During this time of the corona virus, where so many people are contained in their homes, I wanted to provide a list of movies I recommend. While these films aren’t directly about the pro-life cause, there are underlying themes and messages within them that relate to it, themes like courage, faith, hope, resilience, self-sacrifice, truth, goodness, beauty, the need for communion of persons, and what leads to human flourishing—or its opposite.
Each film below is hyperlinked to the trailer. Hopefully you can find the full film on Netflix or by renting on itunes.
Beyond the Gates: About an idealistic young teacher and a tired old priest running a school in Kigali during the Rwandan genocide.
Score: A documentary about the development of musical soundtracks to accompany films.
Alive Inside: A documentary about the power of music to reach people with dementia.
Happy: A documentary about what key elements lead to peoples’ happiness.
The Giver: A dystopian story about a community that is built around “sameness.” In this futuristic world people no longer know loss, death, hatred, or violence. But the trade-off? They also no longer know love, empathy, compassion, and joy.
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe: The film adaptation of C.S. Lewis’ first book in the Narnia series where the lion Aslan serves as a Christ figure.
The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society: An author joins a secret book club during World War II.
A Man Called Ove: An isolated elderly man wants to give up on life until he realizes the power of relationship.
Three Identical Strangers: A documentary that unravels the true story of identical triplets separated at birth and what happens when the human person is treated as an object rather than a subject.
End of the Spear: A dramatization of the true story of Christian missionaries who were killed by a tribe in Ecuador that they tried to evangelize, and how the wife and sister of two of the slain men reached out to those who had killed.
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