Favorite Movies
Drama
The Elephant Man (5 stars)
Dead Poet’s Society (5 stars)
Bella (5 stars)
Amazing Grace (5 stars)
Ghandi (5 stars)
Hotel Rwanda (5 stars)
In America (5 stars)
The Kite Runner (5 stars)
Radio (5 stars)
Saving Private Ryan (5 stars)
Whale Rider (5 stars)
The Tree of Life (5 stars)
The King’s Speech (4.5 stars)
Get Low (4.5 stars)
A Better Life (4.5 stars)
The War (4.5 stars)
The Straight Story (4 stars)
It’s a Wonderful Life (4 stars)
Amistad (4 stars)
Awakenings (4 stars)
A Raisin in the Sun (4 stars)
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (4 stars)
Cast Away (4 stars)
Finding Forrester (4 stars)
Ghosts of Mississippi (4 stars)
Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story (4 stars)
Hoosiers (4 stars)
Jeremiah Johnson (4 stars)
John Adams HBO Series (4 stars)
Patch Adams (4 stars)
Peaceful Warrior (4 stars)
Runaway Jury (4 stars)
Searching for Bobby Fischer (4 stars)
Stranger than Fiction (4 stars)
The Soloist (4 stars)
Sweet Land (4 stars)
Slumdog Millionaire (4 stars)
Fair Game (4 stars)
Sarah’s Key (4 stars)
The New World (4 stars)
Like Dandelion Dust (4 stars)
The Social Network (4 stars)
The Power of One (3.5 stars)
Chariots of Fire (3.5 stars)
A Beautiful Mind (3.5 stars)
Dances with Wolves (3.5 stars)
The Man from Snowy River (3.5 stars)
Roots (3.5 stars)
The Visitor (3 stars)
Rudy (3 stars)
The Truman Show (3 stars)
Pay it Forward (3 stars)
Dan in Real Life (3 Stars)
Jakob the Liar (3 stars)
Freedom Writers (3 stars)
A Civil Action (3 stars)
Cool Hand Luke (3 stars)
Beyond the Gates (3 stars)
Akeelah and the Bees (3 stars)
Cry Freedom (3 stars)
Grace is Gone (3 stars)
Shine (3 stars)
Sometimes in April (3 stars)
7 Pounds (3 stars)
What Dreams May Come (3 stars)
Brother Sun, Sister Moon (3 stars)
Rabbit-Proof Fence (3 stars)
Return to Snowy River (3 stars)
Lean On Me (3 stars)
Days of Heaven (3 stars)
Antwone Fisher (3 stars)
Foreign
My Way (5 stars)
In a Better World (5 stars)
As It Is In Heaven (4 stars)
August Evening (4 stars)
Children of Heaven (4 stars)
Joyeux Noel (4 stars)
Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles (4 stars)
Under the Same Moon (4 stars)
The Chorus (4 stars)
I’ve Loved You So Long (4 stars)
As Far as My Feet Will Carry Me (4 stars)
Life is Beautiful (3 stars)
The Namesake (3 stars)
Documentary
The Future of Food (5 stars)
Ghosts of Rwanda (5 stars)
Microcosmos (5 stars)
The Privileged Planet (5 stars)
Life (5 stars)
The Garden (4.5 stars)
Food, Inc. (4 stars)
King Corn (4 stars)
Food Matters (4 stars)
Forks Over Knives (4 stars)
Beyond Belief (4 stars)
Born into Brothels (4 stars)
The Business of Being Born (4 Stars)
God Grew Tired of Us (4 stars)
Emmanuel’s Gift (4 stars)
Wetback: The Undocumented Documentary (4 stars)
Paper Heart (4 stars)
My Flesh & Blood (4 stars)
Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed (4 stars)
Why We Fight (4 stars)
The Human Experience (4 stars)
Touching the Void (4 stars)
Supersize Me (3.5 stars)
March of the Penguins (3.5 stars)
Tibet: Cry of the Snow Lion (3.5 stars)
Hearts & Minds
Beyond the Gates of Splendor (3 stars)
Darfur Now (3 stars)
Paper Clips (3 stars)
Spellbound (3 stars)
War Dance (3 stars)
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