God Grew Tired of Us Imagine never using electricity and then being given your own apartment in the USA.  What questions would you have?  How many things would be completely foreign to you?    Perhaps one of my most favorite documentaries of all time, God Grew Tired of Us features the journey of several men from Sudan to the United States.  Thankfully these gentlemen have people to guide them.  Their first night in their apartment they are shown how to turn on lights, how to use the bathroom and are introduced to potato chips for the very first time. You’ll fall in love with each man as he tries to find his place in his new world.  … [Read more...]

I love to watch movies and one of my favorite genres is documentary films.  Documentaries today are much more interesting than those old war films we used to watch in history class!  People often ask me for documentary suggestions so from time to time I'll be posting mini reviews of some of my favorites.  All of the documentaries that I'll be writing about can be found on Netflix.  Check your local library for these titles also because I found many of them there as well as on Netflix. Sound & Fury Two brothers struggle with how to deal with the option of “curing” their children from deafness in Sound & Fury.  Sparks fly as the … [Read more...]