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Publisher
Distributed by Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Bestselling author Joyce Meyer teaches viewers how to overcome negative thoughts and become responsible for their own joy. Joyce asks tough questions about looking in the mirror, taking inventory, thinking less and thanking more. Learn the difference between believing in victory and actually achieving it. Correct your own thoughts to become a better person. Joyce explains how to transform the way you think and win the war against a deceived mind.
2) The omen
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
Robert and Katherine Thorn are as loving of parents as any young boy could ask for, but as fate would have it, their new son Damien is far from the typical child. As the mysterious boy's growth begins to share frightening parallels with the Biblical passages detailing the rise of the Antichrist, and the lives of all who seek to reveal his true nature are cut gruesomely short, Robert and Katherine are forced to face the horrifying prospect that their...
Publisher
Distributed by Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
It began on a quiet Sunday in Gatlin, Nebraska. That was the day the children slaughtered all the grownups. Isaac, the boy preacher, told them that He Who Walks Behind the Rows was pleased, and three years later the children still follow Isaac and his evil teenage disciple, Malachai. When a young couple accidently drive into Gatlin, they begin to discover the town's terrible secrets and become part of the children's bloody mission.
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Based on a true account and New York Times best-selling book comes the feature film adaption. Don Piper experienced love, joy and life like he2d never known during the 90 minutes he was declared dead after a traffic accident. But when he finally wakes in the hospital, Heaven's bliss was replaced by excruciating pain and emotional turmoil. With the support of his family and community, Don clings to his faith and fights to recover the life he's lost....
Publisher
Viva Pictures
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
For all his far-reaching fame, Sol Harkens, the world's most famous atheist, is a lonely soul and a lousy part-time dad. After a near death experience challenges his simplest assumptions about this world, Sol finds his purpose and re-imagines his life, in a film that will make you laugh and cry and want to stand up and cheer.
6) Help!
Publisher
Capitol Records, Inc
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Ringo possesses a sacrificial ring, which he cannot remove from his finger. As a result, the Beatles are chased from London to the Austrian Alps to the Bahamas by religious cult members, a mad scientists and the London police.
7) Courageous
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012, c2011
Language
English
Description
When a tragedy strikes close to home, four police officers struggle with their faith and their roles as husbands and fathers. Together they make a decision that will change all of their lives.
Series
Publisher
Big Idea
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Lonely toymaker Gelato decides to carve a little boy out of wood and is surprised to learn that this little toy boy can walk and talk, and has a mind of his own! Will Pistachio learn that obeying the wisdom of a loving father will help him find what he really needs?
Publisher
BBC
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Rachel Verinder finds herself inheriting a large Indian diamond on her eighteenth birthday as a legacy from her uncle, a corrupt British army officer who served in India. The diamond, associated with the Hindu moon god, is of great religious significance as well as being extremely valuable, and there are whispers of a curse placed upon it. Sure enough, the stone is stolen from Rachel's bedroom later that night. and a period of turmoil, unhappiness,...
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of Hadassah, the young Jewish girls who becomes the Biblical Esther, Queen of Persia. Despite her position, Hadassah's life is in danger, as the state has decreed that all Jews will be put to death. Defying warnings to remain silent, however, Hadassah struggles to save her people, evens as she seeks to win the heart of the king.
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
The true story of a small-town father who must find the courage and conviction to share his son's extraordinary, life-changing experience with the world. Colton claims to have visited Heaven during a near death experience. He recounts the details of his amazing journey with childlike innocence and speaks matter-of-factly about things that happened before his birth.
12) The Templar code
Publisher
A&E Television Networks
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
For nearly two centuries, the Knights Templar was the most powerful order in the medieval world. Today, the group's legacy is played out in an array of Hollywood blockbusters and numerous works of popular literature. Despite the Knights' long reign of power, the order experienced a sudden collapse in the early fourtheenth century when certain members stood accused of unspeakable crimes and were subsequently tortured and killed. Interviews some of...
13) The Cardinal
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Epic drama about the rise of a socially conscious Irish American priest through the ranks to Cardinal.
Publisher
Wellspring Media
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
Documentary containing remarkable footage of the rites and liturgies surrounding and following the death of a Ladakhi elder. The Dalai Lama explains his own feelings about death, while other scenes within a palliative care hospice in San Francisco depict the use of the texts to counsel dying patients.
15) The venerable W
Publisher
Distrib Films
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Evil comes in many forms. In Myanmar, it manifests in the casual racism and Islamophobia of influential, charismatic Burmese Buddhist monk Ashin Wirathu. Through interviews with journalists and community leaders who protest against Wirathu's views, activist footage of Rohingya persecutions, and through powerful storytelling, director Barbet Schroeder slowly builds his case. Perhaps most damning of all are the interviews with the man himself; couching...
16) Creation
Publisher
Lions Gate Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Gives viewers a unique inside look at Charles Darwin, his family, and his love for his deeply religious wife, as he is torn between faith and science. Darwin struggles to finish his legendary book, On the Origin of Species, which goes on to become the foundation for evolutionary biology.
17) Burden
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
It tells the incredible true story of Michael 'Mike' Burden, an ardent young member of the South Carolina Ku Klux Klan who rose to the rank of Grand Dragon and walked away from all of it with the help of new love and an unlikely ally, the African American religious leader and social activist Reverend David Kennedy.
Publisher
Distributed by Oscilloscope Laboratories
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Offers a rare inside look into the 2007 uprising in Myanmar through the cameras of an independent journalist group, Democratic Voice of Burma. While 100,000 people (including thousands of Buddhist monks) took to the streets to protest the repressive regime that held the country hostage for over 40 years, foreign news crews were banned from entering the country and the Internet was shut down. Risking torture and life imprisonment, the VJs vividly document...
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