This page is a work in progress.
For more lists like this, please see the Our Favorites section on this blog.
Documentary-ish (and Courses):
Cooking!
Alton Brown's Good Eats!
Geography:
Rick Steves' Europe *
History:
Ken Burns' Baseball *
Ken Burns' Civil War **
Nova: Secrets of Lost Empires Series
Nova: To the Moon
PBS New York *
The Shroud of Turin (Ignatius Press) *
This is America, Charlie Brown
Religion:
Catholicism Series (Fr. Robert Barron)
Chosen Series (Ascension Press)
Footprints of God Series (Ignatius Press)
Science:
Africa: Eye to Eye with the Unknown (BBC)Building Big with David Macaulay *
Disney's Earth
Earth: The Biography, BBC (Previously Known as The Power of the Planet) Watch section online
Experiencing Hubble: Understanding the Greatest Images of the Universe
How the Earth Changed History (BBC)
Magic School Bus
Microcosmos
Fully-acted Movies based on True Stories
(does not include Historical Fiction - which I hope to put together in a separate post):
Bible History:
The Greatest Story Ever Told *Jesus of Nazareth *
Joseph, King of Dreams
One Night with the King *- Queen Esther
Prince of Egypt
The Ten Commandments *
Biography:
42 *
The Blind Side *
Boystown *
Cinderella Man *
The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler *
The Diary of Anne Frank *
Edison the Man
Gandhi *
Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story *
The Glenn Miller Story
The Imitation Game **
The Kings' Speech *
A Man for All Seasons (Paul Scofield)
The Miracle Worker (Anne Bancroft, Patty Duke) *
Miss Potter - Beatrix Potter
Molokai * - St. Damien of Molokai
October Baby *
Pope John Paul II (Jon Voight, Cary Elwes) *
The Pride of the Yankees - Lou Gehrig
I Remember Mama
Restless Heart * - St. Augustine
Sergeant York *
The Song of Bernadette - St. Bernadette Soubirous
Sophie Scholl: The Final Days *
The Spirit of St. Louis - Charles Lindbergh
The Stratton Story - Monty Stratton
We Bought a Zoo *
Young Tom Edison
History:
The Agony and the Ecstasy * - Painting the Sistine Chapel ceiling.
Amazing Grace * - The Abolition of Slavery in England
Anna and the King *
Apollo 13 *
Awakenings *
Band of Brothers **
Chariots of Fire
Gettysburg *
Of Gods and Men *
The Great Escape *
Henry V (1989) ** - The Battle of Agincourt (based on the Shakespeare play)
Joyeux Noel ** - The World War I Christmas Truce
Miracle - The U.S. Olympic Hockey Team's Gold Medal Victory over Russia in 1980
The Miracle of Our Lady of Fatima
The Mission *
The Monuments Men *
October Sky *
The Scarlet and the Black
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