The Ma Television page consists of movies, TV shows, comedy’s, and documentaries dedicated in honor of our mothers and their sacrifices for their family members especially their children and spouses. Our focus is to share with you through cinema how important a role mothers play in our world and why we treasure and adore them so very much. Please click on photo icon next to the movie description and enjoy. Don’t forget to leave a review in the comment section.
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This Weeks Featured Film
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THE FAREWELL
This weeks movie is about dying matriarch who unknowingly spends her last days with her family members that have returned to China under the guise of a wedding to see her one last time.
Golden Globe Winner
The NYTimes
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CROSSING JORDAN
(Season 1 Episode 23 parts 1 & 2 Secrets and Lies)
TV-14 | | Crime, Drama, Mystery | TV Series (2001–2007)
(This episode deals with the death of a mother, grief, complicated grief and mental health.)
Dr. Jordan Cavanaugh is a forensic pathologist who lost her job with the Boston medical examiner’s office because her passion for solving homicides frequently extended beyond the autopsy table. Years later, an old ally rescues Jordan from court-ordered anger management training in Los Angeles and rehires her to her former job in Boston. Jordan is still feisty and mercurial and a pain in the butt, but management tolerates her because she is good at her job. She and her father, a disgraced former Boston police detective, often solve crimes together by using a role-playing game they’ve played since Jordan’s childhood. It goes: “You be the killer, and I’ll be the victim, and we’ll figure out how this happened.” The driving force in Jordan’s life and career is the crime she took the longest time to solve — her mother’s murder. (sorry the video has visual difficulty.)
Creator: Tim Kring
Stars: Jill Hennessy, Miguel Ferrer, Ravi Kapoor
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GOLD STAR CHILDREN
This documentary takes an intimate look at American children who’ve lost a parent to war.
Follows the parallel journeys of two generations of grieving children: recent war orphans who’ve lost military parents serving in Iraq, Afghanistan, Bosnia and here at home, learn to heal alongside the now adult-child survivors of the Vietnam War.
The film brings together voices of today with historical context, giving meaning and shape to how America understands those who sacrifice in service to their country and the children and families they leave behind.
Official Selection at the San Diego Film Festival and the St. Louis International Film Festival.
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MIMI AND DONA 
An Aging Mother Cares for her Disabled Daughter
This poignant, heartbreaking and, at times, humorous documentary traces this process through the story of a quirky and deeply connected mother-daughter duo. The film spotlights the challenges of aging caregivers of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities–some 4.6 million Americans, 75% of whom live at home with family–and details the ripple effects of Dona’s disability on three generations of a family.