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Plot Summary:
From T.C. Christensen, director of the sensational pioneer film, 17 Miracles, comes the heroic true story of a simple man who was called to do the work of angels. Ephraim’s Rescue relates the story of Ephraim Hanks: a rescuer of the Martin Handcart company. Follow Ephraim as his adventures lead him to join the LDS Church and ultimately to one of the most heroic rescues in American history. With a unique desire to help and strengthen others, Ephraim learns that each choice we make can prepare us for what lies ahead. He discovers, through it all, that decisions determine destiny.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 930
Genere: Adventure, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, emotional, realistic, independent film
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The Work and the Glory II: American Zion (2005)
Plot Summary:
"The Work and The Glory: American Zion" sets the story of the fictional Steed family against the historically factual backdrop of the Mormon people's move into the West. Divided by their diverse reactions to a nascent ideology, the Steeds struggle to hold together as the strength of their convictions and their filial bonds are tested. The stirring narrative of the faith that led a persecuted people to Missouri and beyond is one of the most poignant untold tales of American history. It is the account of a valiant struggle to exercise the rights promised by a fledgling nation. "The Work and the Glory: American Zion" unearths the story of the passion behind the movement which eventually launched the largest American migration and the colonization of the West: the vision of a promised land in America.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 775
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: serious, emotional, realistic, captivating
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The Great Alaskan Race (2019)
Plot Summary:
In 1925, a group of brave mushers travel 700 miles to save the small children of Nome, Alaska from a deadly epidemic.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 679
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, disturbing
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17 Miracles (2011)
Plot Summary:
As part of the Willie Handcart Company, Levi Savage (Jasen Wade) feared that leaving late in the season would lead to despair and death. What he came to find out is that for every tragedy, there is a multitude of miracles. Based on unbelievable actual events, and brought to you by filmmaker T.C. Christensen (Praise to the Man, The Work and the Glory), 17 Miracles will open your eyes to the stories of the Mormon Pioneers as you have never seen them before. Something extraordinary is about to happen.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, History
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: captivating, serious, realistic, suspenseful, christian film, biblical, spiritual, contemplative
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The Work and the Glory III: A House Divided (2006)
Plot Summary:
Joshua Steed returns to Missouri a wealthy man with a beautiful wife; however, the past has a way of catching up. Soon Joshua is tangled in a web of rumors, deception and betrayal that threatens to tear his family apart. Back in Kirtland, financial trouble riddles the foundations of the fledgling Church causing a division, and questioning of the Prophet Joseph Smith's divine calling. Has he lost his prophetic gift? Hundreds of Saints immigrate to Missouri, where Governor Boggs raises an army - with Joshua at its head - to address the "Mormon Problem." When the militia receives orders to attack the Mormon settlement, only Joshua can save his family from the gathering mob.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 488
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: uplifting, serious, emotional, realistic
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River Queen (2005)
Plot Summary:
An intimate story set during the 1860s in which a young Irish woman Sarah and her family find themselves on both sides of the turbulent wars between British and Maori during the British colonization of New Zealand.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, History, War
Country: New Zealand, UK
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, epic, captivating, atmospheric, serious, realistic
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Savage Journey (1983)
Plot Summary:
They forged a new land in the untamed wilderness - with their heart, their hands, and their faith in god.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 152
Genere: Drama, History, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, serious, realistic, eighties, cult film
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The Work and the Glory (2004)
Plot Summary:
When Benjamin Steed and Mary Ann Steed relocate their family to upstate New York in the early 1800's, they unwittingly settle in a town divided along religious lines. After their new hired help turns out to be at the center of the uproar, each member of the Steed family must come to terms with their own beliefs in the face of heavy persecution. Together they struggle to weather the raging controversy surrounding a young man named Joseph Smith.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Romance, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, emotional, realistic, christian film, controversial
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Last Flight Out (2004)
Plot Summary:
Hot-shot pilot Dan Hogan is sent deep into the Colombian jungle to rescue missionary doctor Ann Williams. Caught between innocent villagers and a ruthless drug lord, Ann won't abandon the people she has come to love.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 326
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: uplifting, serious, emotional, suspenseful, cliffhanger, exciting, realistic, independent film, christian film
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Captive Heart: The James Mink Story (1996)
Plot Summary:
