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2) The Amish
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Explores the insular religious community, whose intense faith and adherence to 400-year-old traditions have by turns captivated and baffled Americans for more than a century. The film examines the beliefs, lifestyle, and history of the Amish, as well as their complex relationship to mainstream American culture. Part history, part observational documentary that takes viewers into the world of the Amish.
4) Kingpin
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
An old ex-pro with one hand and a Amish bowling prodigy team up to raise money to enter the national championships.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
Sarah Cain is sweet, successful, slightly self-absorbed and a city girl through and through. But when the untimely death of her sister draws her to Amish country for a funeral, she makes a discovery that will change her life: she is now the legal guardian to five Amish nieces and nephews! Desperately trying to juggle the kids, her career and her comfort level, Sarah must reevaluate her priorities as she prepares for the biggest culture shock of everyone's...
7) The shunning
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Katie Lapp is a beautiful Amish girl who has always felt like something in her life was missing. But she just may find out what that is when a mysterious 'Englisher' comes to Lancaster County hoping to find the baby girl she gave up for adoption nineteen years ago.
8) Plain truth
Publisher
A & E Television Networks
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
A high-profile criminal lawyer leaves her city life for Pennsylvania to defend an Amish girl who is accused of killing her newborn baby.
Publisher
Home Box Office
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
The continuing twists and turns that follow Lucas Hood, an ex-convict who improbably assumes the identity of sheriff of the rural, Amish-area town of Banshee, Pa., where his former lover and partner-in-crime has been living under her own alias, Carrie Hopewell.
10) Witness
Series
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
An Amish boy witnesses a murder, and the cop on the case discovers it's part of a conspiracy in his department. Includes all-new special features including a five part documentary and much more.
11) The reckoning
Publisher
Hallmark Channel
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
After being shunned by the town she was raised in, an Amish woman finds love with an affluent businessman and faces a challenge when a former love comes to see her.
12) The confession
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
Raised by an Amish family, Katie Lapp starts a quest to find her birth-mother, Laura Mayfield-Bennett. Along the way, two very different men try to help her overcome a devious scheme to steal her rightful inheritance and divide her heart between two worlds.
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