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| Insipirational Movies About Christianity | |
| By: Clay Death Date: December 1, 2013, 9:56 pm | |
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| please use this place to start making a list of inspirational | |
| movies about Christianity. | |
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| Re: Insipirational Movies About Christianity | |
| By: Sara50840 Date: December 2, 2013, 3:55 pm | |
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| The Bible! ( | |
| http://www.history.com/shows/the-bible) | |
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| Re: Insipirational Movies About Christianity | |
| By: Clay Death Date: December 7, 2013, 8:37 pm | |
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| The Hiding Place: | |
| The Hiding Place (1975): | |
| ***The Hiding Place is a 1975 film based on the autobiographical | |
| book of the same name by Corrie ten Boom recounting her and her | |
| family's experiences before and during their imprisonment in a | |
| Nazi concentration camp during the Holocaust in World War II. | |
| The Hiding Place was directed by James F. Collier. Jeanette | |
| Clift George received a Golden Globe nomination for Most | |
| Promising Newcomer - Female.[1] The film was given limited | |
| release in its day and featured the last appearance from Arthur | |
| O'Connell. | |
| Corrie and Betsie ten Boom are middle-aged sisters working in | |
| their father's watchmaker shop in pre-WWII Holland... (150 | |
| mins.) | |
| Director: James F. Collier | |
| Stars: Julie Harris, Jeannette Clift, Arthur O'Connell, Robert | |
| Rietty | |
| PLOT: | |
| As the Nazis invade Holland in 1940, Corrie and her family allow | |
| Jews to hide in a part of their home that is specially remodeled | |
| by members of the Dutch Resistance. However, the Nazis | |
| eventually discover that Corrie and her family are hiding Jews, | |
| and on February 29, 1944, the family and their friends are | |
| arrested after their betrayal by a Dutch collaborator. The | |
| hidden Jews are never found. Corrie's father, Casper, dies | |
| before he reaches the concentration camp, and Corrie worries | |
| that she will never see her home again. The Nazis send Corrie | |
| and her sister, Betsie, to the Ravensbr�ck concentration camp in | |
| Germany for hiding Jews in their home. At the concentration | |
| camp, Betsie encourages Corrie to remain hopeful that God will | |
| rescue them from the brutalities they experience. With little | |
| food and constant work, the women suffer constantly, and | |
| Corrie's sister Betsie (Julie Harris), dies. Ultimately, Corrie | |
| (Jeanette Clift George) leaves the camp in December, 1944 | |
| through what is discovered years later to have been a clerical | |
| error, as everyone in her group of prisoners was marked for | |
| gassing the following month (January 1945). Her life after this | |
| ordeal was dedicated to showing that Jesus' love is greater than | |
| the deepest pit into which humankind finds itself. | |
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| Re: Insipirational Movies About Christianity | |
| By: Clay Death Date: December 7, 2013, 8:46 pm | |
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| Noah (2014) | |
| The Biblical Noah suffers visions of an apocalyptic deluge and | |
| takes measures to protect his family from the coming flood. | |
| Director: Darren Aronofsky | |
| Stars: Emma Watson, Jennifer Connelly, Logan Lerman, Russell | |
| Crowe | |
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qmj5mhDwJQ | |
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| Re: Insipirational Movies About Christianity | |
| By: Clay Death Date: December 7, 2013, 8:50 pm | |
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| The Grace Card (2010) | |
| Everything can change in an instant...and take a lifetime to | |
| unravel. Every day, we have the opportunity to rebuild | |
| relationships by extending and receiving God's grace. Offer The | |
| Grace Card, and never underestimate the power of God's love. | |
| (101 mins.) | |
| Director: David G. Evans | |
| Stars: Michael Joiner, Michael Higgenbottom, Louis Gossett Jr., | |
| Joy Parmer Moore | |
