Summary: Judah Ben-Hur is a young Jewish nobleman from a prominent family who is reunited with his childhood friend Messala. Messala returns to Judea as a Roman tribune. There is a genuine friendship between the two men, yet the clash of their cultures drives a wedge between them. That wedge finally drives Messala to banish Judah to the slave galleys and sends his mother and his sister to prison. From...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2005
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BENSummary: To escape the edict that condemned all first-born Hebrew males by Egypt's Pharoah, Rameses I, the infant Moses is set adrift on the Nile in a reed basket. Saved by the pharaoh's daughter Bithiah, he is adopted by her and brought up in the court of her brother, Pharaoh Seti. Moses gains Seti's favor and the love of the throne princess Nefertiri. He also gains the hatred of Seti's son, Rameses....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount DVD 2006
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Based on the true story of Army Chaplain Darren Turner and his wife Heather. With a strong, faith-filled marriage, the Turners are ready to follow their calling: serving God, family, and country. Fresh from seminary and basic training, Chaplain Turner and his family arrive at Fort Stewart. Before the Turners can even unpack, Darren is deployed to Iraq. Heather is left taking care of their...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD InSummary: Until a miracle changes their minds, church and state officials persecute a simple, ingenuous peasant girl who claims to have seen a vision of "a beautiful lady."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SONSummary: An aging military chaplain and a young girl from a broken home join forces to plant a miracle garden touched by God. A faith-based film, laced with warmth and comedy. It celebrates the healing of families and communities through faith. The story touches on important topics such as marriage, a child's need for a nuclear family, love of country and Vets, that miracles can still happen when you...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bridgestone Multimedia Group 2021
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HEASummary: 20-year old Nathan loses his career and his girlfriend and begins to question his purpose in life. Compounding his struggle, he grew up in a foster home and never met his birth mother. Nathan sets out to find his mother and come to terms with her rejection.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Pure Flix Entertainment 2013
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family MeantSummary: Named after the book by Father James Martin, Building a Bridge follows a priest on his journey to make the Catholic Church more accepting of the LGBTQ+ community, despite loud opposition from both inside and outside the Church.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC BUISummary: Monty Python delivers the group's sharpest and smartest satire of both religion and Hollywood's epic films. Set in 33 A.D. Judea where the exasperated Romans try to impose order, it is a time of chaos and change with no shortage of messiahs and followers willing to believe in them. At its center is Brian Cohen, born in Bethlehem in a stable next door, who, by a series of absurd circumstances is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY COMEDY MONSummary: Reverend Dave is called to defend a group of Christian homeschooling families. He finds himself taken aback by the interference of the government and believing that their right to educate their children is a freedom worth fighting for. Reverend Dave is called to Washington DC to testify in a landmark congressional hearing that will determine the future of religious freedom in our country for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GODCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GODSummary: Using non-professional actors, this film follows the Gospel of Matthew to tell the story of the birth, life, teachings and death on the cross of Jesus Christ. There was no script except the Bible itself. The narrative portions are voiced by "Jesus Christ." It is presented almost as a cinema-verité documentary and without the glossy coating of the Church and Hollywood.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2003
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN GOSSummary: Presents a personal journey in words and images through several Middle Eastern countries including Israel, Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey, visiting such wonders as Petra, Jerusalem, Istanbul, and the Cedars of Lebanon, and Cappadocia.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 915.604 PROSummary: The story of one young hippie's quest in the 1970s for belonging and liberation that leads not only to peace, love, and rock and roll but that sets into motion a new counterculture crusade a Jesus Movement changing the course of history. Inspired by a true movement, it tells the story of a young Greg Laurie being raised by his struggling mother, Charlene in the 1970s. Laurie and a sea of young...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2023
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA JESCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JESSummary: He's lauched rockets into space, redefined artificial intelligence, and now eccentric billionaire Atticus Virtue (Chad Michael Murray) takes on his next project -- a competition for high school students. Five students, a lacrosse player, a social midia influencer, a gamer, a bully and Max Winslow, a computer hacker, compete in a series of games to win his mansion. The night takes a dark turn...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MAXSummary: International art dealer Ron Hall must befriend a dangerous homeless man in order to save his struggling marriage to Deborah, a woman whose dreams will lead all three of them on the journey of their lives.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2018
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SAMCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE SAMCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SAMSummary: After an exhausting night of saving a little girl from a raging house fire, Fireman Tom Hatcher is at the end of his rope. He couldn't save his wife from cancer, and worse yet, his six-year-old daughter, Tiffany, is now facing the same possible fate. When he finds himself in a cold jail cell after punching a pastor out of frustration with a seemingly absent God, Tom begins to reflect on his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FAICopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FaSummary: My wife had faith, I had doubt. Viewers would be surprised how well those two work together! That's been Joe Bigler's 'life operating manual' until his wife died in a mysterious bicycle accident. Now without her faith to help him mourn, and his doubt driving toward a mystery surrounding her death, Joe is left with more questions than he can handle, and quickly finds himself spiraling into a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA LIFCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie LifeSummary: Begins with the slaughter of Bethlehem's innocents under orders from a paranoid King Herod. Go back a year to the prophecy that informs Zechariah that his wife, Elizabeth, will bear a child. Elizabeth's cousin, the adolescent Mary, struggles with her family to make ends meet and is promised to the carpenter Joseph. Mary is told by the angel Gabriel that she will carry, while still a virgin, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Home Entertainment 2007
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Told in fourteen fixed-angle, single shot, individual tableaus that parallel Christ's journey to his own crucifixion, this film is both an indictment of fundamentalist faith and the articulation of an impressionable teen's struggle to find her own path in life. Though from the outside Maria lives in the modern world, her family and her heart are faithful to a Catholic radicalism that requires...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Film Movement 2015
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF STASummary: Unlike most people, young Sara Hopkins is willing to take God at His word. So, when she hears a preacher say faith can move mountains, she starts praying. What begins with a mysteriously healed bird leads to people suddenly cured of their misery and misfortune all over town. But the overwhelming crush of notoriety and press attention soon takes its toll on Sara. Will her family be able to save...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bridgestone Multimedia Group 2021
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GIRSummary: When an injury ends his amateur boxing career, Stuart Long moves to Los Angeles to find money and fame. While scraping by as a supermarket clerk, he meets Carmen, a Sunday school teacher who seems immune to his bad-boy charm. Determined to win her over, the longtime agnostic starts going to church to impress her. However, a motorcycle accident leaves him wondering if he can use his second...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY FATCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FATCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FATCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FATCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE FATCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie FatherSummary: "A tight-knit spiritual community is thrown off-kilter when one of their own begins to question her faith"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2012