by Jack Seay
Schindler's List
Enemy At The Gates
Saving Private Ryan
The Thin Red Line
Braveheart
The Patriot
Horatio Hornblower (mini-series)
The Civil War (mini-series)
FailSafe (Henry Fonda's finest movie)
The Disputation
The Lady Is A Tiger
Mindwalk
Deepfreeze
The Life and Times of a She-Devil
Inspirational
Many of the war movies are also inspirational, ironically. Although there have been many inspirational Christian books, there have been almost no movies. Many of the movies below, however, contain some theme Christian's can relate to, especially being willing to sacrifice for others (not very popular in today's world).
The Insider
High Noon
Seargeant York
Apollo 13
October Sky
The Hurricane
Enter The Titans
The Iron Giant
Marooned
OSS
Philosophical (see also Great Dialog)
The Truman Show
Metropolis
Compulsion - the consequences of existentialism
Picnic At Hanging Rock
History (also see War)
The Prize (mini-series)
Science Fiction
2001, Space Odyssey (still the best)
Farenheit 451
1984 (the movie is great, the book even better)
The Man Who Fell To Earth (same as above, George Guidell's narration on the audio book is brilliant)
Enemy Mine (wonderful character development, for a science fiction movie)
THX 1138 (George Lucas' greatest movie)
Star Wars movies - imaginative escapism with loveable characters
Suspense and Horror
The Birds - Hitchcock shows how to do it right, build the suspence gradually
The Texas Chain-Saw Massacre (nearly as scary as studying history)
Alien (only the first one, still in a class by itself for suspenceful science fiction)
Scanners (only the first one)
Romantic
Pride and Prejudice (the mini-series, incredible acting)
Weird - but aren't you glad real life isn't like this, or is it?
The Cell
Fantastic Planet - French animation
The Matrix (I saw this two weeks before the Columbine shootings. As I left the theatre, a man in a black trenchcoat wearing sunglasses was talking on the phone.)
Brazil
When possible, I listen to audio books from the library or audiohighway.com
My 3 favorite authors
Bill Dillon
Francis Schaeffer
Jay Adams
Evidence for Christianity
Darwin On Trial - by Paul Johnson, a Berkeley law professor
Mere Creation
Reason In the Balance - Paul Johnson
Francis Schaeffer - complete works
Ethics - Zondervan
Epistemology - Zondervan
Metaphysics - Zondervan
Your Mind Matters - John Stott
Evidence That Demands A Verdict
Theology
Bill Dillon - complete works (the best theologian ever)
Christian Phychology's War On God's Word
Bobgan - why clinical phychology isn't compatible with Christianity
Jay Adams - complete works
New Age Medicine
4 Views of Hell
Divorce - 4 Christians Views
IBM and the Holocost (how IBM made both the Blitzkreig and the Holocost possible, a stunning indictment of amoral business ethics)
Abandon Ship - one of the most tragic sea disasters ever
Beyond All Hope - the horrible Cuban concentration camps (prisons)
Marine Sniper
Indonesian Upheaval
Murder Of A Gentle Land - there has been more than one holocost
Science Fiction
I can't seem to find much good science fiction that is friendly to Christianity, but these are worth reading for various reasons.
Day Of The Triffids
The Man Who Fell To Earth (best narrated audio book I've ever heard)
1984 - about the failure of socialism (excellent audio-book)
Fahrenheit 451 (another great audio-book)
Robert Heinlein
Norman Spinrad
Frank Ellison
Robert Silverberg
Fiction
Robinson Crusoe - unabridged only (the best Christian fiction I've read)
Technology
Unbounding The Future - K. Erik Drexler - best intro to nanotechnology I've read
Engines Of Creation - K. Erik Drexler
The Perfect Machine - the building of the Palomar telescope, an astonishing acheivement
Soul of a New Machine - the building of a mini-computer, a study in perserverance
The Goal - philosophy applied to the finances and operation of a manufacturing plant
Computer Software
Mirror Worlds - David Gelernter
Literary Machines- Ted Nelson
Dream Machines - Ted Nelson
The Muse In the Machine (feeling, thinking, and software)
Finance
Die Broke
Live Rich
General
How to Tell the Statistiscians From the Liars
Even though I don't believe in New Age philosophy, my favorite music to listen to while studying is labeled "New Age". My absolute favorite way to listen to listen to music is a live symphony.
New Age (not a thourough list, just what I have)
Medwin Goodall - Medicine Woman 1 and 2
Tangerine Dream - The Dream Mixes
Vocal
Twila Paris - The Warrior Is a Child
Olivia Newton-John (anything before "Physical", especially "Have You Never Been Mellow")
Harry Chapin
Gordon Lightfoot
Charlie Dore - Pilot of the Airwaves
Samantha Sang - Emotion
Shirley Brownlow (the best in the world)
Jewel
and a lot of 70's music
August Renoir
the Pre-Raphaelite artists