James Mink is a black man in Canada who has built a very successful livery business, and enjoys a white wife and a beautiful daughter, Mary. An excellent match is arranged with an American businessman, but when he takes his new wife Mary across the border his true character emerges - he sells her into slavery. James and Elizabeth must go to Virginia to rescue their daughter.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 265
Genere: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: uplifting, serious, captivating, emotional, realistic, christian film
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Marco Polo (2007)
Plot Summary:
Assigned to accompany two priests on a mission to convert the court of Kublai Khan to Christianity, Marco Polo is abandoned in the mountains when the priests, doubting the very existence of China, turn back. Polo eventually pushes bravely forth alone toward the fabled country where he is accepted as an envoy into Khan's court. Marooned on the far side of the world, Polo, accompanied by his servant, Pedro, advances as a Mongol grandee for twenty extraordinary years. What he eventually brings back with him to the West is a chronicle that changed history forever.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 165 min
Plot tags: exciting, atmospheric, epic, captivating, serious, realistic, stylized
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The Errand of Angels (2008)
Plot Summary:
Sister Rachel Taylor of Boise, Idaho is an eager young missionary of the LDS Church who has been sent on an 18-month long mission to Austria. Rachel finds herself having a hard time adjusting to her new cultural surroundings in the foreign country. Due to differences in opinion, she is also unable to get along with the companion missionary that was assigned to her by the church.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 293
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: realistic, contemplative, psychological, captivating, emotional, christian film, touching, serious
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The White Dawn (1974)
Plot Summary:
Three stranded 1890s whalers (Warren Oates, Timothy Bottoms, Louis Gossett Jr.) corrupt the culture of their Eskimo saviors.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 867
Genere: Adventure, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, vintage
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The Friends of Jesus: Thomas (2001)
Plot Summary:
When Jesus is taken off the cross at Golgotha, THOMAS arrives there. Like most of the other disciples, he had worriedly taken refuge with friends in Jerusalem after Jesus's arrest. After Jesus's burial, the disciples decide to leave Jerusalem quickly, but Thomas refuses to leave Jesus' body behind, as he fears that the tomb may be desecrated.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 209
Genere: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Italy
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: biblical, captivating, serious, emotional, realistic
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God Loves Caviar (2012)
Plot Summary:
The true-life, stranger-than-fiction tale of eighteenth-century Greek pirate turned merchant Ioannis Varvakis, who rose from humble beginnings to become the head of one of the largest mercantile empires in Europe.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Adventure, Biography, Drama, History
Country: Greece, Russia
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, realistic, stylized, social, weird
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The Book of Daniel (2013)
Plot Summary:
Taken into slavery after the fall of Jerusalem in 605 B.C., Daniel is forced to serve the most powerful king in the world, King Nebuchadnezzar. Faced with imminent death, Daniel proves himself a trusted Advisor and is placed among the king's wise men. Threatened by death at every turn Daniel never ceases to serve the king until he is forced to choose between serving the king or honoring God. With his life at stake, Daniel has nothing but his faith to stand between him and the lions den.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: biblical, inspirational, captivating, serious, suspense, christian film, uplifting, spiritual, realistic
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Apostle Peter and the Last Supper (2012)
Plot Summary:
The film portrays Saint Peter reflecting on his time with Jesus and his fellow Apostles during his final imprisonment in Rome. In particular, Peter attempts to convert one of his jailers, Martinian, by relating the life, teachings, and sacrifice of Jesus.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: uplifting, serious, captivating, biblical, epic, realistic, christian film
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Beyond the Next Mountain (1981)
Plot Summary:
The story of how the Gospel of John changed the course of history for a tribe of headhunters.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 130
Genere: Adventure, Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: christian film, rough, serious, captivating, realistic
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End of the Spear (2005)
Plot Summary:
"End of the Spear" is the story of Mincayani, a Waodani tribesman from the jungles of Ecuador. When five young missionaries, among them Jim Elliot and Nate Saint, are speared to death by the Waodani in 1956, a series of events unfold to change the lives of not only the slain missionaries' families, but also Mincayani and his people.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Adventure, Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: emotional, inspirational, christian film, tense, uplifting, serious, realistic, biblical, spiritual, existential
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Süskind (2012)
Plot Summary:
In Nazi-occupied Amsterdam, Walter Süskind is a member of the Dutch Jewish Council who rescues hundreds of children from the concentration camps.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, emotional, realistic, bleak
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The Radicals (1989)
Plot Summary:
The story of the Anabaptist movement and two of its first leaders, Michael and Margaretha Sattler.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 104
Genere: Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: biblical, independent film, bleak, serious, captivating, emotional, realistic, contemplative
