Streaming, Top Ten Redemptive, DVDs; Dr. Diane Howard; Interviewer, Reviewer, Publicist
by DrDianeHoward | created - 05 Jan 2016 | updated - 22 Dec 2021 | PublicDiane Howard, Ph.D. (Performance Studies), entertainment editor, picks top redemptive DVDs for content and artistry, 2015, which contribute Good to our world (See https://sonomachristianhome.com/author/diane-howard/)
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1. Unbroken (I) (2014)
PG-13 | 137 min | Action, Biography, Drama
After a near-fatal plane crash in WWII, Olympian Louis Zamperini spends a harrowing 47 days in a raft with two fellow crewmen before he's caught by the Japanese navy and sent to a prisoner-of-war camp.
Director: Angelina Jolie | Stars: Jack O'Connell, Miyavi, Domhnall Gleeson, Garrett Hedlund
Votes: 174,083 | Gross: $115.64M
2. A.D. The Bible Continues (2015)
44 min | Drama
Follows the book of ACTS. Shows the complete message of Christ and the transformation of Saul to Paul and how the high priest of Judea does not believe in what has taken place after the Crucifixion of Christ.
Stars: Richard Coyle, Vincent Regan, Adam Levy, Joanne Whalley
Votes: 5,203
3. When Calls the Heart (2014– )
TV-G | 43 min | Drama, History, Romance
Elizabeth Thatcher, a young school teacher from a wealthy Eastern family, migrates from the big city to teach school in a small coal mining town in the west.
Stars: Erin Krakow, Martin Cummins, Pascale Hutton, Jack Wagner
Votes: 13,610
4. Captive (II) (2015)
PG-13 | 97 min | Action, Biography, Crime
A single mother struggling with drug addiction is taken hostage in her own apartment by a man on the run who has broken out of jail and murdered the judge assigned to his case.
Director: Jerry Jameson | Stars: Kate Mara, David Oyelowo, Mimi Rogers, Michael Kenneth Williams
Votes: 7,112 | Gross: $2.56M
5. 90 Minutes in Heaven (2015)
PG-13 | 121 min | Drama
A man involved in a horrific car crash is pronounced dead, only to come back to life an hour and a half later, claiming to have seen Heaven.
Director: Michael Polish | Stars: Kate Bosworth, Hayden Christensen, Hudson Meek, Bobby Batson
Votes: 4,134 | Gross: $4.70M
6. The Drop Box (2015)
Not Rated | 79 min | Documentary, Biography, News
One winter, a pastor finds an abandoned infant on his church steps, and builds 'a drop box' to rescue any others.
Director: Brian Tetsuro Ivie
Votes: 704
7. Noble (2014)
PG-13 | 100 min | Biography, Drama
Christina Noble overcomes the harsh difficulties of her childhood in Ireland to discover her destiny on the streets of Saigon. A true story.
Director: Stephen Bradley | Stars: Deirdre O'Kane, Sarah Greene, Gloria Cramer Curtis, Brendan Coyle
Votes: 1,788 | Gross: $0.35M
8. Return to the Hiding Place (2013)
PG-13 | 102 min | Drama, History, Thriller
When the Nazis begin killing Jews in Holland, a group of youth fight to save the lives of the innocent.
Directors: Peter C. Spencer, Josiah Spencer | Stars: John Rhys-Davies, Mimi Sagadin, Craig Robert Young, David Thomas Jenkins
Votes: 762
9. Ancient Roads from Christ to Constantine (2015– )
335 min | History
Jonathan Phillips attempts to find the answer to the question: How did Christianity grow and develop from just a small, Jewish sect to the largest, and majority, dominant religion of the West?
Star: Jonathan Phillips
Votes: 46
10. Saints & Strangers (2015)
192 min | Drama, History
Story of the Voyage of the Mayflower and the first year of The Pilgrims in America.
Stars: Vincent Kartheiser, Kalani Queypo, Tatanka Means, Keenan Arrison
Votes: 2,238
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