Sleeping Beauty

This week’s film is a Disney classic, bringing to life a timeless fairy tale that’s essential viewing for any Disney fan… Once upon a time, a king and queen celebrate… Read More

Ben-Hur

This week’s film is a classic epic for the start of the Easter season. In first-century Jerusalem, wealthy Jewish prince Judah Ben-Hur (Charlton Heston) reunites with childhood friend Messala, now… Read More

Where the Lilies Bloom

The Luther family live a meager life in the Appalachian Mountains. When their widowed father falls gravely ill, he makes his second-eldest daughter, Mary Call, promise to take care of… Read More

Scrooge

While Dickens’s tale of redemption needs little introduction, this classic 1970 musical adaptation wonderfully balances both the darkness and the joy of the story. Albert Finney stars as the miserly… Read More

Meet Me in St. Louis

In 1903, the Smith family lives in St. Louis, where they eagerly await the 1904 World’s Fair planned for their hometown. Sisters Rose and Esther (Judy Garland) also dream about… Read More

The Bridge on the River Kwai

In 1943, a group of British prisoners of war led by the principled Colonel Nicholson (Alec Guinness) arrive at a Japanese prison camp where they are ordered to build a… Read More

The Song of Bernadette

With All Saints’ Day approaching, this week’s film looks at the life of Saint Bernadette (1844-1879). In 1858, fourteen-year-old Bernadette lives in poverty with her family in France. One day… Read More

The Pride of the Yankees

This week’s film is a classic from the 40s that celebrates the life of baseball legend Lou Gehrig. Lou grows up in New York City as the son of hardworking… Read More

Modern Times

During the Great Depression, Charlie Chaplin’s iconic Tramp character finds himself working on a factory assembly line, where the relentless pace of the machinery drives him to a nervous breakdown.… Read More

My Side of the Mountain

Upset after his parents cancel a summer camping trip, and inspired by the writings of Henry David Thoreau, thirteen-year-old Sam decides to test his self-reliance by running away from home… Read More

The Sound of Music

This week’s film is an iconic classic celebrating its 60th anniversary this month. In pre-World War II Austria, a free-spirited young woman named Maria (Julie Andrews) leaves her abbey as… Read More