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- A tale of trotting or harness racing in the early 20th century.Votes40
- The story of a rebellious deaf child who goes on a class outing to the city, where he runs away.Votes40
- Simone Buchanan plays a young camera fanatic who is marooned on a desert island. Here she is threatened by a refugee from South America (Henri Szeps) who isn't keen on having his whereabouts known. Hostility melts into friendship before the rescue boats arrive.Votes52
- A young girl on another planet waits for the sun to come out.Votes499
- To save her ranch after the accidental death of her husband, a woman marries the man responsible for the mishap.Votes75
- A family takes in an abused girl and eventually decide to adopt her.Votes15
- Buster is an aspiring magician battling his status as a geek. Making things more difficult is his small size. This movie chronicles Buster's unique way of dealing with bullies, school, his first job and girls.Votes1,581
- When his precious cache of opals is stolen, 14-year-old Ernie, who lives with his alcoholic father in the harsh and lawless opal fields of inland Australia, sets out with a friend determined to find the thief.Votes55
- Ten-year-old Danny rescues an emu's egg and goes to great lengths to care for it.Votes23
- Set in the 1860's South, Booker is the impassioned story of the boy who struggled through slavery to found the Tuskegee Institute. Through the eyes of nine-year-old Booker T. Washington, viewers witness the end of the Civil War, the cruelties that endured after slavery was abolished, and the hard work that led Booker to education and true freedom. Booker is a one-hour drama based on the childhood of Booker T. Washington and his quest for education in the chaotic aftermath of the Civil War. Booker was shown nationally on PBS by the series, WONDERWORKS and subsequently on the Disney Channel, the BBC, and throughout the world. Booker continues to be broadcast and used in thousands of schools in America and abroad. The film was chosen as among the top 10 best home video release for children by Parenting Magazine and best script for a children's drama by the Writer's Guild of America.Votes62
- A kid strives to be perfect, and in the end realizes that individuality is more fun.Votes89
- Paul feels life should be an adventure, and sets out on one to prove that Trolls really exist.Votes123
- A young black man and his family move into a home in rural Ohio, and discover that during the Civil War it was used by a Dutch immigrant to smuggle runaway slaves to freedom. Soon they begin to suspect that the ghosts of slaves who passed through there are haunting the house.Votes231
- Arthur is asked to pick up a bird for Thanksgiving dinner, so he brings home a 266-pound chicken named Henrietta. The family welcome her with open arms, but the neighbors are not so sure and then Henrietta escapes...Votes109
- Story of a young half-breed boy, the son of a hockey player and an Indian woman, who is adopted by a Jewish shopkeeper, but finds himself torn between the different cultures with which he comes into contact.Votes43
- A female goalie player faces prejudiced opposition when she joins a boys hockey team in Parry Sound, Ontario.Votes538
- Before WAR GAMES there was Canada's HIDE & SEEK. Watch this and you will see how close the movies are. High school computer wiz kid's program accidently hooks into the main frame computer of a nuclear power plant and nearly causes a melt down!Votes56
- Mississippi in the early '60s is the setting for this story of a 12-year-old African-American girl who, along with her white friends, tries to ease increasing racial tensions.Votes101
- When Leslie Burke moves in next door to Jess Aarons, Jess finds a friend in Leslie. Over time, they discover a secret place in the forest across a fallen pine tree, and over a creek, they call Terabithia, a place where memories are sacred.Votes741
- The only black family living in a small midwestern town at the turn of the century confront prejudice, as seen through the eyes of the young daughter.Votes85
- The adventures of a struggling family and their friends in a gold rush mining area.Votes35
- 10 year old Gary Doyle has a photographic memory. He denies to be a teacher's pet. Still he gets beaten up every day. This changes as he participate a quiz on the radio.Votes16
- Konrad is a perfect instant child "born" in a factory at age 8. Due to a mistake in the factory's computer, Konrad is delivered to Bertie Bartolotti, a woman whose life and appearance are in a constant state of disarray. Konrad arrives looking like a gremlin, but when Bertie pours a nutrient solution over his head he changes into a fully-developed, perfect 8-year-old child. The factory realizes a mistake was made, and recalls Konrad, but he does not want to leave his new family and friends.Votes212
- Third-grader Molly Conway suffers depression when she finds out that her parents are getting divorced. She tries everything to get them back together, but mostly everything backfires. Eventually she accepts her new situation.Votes58
- Steve is ecstatic when he gets a baseball cap from his favorite Montreal Expos player Andy Dawson. Unfortunately, he loses the cap. A rich kid finds it and won't give it back, so Steve's poor dad tries to reason with the kid's family.Votes12
