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  2. Category:Films about Quakers - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "Films about Quakers" The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Angel and the ...

  3. Friendly Persuasion (1956 film) - Wikipedia

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    The movie tells the story of a Quaker family in southern Indiana during the American Civil War and the way the war tests their pacifist beliefs. The film received positive reviews, praised for its performances, but faced some criticism for inaccuracies in portraying Quaker views.

  4. The Winds of Autumn - Wikipedia

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    In 1884, after freeing a convict from a prison work detail, a family of outlaws take refuge with a Quaker family consisting of two parents, an eleven year old son, Joel, and a slightly older daughter. After the killing of the parents and daughter, Joel sets out on his own to seek revenge against the outlaws who senselessly murdered his family.

  5. Angel and the Badman - Wikipedia

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    The film is about an injured gunfighter who is nursed back to health by a young Quaker woman and her family whose way of life influences him and his violent ways. Angel and the Badman was the first film Wayne produced as well as starred in, and was a departure for this genre at the time it was released. [ 3 ]

  6. The Friendly Persuasion - Wikipedia

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    The Friendly Persuasion is an American novel published in 1945 by Jessamyn West. [1] It was adapted as the Oscar-nominated motion picture Friendly Persuasion in 1956. [2] The book consists of 14 vignettes about a Quaker farming family, [3] the Birdwells, living near the town of Vernon in southern Indiana [1] along "the banks of the Muscatatuck, where once the woods stretched, dark row on row."

  7. Penn of Pennsylvania - Wikipedia

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    After listening to a radio broadcast by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Vernon had been struck by how similar his views were to the Quaker philosophy of William Penn. The next morning, he approached bosses at British National Films and pitched the idea of a Penn biopic to them, securing their support.

  8. 40 Inspiring Movies About Politics To Watch While You Wait ...

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    The movie, based on a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, was remade in 2006, a version poorly reviewed despite an all-star cast that includes Sean Penn, Jude Law, Kate Winslet and Anthony Hopkins. 28 ...

  9. List of Quakers - Wikipedia

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    A Elisabeth Abegg (1882–1974), German educator who rescued Jews during the Holocaust Damon Albarn (b. 1968), English musician, singer-songwriter and record producer Harry Albright (living), Swiss-born Canadian former editor of The Friend, Communications Consultant for FWCC Thomas Aldham (c. 1616–1660), English Quaker instrumental in setting up the first meeting in the Doncaster area Horace ...

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