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Thérèse (2004)
Plot Summary:
The mesmerizing story of a young girl's romance with God. Her faith, trials, and sacrifices reveal a way of life based on love and simplicity. A contemplative film based on the true story of Saint Therese of Lisieux, the most popular saint of modern times.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 539
Genere: Biography, Drama, Family, History
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: uplifting, emotional, realistic, contemplative, spiritual, serious, captivating, stylized
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Billy: The Early Years (2008)
Plot Summary:
Most of us know Billy Graham as the self-assured and charismatic preacher who became one of the most important figures of 20th Century Christianity. Now, with the release of Billy: The Early Years, we meet Billy as the earnest and promising young man at the crossroads of faith and doubt, ultimately facing the moment of decision that launched one of history’s most powerful evangelistic careers.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 816
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: christian film, serious, captivating, realistic
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The Mission (1986)
Plot Summary:
When a Spanish Jesuit goes into the South American wilderness to build a mission in the hope of converting the Indians of the region, a slave hunter is converted and joins his mission. When Spain sells the colony to Portugal, they are forced to defend all they have built against the Portugese aggressors.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 65000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, History
Country: UK, France
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: epic, thought provoking, christian film, harsh, spiritual, realistic, breathtaking, dramatic, visually stunning, touching
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Severed Ways: The Norse Discovery of America (2007)
Plot Summary:
An unexpectedly modern take on a tale of two Viking warriors abandoned on the American coast. Warning – contains a graphic answer to the question: do Vikings sh*t in the woods?.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 554
Genere: Adventure, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, epic, serious, stylized, offbeat
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Forbidden Territory: Stanley's Search for Livingstone (1997)
Plot Summary:
British explorer Henry Stanley travels to Africa in 1871 seeking missionary David Livingstone.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 262
Genere: Adventure, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic
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Follow the River (1995)
Plot Summary:
Mary Ingles is pregnant when she and her two sons are captured from their homestead in Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains by Shawnee Indians. Her husband, Will, narrowly escapes death during the attack. Impressed by her grace under the pressure of captivity, Wildcat, the Shawnee chief, confers special privileges on Mary and her children, eventually proposing that Mary become his mate. Surprised by her attraction to the handsome brave, Mary nonetheless opts to remain faithful to Will and engineers a plan for her escape. Separated from her children, Mary joins another female settler, and together they embark on a harrowing homeward trek. Her odyssey comes full circle more than a decade later when she is finally reunited with her long-lost children.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 494
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, epic
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Revolution (1985)
Plot Summary:
New York trapper Tom Dobb becomes an unwilling participant in the American Revolution after his son Ned is drafted into the Army by the villainous Sergeant Major Peasy. Tom attempts to find his son, and eventually becomes convinced that he must take a stand and fight for the freedom of the Colonies, alongside the aristocratic rebel Daisy McConnahay. As Tom undergoes his change of heart, the events of the war unfold in large-scale grandeur.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, History, War
Country: UK, Norway
Duration: 126 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspense, dramatic, cult classic, historical drama, independent film, epic, period drama, cult film
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Moonshot: The Flight of Apollo 11 (2009)
Plot Summary:
Man's landing on the moon was our greatest technological achievement. The Apollo 11 mission was truly the stuff of dreams. For the first time, our species walked on another celestial body. Even more remarkable was their ability to make it back. This is the story of the July 20, 1969, Apollo 11 moon landing. Drama with digitally remastered original footage.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 571
Genere: Drama, History
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, captivating, realistic, uplifting, sincere
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DC 9/11: Time of Crisis (2003)
Plot Summary:
This is the story of the days directly after 9/11, and the president's whereabouts. Scheduled to air shortly before the second anniversary of the September 11 attacks, DC 9/11 takes an inside look at the Bush Administration, beginning with the day of the attacks, and following the President's journey to Ground Zero, culminating with his now famous national address nine days after the attacks.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 942
Genere: Drama, History
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 128 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, bleak, serious, captivating, sincere, emotional, realistic, political drama
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The Hiding Place (1975)
Plot Summary:
The Hiding Place is an account of a Dutch family who risk their lives by offering a safe haven for Jews during World War II.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 150 min
Plot tags: christian film, bleak, spiritual, independent film, sincere, uplifting, serious, emotional, realistic, disturbing