Thursday, March 1, 2018

30+ Movies That Help teach the value of work

Akeela and the Bee
About a girl from a poor neighbor hood who tries to win a spelling competition

Amazing Grace
About William Wilberforce who tries to make slavery illegal in England

Boys Town
About a man who believed in boys and fought to help them

Chariots of Fire
About the 1924 Olympics and a man who refuses to compromise his morals

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang - preview first
About a man who will do anything to help his children

Cool Runnings Preview First
About the Jamacan Bobsled Team in the 1988 Winter Olympics

Evelyn - Adult themes preview first
About a man whose daughter gets taken away and fights to get her back

From Homeless to Harvard - Adult Themes Preview First
About a girl whose parents are drug addicts, who becomes homeless,
and who decides there is something better in life

Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story
About a mom who had many struggles but did her best for her boys
And about a poor boy who decided to work to change his world

Hidden Figures
About 3 women who want to work for the space program and prove their worth

Hidden in Silence (no trailer)
About a courageous girl who rescues and hides Jews

Joan of Arc
About a woman called by God to save France from England

October Sky
About boys who decide to build a rocket and their teacher who inspired them

Madame Currie (1943)
About the woman who discovered radium and pioneered radioactivity

McFarland USA
About a Running Coach and the boys he coaches

Monuments Men
About men who try to save great works of art from the Nazis

Newsies Original Film                     Broadway Version
 
About newspaper boys try to fight for fair wages and working conditions

About people who wanted to escape from East German and how they tried to make it happen

Not Without My Daughter
About a woman falsely lured to Iran who tries to escape with her daughter

Rosenstrausse
About the only successful open protest against the Nazis - women trying to save their husbands

Rudy - adult themes preview first
About a man who wanted to play football at Notre Dame

Something the Lord Made
About a man who cared enough to change modern medicine

Stand and Deliver - Preview First Adult Themes
About a teacher who believed in his students and held them accountable

Summer Stock
 
About a troop of actors who work to put on a production

The African Queen
About a woman determined to live and to fight the Nazis and the man who helps her

The Amazing Adventure - with Cary Grant
About a rich man who doesn't feel well and his doctor challenges him to get a job

The Blind Side
About a mother, a homeless student, a the work it takes to make dreams happen

The Inn of the Sixth Happiness
About a woman who wants to do some good in the world and decides to go on a mission to China

The Man Who Invented Christmas
About Charles Dickens writing and publishing a book faster than others felt possible

The Miracle Worker
About the woman who helped a deaf blind girl learn, and the girl who was willing to learn

The Pursuit of Happyness - Adult Themes Preview First
About a man who knows that there is a better world for him and his son and is willing to work

The Story of Alexander Graham Bell 1939 (sorry no trailer)
About the work involved to invent the telephone

The Ten Commandments
About how we got the 10 Commandments and the work it took to set the Israelites free

The Ultimate Gift

About a rich man who has to work for his inheritance

Tucker: The Man, The Dream
About a man who wanted to give the world a better built, safer car

Woodlawn
About a man who man who worked to bring people together through the gospel of Christ

Young Tom Edison &  the sequel              Edison the Man
 
About a genius who loved his family & worked hard to give us so many things in life