The Gifts of Grief (2005)
• March 1st, 2005 • 0h 52min
Overview
A documentary that explores how seven remarkable people embrace their pain, learn to live with their loss, and now engage in life with more compassion, courage, and awareness. The personal and moving stories include those of author Isabel Allende, Reverend Cecil Williams, writer Alana Laraine, Zen Monk/Vietnam Veteran Claude AnShin Thomas, youth motivator Vinny Ferrero, and filmmaker Lee Mun Wah. With courage, these people invite the viewer to open up to the pain of grief and discover for themselves the extraordinary opportunities their own losses may reveal.
Make sure to check your pop-up blocker!!
Trailer
Similar Movies
My Life Without Me
Released on: 2003-03-07
Drama, Romance
A fatally ill mother with only two months to live creates a list of things she wants to do before sh...
Talk to Her
Released on: 2002-03-15
Drama, Romance
Two men share an odd friendship while they care for two women who are both in deep comas.
Million Dollar Baby
Released on: 2004-12-05
Drama
Despondent over a painful estrangement from his daughter, trainer Frankie Dunn isn't prepared for bo...
Billy Elliot
Released on: 2000-09-28
Drama, Comedy, Music
County Durham, England, 1984. The miners' strike has started and the police have started coming up f...
Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring
Released on: 2003-09-19
Drama
An isolated lake, where an old monk lives in a small floating temple. The monk has a young boy livin...
No End
Released on: 1985-06-17
Drama
1982, Poland. A translator loses her husband and becomes a victim of her own sorrow. She looks to se...
Donnie Darko
Released on: 2001-01-19
Fantasy, Drama, Mystery
After narrowly escaping a bizarre accident, a troubled teenager is plagued by visions of a large bun...
All Quiet on the Western Front
Released on: 1930-04-29
Drama, War
When a group of idealistic young men join the German Army during the Great War, they are assigned to...
Breaking the Waves
Released on: 1996-07-05
Drama, Romance
In a small and conservative Scottish village, a woman's paralytic husband convinces her to have extr...
The Secret Life of Words
Released on: 2005-12-15
Romance, Drama
A solitary nurse bonds with a badly burned patient who survived an accident on an oil rig.
VeggieTales: Merry Larry and the True Light of Christmas
Released on: 2013-10-19
Animation, Family
Bob and Larry are going all out to make it the best Christmas ever at the Spring Valley Mall. With m...
Death Pays Flora a Visit
Released on: 2024-01-01
Comedy
In this dark and uplifting comedic short film, Death pays an unsuspecting Flora a visit telling her ...
Infinity Train
Released on: 2016-11-02
Adventure, Animation, Fantasy
In this non-canon pilot to the animated series 'Infinity Train', Tulip must learn to set her persona...
Smash Cuts! Super Sci-Fi Shorts Fest
Released on: 2001-03-31
Science Fiction, Horror, Comedy, Thriller
Host Scott Forrest presents a curated compilation of eight independent short films in this rapid-fir...
The Fountain
Released on: 2006-11-22
Drama, Adventure, Science Fiction, Romance
Spanning over one thousand years, and three parallel stories, The Fountain is a story of love, death...
Greed
Released on: 1924-12-04
Drama, Crime
A lottery win of $5,000 forever changes the lives of a miner turned dentist and his wife.
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
Released on: 2006-09-13
Crime, Fantasy, Drama
Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, born in the stench of 18th century Paris, develops a superior olfactory se...
Pathfinder
Released on: 2007-01-11
Adventure, Action
A Viking boy is left behind after his clan battles a Native American tribe. Raised within the tribe,...
Emma's Bliss
Released on: 2006-07-16
Drama, Romance
Upon being informed that he is fatally ill with cancer, Max, who works at a used car store, steals m...