A 1950s Southern teen questions her faith and sexuality on the eve of her baptism when urged to repent her feelings for her best friend.
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Jordan Rayanna Wells
Grace
Alexis Cofield
Louise
C.L. Simpson
Big Mama
Mikayla LaShae Bartholomew
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JeVon Blackwell
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The man, the hill, the shack.
Max isn't sure about his sexual orientation until he meets Leon at his new school. When Max is singing a song at a school concert something beautiful happens.
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When a young man makes an unholy choice, God will test him.
Following the journey of Life as she meets the world for the first time.
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Based on the true story of a black girl who was born to two white Afrikaner parents in South Africa during the apartheid era.
17-year-old Jem Starling struggles with her place within her Christian fundamentalist community. But everything changes when her magnetic youth pastor Owen returns to their church.
The extraordinary true legend of Ann Lee, founder of the devotional sect known as the Shakers, who preached gender and social equality and was revered by her followers as the female Christ.
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Four siblings' lives change drastically when their ailing mother takes a turn for the worse over the holiday season.
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Based on the journal entries of Rachel Joy Scott, the first student killed in the Columbine High School shooting in 1999.
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A disconnected teenage girl enters a relationship with a man twice her age. She sees him as the solution to all her problems, but his intentions are not what they seem.
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Jared, the son of a Baptist pastor in a small American town, is outed to his parents at age 19. Jared is faced with an ultimatum: attend a gay conversion therapy program – or be permanently exiled and shunned by his family, friends, and faith.
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A drama set in the American South, where a precocious, troubled girl finds a safe haven in the music and movement of Elvis Presley.
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