Movie DiscussionBest Picture Winners (5 week course)
What can we learn about God from these amazing stories told with breath-taking cinema?
Topics: | Community, Diversity, Evil, Love, Movies, Prejudice, Racism, Salvation, Spiritual gifts, Suffering, Temptation, Trials, Vengeance |
Filters: | Facilitator, Group Leader, Lead, Teacher |
Purpose: | Discipleship |
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Date Added: | August 01, 2007 |
Explore the significance of these five Best Picture winners. What can we learn about God from these amazing stories told with breath-taking cinema?
Session 1
Crash
A drama depicting a community's true-to-life struggle with racism, alienation, and rage.
Million Dollar Baby
A drama about a boxing coach struggling to maintain his faith in a God who does not seem to answer his prayers, and a young woman who boxes as a way of overcoming her wounded past.
Gladiator
This epic film set in the second-century Roman Empire follows a general's fall from power and subsequent struggle for revenge against a treacherous Caesar.
A Beautiful Mind
An Oscar-winning drama about love, ambition, and paranoia.
Schindler's List
A drama about the abuse of power, the horror of unbridled evil, and the difference one man can make.



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