| #Post#: 5073-------------------------------------------------- | |
| Re: Insipirational Movies About Christianity | |
| By: Clay Death Date: December 7, 2013, 8:59 pm | |
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| Ben-Hur (1959 film) | |
| Directed by | |
| William Wyler | |
| Produced by | |
| Sam Zimbalist | |
| Screenplay by | |
| Karl Tunberg | |
| Uncredited: | |
| Gore Vidal | |
| Christopher Fry | |
| Maxwell Anderson | |
| S. N. Behrman | |
| Based on | |
| Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ by Lew Wallace | |
| Narrated by | |
| Finlay Currie | |
| Starring | |
| Charlton Heston | |
| Jack Hawkins | |
| Haya Harareet | |
| Stephen Boyd | |
| Hugh Griffith | |
| Music by | |
| Mikl�s R�zsa | |
| Cinematography | |
| Robert L. Surtees | |
| Editing by | |
| John D. Dunning | |
| Ralph E. Winters | |
| Studio | |
| Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | |
| Distributed by | |
| Loew's Inc.[1] | |
| Release dates | |
| November 18, 1959 | |
| Running time | |
| 212 minutes | |
| Country | |
| United States | |
| Language | |
| English | |
| Budget | |
| $15 million | |
| Box office | |
| $146,900,000 (initial release) | |
| Ben-Hur is a 1959 American epic historical drama film set in | |
| ancient Rome, directed by William Wyler, produced by Sam | |
| Zimbalist and starring Charlton Heston, Stephen Boyd, Jack | |
| Hawkins, Hugh Griffith and Haya Harareet. It won a record 11 | |
| Academy Awards, including Best Picture, an accomplishment that | |
| was not equaled until Titanic in 1997 and then again by The Lord | |
| of the Rings: The Return of the King in 2003. | |
| A remake of the 1925 silent film with the same name, Ben-Hur was | |
| adapted from Lew Wallace's 1880 novel Ben-Hur: A Tale of the | |
| Christ. The screenplay is credited to Karl Tunberg but includes | |
| contributions from Maxwell Anderson, S. N. Behrman, Gore Vidal, | |
| and Christopher Fry. Ben-Hur had the largest budget and the | |
| largest sets built for any film produced. The nine-minute | |
| chariot race has become one of cinema's most famous sequences. | |
| The score composed by Mikl�s R�zsa was highly influential on | |
| cinema for more than 15 years, and is the longest ever composed | |
| for a film. | |
| Plot: | |
| In AD 26, Judah Ben-Hur (Charlton Heston) is a wealthy prince | |
| and merchant in Jerusalem. His childhood friend, the Roman | |
| citizen Messala (Stephen Boyd), is now a tribune. After several | |
| years away from Jerusalem, Messala returns as the new commander | |
| of the Roman garrison. Messala believes in the glory of Rome and | |
| its imperial power, while Ben-Hur is devoted to his faith and | |
| the freedom of the Jewish people. Messala asks Ben-Hur for the | |
| names of Jews who criticize the Romans. Ben-Hur refuses, | |
| angering Messala. | |
| Ben-Hur lives with his mother, Miriam (Martha Scott), and | |
| sister, Tirzah (Cathy O'Donnell). Their loyal slave Simonides | |
| (Sam Jaffe) is preparing for an arranged marriage for his | |
| daughter, Esther (Haya Harareet). Ben-Hur gives Esther her | |
| freedom as a wedding present, and the audience is shown that | |
| Ben-Hur and Esther are in love even though her marriage to | |
| another man is imminent. | |
| During the parade for the new governor of Judea, Valerius | |
| Gratus, a tile falls from the roof of Ben-Hur's house. Gratus is | |
| thrown from his horse and nearly killed. Although Messala knows | |
| this was an accident, he condemns Ben-Hur to the galleys and | |
| imprisons Miriam and Tirzah. By punishing a known friend and | |
| prominent citizen, he hopes to intimidate the Jewish populace. | |
| Ben-Hur swears to take revenge. Overcome by thirst when his | |
| slave gang arrives at Nazareth, Ben-Hur collapses. A local | |
| carpenter (who the audience realizes is Jesus) gives him water. | |
| After three years as a galley slave, Ben-Hur is assigned to the | |
| flagship of the Roman Consul Quintus Arrius (Jack Hawkins), who | |
| has been charged with destroying a fleet of Macedonian pirates. | |
| Arrius admires Ben-Hur's self-discipline and offers to train him | |
| as a gladiator or charioteer. Ben-Hur declines the offer, | |
| declaring that God will aid him in his quest for vengeance. | |
