What to Watch: Movies and Series to Celebrate Thanksgiving

AVALON

Spanning the years 1914 through the late 1960s, AVALON is a powerful, pro-family saga about the Krachinsky family, Jewish immigrants who move to the mythically symbolic Avalon section of Baltimore. With the advent of television, they open up a TV store. They…

SQUANTO: A WARRIOR’S TALE

LITTLE WOMEN

A WALTONS THANKSGIVING

A WALTONS THANKGIVING takes place in 1934 during the worst year of the Great Depression. John Walton Sr. has decided to take up farming instead of working far away from his family. The harvest was poor but sufficient. John Boy, the oldest…

SAINTS & STRANGERS: Episode 1 & 2

SAINTS & STRANGERS is an exciting, faith-oriented, jeopardy-filled two-part TV miniseries from National Geographic about the first year of the settling of Plymouth, Massachusetts in 1620 and 1621. The program starts with a preamble. Pilgrim leader William Bradford muses the Pilgrims crossed…

JOHN ADAMS

JOHN ADAMS is the acclaimed HBO TV miniseries on one of America’s founding fathers, and the second president of the United States. The first part opens in 1770 with Adams defending some of the British troops who fired upon citizens during the…

BREAKTHROUGH (2019)

BREAKTHROUGH opens with a St. Louis boy drowning under the ice. Flash back to the time before the accident. John, a young boy, rejects his adoptive parents, neglects his schoolwork and only appreciates basketball. One day, John and two friends play tag…

THE PILGRIMS

THE PILGRIMS is an awesome documentary that tells the Christian history of the Pilgrims who landed in Cape Cod on November 9, 1620. Interviewing major scholars and historians, the movie tells the beginnings of the local church in England from which the…