- The poor ghost of Sir Simon Canterville has been roaming his castle searching in vain for a brave descendant who will release him from the Canterville curse by performing a brave deed. An American family moves in and finds the ghost amusing, but a young girl in the family can release him - if she dares!Votes229
- An orphan girl, sent to an elderly brother and sister by mistake, charms her new home and community with her fiery spirit and imagination.Votes22,552
- It is 1943, and the students at a catholic boarding school decide to hide three Jewish children from the Nazis. To save the children, the members of the boarding school will have to find the courage to risk their own lives in the process.Votes145
- An orphaned girl and her lonely aunt living in 1930s England attract the attention of a handsome naturalist when they decide to raise an abandoned seal.Votes25
- Carol (Nicole Kidman) is a top runner, coached by her father day and night. Then she sees Angie, the punk new girl, dancing magnificently and alone. The two become friends and Carol begins to rebel, but the all-important race is coming up.Votes196
- Maricela and her mother Eugenia have fled El Salvador for the US with hopes of building a better life. Unable to find work in her profession as a school teacher, Eugenia becomes a live-in housekeeper to the affluent Gannett family. Conflict occurs when Maricela clashes with teenage Stacy Gannett, who resents her presence at home and at school. Can Maricela win Stacy's friendship and still remain true to her own ideals and values?Votes74
- Sara Crewe enters a London boarding school a wealthy lady when she bids her father farewell as he enters the British Army, but her lifestyle quickly vanishes when her father suddenly dies, and Sara must endure a life of servitude.Votes767
- By 1929, Canada's west, which had been home to generations of Métis, was taken over by the railroads and new settlers. The Métis became a forgotten people, relegated to eking out a living as best they could. In Places Not Our Own, Rose l'Esperance, a Métis, is determined that her children will have a normal life and an education. Her hopes reside in her daughter Flora, but the harshness of their situation culminates in a devastating and dramatic event.Votes44
- 6-year-old Hector's best friend is a giant, scaly imaginary creature he calls his "Bunyip." A misunderstanding prompts the child welfare agency to put Hector into an orphanage, but before the agency can act, Hector mysteriously disappears.Votes30
- A young paraplegic wants to escape the bonds of gravity by going into outer space.Votes41
- Caring and tough: That's how you could describe the principal, teacher, and parent who combined their efforts to transform a struggling bunch of misfits, otherwise known as D Class, into a united team of national chess contenders.Votes54
- A 9-year-old boy learns the dark secrets of his family when he is haunted by the ghost of his Great Uncle.Votes43
- The story of Simon Rodia, the real-life artist who spent 30 years constructing Los Angeles' Watts Towers, a monument to Christopher Columbus, and his fictional relationship with Daniel, a young boy.Votes35
- Molly McCue is bored with suburban life and fantasizes about becoming a detective. She gets her chance when the urn containing the ashes of her departed grandfather is stolen, and Molly joins forces with a New York City police detective.Votes42
- Grief finds 8-year-old Miranda after the loss of her mother. The rest of her family attempt to help her cope with the tragedy, each in their own way, but the concepts of life and death require a genuine measure of empathy to overcome.Votes14
- A film that further explores the artists' fusion of culture, environment and politics. Christo and Jeanne-Claude's fight for permission to surround eleven islands in Miami's Biscayne Bay with 6.5 million square feet of bright pink fabric, interwoven with their struggle to wrap the Pont-Neuf in Paris and the Reichstag in Berlin.Votes80
- In the Australian outback, a small boy determines to see that a nasty, curmudgeonly miser gets the Christmas spirit.Votes158
- 14-year-old Enid Crowley hates her name and everything about her boring life. All this changes when she becomes a full-time babysitter to a sheltered boy. The two hook up for some hilarious adventures in the park with a mysterious bag lady and a street musician. With the help of Enid's boyfriend, Seth, they try to give the park dwellers a "special evening," but their good deed backfires and lands them in trouble.Votes19
- This heart-warming story about an orphaned 13-year old NYC street urchin who is sent via the Orphan Train to Nebraska where he is adopted by a Swedish immigrant family who recently lost their older son to typhoid.Votes88
- A kid experimenting with frogs finds that one of the subjects can actually speak.Votes301
- A young Japanese girl moves to the United States 10 years after the bombing of Hiroshima and faces prejudice.Votes76
- 14-year-old Chris Mills throws a wrench in his parents' plans to divorce by hiring Archie Corelli, an auto-mechanic by day and a lawyer by night, to sue his parents and ultimately disrupt their plans to end their marriage.Votes110
- Four kids travel to the magical land of Narnia where they must battle an evil queen with the direction of the lion, Aslan.Votes6,481
- Two Australian orphans undertake a dangerous overland journey towards a ship bound for England-and their only surviving relatives. They are helped along the way by an Aboriginal man who helps them live off the land and avoid detection.Votes94