Little Women (1933)
• Sergeant York
• The Pride of the Yankees

• National Velvet
• Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
• Old Yeller
• Where the Red Fern Grows
• The King and I
• Mars Needs Moms
• The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe

• Hachi: A Dog's Tale
• Heidi (2006)
• Places in the Heart *Mature themes: parental guidance suggested*
• The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (1982)
• Hugo

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