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

Rabbit-Proof Fence

In contrast to the last couple weeks, this week’s film tells a more somber tale. In 1931 Australia, three young Aboriginal girls are forcibly removed from their families and taken… Read More

Lost on a Mountain in Maine

In the summer of 1939, twelve-year-old Donn Fendler and his father and brothers embark on what should be a simple day hike up Mount Katahdin, the highest mountain in Maine.… Read More

True Spirit

“It’s when things go wrong that your true character is revealed.” Sixteen-year-old Jessica Watson has always dreamed of sailing around the world solo, inspired by the memoir of another young… Read More

Andre

In the coastal town of Rockport, Maine in 1962, seven-year-old Toni Whitney and her family find themselves caring for an orphaned seal pup after local fishermen accidentally kill its mother.… Read More

McFarland, USA

In 1987, high school football coach Jim White (Kevin Costner) moves his reluctant family to the predominantly Latino farming community of McFarland, California after being fired from his previous position.… Read More

You Gotta Believe

In Fort Worth, Texas, best friends Bobby (Luke Wilson) and Jon (Greg Kinnear) coach their sons’ struggling Little League team, a group of disinterested players just waiting for the season… Read More

Miracles from Heaven

Ten-year-old Anna Beam lives a happy life in Texas with her parents and two sisters, regularly participating in church activities with her family. But their world is turned upside down… Read More

One Life

In 1938, young British stockbroker Nicholas Winton travels to Prague where he encounters Jewish refugee families who have fled Nazi persecution in Germany and Austria. Moved by their desperate situation… Read More

Cabrini

“We can serve our weakness or we can serve our purpose. Not both.” This week’s film tells the true story of Catholic missionary Francesca Cabrini (1850-1917), the first U.S. citizen… Read More