Great article! We don't watch tv at all here. For the kid I buy old movies on ebay. Our Halloween fare, for example, includes:
Ghost and Mrs. Muir -- 1947
Wuthering Heights -- 1939
Bell Book and Candle -- (James Stewart, 1950's)
Arsenic and Old Lace -- 1944
Topper -- 1937?
Time of their Lives -- Abbott & Costello, 1946?
They don't cost much and they don't offend unless you're even more hardcore Catholic than we are! (nttawwt)
Here's a $5 winner I got at Target's cut-out bin.
"Black Beauty" (1994)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109279/
It's a winner with my four-year-old niece. She watched it about 10 times the
first month she had it.
Sure, it's sappy, with all sorts of morals about how badly humans can behave.
But it's beautifully photographed and a good supporting
cast of humans.
I suspect the 6.3 stars is from adults...and the real fans aren't
yet old enough to type.
Try Narnia and the Lord of the Rings movies. Both written by devout Catholics, with many Christian themes.
And in Narnia's case, it's just an alternate way to teach the themes of the Crucifixion and Resurrection.