Beardface (2012)

Actors: Bridge Stuart (editor), Mike Litzenberg (actor), Mike Litzenberg (actor), Bridge Stuart (actor), Bridge Stuart (actor), Mike Litzenberg (producer), Bridge Stuart (producer), Mike Litzenberg (writer), Bridge Stuart (writer), Mike Litzenberg (director), Mike Litzenberg (editor), James Di Giacomo (actor), James Roehl (actor), Alexander Sanchez (actor), Reed Windle (actor),

Lincoln (2012)

Actors: Tommy Lee Jones (actor), Bruce McGill (actor), Joe Inscoe (actor), Jared Harris (actor), John Hawkes (actor), Dakin Matthews (actor), Daniel Day-Lewis (actor), Hal Holbrook (actor), Gregory Itzin (actor), Grainger Hines (actor), Walton Goggins (actor), Lukas Haas (actor), Joseph Gordon-Levitt (actor), Tim Blake Nelson (actor), Peter McRobbie (actor),

Plot: In 1865, as the American Civil War winds inexorably toward conclusion, U.S. president Abraham Lincoln endeavors to achieve passage of the landmark constitutional amendment which will forever ban slavery from the United States. However, his task is a race against time, for peace may come at any time, and if it comes before the amendment is passed, the returning southern states will stop it before it can become law. Lincoln must, by almost any means possible, obtain enough votes from a recalcitrant Congress before peace arrives and it is too late. Yet the president is torn, as an early peace would save thousands of lives. As the nation confronts its conscience over the freedom of its entire population, Lincoln faces his own crisis of conscience -- end slavery or end the war.

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Wesley (2009)

Actors: R. Keith Harris (actor), Kevin McCarthy (actor), June Lockhart (actress), Bill Pacer (actor), Bill Oberst Jr. (actor), Ted Johnson (producer), David Lowe (actor), Ted Johnson (actor), Christy Johnson (actress), Norman Stone (writer), Cricket Ellis (actress), Catherine Sewell (actress), Carrie Anne Hunt (actress), Burgess Jenkins (producer), Burgess Jenkins (actor),

Plot: The year is 1732. John Wesley, an irritatingly self-righteous instructor at Oxford is offered the chance to go to the new colony of Georgia, where he hopes to preach to the Indians. During the voyage, the ship encounters a violent storm; overwhelmed with the fear of death, Wesley begins to doubt the validity of his faith In Georgia, Wesley's plans are waylaid: he is not able to do much preaching among the native tribes, and falls in love with Sophy Hopkey, the beautiful niece of the local magistrate. When the star-crossed romance fails to produce a proposal from the angst-ridden young minister, Sophy marries another; bitterness explodes between the two until one day Wesley publicly refuses to serve Holy Communion to Sophy. He is arrested for defamation of character - and is to be tried by Sophy's uncle! There will be no fair trial here. Escaping from Savannah, he returns to England in failure and shame. Back in London, he meets a Moravian missionary, Peter Boehler, who counsels the disturbed and depressed young man. John struggles with his failure and fears and is finally experiences the peace he longed for: "I felt my heart strangely warmed." Wesley begins to preach about his experience of saving faith, but is turned out of most churches in London. Undaunted, he begins preaching in fields, and discovers a hungry audience in the downtrodden poor of England. Appalled by the terrible needs of families overwhelmed with alcoholism, abuse, and poverty, John and his hymn-writing brother Charles begin revolutionary (and controversial) social ministries to better the lives of the poor while also preaching to them of the transformation of the heart. Despite opposition, mob violence that seeks to break up their meetings, Wesley and his "Methodies" establish social ministries to the poor that transformed the face of England. Today, almost 75 million people worldwide trace their spiritual heritage back to John Wesley.

Lost River: Lincoln's Secret Weapon (2009)

Actors: Thadd Turner (actor), Daniel Frank Webster (actor), Paul Clinco (actor), Stan Babola (actor), Gerry Gilbert (actor), Ray C. Merrill (actor), Paula Rogers (costume designer), Jason Urban (director), Jason Urban (producer), Jason Urban (actor), Steve McKee (actor), Paul Schumacher (actor), Joe Jones (actor), Dave LaBrucherie (actor), Gregory Sweet (actor),

The Monroe Doctrine (1939)

Actors: Tom Chatterton (actor), Michael Visaroff (actor), Edwin Stanley (actor), Frank Puglia (actor), Glen Cavender (actor), George Reeves (actor), John Harron (actor), Stuart Holmes (actor), Sidney Blackmer (actor), Erville Alderson (actor), Frank Mayo (actor), Grant Mitchell (actor), Jack Mower (actor), Frederick Giermann (actor), Emmett Vogan (actor),

Plot: This two-reel short tells the tale of the effects of the Monroe Document in a historical and historical-fictional manner, and its effects---fact and fictional---in North and South America...and Europe and,how through the years, various U.S. Presidents have upheld it in various ways. The ending has Theodore Roosevelt delivering a speech that probably left the viewing audiences, in various countries, talking about it in various languages.

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