Three men case a small town very carefully, with plans to rob the bank on the upcoming Saturday, which turns violent and deadly.
An NYU student visits a Mennonite friend in Lancaster, Pennsylvania after a fellow Mennonite is killed while protesting the Vietnam War.
A documentary short examining the language and performance of auctioneering, filmed at the World Livestock Auctioneer Championship in Pennsylvania.
Den polske rabbiner Avram Belinski stod ikke først i køen, da der blev delt hjerner ud. Alligevel udvælges han af overrabbineren til at udføre en vigtig mission, der bringer ham til San Francisco. Men Amerika er et stort land. Der er masser af plads at fare vild på og masser af mennesker, der ikke er Guds bedste børn. Nogle kunne oven i købet finde på at snøre en naiv jøde. Men ikke Tommy Lillard. Ikke fordi hans moral er specielt høj - han røver alt fra toge til banker - men hvis man først har slået følge, må man støtte hinanden gennem tykt og tyndt, gennem indianerangreb og diverse mordforsøg. Oplevelserne er så mange for den naive Avram, at han næsten er ved at miste troen - men også kun næsten.
When a former member of a religious cult dies in a mysterious accident, Martha, who now lives alone and close to the cult's church, begins to fear for her life and the lives of her visiting friends.
Under efterforskningen af et mord opdager politimand John Book brodne kar i sin egen afdeling - og det synes de bestemt ikke om. Han flygter til en Amish-landsby, hvor folk går i fjollet tøj og lever på gammeldags maner. Men Books gamle kollegaer har ikke glemt ham, og en dag kommer de på uventet besøg
In a small Amish community, three barns are burnt down almost simultaneously. FBI agent Sally Russwell is sent in to investigate this possible hate crime. What she finds however is a community that little trust for outsiders or "The English" as they call them. However, in her investigations, Agent Russell makes friends with one entrepreneurial widow, Annie Beiler who has her own curiosity about this stranger. Together, Annie introduces Russell in-depth to this close knit community bearing many appealing attributes. However, as Sally's investigations continue, she discovers secrets that reveal uncomfortable truths about the religious community that are linked to the arson attacks.
Brad (Tim Allen fra tv-serien Home Improvement) og Caroline Sexton (Kirstie Alley fra Det er mig, der snakker) er et ægtepar, der bor i den dyreste og bedste del af New York. De bliver bestjålet af deres revisor, hvorefter de opdager, at de skylder 3 millioner dollars i skat. Parret beslutter sig for at flygte, og de ender i Pennsylvania hos det religiøse Amish-folk, hvor de udgiver sig for at være fjerne slægtninge til en lokal landmandsfamilie. Tvunget til at påtage sig Amish-folkets enkle livsstil finder parret hurtigt ud af, at der er vigtigere ting i livet end penge.
The Devil's Playground is a fascinating and moving documentary about a little-known aspect of Amish life. Amish are not permitted to join the church until their late teens, and have to do so of their own volition. The film explores Rumspringa, wherein young Amish are given the opportunity to explore the "English" way of life.
An unmarried 18 year-old Amish girl is charged with the murder of her infant child.
A group of young women fall prey to some Amish men on rumspringa who have taken to cannibalism.
On the last working day of Sheriff Wayne, his small town is attacked by blood thirsty ravens that eat human flesh. Meanwhile his wife Cynthia visits a farm where a Mennonite family lives to say farewell to her friend Gretchen and discloses a dark secret about the origin of the fierce ravens.
When Sarah Cain, a self-involved big-city newspaper columnist, travels to Pennsylvania for the funeral of her Amish sister, she soon discovers that she is the legal guardian of her five Amish nieces and nephews. Rather than choose to move to Lancaster County to finish raising them there herself, or let them be separated by the foster care system, Sarah decides to take them with her back to Portland where she believes she can make a new life for them. However, she soon realizes that the modern world has forced them to compromise who they are, and that she has moved them there for all the wrong reasons - a motive which is soon exposed - because secrets can really never be kept secret. In order to find her own redemption, she knows she must make a choice to give them back their lives in Amish Country. And whether she remains part of their lives will have a lot to do with how much she has grown to love them.
When a gunman killed five Amish children and injured five others in a Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania schoolhouse shooting in October of 2006, the world media attention rapidly turned from the tragic events to the extraordinary forgiveness demonstrated by the Amish community.
Documentary following the lives of two Amish families leaving the only world they've ever known and trying to get to grips with the modern world. The Amish travel by horse and buggy and dress exactly as their forebears did when they first arrived in America almost 300 years ago. They have countless rules which keep them separate from the modern world, with electric lights, mobile phones, television and radio all forbidden. For those born into this culture, leaving is the biggest decision they'll ever make.
Katie Lapp har altid haft det svært med de snærende regler der gælder i Amishsamfundet, hvor hun er vokset op, så da en velhavende kvinde udefra stiller spørgsmål vedrørende hendes familie, begynder hun at undre sig over sin oprindelse. Hvilken forbindelse har denne kvinde til Katies liv ... og vil afsløringen af hemmelighederne udfordre Katies tro?
The Amish farming community of Painter’s Mill, Ohio, is shattered when a series of brutal murders leaves the town with a sense of frailty and loss of innocence. Among the most affected by the tragedy was Kate Burkholder, a young girl who survived the terror and, as a result, left the Amish life behind. Fifteen years later, Kate returns to Painter’s Mill as its Chief of Police. Certain she’s come to terms with her past, Kate’s renewed life in her hometown is shattered when a murder investigation triggers deep-seated emotions from her childhood and exposes a dark secret that could destroy her.
Katie Lapp, a young Amish woman who goes on a journey in search of her identity - only to find herself embroiled in a mystery that must be solved before she can be reunited with the "Englisher" mother who gave her up to adoption 20 years earlier.
Will a mysterious stranger's past wreak havoc on a quiet Amish community after they've opened their doors -- and hearts -- to him and his son?
Expecting Amish tells the story of 18-year-old Hannah Yoder, who is ready to join the Amish Church and marry her boyfriend Samuel. But things change when she goes to Hollywood and gets a glimpse of the world beyond.