| The Roman fleet encounters the Macedonians. Arrius orders all | |
| the rowers except Ben-Hur to be chained to their benches. | |
| Arrius' galley is rammed and sunk, but Ben-Hur unchains the | |
| other rowers, and rescues Arrius from the sinking wreckage. In | |
| despair, Arrius wrongly believes the battle ended in defeat and | |
| atones in the Roman way by "falling on his sword", but Ben-Hur | |
| prevents him from committing suicide. Ben-Hur and Arrius are | |
| rescued, and Arrius is credited with the Roman fleet's victory. | |
| The consul successfully petitions Emperor Tiberius (George | |
| Relph) to free Ben-Hur, and adopts him as his son. Several years | |
| pass off-screen. Now wealthy, Ben-Hur learns Roman ways and | |
| becomes a champion charioteer, but longs for his family and | |
| homeland. | |
| Ben-Hur returns to Judea. Along the way, he meets Balthasar | |
| (Finlay Currie) and an Arab sheik, Ilderim (Hugh Griffith). The | |
| sheik has heard of Ben-Hur's prowess as a charioteer, and asks | |
| him to drive his quadriga in a race before the new Judean | |
| governor Pontius Pilate (Frank Thring). Ben-Hur declines, even | |
| after he learns that champion charioteer Messala will also | |
| compete. | |
| Ben-Hur returns to his home in Jerusalem. He meets Esther, and | |
| learns her arranged marriage did not occur and that she is still | |
| in love with him. He visits Messala and demands his mother and | |
| sister's freedom. The Romans discover that Miriam and Tirzah | |
| contracted leprosy in prison, and expel them from the city. The | |
| women beg Esther to conceal their condition from Ben-Hur, so she | |
| tells him that his mother and sister died. It is then that he | |
| changes his mind and decides to seek vengeance on Messala by | |
| competing against him in the chariot race. | |
| During the chariot race, Messala drives a chariot with blades on | |
| the hubs to tear apart competing vehicles. In the violent and | |
| grueling race, Messala attempts to destroy Ben-Hur's chariot but | |
| destroys his own instead. Messala is mortally injured, while | |
| Ben-Hur wins the race. Before dying, Messala tells Ben-Hur that | |
| "the race is not over" and that he can find his family "in the | |
| Valley of the Lepers, if you can recognize them." Ben-Hur visits | |
| the nearby leper colony, where (hidden from their view) he sees | |
| his mother and sister. | |
| Esther hears Jesus preach the Sermon on the Mount, and tells | |
| Ben-Hur about the message of peace and forgiveness she heard. | |
| Blaming Roman rule for his family's fate, Ben-Hur rejects his | |
| patrimony and Roman citizenship. Learning that Tirzah is dying, | |
| Ben-Hur and Esther take her and Miriam to see Jesus, but the | |
| trial of Jesus before Pontius Pilate has begun. Jesus begins his | |
| march to Calvary and stumbles before Ben-Hur. Recognizing Jesus | |
| from their earlier meeting, Ben-Hur attempts to give him water | |
| but guards separate them. | |
| Ben-Hur witnesses the crucifixion of Jesus. Miriam and Tirzah | |
| are miraculously healed. Ben-Hur tells Esther that he heard | |
| Jesus talk of forgiveness while on the cross, and says "I felt | |
| His voice take the sword out of my hand." His hatred finally | |
| relinquished, he is emotionally reunited with his mother and | |
| sister in the film's final moments. | |
| Cast[edit] | |
| Charlton Heston as Judah Ben-Hur | |
| Jack Hawkins as Quintus Arrius | |
| Haya Harareet as Esther | |
| Stephen Boyd as Messala | |
| Hugh Griffith as Sheik Ilderim | |
| Martha Scott as Miriam | |
| Cathy O'Donnell as Tirzah | |
| Sam Jaffe as Simonides | |
| Finlay Currie as Balthasar and the narrator | |
| Frank Thring as Pontius Pilate | |
| Terence Longdon as Drusus | |
| George Relph as Tiberius Caesar | |
| Andr� Morell as Sextus | |
| Claude Heater as Jesus | |
| #Post#: 5121-------------------------------------------------- | |
| Re: Insipirational Movies About Christianity | |
| By: Sara50840 Date: December 8, 2013, 1:16 pm | |
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| "Facing the Giants" is a good one, too. It's about a football | |
| coach and his struggles. | |
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